we spent the day with amy's family out at her sister and bro-in-laws place out in harford county. good times.mr. tarantino came into play last night as one of his late installments made the feature showing on our dvd player, hostel. now, i am unsure if this was an absolute crap film, or just semi-crap.
tarantino reaches for the obscure in this poorly written 90 minute dud. the obligatory bimbo boobs bounced, the blood surged from severed veins, and the in-vogue torture chair was bolted semi-firmly to the floor.
ugh, lest we have to weed through tarantino's inane dialogue and obligatory set of cliched references he laces into every film? unless the point is to detest the protagonist and not really care if he gets his nads chopped off, stop writing like a high school boy, mr. t.
i want my 90 minutes back.
note: the film was produced/guided by tarantino. see comment #2
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matt just informed me tarantino didn't make that film, eli roth wrote/directed it.
Many wonder what the "Quentin Tarantino Presents" headline stapled to Hostel denotes. First of all, it doesn't mean Hostel is Tarantino's creation. As Roth explains, Tarantino is a large advocate of the budding filmmaker. He occasionally has "movie nights" in which a gaggle of blossoming directors are invited to Tarantino's pad to check out some films. There, Tarantino riles up the directors and gets them psyched for their upcoming projects. After seeing Roth's first feature, Cabin Fever, Tarantino invited Roth to one such shindig and offered to help out with Hostel. Roth pumped out a first draft script, Tarantino helped with the edits, and agreed to offer the "Quentin Tarantino Presents" headline. From there, Roth took the reigns during the shooting process, and Tarantino returned to help out with post-production and MPAA rating strategies. Technically, Tarantino played Producer of Hostel, but in more ways than one, he was the film's mentor.
--Sam Osborn of www.samseescinema.com
As the person who "spotted" the allegedly budding potential of Mr. Roth, one would have suspected Mr. Tarantino would have exercised a bit fewer agrandizing platitudes and a bit more discretionary energy-redirections. I think everyone in the horror genre is trying to hit on what Saw hit on: MILLIONS of dollars in profit on a very low budget film. Sadly, movies like Hostel, Tourista, Saw II, Saw III, and (coming soon!) Saw IV, are all doomed to become idiosyncratic signatures of this generation's aggressively depraved sensory tittilation.
Let's not forget, Tarantino also helped Robert Rodriguez flourish, and he's put out so pretty fantastic films (Sin City, notwithstanding).
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