![]() You’re waiting for it and the fucking scene delivers. “ almost too cheap,” he said, but happily concluded “totally works… it fucking works. That and Spielberg’s West Side Story provided a true cinematic spectacle, the kind that I’d almost thought that I wasn’t going to see anymore.” When it came to Val Kilmer’s wordless comeback as Iceman, however (Kilmer has lost his voice to throat cancer), he edged towards a somewhat heartless dig. On the ReelBlend podcast, Quentin Tarantino jabbered lyrical about the Mach 9 majesty of Top Gun: Maverick. “They just proceeded to yell insults at the characters on-screen,” he told Bill Maher, “so I yell out something at the screen… ’suck my dick!’” Going cold on Iceman Indeed, aged eight or nine, it was his mother’s then-boyfriend – an unnamed Los Angeles Rams football player – who took him to a formative double bill movie screening in 1972 where the audience took vehemently against the long-forgotten drama The Bus Is Coming. On Jimmy Kimmel, Quentin Tarantino also dished some dirt on his own mother, claiming that she regularly dated pro athletes including LA Lakers basketball stars Wilt Chamberlain and Happy Hairston. “The writing’s not quite on the wall yet, the way it was in 1969 when it was, ‘Oh, my God, we just put a bunch of money into things that nobody gives a damn about anymore.’” “The analogy works because it’s a similar chokehold,” he said. Since the director is known for numbering his films, including. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Tarantino claimed that, in much the same way that ‘60s directors celebrated the decline of the film musical, modern filmmakers, “can’t wait for the day they can say that about superhero movies.” So when Quentin Tarantino recently returned as a guest on CinemaBlend’s official podcast, ReelBlend, we asked him a bold question. Dissing the AvengersĪnd all steel-panted superhuman screen-cloggers in general. But it’s the talks and interviews around it that have grabbed headlines, throwing up all manner of surprises, insights and controversies, from Kanye kiss-offs to superhero slam-downs. A catalogue of notes and thoughts on films that Tarantino saw in his most formative period, the book brims with his enthused cinephile character. With great vengeance, furious anger and babbling torrents of obscure cult movie trivia, Quentin Tarantino has been motormouth-ing his way around America’s TV chat show and live Q&A circuit for the past few weeks to promote his book Cinema Speculation.
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