It's a Japanese remake of Django, with samaurai?
trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S61ySyaJQSE)
Watch the trailer until the very end and you'll see a recognizable face.
Quote from: pete on January 16, 2008, 02:00:51 PMWatch the trailer until the very end and you'll see a recognizable face.
trailer spoiler:
without watching the teaser i knew it was qt. what gives?
I saw this a few months ago at the Film Festival. Hilarious would be an appropriate word to describe it. But don't let this fool you, it has as much action as any of Takashi's films.
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Insert: me watching the original Django the other day. Hope the song makes it into the remake, definitely. I don't know if there's like still unused variations on the way you describe how you enjoyed an action movie and thought that certain gun battles were really cool and unexpected surprises were really awesome and the ending wasn't a letdown at all. Probably requires a professional.
You go to see Sukiyaki Western Django. Let's say the movie is a grocery shopping excursion. Because it's 2008, a year that hasn't been truly nourishing, you're hungry. It's September, so the food is beginning to look tasty. The arrival is great - there is a bird/snake showoff, there is a Tarantino appearance, there is a show down, the unraveling of a story (because you're so hungry you don't notice the packaging, in this case Tarantino's egregious acting, or at least you don't let it bother you), and you're sure everything you want will be here.
Then - even better news - it's not the typical grocery store. There seems to be food from many nations. You notice Japanese (a Yojimbo reference), Italian (Django, after all), American (a western, after all), Japanese again (the architecture, the director Miike, the actors), and American (they speak English). An exciting blend of some of your favorite foods. It sort of feels like this grocery store is making a statement on how many different ways foods have been used in the past and it's contaminating the foods in order to create new perceptions about our usual diet.
But your shopping trip goes on. And although some of the food looks familiar, and sounds familiar, you haven't put anything in the cart yet! You notice the place is a little overdone and the packaging too desperate to be noticed. This is basically what grocery stores like this usually are, but at the same time newer and better grocery stores have come out in the meantime. You're hungry but sense you can't be satisfied by the food that craves you to crave it.
A couple of interesting things happen that will make the trip memorable. Some breathtakingly beautiful popart violence. Completely absurd, but impressive. It's nice to see it done without the guise of dreamlike representation. It's played completely straight faced the whole way through. All the iconography is present: the Shakespearean allusions (blatancies, rather), the machine gun filled casket, silhouettes against the desert sky, the whores, the bad guys, the gangs. I mean, you can't accuse this place of lacking in variety. And for all the different appetites it attempts to satisfy you're going to take at least some of it for granted, and for all the attempts you're going to become overwhelmed, and these two aspects combined make you sort of still hungry and sort of too full.
As you leave one last moment punctures your daze and punctuates the whole trip nicely. One nice little moment of the fantastic and unexpected (aesthetically I mean, no spoiler here). Fuck going back to a grocery store you eventually do leave with an empty cart, but much worse shopping trips can be had than wandering into this place.
Quote from: w/o horse on September 14, 2008, 02:48:33 AM
As you leave one last moment punctures your daze and punctuates the whole trip nicely. One nice little moment of the fantastic and unexpected (aesthetically I mean, no spoiler here).
SPOILS!!Are you talking about the end? "He moved to Italy and bacame...." (Cue Corbucci Music) DJANGOOOOOO!!!
SPOILER Response to squints:
The instant snowfall is what I was referring to, but the Django theme song was incredibly welcomed.
This was pretty fantastic. The intro was the perfect kind of hokey that is overdone, but in a way that is quickly acceptable once it's over since the cold blue sky behind a silhouette of the main character reassures you it's not all going to be shot on that set, with those voices.
Not that the films are too comparable beyond this, but I love the contrast of this movie to El Topo. Whereas El Topo is an Eastern Western, this is definitely a Western Eastern.
I'm excited for some repeat viewings.
I started watching it and lost focus while trying to decipher the English. I'll give it another go now. Meanwhile, I cannot wait for The Good The Bad and The Weird (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_QFGykPPI&feature=related)!
That one is OK Pete, not as good as Sukiyaki Western though.
Quote from: pete on September 15, 2008, 03:58:04 PM
I started watching it and lost focus while trying to decipher the English.
Although Japanese with subtitles would've worked just as well, I think Japanese people speaking classic Western one-liners and aphorisms helped fill the pastiche.
wow. tarantino's scene is one of the weirdest, most hilarious WTF things i've ever seen.
this is what i'm talking about. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-81VrzGAlkQ) (spoilerish i guess.)
stay tuned for the ending. you'll know what i'm talking about.
i really enjoyed it. it helped to put on the english subtitles even with the characters speaking english. tarantinos presence is obviously an afterthought to sell dvd's, but it's not too intrusive. for the most part this was a pretty fun accessible film.
I've been excited about this one for a while. I purchased the Blu-Ray without having seen the film, but I didn't realize the U.S cut is truncated by nearly thirty minutes. Seems like a useless fucking move on the part of the distrubutor. An abbreviated Miike still isn't gonna reach any wider of a U.S. audience than unadulterated Miike.
So I was trying to coax my girlfriend into buying 1 of the 3 Best Buy editions of this film, with the different covers and special features, when this total asshole comes by and says "Oh you don't want to buy that film, it's horrible" to which I retort "I've seen it. I saw it in the theaters" which was TMI but I thought that'd end things, only then he looks at my girlfriend with this serious face and continues "Oh you've seen it? I'm sorry, I just didn't think it was good AT ALL" and I say "Thanks, thanks" and I turn my back to him because that's really enough from random guy at Best Buy as far as our movie purchases are concerned, and when I turn my back to him he starts to say "I didn't mean to. . ." but I cut him off with a "I'm over it" followed by redirecting the conversation to my girlfriend, but at that point I can tell the film's been ruined for her and we're both a little bummed out because of this guy walking around shooting off his opinions about movies. I wanted to punch him.
So don't do that, what he did, because it's super annoying.
I never openly say anything, but when someone is holding up, say, Boondock Saints, Donnie Darko, Shawshank Redemption, Snatch, American History X, Sixth Sense, Gladiator, Matrix, Fight Club, Braveheart, Usual Suspects or even Boondick Saints, and they say to the dumb bitch who they dump their seed into, "This movie is sooooo good. It's fucking awesome." I just sneer, then they go, "Hey, buddy!" and I just keep walking because if I turn around I'll probably get my ass kicked. They got the point, though.
Also, they always say, "BUDDY"
I'm not as evangelical, though I'm a bit of a missionary. And I think being a missionary is fine. I wish the asshole I referred to had been like "Sukiyaki Western Django is shit, but have you seen Imprint?" because that will tell me something about the guy, and that context will lighten his asshole oppressiveness. I'd think the guy had his preference and he was offering his opinion without provocation. I'd think the guy was annoyingly genial. Some people are like that and it's not so bad.
He was probably the film buff in his group of friends. The one who goes, "Hey, if you liked Kill Bill, you should check out this Asian film called Old Boy. It's pretty obscure and you might not be able to find it, but if you can, definitely check it out. It's the bees knees."
You should have set him straight to the point where the next time he's asked for a recommendation, he says, "Oh, I don't watch movies anymore."
When shit like this happens, just be witty and entertain the idiot. If you have the time, play along. And if it's getting too ridiculous, just walk away in the middle of it.
When I was in high school, there was a singular occasion in which I was that idiot.
I went to see Bully and in the lobby after the film, some dude was chatting up the popcorn girl. He was throwing mad superlatives regarding the film and he was probably just genuinely enthusiastic, but I just figured he looked
a.) ignorant
b.) desperately trying to get laid
or both.
So I interjected, "Fuck that. I liked this film better when it was called River's Edge."
Which was met, appropriately enough, with blank stares. I was the jerk-off interjecting my opinion on a film they both seemed to enjoy and I've since reexamined the merits of.
Now I leave most peoples opinions relatively alone unless they're my friends and I genuinely believe they should know better, or if they seem like they have the potential to sit with a film a little longer and find some merit in it.
This was cemented a couple years ago... I don't even remember what I was seeing, but I do remember I was seeing it for a second time, taking someone I really cared about to the theater to see it. When I bought the tickets, the guy in the box office tried to dissuade us from seeing the film... saying a lot of people were really unsatisfied with it. This wasn't even at an art-house, where you kinda assume everyone has an opinion and really wants to share it... this is at some small town multiplex. It was incredible... motherfucker actually tried to prevent me from seeing a film I was in love with.
EDIT: To stay, relatively on subject... that Best Buy fella can go fuck himself. I finally got around to watching Sukiyaki a couple months ago - the U.S. cut, at least. I really enjoyed. It was a vacuous fever dream of a film, but splendid to stare at. Every frame of it.
Recently at Best Buy, I overheard a guy chatting it up with a BB employee about how terrible Wanted was. How they completely strayed from the comic; the changes were awful; the special effects sucked, etc. That fucker still picked up a DVD. He even had the same conversation with the cashier. :yabbse-huh:
Quote from: MacGuffin on January 08, 2009, 12:06:00 AM
Recently at Best Buy, I overheard a guy chatting it up with a BB employee about how terrible Wanted was. How they completely strayed from the comic; the changes were awful; the special effects sucked, etc. That fucker still picked up a DVD. He even had the same conversation with the cashier. :yabbse-huh:
hahaha that's great ! I'll steal that story and pass it off as my own in various social situations where I have nothing much to say, thanks.
As far as the movie goes, I'm very disapointed. It tries too hard to be quirky. It's self conscious and that's annoying. Everything that was ironic or cool or whatever felt ''on purpose'' which lessened the effect. In a film like Mad Detective the quirkyness comes very naturally. Not here.