mmagbee said:
Normally I would be excited because I loved Django - it was one of the few non-Leone Spaghetti Westerns that got it right. But Takashi Miike is just plain awful. He's like the psycho kid in your neighborhood who collected Fanoria magazine, watched all the WRONG horror movies, and secretly killed all the animals in a five-block radius. All his films are, are extremely poor excuses to show grotesque violence that has no bearing on the story whatsoever - not that there is a story there to begin with. And before anyone thinks me an anti-violence prude, think again. I completely dig on movie violence. In fact, at one point I dabbled in doing make-up effects (actual physical effects too, not that shitty digital gore that comprises the majority of the violence in that garbage "Ichi The Killer") after studying Dick Smith and Tom Savini techniques. But there still has to be a story and characters there.
Tarantino is a terrific filmmaker but, Jesus Christ, he has the worst taste in movies!

mmagbee said:
Normally I would be excited because I loved Django - it was one of the few non-Leone Spaghetti Westerns that got it right. But Takashi Miike is just plain awful. He's like the psycho kid in your neighborhood who collected Fanoria magazine, watched all the WRONG horror movies, and secretly killed all the animals in a five-block radius. All his films are, are extremely poor excuses to show grotesque violence that has no bearing on the story whatsoever - not that there is a story there to begin with. And before anyone thinks me an anti-violence prude, think again. I completely dig on movie violence. In fact, at one point I dabbled in doing make-up effects (actual physical effects too, not that shitty digital gore that comprises the majority of the violence in that garbage "Ichi The Killer") after studying Dick Smith and Tom Savini techniques. But there still has to be a story and characters there.
Tarantino is a terrific filmmaker but, Jesus Christ, he has the worst taste in movies!

Vanessa said:
yay miike