The QT Question: Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood

Wrapping up our coverage of the Tarantino catalogue, The QT Question returns with Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, an ode to the Dream Factory of the 1960s, and the completion of the Cowboy Bounty Hunter trilogy. Is this Tarantino’s version of a Robert Altman film? Does all the name dropping of Italian directors feel like heartfelt homage or annoying fanfic? We have it out over Al’s antipathy for meaningless narration and kick Sons of Anarchy around a little bit, and of course take on the wild ending of the film, in the context of the man’s larger career and commitment to revisionist history. It’s a film to wrangle with, no question.

While this is, of course, Tarantino’s last released film to date, we’ll come back soon with an overview of what we’ve gotten out of this experiment, and of course, ranked lists! It’s written here, so it has to happen now. And after that? 

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The QT Question: Django Unchained

This week on the QT Question, we welcome Jesse (better known on the boards as Mangy) to the show to chat about Tarantino’s revisionist western, Django Unchained! Right off the bat, Al stuns me by declaring this the worst Tarantino film to date, and even goes so far as to offer a reasonable argument for this. We three have it out here, examining the film’s overstuffed structure and pondering whether it’s too long, too short, or both at once. We also talk about the film’s loaded imagery, the character of Django as it would fit the star originally offered the role (Will Smith), the reading that posits Dr. King Schulz as a stand-in for clueless white liberals, and the general excellence of Samuel L Jackson’s villainous Stephen, one of the most interesting characters in Tarantino’s filmography. I know, how could this be his worst film?

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