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A pair of SR-71's were first flying in late 64 and went into service in 66 and made public in the mid 70's and a Russian defector handed the US a top secret plane called the MIG-25 in 76. Firefox was released in 82. It looks similar to the XB-70 that was flying in the mid 60s as small caveat and all those planes flew at Mach 3. One could say it was a US propaganda film giving Russia the middle finger because the film has all the elements I've noted above. Even the X-15 was reaching Mach 5 in the late 60s breaking records and all in the public domain at the time of filming. I loved the build up to the film and the sinsister background music whenever the firefox was in camera view but yeah something switched off in my head once Clint got in the shower and seems to have a mental breakdown briefly lol. I was only 11 at the time 😂 n.b. when the firefox was being rearmed and refueled on the ice Clint asks where they got the missiles and the submarine captain quipped oh we got these off a MIG-25 we stole in Syria 🤌

Too bad Tarantino never hired Tomas Milian, such a great actor, he worked with many great directors but in the United States was totally underrated and underused. I think his delivery was perfect for Tarantino cinema.

Steel was shot on location in Lexington, KY and not in St. Louis. The tower was the Kentucky Central building, home of insurance magnate and financier Garvice Kincaid, which was under construction at that time. The tower remains. Kentucky Central Insurance died not long after Kincaid did.

It's not entirely true that the Spy Who Loved Me wasn't following a film trend. It was part of the sort of minor niche of the time for aquatic themed movies. Films such as Jaws, Orca, Tentacles and the Deep, etc.

I want that poster!

Come for Tarantino; stay for Roger Avary and his daughter.

Poor actress Lois Chiles having to make the anilingus line in the final scene leading to end credits.

Yeah his structure sounds like a better movie

i surprised that no one upgraded roller derby to rollerball. it would be a multi-billion venture.

A review longer than the movie itself.

You can tell right now, Jason mimosa is gonna get the greatest and most memorable role in his life. I just hope the directors and scrip writer's don't frag this up and WB does not Frag the whole deal frag fucking high. The universe wants this guy to pull a legendary role with lobo Making a movie is expensive and long, but dear God let me live long enough to see this

I like The Keep.

Such a great interview

Star 80 is about PAUL SNYDER. Eric Roberts’ portrayal is so … larger than life, that Mariel Hemingway simply recedes further and further into the background. The exact reverse of what what actually happened.

QT will literally review any movie particularly before 1990 release date😂

He's talking about Michael Mann ripping off Sorcerer. The hypocrite. How many films has he ripped off!

fun movie

Good stuff, but man, did he brutalize the pronunciation of Waugh’s name, lol.

Never read the Bradbury book, but I did read the EC Comics adaptation of Zero Hour in Weird Science when I was a kid.

I saw “The Keep” back in 1985 on VHS and enjoyed it. Watched it again last night nearly 40 years later and didn’t find it nearly as satisfying. It starts out interestingly enough then looses its way. Micheal Mann’s directors cut was 120 minutes. Paramount’s version was only 96 minutes. That goes along way explaining the incoherent story line. Throw in the production nightmares and budget cuts and it’s a credit to Mann that “The Keep” is even remotely entertaining let alone even watchable.

The book is excellent. The movie is definitely dated.

Possibly the greatest, most brutal ,and weird western has not been made yet....Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece)...too uncompromising for Hollywood, too expensive to make in Europe...

excellent film ~ one of my favorite thriller

CG hurt the creature in the film

The ignorance of these so called auteurs is annoying. Jurgen’s character is not a “good Nazi”. He wasnt a Nazi. Its like saying everyone in the US military is a Biden supporter. Many Germans in the military despised the Nazis but were trapped in a system they could not control.

23:22 he backpedaled there, but he better have been thinking of _Last of the Mohicans_ because when he said Mann _only_ works when dealing with the 20th century, he is so wrong and that film is testament to his error.

Listened to this yesterday went by the thrift store and I find a lightly tattered copy of Rollerball MGM dvd can't wait to watch it for the first time.

Funny just watched this

I loved that movie

For me Moonraker is one of the best and worst Bond films. It is the utlimate mixed bag of some of the highest high's and lowest low's of the Bond series. My problems were mostly just turning Jaws good and having him fall in love at the end was beyond corny. There were a few ridiculous slapstick moments that didn't belong in the film but those were common to all Roger Moore Bond films. The musical score was gorgeous, the opening pre credits stunt scene and when Bond gets dizzyingly stuck on that space machine early on and the hand to hand fight scene were all awesome. As was the scene on those cable cars. It's the perfect movie to throw on when you just want some entertainment but aren't in a mood to pay super close attention to everything.

For me Moonraker is one of the best and worst Bond films. It is the utlimate mixed bag of some of the highest high's and lowest low's of the Bond series. My problems were mostly just turning Jaws good and having him fall in love at the end was beyond corny. There were a few ridiculous slapstick moments that didn't belong in the film but those were common to all Roger Moore Bond films. The musical score was gorgeous, the opening pre credits stunt scene and when Bond gets dizzyingly stuck on that space machine early on and the hand to hand fight scene were all awesome. As was the scene on those cable cars. It's the perfect movie to throw on when you just want some entertainment but aren't in a mood to pay super close attention to everything.

Why didn't they talk to each other for more than 20 years? It started with Pulp Fiction when Roger Avery wanted co-writer credit when all he did was contribute towards the "Watch Scene" and Quentin Tarantino wanted him to get "Story By" credit. Let's get one thing clear, Pulp Fiction was written by Quentin Tarantino.

I was hoping QT would talk about Peter Bogdonovich. What a creep.

I will try to give you my perspective, if you care to read through the whole wall of text: My parents moved from croatia into munich, where i was born. I know the locations of some of these places where the movie was shot. Namely, there are outside locations of the Olympia Dorf, a set of concrete homes built in the 70ies for the olympic games in munich. These are the "happy" scenes where Jonathan and his former wife/girlfriend are seen laughing and obviously being happy with each other And in the background, you can see these structures. I will address this later, lets finish locations first: My father worked at BMW (and later at Motorsport, a daughter company of BMW), and he took me to the BMW museum. It is the soupbowl-looking structure that is depicted in the movie. Back in the day, sure there was an escalator (Jonathan and his buddy take the escalator up), but if you enter the museum, you walk up through the whole structure. Once you reach the top, there is a cinema where you can see a movie about the BMW corporation. In the end, you take the escalator down and leave the museum. The escalator is the exit and it takes you out. And obviously there is the 4tubes upward sort of building that is the BMW iconic central building. The movie was shot 1 year before I was born and my father didn´t work at BMW yet. Obviously, when I saw it as a kid, I was sort of biased: "hey this was shot where I live, my father is even working for the company that some scenes are shot at, how awesome is that movie?" Right. So let´s get that out of the way, obviously as a kid I was totally biased in that regard. Now for the movie itself and the message (which I didn´t get as a kid, but later), imo: It is quite a message, that a very privileged class (and I consider Jonathan as such) can NOT obtain a book. It is in the library, where he is told, that he can get a summary of a book. Now, I am not a NAZI, but if you want to buy a version of "Mein Kampf", you get it with a commentary, which is supposed to give you the "correct" perspective to acknowledge the information, that you are supposed to obtain from the book in the correct way. But you can still get the book. It is not clear in the movie: Jonathan asks for a book on the corporate wars. Only summaries are available. Is it only for this topic that only summaries are available? I think the suggestion is made here, that only summaries are available on ANY topic, and that anything else would be quite surprising (watch the scene with the girl that is supposedly a bibliothecary ). People are not meant to inquire for themselves, and if they do, they get politically correct summaries. At least that is my impression when I watch the movie. But because Jonathan IS actually of a priviledged class, he can fly to Geneva, and see for himself, what the supercomputer can tell him about this topic. There he learns that this information is not obtainable and also the history of the 13th (I think) century is completely lost. No backup there. So even if a MORE priviledged person than Jonathan, let´s say the character "Bartholomew" would want to inquire about this topic, he would get no results. He would have to have a physical book about it, but that is most likely "verboten"... In Rollerball, we are WAY past that. Even as a priviledged class (as Jonathan clearly is), you get a politically correct summary of a book. And nothing else is even obtainable. There is no way that the person can have a thought process of his own. The movie is VERY subtly dystopian, because if you missed THAT message (and I think it is subtle), you missed a lot. There was criticism from the channel-owner: Wouldn´t the corporations PUSH somebody like Jonathan to make more profit? My criticism is the following: You didn´t understand the greater message behind it. IMO it is the following: Corporation wars were mentioned, so these obviously happened in the past. The corporation wars must have been so devastating, that the big corporations came to an agreement, that stability is of utmost importance. One corporation pushing Jonathan as a product to increase profits is missing the point. There are no profits to be gained, except to the detriment of some or more other corporations, and that leads to corporation wars. And these corporation wars are bad, so no corporation will do that, because "allegedly" they came to an agreement that these corporation wars were probably detrimental to everybody. So, no, Jonathan is not to be pushed. However, due to his achievements. he shall be pushed as a "hero" who did well, but not exceed. This would hopefully increase productivity in this dystopian society. But we need no heroes who can overthrow the applecart. Just heroes who can push the applecart a little bit faster, if you know what I mean. Actually I think, Jonathan is a very simple-minded character. He accidentally stumbled across this conundrum where he says: People once had a choice between safety and free choice, they choose safety. Or something like that. This movie is in a strange way depicting how this conundrum could turn out. That people would agree to go to the lenghts to accept that books are summarized and therefore you were allowed to only think one way is extreme, but imo a warning to society. And to circle back to Jonathan´s wife: Now this is not clearly dotted out in the movie, but it seems to be that she either made the choice, or she was forced to make the choice in that direction that she would be the wife of a "more" priviledged person than even Jonathan was. A grey suit that dreams to be a Rollerballer... Talk about feminism here. It is hard to imagine that she left Jonathan of her own choice (who has a lot of priviledges and luxury) for somebody else she doesn´t love, just for a bit more of the luxuries and even more priviledges. I think that she is delusional and forced to that decision. She doesn´t even know. What force "forced" her to take that decision? She either thinks that it is for the "greater good" of society that she becomes the wife of an executive that wants her, or she made a decision to be a wife of that person by herself, meaning that she didn´t actually love Jonathan, maybe he was just an "intermediate" partner. Given the perspective that Jonathan has with women during the movie, I highly doubt the latter, although it could be said, that when these recordings were made with Jonathan and his love, he might not have been THAT promising of a Rollerballer... In any case, she is basically still a woman that is rented out like a used car. The whole movie suggests that this dystopian future has women who please men of the upper class as they please, not a bright future to say the least.

Gebrannte Haut = Burned Skin

Avary's twenty something daughter understood the film better than QT.

To like Death Race 2000 better than Rollerball... I like QT's cinema better than his taste in cinema.

Moonraker has one of the most powerful death scenes of all time: th-cam.com/video/PasdxEYHhMo/w-d-xo.html

Wow . My parents made me watch this in the theatres ( hippy kid here - who knows you well. ) and it was a terror blur. Terror terror confusing blur . I worked wardrobe on osterman weekend ( just assistant ) but got to know Sam in his last years . Gruff and bitter- we used to get his groceries and pills ( which I took one . Ummm it was a Seconal so they found me at high tide at paradise cove) after that ? He was real nice to me “ hey kid “ anyway my favorite Is obsessively “ pat Garret and Billy the kid “ followed by “ the getaway “ & the “ wild bunch “ and I’m a femme girl . I did not! Understand or like this ! But I’m going to try and rewatch it as an adult vs a 10 year old !

Drax ordering the dogs on his secretary is the darkest moment in the series in the middle of the goofiest film.

What is this "I don't buy shit." This was a very simple movie. The simpleton rollerball player was packing a very powerful privilege card giving him more and more the perks of an executive. That shit had to stop! Bartholomew wanted him out, not the trashcan computer of empty knowledge puppet show. Bartholomew was the head of the Energy Corporation He was the crocodile the whole time. It comes as no surprise that a dork like Tarantino would have such cynical buttheaded criticisms of this move. Now I see why he didn't get best picture for Inglourious Basterds, it's because he's such a fuckin' DORK! He blows his only shot at best director and best picture in typical Tarantino dorkass fashion. Fuckin' dorkantino !!!!

why is she allowed to talk?

I’m just glad as gen z i got to grow up with a classic like this, used to think about Bond movies like 90% of the day, the jokes however bad are still either entertaining or shockingly clever, or just goofy af, ppl underestimate how sly these films get,

I thought for sure that Quentin would defend Moonraker against all of its joyless naysayers, but surprisingly, he's just another knob. Yes, it's a very silly film IF you take it seriously. But you're not supposed to. You're supposed to shut off your brain and just enjoy the spectacle and the silliness for all its worth. And as for the space stuff arriving late in the film? That's a GOOD thing. The entire film is a long set-up for the space stuff. It's also an excuse to do some wonderful globetrotting (which wasn't as common then as it is now) and see some lovely ladies and science labs, but for the most part, the film is Bond's journey to find out what's going on, and then going there. And when he gets there (space) the film doesn't disappoint. But you have to EARN your ticket to space first. Roger knew it was stupid. We know it's stupid. But it's a great time kind of stupid. Bond is only bad when he's boring, and he's only boring when he takes himself seriously (à la Daniel Craig).

Jaws used to terrify me as a kid. Decent film as an adult. I could genuinely listen to Quentin talk about films for hours, he is so knowledgeable and passionate. In the UK we call movies films. Just so you know ;)

I’m not one for telling tone of the greatest movie directors of the 20th and 21st century, who has a habit of meta-casting, what to do, but I hope he’s considered using Scott Eastwood as the lead in a last hurrah (even though I think he’s crazy for keeping it to 10, as I’d rather watch his “decline” movies than most of the stuff coming out - just saying).

Isn't it a Blow Out/Up riff which is really a voyeuristic thing done by Hitchcock initially.

The book has the same abrupt ending, and the sequel picks up literally seconds later.

...fun fact about the movie soundtrack....the song that EVERYONE LOVES....LET'S ALL CHANT by the MICHAEL ZAGER BAND....one of the people singing the song...is the very young ...WHITNEY HOUSTON....

...fun fact about the movie soundtrack....the song that EVERYONE LOVES....LET'S ALL CHANT by the MICHAEL ZAGER BAND....one of the people singing the song...is the very young ...WHITNEY HOUSTON....