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lobstr
08/13/09

In reply to German Quentin Tarantino Fans Are Not Impressed By Quentin Tarantino
I don't quite remember Conan's setups being so obvious on his other show but his question "Did the cast hang out in France and Germany?" and yielding the resulting anecdote came off really rehearsed. I know they rehearse the show, but it seems like he kept that more masked on the late night version. .. LA's doin some strange stuff to ol' Conan..
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sandinista
08/13/09

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Speaking of Brad Pitt -- I watched him on the Today Show this morning and he was questioned about running for Mayor of New Orleans(I can't believe I just typed that. No wonder Twilight is so popular), he said "I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform. I don't have a chance."

I'm all for people marrying and divorcing who they want. I can't understand why marijuana was criminalized, but c'mon Brad, banning religion? My parents would have nowhere to go on Sunday's except to my house! Let them continue to flock
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Asmo
08/13/09

@sandinista: My opinion of Brad Pitt just shot up by about ten points.
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BadUncle
08/13/09

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So, the cast and crew may as well have been in a NYC bar. Named "Tarantino's."
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Cheap Shot
08/13/09

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I think they should have walked in with whoever was playing Hitler in full costume.
That would have gotten their attention.
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HarlanKeenan
08/13/09

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Can you spoil it? Some of us can't see streaming video at work, and I'll surely forget by the time I get home.
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ChillbearLatrigue
08/13/09

@HarlanKeenan: Okay, this contains video clip SPOILERS:
BJ Novak talks about a scene where he is being filmed in the back of a truck with Brad Pitt. During downtime, Pitt is asking him a lot of questions, which Conan finds odd. Then Novak is nervous about asking Pitt questions because he doesn't want to come off like a tabloid reporter.

Novak later sees Pitt at the Golden Globes and despite the fact that they have now worked on a movie, he is nervous about approaching Pitt in his element. Novak wonders if he didn't create the entire experience in his head.

Novak then talks about Tarantino. He says that Tarantino hangs out with the cast regularly. Like CajunBoy mentioned they went to a bar called Tarantinos, where the Germans were aloof. Novak compares it to Michael Jordan visiting his own home when he was ten and seeing all of the posters, but Novak not offering him a lemonade.

He then said that eventually people came up for autographs with posters. He and Conan mock the German accent as sounding evil.

They then show a clip where Pitt's and Novak's characters are captured by the Nazis and being interviewed by the villain of the movie. Novak finds out that his nickname among the Nazis is "The Little Man" and is appropriately offended.

The whole thing was actually funnier than this, but those are the essential elements of the video.
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GuyBitchy
02/11/09

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Pitt can't pull it off. As for Quent, the forty-going-on-thirteen meta fanboy approach to retro genre riffs has long since been squeezed dry.
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Calraigh
02/11/09

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The only film Brad Pitt has ever ''acted'' in, was Burn After Reading . He's just been variously accented in everything else.

This shit. This just makes me feel bad for the Nazis.
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eatsshootsleaves
02/11/09

In reply to Inglourious Basterds: It's Grindhouse in ~~Space~~ France!
In modest defense of Brad Pitt, basically every Tarantino performance looks horrible if you look at it in the span of a short movie clip. It's all kitsch, really -- but it usually works over a longer period of work.

Still, this looks quite uninspired.
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Lazy Susan
02/11/09

In reply to Inglourious Basterds: It's Grindhouse in ~~Space~~ France!
Maybe it's a shit trailer - done by the kid they got in to attract the Playstation crowd. It did one thing for me, though - sucked all the joy out of my morning.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
02/11/09

In reply to Inglourious Basterds: It's Grindhouse in ~~Space~~ France!
Who's the euro movimaker that Quentin idolizes? After having seen Pulp Fiction he was told by Quentin something like "it's an homage to you." His response was that he would would have preferred for Quentin just to give him some money instead. Butchered the story, but you get the idea.
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misslinda
02/11/09

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Remind me again what Pitt does "marginally well"?
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
02/11/09

@misslinda: clownish insouciance?
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leonleonleon
02/11/09

@misslinda: Pikey accent. Look good shirtless. That's about it!
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saythatscool
02/11/09

@misslinda: Here's a secret that women don't realize. Brad Pitt's big fanbase today? The base that lusts after him sexually?

I'll give you a clue - it ain't women or teh geighs, it's hetero men. They have had a big ole chubby for him since Fight Club and it's not gonna go away until Brad's body goes away. Hetero men (and I am one) lurv Brad because he's done a lot to define masculinity to men who don't want to have to think about the concept of masculinity. He's someone simple to emulate and at times, imitate. So we mens dig him more than we care to admit. It's true! Ask hetero men what they think of him and you will hear positive words. Not so from the ladies though. Wonder why?
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leonleonleon
02/11/09

@saythatscool: As a straight guy I think the rule is you're allowed two man crushes. Most dudes pick Brad Pitt as one. My other is Jude Law

I'm probably not all the way straight
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Colander
02/11/09

@leonleonleon: Well, not NOW you're not.
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Xylo
02/11/09

@saythatscool: That filthy mustache.

j/k. I f'ing loved him in Snatch and Fight Club.
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BadUncle
02/11/09

In reply to Inglourious Basterds: It's Grindhouse in ~~Space~~ France!
Grindhouse set was a spot-on re-creation of bad film-making and cheap theater ambiance. But it was kind of a stand-alone homage to a period of sleazy narrative. Tarantino's stylized exploitation might be devolving into self-parody. I hope not.
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PrincessKashmir
02/11/09

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I can't stand BJ Novak. I know intellectually it is an irrational hatred, since I really only hate his character on The Office. But it's a deep, burning hatred unlike anything I have ever felt for a fictional character, and plus he has buggy eyes.
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SaraRueful
02/11/09

@PrincessKashmir: I admit, I had to go look up BJ Novak. (I don't like the American Office, plus I don't live there and Hulu won't hook me up.) But I don't like him based on the row of photos that pop up on his imdb.com page -- he looks EXACTLY THE SAME in every picture. NO expression whatsoever. Ick!

[www.imdb.com]
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
02/11/09

@PrincessKashmir: and I thought I was the only one. I think as an actor he might have one speed, but who knows.

He stirs up irrational, teenage girl insecurities in me too. He perpetually reminds me of some of my brother's friends who made fun of me and thought I was a spaz. OK, I was a little bit of a spaz, but a cute one and I didn't need their charity! I didn't! I'm just sayin' Really.
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ElectricMayhem
02/11/09

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I dunno, isn't there some deeper meaning in being made to root for the Nazi-like treatment of Nazis? Or something?
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saythatscool
02/11/09

@ElectricMayhem: It's political satire that's four years too late.
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Colonel Mustard
02/11/09

In reply to Inglourious Basterds: It's Grindhouse in ~~Space~~ France!
I don't know about this. I kind of liked where it was going until the end there, when Mel Brooks threw a temper tantrum while dressed as Hitler in an ermine cape. That was a bit of a WTF moment.
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saythatscool
02/11/09

@Colonel Mustard: Hitler's funny when you give him a prop to work with. To wit, Charlie Chaplin in the Great Dictator as he plays with an inflatable globe.
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PrincessKashmir
02/11/09

@Colonel Mustard: It felt like a deleted scene from the Hyundai commercial with all the angry foreign car company CEOs that aired during the Superbowl.

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Kid Twist
02/11/09

@Colonel Mustard: Singing Hitlers to the left, dancing Hitlers to the right.
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SaraRueful
02/11/09

@PrincessKashmir: Holy shit, I was still pronouncing it "h-yun-day" (or however that would be rendered, with the Y pronounced).

Unintentionally service-y!
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Kid Twist
02/11/09

@SaraRueful: Well, we're talking about Germans, so it's definitely Hun Day.
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homoviper
02/11/09

@Kid Twist: Ha!
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