QT8: The First Eight

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This is genius. I have never seen anything more brilliant from documentaries. Here is the story of the most brilliant director / screenwriter, MAN! And the way he skillfully strained the actors, the way he communicated with the stuntmen, what words he chose. The way he loved strong female traits, and how he revered women. And these family ties in the form of family differences in absolutely all of his films are conflicting. No one can write like he is a dialogue! He is a real professional geek. The actors and stuntmen themselves admitted that they were not doing their job when they read the scripts. After all, read from the first to the last word! I was struck by how Tarantino arrested Eli Roth for the scene in Inglorious Observations - keep a person in suspense for 5 days, both subsequent and moral, so that in the end he really survived his brutally unique illness. And the way he held the trump card in the image of Christoph Waltz is not like rehearsing common scenes with other actors, which in the end revealed the presence of the remnants of the emotions of the rest - their fear, fright and shock. Bridget Von Hammersmark, ending up sweating with nerves at the introduction of his film, relied on Quentin to actually touch each of his characters. This is Majestic! I'm looking forward to the reveal of his tenth film, and no matter how much it is a tribute to the best that has happened to cinema in the last 30 years! Quentin gave his life and energy so that we can enjoy the art of cinema! Thanks to him. A unique story may overshadow this connection to Haram Wenstein. It is unbelievably unfortunate that such a story touched a man like Quentin.

For a purported documentary about QT, the film is very short of material of the man himself. Instead, we get lots of talking heads from many of his collaborators, but hear precious little from Tarantino. A lower rating for not having access to the auteur himself. The thematic groupings of the films was a new way of looking at the work and made it an interesting take. The Weinstein stuff felt like an easy target and wasn't particularly insightful.

In QT8: The First Eight, The "QT" refers to Quentin Tarantino while the "8" refers to his first eight films. Now I do believe Tarantino is a solid filmmaker but I would never consider him the greatest of all time. His one-two punch of Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown however, shows that at one point he has touched "greatness". "QT8" is a Tarantino documentary that chronicles all his directorial efforts from Reservoir Dogs to The Hateful Eight (and even a sneak peak of Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood). The interviews from the people he has worked with (Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth) have no filter and the docu at times, feels kinda pasted together. Oh well. QT8: The First Eight is insightful and detailed at an elongated running time of 104 minutes. The only film of Quentin's that feels a little left out is Kill Bill Vol. 2. "QT8" reminded me of another filmmaker documentary involving Richard Linklater (21 Years: Richard Linklater). Both flicks feature animation and an omission of the directors themselves and that aspect annoyed me. Still, I give the edge to "QT8". With QT8: The First Eight, there's a lot of stuff I learned about Tarantino that I didn't know before. I mean I knew he was a lover of movies but I didn't know he would invite his cast members to sit down and watch a movie just for kicks. I also didn't know that he at first wanted Micheal Madsen to play the John Travolta role in Pulp Fiction. Finally, I couldn't believe that Tarantino was a huge fan of the TV show Moesha. I mean how random is that? All in all, I plan on recommending "QT8" despite the fact that it feels like a living funeral tribute when the dude is obviously alive and well. And oh yeah, the Harvey Weinstein stuff should've probably been left out. Whatev. As Mr. Pink said, "I didn't create the situation, I'm just dealing with it!" Natch.

Saw this during its Fathom Event night, which included special footage about Director, Tara Wood, and the documentary (this was separate from the actual documentary). This is nicely paced for a documentary, and filled with entertaining interviews. It is an improvement to Wood's first documentary, "21 Years: Richard Linklater." If you're a diehard Tarantino fan, you may not learn too much from this, but it is still a joy to watch his collaborators speak about their experiences. This is focused on Tarantino's career, and not on the Harvey Weinstein scandal, because the documentary was shot before the scandal.

I didn't know I was a Tarantino fan until I watched this documentary with some friends. 21 seconds in and I was hooked. The pace and visual impact of the graphics hit you as fast and hard as the unapologetic assault of the taboo set against a backdrop of a kick ass sound track that leaves you at a strange, gripped pause when the music stops and Christoph Watlz opens with "and then there are the movies...". The clips took me through time as they visited movies that left lasting impressions on me; having never known who the director or writer was. This documentary taught me it doesn't matter that our VHS tape of Reservoir Dogs has been played more times than I can count and still sits on the shelf in the family vacation home for reunion visits; I still never saw the connection of the of the Vega brothers. My absolute love for the gratification of an alternate ending in Inglorious Bastards did nothing to show me the Red Apple pack of smokes in the soldier's pocket. I knew while watching Wood Entertainment's QT8 that I wanted to re-watch all of the previous films to catch the threads that I had been missing. I actually watched a Tarantino film in the middle of watching 21 Years Quentin Tarantino after Robert Forster describes the scene in Jackie Brown of the long walk where you're watching a man fall in love with a woman. The way director, Tara Wood, moved between Robert Forester and the Jackie Brown scene when Pam Greer is walking out of jail made me want more. I paused the documentary and watched Jackie Brown for the first time, and I know I saw it in a different way than I would have had QT8 not introduced me to these actors, their characters and their appreciation for Tarantino.

A great documentary including interviews with the stars of the movies basically talking about the movies he's made so far. Can't help but think a documentary like this should have been made after his 10th and last film and even includes Tarantino himself. That being said, it's a great documentary which I enjoyed and am not knocking.

How many female haters rated this so low? weinstein got his punishment got nothing to do with tarantinos masterpieces

Good doc about the career and first eight movies of Quentin Tarantino. I have some issues about making it now, when it will clearly be incomplete in a couple of years (actually it already is incomplete with the release of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), but other than that is a good compilation of anecdotes from the making of those movies with some very good interviews with the people involved. It does have some glaring omissions, with the likes of Harvey Keitel, Uma Thurman or Harvey Weinstein (understandibly) being m.i.a. But for the fans this is obviously a treat.

No mention of Jane Hamsher or Mike White? Still, overall, it wasn't terribly informative. If you've seen most of his films and know a little about the director, this just felt like another VH-1 kinda doc.