The danger of watching any movie this way is that some may get so excited about identifying the references that they mistake this sense of accomplishment for the film actually being good.įortunately for us, Tarantino cares more about creating richly drawn and downright freaky characters just a little bit more than he does trying to play guessing games.
the audience) must teach themselves enough about a certain type of film history to catch all of the references. It's a history lesson where the students (i.e. Plus, it's always seemed strange to me to mix docs and features the same way you don't usually see fiction and nonfiction books shelved together in a bookstore.Ĭolumn Fri The Hateful Eight, Concussion, Joy, Carol, Hitchcock/Truffaut & Man Upįor more than a few raving cinephiles, watching a Quentin Tarnatino film is a bit like going on a scavenger hunt through the filmmaker's personal movie library. As I do every year, I've separated out the documentaries because I want an excuse to call extra attention to a whole other batch of worthy films (20 this year) that might go unnoticed on my main list. If I simply watched an older film at home, that doesn't make the list. This number does include a few vintage titles, but only if I saw them in a theater (often as a restored print, but not always).
list every year, and that's because I'm often able to squeeze in a dozen or more films in the last couple weeks of December, mostly stuff that others have told me is worth checking out that I either missed when it came out in Chicago or titles that simply never came out locally.īy my count, I saw 455 films in 2015 (10 less than last year - I'm slipping!), either in a theater or via screener - from Paddington to Point Break. I'm the idiot who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of. If this and THE INTERVIEW are any indication, looks like Eminem needs to be hit up more often for comedic roles.Column Fri Best Feature Films & Documentaries of 2015 Production on RIDICULOUS 6 is expected to start in February. With production starting soon, I imagine this one will hit Netflix before the year's end. Given that Sandler signed a 4-picture deal, I'd like to see him experiment with something really different, although one can hardly blame him for delivering the safe picture first. Sounds like the usual rundown with Sandler and crew although I'll admit that having this flick go straight to Netflix is an added incentive, albeit a small one. Forte and Trejo will play the leaders of rival gangs and Vanilla Ice will play Mark Twain. Phew! Get all that?Īdam Sandler will play an orphan raised by an Indian tribe with Lautner, Schneider, Wilson and Crews playing his half-brothers. If anything, Adam Sandler has proved that he can put together a laundry list of names and word on the street is that his first netflix original, RIDICULOUS 6, will star no less than Sandler himself, Taylor Lautner, Nick Nolte, Blake Shelton, Whitney Cummings, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, Dan Aykroyd, Will Forte, Nick Swardson, Terry Crews, Jon Lovitz, Vanilla Ice, Luke Wilson, Steve Zahn, Danny Trejo, Chris Parnell and Lavell Crawford. Add to that the Netflix factor of being able to watch new content immediately, and it sounds like they both parties have a worthwhile deal going on. well, why not? You can argue the merits of his films until the cows come home but the fact of the matter is that they have an audience. We learned back in October that Adam Sandler signed a 4-picture deal with Netflix because.
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