http://www.dumbdistraction.com/Reviews/qt6day6.html
…featuring my brief and frightening conversation with Nicky Katt!
Excellent reports Micah! Youre doing a great job man. Hey you finally spoke to Nicky Katt too! Sounds like hes a cool dude after all. I guess he just looks intense. Keep up the great work, Im reading the site regularly since I found out about it.
yeah im reading it daily, great stuff man, keep up
I just walked out of the Hay Country Slingers crapfest. I refuse to watch the rest of the movies tonight. After fully watching the first one, I have no clue why tarantino chose to show these films.
There were no reddeming factors at all. A pure crap film with no story, acting, or style.
I seemed like the storyline was weakly trying to connecting one sex scene to the next.
He should have used this night for like kung fu, western, or something else.
German sex comedies are basically Soft core porn films. They just call them german sex comedies because they are embrassed by saying I just watched a porn flick.
SUCH A WASTED NIGHT.
AND THEY WEREN’T EVEN FUCKING FUNNY.
WHAT THE HELL WAS THE CHESSE ROLLING ABOUT THE FUCKING HILLS OF GERMANY FOR???
I have to admit, I was pretty disappointed with it as well. I couldn’t stay for the second movie, but let’s hope it was better than the first. I guess the only thing I can say is that this was my first exposure to a “sexploitation” film, so now I know what this genre is like, but it was basically bad sofe core porn.
Oh well, tomorrow night is sure to be great.
Andy
Hey guys, sorry to hear that you didn’t enjoy tonight’s triple feature. If it was a matter of being offended, it’s probably best that you left early, as the 2d movie was pretty out there, and the 3d was at the WTF did I just watch level.
If it was more of an issue with not being entertained, you definately left too soon. Sexploitation is a genre that takes some getting used to. I’ll admit that the 1st film was pretty goofy (but no more so that BMX Bandits or Five for Hell) but the 2d film was actually pretty fantastic. I’d say the dialog in that movie was better written than anything else we’ve seen thus far, even approaching Tarantino-Levels of cool dialog.
Anyway, always hate to see people disappointed, hopefully tomorrow will ring your bell. I’ll have my coverage of tonight up around noon. I’m going to sleep right now.
I have to say, Im not a big fan of Sexploitation because if Im going to watch porn, I want to watch real porn, movies that are in the middle between soft and hardcore just annoy me. I dont think theyre charming or interesting personally. That being said, if I attended the QT Fest, I definitely would stay for all the movies.
It certainly wasn’t a matter of being offended, far from it. But I agree that if you are going to show porn, just show it and be done with it. There were so many other things QT could have done with this night, and this was a theme that was questionable at best. If there had been more of a story or artistic merits, it would have been one thing. But this was just a bad soft core porn movie with rolling wheels of cheese and a drooling handyman. It was by far the most boring movie I have ever seen at a QT Fest.
Oh well, you can’t win them all. At least he tried something new. But tonight should be the best night of all, so let’s just move on and chalk it up to experience.
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But this was just a bad soft core porn movie with rolling wheels of cheese and a drooling handyman. [/quote]
But you left out the best part of the entire movie! The cartoon dream sequence that came out of nowhere! That sequence definitely elevated the movie somewhat! I’m with you though, the sexploitation movies don’t really do it for me, but I did find humor in the first movie, good dialogue and occasional humor in the second, and, well, shock in the third!
That being said, I felt that QT was in top form for his introductions, and Tim League’s introduction (prior to QT’s) for the third movie was quite enjoyable too!
I am really looking forward to tonight’s movies though! Hopefully, he saved the best for last.
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Hey guys, sorry to hear that you didn’t enjoy tonight’s triple feature. If it was a matter of being offended, it’s probably best that you left early, as the 2d movie was pretty out there, and the 3d was at the WTF did I just watch level.
If it was more of an issue with not being entertained, you definately left too soon. Sexploitation is a genre that takes some getting used to. I’ll admit that the 1st film was pretty goofy (but no more so that BMX Bandits or Five for Hell) but the 2d film was actually pretty fantastic. I’d say the dialog in that movie was better written than anything else we’ve seen thus far, even approaching Tarantino-Levels of cool dialog.
Anyway, always hate to see people disappointed, hopefully tomorrow will ring your bell. I’ll have my coverage of tonight up around noon. I’m going to sleep right now.
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allright, ive been refreshing for a couple hours now 
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LOL… it’s up, its up!
http://www.dumbdistraction.com/Reviews/qt6day7.html
Chock full of exclusive pictures & Tarantino’s answer to the Sexploitation/Porno issue. Enjoy.
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LOL… it’s up, its up!
http://www.dumbdistraction.com/Reviews/qt6day7.html
Chock full of exclusive pictures & Tarantino’s answer to the Sexploitation/Porno issue. Enjoy.
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Awesome review! Thanks for the pics and great update!!! (Too scared to photograph Nicky Katt, eh? 
Just kiddin’)
I was looking at the Exploitation posters (All of em Rule!) from the Fest and that first one looks like it may have been an inspiration for The Pussy Wagon’s lettering. Just a thought.
The Super Manchu poster is AWESOME! ME WANT THAT! Now I know where QT got the Supercool Manchu production name when he made Kill Bill.
That Teenage Hitchhikers movie and Hot Summer in The City sound really crazy and fun. I was reading the dialogue excerpts Micah wrote down and I was LMAO.
Last night sounds like it was Pure 70s Grindhouse Fun. Great stuff!
Thanks again for the great reports Micah!
[quote]I was looking at the Exploitation posters (All of em Rule!) from the Fest and that first one looks like it may have been an inspiration for The Pussy Wagon’s lettering. Just a thought.[/quote]
I hadn’t noticed that, but you’re totally right. I may have to ask him about that tonight. Last night was definately the craziest night so far… we kept hoping the place wouldn’t get raided by the feds!
Despite what anyone says, there was no third movie last night. Also Saturday night… I think we can safely say at this point, encore night of QT6 films will only be a part of it, there should be new films!
Lars and Tarantino went into a lengthy discussion on housewives report, lederhosen and schoolgirl report films and put them in context of where they stood in comparison to the USA drive-in/grindhouse variety. The theme of the night said it all “Sexploitation Night”… I don’t see what there is to complain about… it’s like going to horror night and complaining about it being scary or seeing people get killed. If you show up for “Sexploitation Night” your gonna see sexploitation movies… if you don’t like those kind of films, you should have stayed home. Sexploitation and all its subgenre’s is something that has always been represented at QT fests and has always been one of the more popular nights among the most passionate film fans. The people that don’t care for these type of films, usually stay away. As for redeeming qualities it is all based on someone’s personal/cultural bias… if your already biased on these types of films, its gonna be hard to get anything objective about what you write about them, especially dismissing them out right.
Tim decorated the lobby area after he saw my top 25 list with the Drafthouse’s collection of exploitation posters. I was a bit surprised to see his poster for Street Gangs of Hong Kong… aka “Delinquent” is one of my favorite Shaw Brothers and Chang Cheh films. I trully freaked out when I saw it and immediately asked Tim if they were gonna screen it ever… but alas they didn’t have a print.
The Pussy Wagon type was a very popular and common font style used on alot of 70’s film posters.
Super Manchu poster… Tim tells me they are screening that film soon!
The pre-film last night… was a beautiful technicolor print of the Disney animated World War II cartoon “Der Fuehrer’s Face” (which is available in the Disney DVD boxset titled “Walt Disney Treasures - On the Front Lines”). Disney was buying up all prints of this and some other of its more now controversial WWII animated shorts… somehow this one slipped through… a completely rare treat seeing on the big screen. The main pre-film was “Salt in the Wound” an Italian WWII film starring Klaus Kinski as a tortured American soldier. Klaus gets one of his coolest action moments in any film ever… in this movie… I won’t spoil it for you. George Hilton also stars in it and this has to be one of my favorite performances of him, as he completely plays against his usual macho characters… though I wouldn’t rank this up there with my favorite performances of him in the gialli “All the Colors of the Dark” and “The Sweet Body of Deborah” (which is my favorite performance by him in a movie). The movie definitely has some pacing issues… but it does just enough to keep moving along… and probably the only WWII movie I’ve ever seen with such strong hippy undertones, lol.
Hay Country Swingers… definitely had some solid dialogue, although it does suffer from time requirements (films released had to be a certain length)… and pads out time in various places. The animated sequence in the film that pops out of nowhere is hilarious as it appears to be a complete homage to “Tarzoon” (which came out 8 years earlier). Trivia note - Johannes Buzalski who plays the handyman in this film played Advokat in the cult film "Mark of the Devil."
Out of all the various subgenres of sex comedies… I probably prefer the nurse-ploitation and all the animal house and porky’s ripoffs and of course most of the Edwige Fenech Italian sex comedies. Shaw Brothers also has a whole subgenre of sex comedies that are pretty insane like “36 Secrets Of Courtship” that I completely dig… although they all seem to never know how to freaking end. There is also some solid hardboiled grindhouse Shaw Brothers films w/ sex like Sun Chung’s “Big Bad Sis” that are worth seeking out… and another Shaw Brothers film "Kiss of Death."
Teenage Hitchhikers… was like a drive-in hitchhiker film making fun of drive-in hitchhiker films. It attemps to be like a “Kentucky Fried Movie” of its subgenre. It’s about 30 minutes too long and if you’ve seen most other entries in this type of film… you’ll be mostly bored. My favorite hitchhiking sexploitation movie of all time is Di Leo’s “To Be Twenty”… though it get’s so vicious that even the most jaded of filmgoers may not make it through it all (just be sure if you seek this out to get Raro’s Italian DVD of it, I know Fred at Luminous also has a DVD-R that features some of his exclusive interviews w/ Di Leo shortly before his death). And I say this so anyone avoids the cut version of it… as it not only re-edits the movie… it completely cuts out the lesbian scene and all the violence.
Tarantino does not like at all anyone taking his picture, and most of all recording him on video. If he knew anyone was recording him on video, that wasn’t press or already ok’d, I’m not kidding he would run down and confront you right away. Pictures of Tarantino at the fest have popped up all over online and your gonna have that happen… but video clips posted online would be a serious no-no. You have to keep in mind, when he is up there, the spotlight is right on him, so he’s not getting an absolute clear shot of the audience when he looks out. If anyone posts this video online, there will be some serious legal happenings… let alone the AFS will put in new rules barring all camera’s and cell phone camera phones.
As for pics of the celebs there… most of them do not like having their picture taken and refuse requests for them. Perhaps as the fest winds down they will be more accomodating.
I thought there was a third film last night. It states mystrey film at the webpage even. I asked lars what’s the third film and he said Hot Summer In City.
This is kinda weird.
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Tarantino does not like at all anyone taking his picture, and most of all recording him on video. If he knew anyone was recording him on video, that wasn’t press or already ok’d, I’m not kidding he would run down and confront you right away. Pictures of Tarantino at the fest have popped up all over online and your gonna have that happen… but video clips posted online would be a serious no-no. You have to keep in mind, when he is up there, the spotlight is right on him, so he’s not getting an absolute clear shot of the audience when he looks out. If anyone posts this video online, there will be some serious legal happenings… let alone the AFS will put in new rules barring all camera’s and cell phone camera phones.
As for pics of the celebs there… most of them do not like having their picture taken and refuse requests for them. Perhaps as the fest winds down they will be more accomodating.
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its not illegal to take someones picture man, or even filming them, unless they catch you doing it you can do anything you want, im not saying that its ok but if filming was illegal there would be thousands of paparazzi people rotting in jail now
there wont be legal issues if you post the vid
Even if there are no legal issues, once videos of QT’s intros surface on the web, you can bet that next year he and AFS will put stricter rules into place, and we’ll all get hassled next time. I can easily see them banning all cameras/phones, which would suck.
Not telling you what to do, just pointing out some of the likely consequences.
Grindhouse Coverage:
http://www.dumbdistraction.com/Reviews/qt6day8.html
Featuring more pictures, an encounter with Tarantino, and of course, the daily Nicky Katt Update.
By the way, I just wanted to mention that starting next Friday, I’ll be running weekly reviews of movies Tarantino praised during this festival. Its quite a lengthy list, so hopefully I’ll get through them all before QT7.