There will be some articles, but hardly a backlash. Weinstein helped make Tarantino, yes, but Tarantino helped in the making of Weinstein.
In addition, as noted, the script has been shown to Tate’s family and at least one sister approves. There is also the very distinct possibility that the murders/bodies are not even shown.
Lastly, QT has already made a movie where a pregnant woman was (thought to be) killed. Won’t be the first time.
I don’t believe that’s true. I just went back and watched the scene that supposedly says the trophy was stolen. It’s the part where Butch is sneaking back to his apartment to get his watch. When he’s walking beside one of the houses before he crosses the vacant lot there is an advertisement for Jack Rabbit Slims playing in the background. I turned up the volume all the way; and it’s definitely an advertisement, not a news report. The only thing it says is something about a milkshake.
Also, there’s this… Did Vincent and Mia Steal the Twist Competition Trophy in Pulp Fiction?
That’s Michael Bay.
I admittedly haven’t seen a Michael Bay movie in a while, but I would have thought his movies were for the most part simply an excuse for “gratuitous explosions.” Has he changed that much?
Sure, you could say that about QT’s movies; but the violence in Kill Bill for example was so over the top it was so cartoonish it softened the gore if it. Compare that to something like The Passion of the Christ where you see flesh being ripped off. Totally different IMHO.
Explosions aren’t violent?
There’s a difference between violence and action. Kill Bill is an action movie, although some of the action is quite violent. Hateful 8, in turn, is a very violent movie, but has nearly no action.
Personally, I think Tarantino is an extremely talented director of action movies, and I wish he’d make more of them.
I think action, violence, and gore are at least three distinct yet often overlapping terms here.
But my point about Michael Bay is that, to me at least, the explosions are the reason for the movie vs Tarantino, the violence/gore actually add to, or punctuate the story.
The Duff movie The Haunting of Sharon Tate has been (supposedly) been released. I find no box office info on Box Office Mojo. And it’s available from Amazon already. Direct to video?
It’s as bad as you’d expect it. 14% at RT. 3.2/10 audience rating on IMDb.
Very strangely it’s already listed as having won 3 awards from something called the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival Awards. I guess these folks are cheaper than the Golden Globes nowadays.
Like I said, sometimes films on the same topic can parasitize each other. Probably not in this case.
I think Tarantino can beat this.
Tarantino makes movies about movies. Inglourious Basterds, for example, obviously wasn’t about World War II. But it also wasn’t just a WWII action thriller. It was a movie about WWII action thrillers.
There’s another upcoming Manson movie called Charlie Says, featuring Matt “Doctor Who” Smith as Manson. Here’s the trailer.
OMFG, I was channel-surfing last night and saw a few seconds of a scene from a 1988 episode of The Golden Girls. There, in the back row of a pack of Elvis impersonators at the wedding of one of the main characters, was QT himself. IMDB says it was his third acting gig: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8e/0e/21/8e0e21562bd969f9761df0d1b879ec64--the-golden-girls-quentin-tarantino.jpg
As the King might have said, “Whoa.” 
World premiere at Cannes is in less than an hour.
And a new trailer.
And now the reviews are coming in. At RT as of now there are 7, all positive.
Looking at some reviews, it’s been getting 5/5 stars. 220 IMDb users have given it a weighted average vote of 9.7/10, with 89.1% giving it 10/10.
I partially read a couple of reviews, but don’t want to read any more, as I’d like to see the movie without any preconditioned thoughts about it.
Any chance QT got permission to use any White Album tunes in this movie? Probably not but how cool would it be to hear “Helter Skelter” blasting over the end credits? (Especially if this is “rewriting” of history?)
Great trailer.
I didn’t know that “official” trailers (which that one was) are now allowed to say ‘fuck’. Nice.
The trailer is great. July 26 can’t get here soon enough.
Love his stuff, even the duds are a worthy watch as there is always someway in which he is playing with you.
No UK release until August but I may have a USA work trip at end of July so that’ll be my little treat.
