(Trailer contains some naughty language, so shield your ears or put in your tampon or whatever)
While we all wait for Mel Gibson’s Viking epic starring Leonardo Caprio, a movie called The Wild Hunt from director Alexandre Franchi is currently playing the Santa Barbara Film Festival.  Finally, a film about Viking LARP (Live Action Role Playing) that doesn’t skimp on the sexual assault.  It’s like they read my mind!  Key line in the trailer:

“I know some girls, they role play medieval prostitutes and they have sex with men who pay them in fake coins.”

So where do these girls hang out?  ‘Cause hey, I got fake coins.  I got a whooooole chest full of ‘em.  *leans back in chair* Anyway, I have a spy down at this film festival who assures me that The Wild Hunt is indeed as badass as it seems.  It doesn’t have distribution deal yet, but be sure you watch the trailer until the end.  Sh*t. Gets. Real.

Jeff Wells recently posted a few clips from a filmmaker’s panel at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in which Quentin Tarantino is his normal ball of coked-up energy, while Hangover/Old School-director Todd Phillips sits off to the side looking like he’s just here for the gang bang.  Someone asked Tarantino about Avatar, because that’s the thing to do now:

[Question from the audience]: Avatar is indeed a game-changer.  Do you think you will ever leave your genre-oriented directing and try a movie that is technologically more arresting?

Tarantino: What, just because he did it in 3D?  [laughter] I’ll tell you what would’ve been a game changer as far as I was concerned, if I had seen Avatar before I’d made Kill Bill.  One of the things I was thinking, was when I did Kill Bill, I had these grandiose visions in my head, of the experience of watching the movie, and I actually wanted it to be more like being on a ride.  …I don’t think I did that.  It wasn’t quite the ride I had envisioned at my most grandiose.  And when I saw Avatar, I was like, ‘That’s the ride!’

I think it would’ve been better if he’d just left it at, “What, just because he did it in 3D?”  What kind of prick asks that kind of question, anyway?  You ask Werner Herzog a question like that, he’s liable to carve out your larynx and eat it.  Seriously, I’ve seen him do it.

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