seen a good tarantino movie lately?

maybe... haven't seen death proof or inglorious basterds yet... maybe won't watch them ever... who can say? u probably liked the cantonese old kung fu guy from kill bill, although there was a lot of stuff in that movie you probably could have done without, and who can forget pulp fiction, even with all those scenes with uma thurman and john travolta jerking eachother off to buddy holly music

sometimes it seems like tarantino can just jerk off on a t-shirt and then take a crap on that and throw it at the media and say: 'here jerk off about that for a while' and before you know it he's pocketed another $30 million bucks.... that's why i pass on tarantino mostly, the last time i checked he was working on some project maybe with jamie foxx, hollywood's gimpiest motherf*cker ever - i'm just saying

but do you know tarantino movie would drag me out of the house and straight to the cinema instead of sitting at home with my dick in my hand in my comfortable arse crib watching the o'reilly factor?

a movie that has never been made yet, that may never be made, but if tarantino made it, i would be the first one to shell out $20 to see it on the big screen.... think about it, tarantino loves violence, who was history's most beloved violent dude? was it napoleon maybe? maybe, but he had cannons and there wasn't really the kind of hands on violence that tarantino likes -- i didn't want to watch death proof but i couldn't avoid (unfortunately) seeing some scene where 3 girls are attacking some dude driving a car with poles or lances.....

that kind of violence, without gunpowder... that's the domain of alexander the great... why was alexander great? did he leave behind a system of primary schools and a legal system like napoleon? probably not? what do we know that he achieved? he meshed a little eurasian culture with eastern europe and spread some hellenic ideas about? did he found any great libraries? he founded a shitload of cities, you have to give him that, most famously perhaps alexandria...... also, he was a seriously violent guy, with a serious anger problem, also a proclivity for alcohol and chronic warring... how can someone that would kill you stone dead while your momma watched and then kill her arse without thinking twice about it be 'great'...... apparently he was tutored by aristotle when he was young and aristotle was a great philosopher... anyway, there's only really one book i know of that goes into detail about alexander and that's plutarch's history of him..... apparently everyone just accepts he was great even though he killed a shitload of people...... i know for sure he was a seriously violent killer and was always down for war

if i saw a movie poster advertising a movie about alexander the great by tarantino, i wouldn't think twice about watching it

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Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Greek: Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, Mégas Aléxandros), was a king of Macedon, a state in northern Greece. By the age of thirty, he had created of one of the largest empires in ancient history, stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. He was undefeated in battle and is considered one of the most successful commanders of all time.[1] Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander was tutored by the famed philosopher Aristotle. In 336 BC he succeeded his father Philip II of Macedon to the throne after Philip was assassinated. Philip had brought most of the city-states of mainland Greece under Macedonian hegemony, using both military and diplomatic means.

Upon Philip's death, Alexander inherited a strong kingdom and an experienced army. He succeeded in being awarded the generalship of Greece and, with his authority firmly established, launched the military plans for expansion left by his father. In 334 BC he invaded Persian-ruled Asia Minor and began a series of campaigns lasting ten years. Alexander broke the power of Persia in a series of decisive battles, most notably the battles of Issus and Gaugamela. Subsequently he overthrew the Persian king Darius III and conquered the entirety of the Persian Empire.i[›] The Macedonian Empire now stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River.

Following his desire to reach the "ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea", he invaded India in 326 BC, but was eventually forced to turn back by the near-mutiny of his troops. Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BC, without realizing a series of planned campaigns that would have begun with an invasion of Arabia. In the years following Alexander's death a series of civil wars tore his empire apart which resulted in the formation of a number of states ruled by the Diadochi – Alexander's surviving generals. Although he is mostly remembered for his vast conquests, Alexander's lasting legacy was not his reign, but the cultural diffusion his conquests engendered.

Alexander founded some twenty cities that bore his name. His settlement of Greek colonists and the resulting spread of Greek culture in the east resulted in a new Hellenistic civilization, aspects of which were still evident in the traditions of the Byzantine Empire until the mid-15th century. Alexander became legendary as a classical hero in the mold of Achilles, and features prominently in the history and myth of Greek and non-Greek cultures. He became the measure against which generals, even to this day, compare themselves and military academies throughout the world still teach his tactical exploits.