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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 1011614" data-attributes="member: 2723">I'm just surprised they're willing to negotiate new contracts with the actors, who signed on for one movie and are getting paid for one, but now it turns out they've actually made two movies. That's certainly more than what the cast of the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers, which included Charlton Heston, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee, Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch, and Michael York, got (FYI, The Three Musketeers was originally supposed to be one movie, to. But the producers decided to split it into two movies, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers. So the cast ended up making two movies, but only ended up getting paid for one).  Personally I don't care either way, as I'm not even sure I care enough to see this movie. From Dusk Til Dawn pretty much killed any interest in Quentin Tarentinos' movies I might have.  But as far as splitting it goes, I gotta disagree with the first poster. This isn't a sign of Miramax losing faith in Tarentino. Rather, this is a sign of complete faith in him. He came to them with this idea with the stipulation that he get to make it at its original length. And guess what, they agreed! They didn't make him cut it down. And now they're splitting it into two movies. They probably figured it'd be to long for one showing, BUT they didn't ask Tarentino to cut it short. Instead, they're still releasing the whole thing. It isn't lack of faith that leads one to want to spend money on TWO WHOLLY SEPARATE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. If they had no faith or wanted it shorter, then they could've told him to cut it short, but instead, they let him keep it all, and are willing to promote not one but TWO movies. That, to me at least, is a sign of EXTREME faith. Hell, I may have to go see it just because of that. If someone's willing to splurge that much money on one of Quentin Tarentino's movies, then odds are that it's a pretty damned good movie, like Pulp Fiction, and not a piece of dreck, like From Dusk Til Dawn (Which, in all honesty, WAS a good movie. At least til the moment the vampires showed up. You can pinpoint, TO THE SECOND, the moment that movie started to suck, which was the instant that the first supernatural element in the movie, appeared).</blockquote>

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