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ok now i am a huge Tarantino fan boy, I reference his films on a daily bases. As a writer, Jackie Brown is his most Mature screenplay, as a Fan Inglourious basterds is his best screenplay. As an obsessive Reservoir dogs is his best film. AS DIRECTOR RESERVOIR DOGS: A old skool heist flick done in an exceptionally original way, not as violent as it is made out to be, great soundtrack, great acting and for a début feature, no one has matched it since, not even Donny Darko which is overrated IMO. PULP FICTION: Another crime drama done well, but when you really think about pulp fiction, nothing really happens in the film. There's no pay off. Still one of the best second films ever made. JACKIE BROWN: QT adapts a novel by Elmor Leonard. it's his most mature screenplay and also a kind of straight homage to Blaxsploitation movies with some spot on casting. Bit of a Flop for miramax. KILL BILL VOL.1: QT goes comic book, which believe me this film is. He tries his hand at action cinema and it pays off. Only problem is some of the dialogue this time around is a little wooden. KILL BILL VOL.2: A major shift in style which confused many film goers who flocked to vol.1. Goes for western style this time and tries to Peckinpah it up. Didn't really work but was enjoyable enough. DEATH PROOF: QT's entry into the grindhouse thingy, unfortunately missed the point of grindhouse movies, with a completely dull first half followed by 40 minutes of bad conversations and a very well made but pointless car chase. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS: QT takes on the third reich for this one, changing history but the film also contains some of the most tense dialogue driven scenes ever committed to celluloid with his best character to date (Landa) and some genius and darkly comic moments. AS WRITER Only TRUE ROMANCE: My favourite QT screenplay, that was originally the basis for natural born killer and was spawned by his first film, My best friend's Birthday. Christian Slater is badass as Clarence, Patricia Arquette is great as alabama and lets not forget the Hopper/Walken scene and Alabama vs Tony Soprano fight. FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: this should have been in Grindhouse. QT writes and acts in this road movie/vampire movie. he created one of the coolest characters of the 90s with Seth Geko. that's my minor thoughts on the films of Tarantino. |
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Someone wanna merge threads? Thanks Nos.
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I think perhaps Tarantino made films he wanted to make but had to fight tooth and nail for studio acceptance and every dollar of the budget. Now, as an Oscar winner and someone accepted and lauded by his peers (chairing the jury at Cannes was a fairly major thing), he is almost critic proof and can basically choose the subject, choose the cast and crew and dictate terms. I'd like to see him back as that hungry filmmaker making something raw, vibrant and with the energy to capture the zeitgeist as he did in 1992 and '94.
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Its going on 20 years since he made Dogs and Pulp. No major director makes the same films over and over again. He is no longer a raw talent bursting onto the scene, as you say he has achieved much in the past 2 decades. |
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I've never thought of Quentin Tarantino as a 'cult director' as everyone in my family has seen at least his first films, as has at least one of my aunties (as I had a conversation with her to explain the chain of events in pul Pulp Fiction) and lines from his films ('Are you going to par bark all day little doggie, or are you going to bite?', Mmm Hmm, that is a tasty burger') have entered common vernacular. Although his films do have explicit content, I've always considered them to be fairly mainstream.
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Just watched the Kill Bill house of blue leaves scene uncut and wow what a difference! Plus the scenes not in the UK version aren't that bad and should have been included imo. It was a lot better uncut.
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Oh my god. I was just bidding on ebay on another copy of Kill Bill Vol. 2, Was winning the bid at $6.00 (AUD) had 2 seconds left on the clock and I was outbid. I don't know whether to laugh or cry!
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Imagine what the red carpet would be like if Russ Meyer was to win at Cannes.
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