Your thoughts on Quentin tarantino films!

[Axolotl]

On some releases he also 'presents' the Jet Li movie Hero...ummm yeh ok QT.

And if he hadn't done that nobody in the west would have ever gotten to see Hero.

That alone makes him one of the best people in Hollywood in my book.

 

[bicepfetishist1]

On some releases he also 'presents' the Jet Li movie Hero...ummm yeh ok QT.

And if he hadn't done that nobody in the west would have ever gotten to see Hero.

That alone makes him one of the best people in Hollywood in my book.

You aren't wrong about the reasoning commerically. Doesn't mean I have to like it. That whole idea that 'it's good because Lord QT said so' is the reason his movies are starting to stink... the idea that even his shit don't smell is a notion he himself has started to buy into.

Which is why he just can't tighten up a dialogue scene to save his life these days. Everyone around him sucks his dick about how great/'cool' every single sentence or sequence he's written is that he can't bear to hack and slash any of it, and his movies are getting laborious and over self indulgent imo.

 

[MetalPhoenix]

I've seen a couple of his movies and I think they're shit.
I hate Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs wasn't able to keep me interested for 15 minutes (so I turned it off) and Hostel is a piece of gory crap.
And from the interviews I've seen him in, I think he's an arrogant asshole



so end my $0,02

 

[nick n stuff]

very good movies. unconventionally artsy but not pretentious

 

[laststandman]

I am a huge fan of Tarantino. I think most of what he does is either genius or just plain entertaining. I like how he brings the western genre into a crime setting (and in the case of the two Kill Bills, the samurai genre, but they're really the same). His angle I believe is enjoyable and his writing is very entertaining. Overall I would say he is one of my favorite directors/writers, and if he keeps on doing what he's doing, I do not think I will be disappointed.

 

[Ryank1908]

Inglourious Basterds is also really good, even though it was advertised wrongly.

How do you mean?

I love Tarantino films. His style can be a bit predictable and almost slightly self-aggrandized sometimes but he truly does write dialogue and atmosphere like no other, the first attested to by Pulp Fiction (which is just epic) and for atmosphere, I challenge anyone to find a more tense moment that the beginning scene of Inglorious Basterds.

You know, it was advertised (at least over here it was) as a balls to the wall, non-stop shooter/ explosion-fest, when we really got a well written, almost thriller style film. A more tense moment? The bar scene in the same film. You just knew something was going to happen but couldn't tell when or what.

Ah, that is quite true. I did actually expect more action-filmy-type elements but I suppose the first scene wiped my expectations and set me up for the rest of it. And yeah, the bar scene is Tarantino at his best, same with the scene in the French restaurant. The stabbing, incredibly overpowering music and the fact you don't see the Nazi's face for a long time goes a long way towards putting you in her shoes... In fact, as ridiculous as it is towards the end, I think as a film it's one of the best I've ever seen at capturing the feelings you'd expect occupied France's inhabitants to have, the fear, especially...

 

[LightspeedJack]

I've only seen Dogs, Fiction and Basterds but of the 3 I loved Fiction, liked Dogs and didn't care for Basterds.