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Kill Your Idols: Quentin Tarantino

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Norrin Radd, Feb 6, 2013.

  1. Iron_chet

    Iron_chet Well-Known Member

    I think Tarantino does better when he focuses on telling a story rather than making a "Tarantino" film.

    Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction had great stories that gave us great characters. His use of music and style of story telling is more organic and does not come across as forced. It was not hard for me to suspend my disbelief for either of these movies.

    I may be in the minority but I thought Jackie Brown was great for the same reasons, just really good story telling.

    I find with Kill Bill and Deathproof that he was in wrestling terms, marking out for himself. It seems he set out to make a Tarantino movie instead of telling a great story. That being said I enjoyed Kill Bill but thought Deathproof was the shits.

    Inglorious Basterds was fantastic except for the already mentioned crappy casting of Roth, should've kept his involvement to the making of the heroic movie of the German soldier.

    I had mentioned on the movie thread that I liked Django but have no desire to see it again. I think it is one of the movies that could be in the movies that did not live up to their potential thread. There were so many good parts, if he focused more on the story telling and worried less about stunt casting in cameos I think the movie would have been a lot better.
     
  2. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    Kill Bill is a sensory masterpiece that actually eschews many Tarantino staples.
     
  3. Uncle.Ruckus

    Uncle.Ruckus Guest

    Except the foot fetish.
     
  4. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Generally like Tarantino, but wonder sometimes if his art and career arc aren't themselves models of postmodernism in miniature. Devotion becomes homage becomes pastiche becomes self-parody.
     
  5. StaggerLee

    StaggerLee Well-Known Member

    Pretty much love everything QT has done. Personal favorites are Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but Basterds is not far behind that group.

    I also really enjoyed From Dusk til Dawn and Four Rooms had great storytelling.

    I agree that he is a terrible actor, with the exception of his role in Pulp Fiction, which I thought worked.

    I haven't seen Django yet (damn work schedule), but I will, and I'll probably enjoy it. Not many films he's made that I haven't enjoyed.
     
  6. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    Tarantino has a much higher slugging percentage than Paul Thomas Anderson, even if their batting averages are similar.
     
  7. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    Yes, my opinion is an opinion.
     
  8. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    "I wish I had a pot."
    "You wish you had some pot?"
     
  9. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    Eh, I never understood his appeal to white kids.
     
  10. Norrin Radd

    Norrin Radd New Member

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  11. ColdCat

    ColdCat Well-Known Member

    Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction were classics but then he went off the rails. He started doing homage pics, like GNR following up Illusion with an album of cover songs only QT did it for an entire decade. He liked blacksploitation pics so he did Jackie Brown. He liked kung fu so he did Kill Bill. He liked the old grindhouse movies so he and Rodriguez did a double feature.
    But with Basterds he was back and with Django he was even better. Rumor has it he wants to do a third revenge movie and I look forward to the effort.
    As to directors with a better batting average I've always felt the Coens had the career everyone thought QT would have. More prolific so of course they will have some slip ups, but far more good than bad and every one you see you know it just has that Coen feel to it.
     
  12. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    To say the Coen brothers have a higher batting average than Tarantino is not only to say you liked Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers and Burn After Reading and Gambit, but also to say you liked those movies more than Kill Bill and Jackie Brown and Death Proof, which was substantially better than Rich Rodriguez's Planet Terror.
     
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