Quentin Tarantino

[DaSilva]

I, like the majority of other indie film fans think that Quentin Tarantino is a genius. What do you guys think? If you don't know who he is, he directed:

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[*]Reservoir Dogs
[*]Pulp Fiction
[*]Four Rooms (He along with 3 other directors)
[*]Jackie Brown
[*]The Kill Bill Series
[*]Grindhouse (opens in theaters April 6th)
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And secondly, if you have heard anything about "Grindhouse," what do you think of it. I , personally, think it looks fantastic.

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]Kill Bill (I will refer to it as one title to avoid confusion) is probably my favorite movie ever. It's got a great story told in great ways by revealing things as they need to be known and not following the usual movie progression. It's brutal, it's crazy, and it's awesome. Call me a vicarious bastard, but I can't help but think it's cool when someone cuts down an entire army with blood flying everywhere.

Plus, like so many others, i absolutely fell in love with the anime sequence. Pure coolness. Plus the visual style all throughout was amazing -- like the scenes in black and white or the blue shadow fight and the like. All great scenes.

Pulp Fiction is likely my second favorite movie of all time. It's just plain great! The way the characters communicate is what really drew me in cuz it was not only funny but really cool.[/COLOR]

[Semjaza]

I don't have a particular favorite, but I am interested in Grind House, even if he's not responsible for it completely.

[Shinmaru]

I'll go with the unoriginal answer and say that my favorite Tarantino film is Pulp Fiction. It's just got so much wit, so many memorable characters, and it grabs me every time I watch it. Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill are like that, too, but not to the same extent. I haven't seen Jackie Brown, unfortunately. I keep sliding too many other films ahead of it.

Grindhouse is looking to be pretty damn fun; Tarantino's portion should be good. Kurt Russell as a homicidal stunt man? Oh yes.

[vegeta rocker]

[quote name='Generic NPC #3']I don't have a particular favorite, but I am interested in Grind House, even if he's not responsible for it completely.[/quote]

He is responsible for almost none of his work completely. I respect him but i think he is very overrated. Everything he has done has been done twice by the time he has done it in Asian films.

Don't get me wrong, i love Resevoir Dogs and I respect his other movies. But i don't get into his stuff as much as my other video school friends do.

Though i may be alone in this, I can't sit through Kill Bill. It isn't the blood or anything i have seen way worse. I just can't get over how ridiculous the entire thing is.

As for Grindhouse, i expect it will pay homgage to its name. Its a certain type of cinema that is very sensational and exploitive. I didn't feel like going into it too deeply so i rummaged up a Wiki link.

This project sounds very interesting.

[URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindhouse]Click here for definition and movie link[/URL]

[eleanor]

[QUOTE=vegeta rocker]He is responsible for almost none of his work completely. I respect him but i think he is very overrated. Everything he has done has been done twice by the time he has done it in Asian films.

Don't get me wrong, i love Resevoir Dogs and I respect his other movies. But i don't get into his stuff as much as my other video school friends do.

Though i may be alone in this, I can't sit through Kill Bill. It isn't the blood or anything i have seen way worse. I just can't get over how ridiculous the entire thing is.
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[color=dimgray] Yeah, a lot of people have that beef with Tarantino. Other praise him for taking original sequences/material and making it his own.

I've only seen [b]Kill Bill[/b] and [b]Pulp Fiction[/b]. Kill Bill was fun to watch, and I've always loved the modish/present-day + weaponry thing, so my interest was a given.

I didn't give myself quality time with Pulp Fiction. I watched it on the border of sleep late at night once, so my slightly boring memory of it is probably incorrect.[/color]

[Semjaza]

In a lot of cases, I think these "stolen" things could more easily be described as tributes. I know there's a lot of examples of kind of "man, come up with something yourself" ideas, but at times I feel like people take it to extreme.

You read how that yellow track suit was stolen from Bruce Lee, but I mean, seriously, it's been used in probably a dozen or two things since then (cartoons even) because Bruce Lee was awesome. Its inclusion in the movie, I think, is more of a treat for martial arts fan than blatant idea stealing. That's just a single example, but there's quite a few others.

[DaSilva]

[QUOTE=Generic NPC #3]In a lot of cases, I think these "stolen" things could more easily be described as tributes. I know there's a lot of examples of kind of "man, come up with something yourself" ideas, but at times I feel like people take it to extreme.

You read how that yellow track suit was stolen from Bruce Lee, but I mean, seriously, it's been used in probably a dozen or two things since then (cartoons even) because Bruce Lee was awesome. Its inclusion in the movie, I think, is more of a treat for martial arts fan than blatant idea stealing. That's just a single example, but there's quite a few others.[/QUOTE]

Exactly. In a good deal of his interviews, he says that he is using a lot of stuff as tribute to things. This [I]is[/I] very commonly misinterpreted as stealing.

[vegeta rocker]

I didn't mean it as "OMG he's stealing!" there truly are no absolutely original ideas these days. Everyone is influenced by everyone else, what i am saying is it seems as if he doesn't even try.

[JCBaggee]

[color=darkred][size=1]I've been saying for years how much I enjoyed "Reservoir Dogs"! But to be honest, the more fun ride was probably Pulp Fiction. Nothing beats a movie with Samuel L. Jackson, but its gets extra credit for that jerri curl.

Kill Bill Vol. 1 was fun to watch, and Vol. 2 had some good plot. Now if only Tarantino would do like he was saying way back when and release both movies on one disc, without all the editing he had to do for the MPAA.

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[Drix D'Zanth]

As some have already mentioned, Tarantino did use a lot of "tribute" material in his films- particularly the Kill Bill movies; of which many of the stylistic elements were drawn from Spaghetti Westerns and Kurasawa-generation samurai films.

I appreciate his management of chronology in the movie Pulp fiction. My friend's a film major at Columbia and he was explaining exactly how Tarantino catalysed a sort of coherent "free verse" filmaking style (although he wasn't the first to do this, just popularize it). Pulp fiction bent the time frame around the plot in order to build it to the most relevant and exciting sets of climaxes and conclusions. At least that's what I could gather from it.

I forget, was Four Rooms on the list? If not, that movie is worth mentioning.

[Zen]

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Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed my two favorite movies. These being [b]Kill Bill[/b] and [b]Pulp Fiction[/b]. While I would normally like the two movies the same amount, the fact that [b]Kill Bill[/b] holds more references towards subjects that I am already a fan of automatically places it a step above [b]Pulp Fiction[/b]. (I.E. Anime, martial arts, samurai flicks, and Clint Eastwood westerners.)

[b]Kill Bill[/b] is, to me, is the perfect re-telling of the western/samurai movies from the late '50's and early '60's. The way the mythology of the characters seperates the action sets it apart from other action/martial arts films of the same genre. Also the characters are all just great. Particularly The Bride/[spoiler]Beatrix[/spoiler] herself, who doesn't come off as the "girl power, butt-kickin' chick" seen in so many other lesser films. You stop thinking of her in terms of a woman, and more as the warrior-spirit embodied. Modern samurai.

The characters of Bill, Hanzo, Pai-Mei, and for me, Budd also have this aura about them all which leaves you feeling as if there was alot of things left unseen about their character. Particularly Budd, whom I had gotten a bit attached to. With the film never showing him fighting, you took him as just a lazy, worthless, retired assassin. Then you see that he [spoiler] lied about hocking his Hanzo Sword, and your mind starts thinking "what if"?[/spoiler]. You leave the movie wondering if Budd was hiding alot of what he was capable of. The fact that he knew [spoiler] of The Bride's presence beneath his trailer proves that his senses hadn't been dulled by time[/spoiler].

Love that movie.

[b]Pulp Fiction[/b] I love for three main reason that need not be explained in lenght. The characters (Butch, Juelz, Vincent, etc.), The dialogue, and the way the stories inter-weave with one another and culminate at the movie's end. I just love it as a whole. Also it left me with a lot of one-liners to use.

Great flicks, they are.[/color][/size]

[Kanuckgrrl]

[SIZE=2]Grindhouse looks really sweet! I had only recently seen a trailor for it when i went and saw 'smokin aces' its unique which is what i usually like about his work. Killbill was deffinately my favorite by him though, he should deffinately have gotten an oscar nomination for it, but because it had to have been seperated into two volumes it couldnt, THAT BLOWS! ! GAH! He so deserves it. Oh and SinCity is one of my favorite movies to it deffinatly kicks *****![/SIZE]

[vegeta rocker]

[quote name='Kanuckgrrl][SIZE=2']Oh and SinCity is one of my favorite movies to it deffinatly kicks *****![/SIZE][/quote]


I'm not really sure he made it that kick *** since he directed one scene.

[Kanuckgrrl]

And YET...He worked on the movie no less. Im sure he was on set as much as robert rodriguez was, and he was there trying to get the rights for the movie from Frank Miller alongside Rodriguez. so, yeah..... :rolleyes: