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Backfire wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:

 Ouze wrote:

My favorite directors are... Quentin Tarantino

Now there is a director I can not stand. The only movie I like him in is Sukiyaki Weatern Django because he was the worst actor in a cast of non-English actors acting in English.

Tarantino is one of those people who felt exciting and refreshing at first, then he kept doing same thing all over and over again and became real tiresome.

I love Tarantino movies so more of the same, works for me.

 Cheesecat wrote:

Backfire wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:

 Ouze wrote:

My favorite directors are... Quentin Tarantino

Now there is a director I can not stand. The only movie I like him in is Sukiyaki Weatern Django because he was the worst actor in a cast of non-English actors acting in English.

Tarantino is one of those people who felt exciting and refreshing at first, then he kept doing same thing all over and over again and became real tiresome.

I love Tarantino movies so more of the same, works for me.

Same here. I heartily disagree that his movies are the same, but that is opinion and people are entitled to their views (they have common elements for sure, like OTT violence and crazy dialogue but all the same? No.).

I do think it became popular to deride Tarantino's work, especially for movie "fans" who didn't like how popular he became, but that is just snobbery in my opinion. Like hating a band that suddenly became mainstream, it reeks of pretentiousness.

To my eye Trarantino has a sense of cinematic that many big hollywood directors lack. His inspiration is very clearly drawn from the Spaghetti western era, but he has a few tricks and methods of his own. I still remember the scene in Django where he scrolls us on a few moments through a scene in the henchmens home. Until that point they were nothing in the story - a group of nasty looking rough people used to hunt down slaves and kill them with their hunting dogs. In most films purely fodder to be killed.

Yet we see a bit of their life outside that roll, we see them bathing, relaxing, making a bird house, one looking through photos of people clearly dear to them but whom we never know in the story. In a few moments these " Goons" become characters, curiosities with their own stories. Granted 5 moments later they are brutally killed by our hero and we are left with a sense of loss at never knowing what led those people to that point in their lives.


To me its a side of things that we don't see - in many films we rarely see the evil side at rest; indeed many famous evil characters are hard to imagine outside of when they are making their big evil moments or shooting at the good guy(s).



I think he also gets the genres he works in and plays that to his advantage. His repertoire of the types of films he makes does limit his exposure to some and many of his films are indeed bloody bloodbaths; but I think he's got an eye many don't have. I think its partly because he loves a lot of earlier cinema before they could rely on big explosions and special effects and cgi to fill the film.

Personally I'd love to see him do more stuff outside of his blood and guts genre - there was (I think still is) talk of him doing some Star Trek!

I liked Tarantino up until Kill Bill 2. That was just...not very good. He tried to make the characters deeper and story more emotional, and it totally fell flat. Also there was just so much talking which never got to anywhere. It was great in Jackie Brown (imo his best movie) where the characters were so distinct and well defined. But none of the KB characters were that and it completely exposed Tarantino's dialogue. Then came Death Proof which was fairly awful. There were some fun ideas but every character was hateable and I just wished them to all die which they sadly didn't. I also didn't like IG much, it wasn't actively bad like Death Proof but also lacking trademark Tarantino innovativeness. Haven't seen his later stuff, reviews haven't been very encouraging.

It's one thing sticking to one's strength, and wholly another becoming parody of oneself.

I saw Blackkklansman today. Great movie.