Yeah, I see that. I’d say one exception to your rule is “Reservoir Dogs”, which is a really well put-together story, with the violence in service of the plot.
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Maaaan, even on the duller episodes, there was always Major Kira.
tiger growl
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Especially Major Kira. She gnawed the hell out of the scenery in those eps.
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While I respect your ability to enjoy Quentin Tarantino films, here’s my complaint.
Most of his movies come off like multi-million dollar collages of trashy exploitation films from the 1970s. It’s sort of like if Taylor Swift did an album of Meat Puppet covers and then didn’t pay for the sample clearances. That could be interesting, but wouldn’t it be better if it just didn’t happen at all?
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As long as he mixes in lots of the truly execrable animated TV show, dip the whole thing in ultra-violence and profanity… why then it is a sure fire winner! Just take my wallet!
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I’d say that the only one that isn’t is Jackie Brown.
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A dazzling display of editing
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This could almost work for Sam Peckinpah’s Star Trek too.
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I’d buy that for a dollar…wait, wrong thread.
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Inglorious Basterds too? That one was pretty therapeutic to watch after the “fine people on both sides” debacle.
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Seriously underrated movie. Also has one of Samuel Jackson’s finest performances.
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I was going to ask exactly this and would like to know as well.
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Not all Goatees are on the chin, I guess; like Data’s Jazz-patch.
@NovaeDeArx, on the Tarantino front, I’d love to see his films handed over to an editor with the instructions to make them 90 minutes long. Generally I expect about 10 to 15 minutes of top quality work in any two hours of Tarantino footage.
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I think it’s his only film from someone else’s source material; an Elmore Leonard book. Which could be why it has more emotional depth. The Pam Grier/Robert Forster relationship made the film for me.
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That central relationship was lovely. Especially the way that it really comes to nothing.
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They were perfect in those roles.
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Yes, that’s part of why they’re so awesome. All straight in to the pulp with no shame.
You can always get variety by watching some else’s films. There is nothing wrong with all his films being a lot alike, unless someone is misleading people by saying “this one is all different” when it isn’t.
(nor would there be anything wrong with him actually making a film that isn’t “take genre X, pull it apart, put it back in a way that magnifies most of the cliches in it, and if over the top violence wasn’t one of them, adding that in, put them in a bowl and toss lightly”)
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I think it’s one of those YMMV moments. I enjoy Tarantino’s stuff, for what it is, but I understand the criticism.
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