Well for the X-Files since they did like 99% of the filming in Vancouver, it got to me once I was familiar with the city. Not that it is a bad show for me but just harder to watch.
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The computer game version wasn’t too bad, either.
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Do I have the time to be… You know… Consistent and reliable and read all the things and stuff!?
(Why won’t this alligator roast?)
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I can understand that. I’ve never been to Vancouver, but I’ve been to DC and you can tell it’s not DC (we’re rewatching the series now, actually). But I can see how it would be annoying.
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When I first watched Spirited Away, I was a little disappointed – it just didn’t seem to live up to all the hype.
Much later, when I had watched a few more Miyazaki films, I realized the bush-league error I had made: I’d watched the English dub. For maximum appreciation, you really have to watch Miyazaki in Japanese with English subtitles. The dubs are just… not good. It doesn’t matter if Disney produces them.
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Am I the only one who hates Tarantino with the burning passion of a thousand suns?
I loved Natural Born Killers, but let’s be honest- That was 99% Oliver Stone.
So far, I’ve sat through Pulp Fiction, (which I thought was “meh bordering on okay-ish”), Reservoir Dogs, Four Rooms, Dusk til Dawn, Deathproof, and made it approximately 20 minutes into Kill Bill, so I don’t feel like I haven’t given him a fair shake, but every single one was just more unbearable than the last one. I honestly feel like he has absolutely nothing to say that couldn’t be said by a 14 year old boy who learned everything he knows in life from reading Hustler magazine. I can’t for the life of me imagine why people think he’s good at his job.
Boondock Saints is the movie that I feel like Tarantino keeps promising and then failing to deliver on. It’s like everything that people keep telling me his films are about, but with characters, pacing, a plot, humor, and generally not being so awful I want to physically beat a video store clerk to death for suggesting it.
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I love (almost) 'em all. I even quite liked Deathproof (first half) - I liked the way it felt like he was taking the piss by having nothing happen.
But I love the quiet bits with the non sequitur dialogue over the violent scenes. I think he’s a great writer. Jackie Brown is one I appreciate more and more.
NBK I didn’t like so much, although it grew on me. I’m not a Stone fan. Haven’t seen Four Rooms.
How about True Romance? Tarantino’s writing, but Tony Scott’s direction?
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Almost* any film located in the Highlands of Scotland pretty much has to assume teleportation as a character trait. But I realised that if I was straining at the credibility of locations in e.g. Skyfall or the Highlander films, I was watching them wrong.
* “I Know Where I’m Going” got it right, though it played with place names. But that film has no place in an overrated/underrated thread. 
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really? i’m sorry, and i keep in mind that tastes vary, but i’ve long considered that movie to be one of the worst seriously made movies since ed wood directed “plan 9 from outer space” and i consider it to be almost as funny as the wood film.
if every piece of pop culture to which one has ever been exposed has stuck in the various recesses of one’s consciousness ready to spring forth at the slightest trigger, then tarantino can seem a genius as he seems to me. a flawed genius, but still amazing.
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It was umm, well I just went in expecting a 2 hour mix of music video and passable plot. I was not disappointed. However it still wasn’t very good at that. Oh the things I would pay money for in my 20s and had disposable income.
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the only reason to see that movie is for Rodriguez’s part, The Misbehavers, IMO, and I like Tarantino. I haven’t seen Dusk Til Dawn; Kill Bill I only saw partly and I’ll admit it was self-indulgent enough that I was just kinda “along for the ride” for that one, couldn’t do the whole thing.
basically, everything @daneel said. If you didn’t like Reservoir Dogs then I guess we just disagree, but Jackie Brown is probably objectively his best and the Hopper/Walken scene in True Romance which he wrote is in it’s own league, really. Of course the casting and directing are superb and that wasn’t anything to do with him, there.
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Have you read Rum Punch?
(I haven’t - actually I haven’t read any Elmore Leonard, but I guess I should since I like all the adaptations - and the nice casting of Michael Keaton in Out of Sight to echo Jackie Brown)
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I’ve read about Bashful Incendiary before. Maybe I’ll hate both the film and the comic? Wouldn’t that be something?
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Really entertaining page-turners, with a lot of humour and occasional sudden violence. He wrote some really, really good dialogue. I keep meaning to see Jackie Brown; I think the only adaptation of him I’ve seen would be Get Shorty, which I really enjoyed. Never thought I’d like Travolta, but he was well cast.
ETA: yes, really. I really should proofread, and I mean really I really should.
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right there with you. haven’t read any, no.
@Marktech Get Shorty film was great, but as I believe I mentioned in my first post ITT, Out Of Sight is the one I just can’t get enough of.
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I don’t hate him, but I have grown tired of him. Everything lately seems to be an enormous revenge plot, where he makes his characters undergo the worst possible circumstances so you can’t help but be like “Well, that other guy had it coming!” They’re kind of skipping character development for the shortcut of “look, this terrible thing happened to this person.”
This is real irony, as he used to do amazing character work with the same actors, (seriously, Reservoir Dogs is rich with these guys who a lot of other directors would have just made cardboard cut outs of, but you feel for Keitel in it because he doesn’t know who to trust anymore, it’s amazing). But lately? I don’t care about The Bride, I just feel real bad for her and think it’s nice she gets her revenge, but I don’t feel like I know her at all.
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Even though it was only based on one of his short stories (with later seasons incorporating ideas from his other books), Justified is so very, very, good as an extended adaptation. The short-lived Karen Sisco series was another decent TV adaptation. 
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Ridiculous kids movie, and all, but Mighty Ducks did the same thing with a rollerblading montage through Minneapolis. That’s swell that they’re next to Lake Calhoun, but the very next cut can’t be fucking St. Anthony Falls, followed by the neighborhood behind the Walker Art Center. I know so many people that absolutely loved those movies, probably not coincidental that none grew up in the Twin Cities.
/movierant
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