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« Reply #15 on: April 20, 2004, 12:26:21 am »
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« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2004, 03:48:54 am »
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I refute none of that.

I also heard someone say yesterday that "I don't like Tarantino movies."

They may as well have said "I don't like movies."  I mean, Tarantino is a master of the form.  He's the Rodin of cinema.  (Generally if you don't like Rodin's work, you just don't like sculpture)

Wow. He's made, what, 4 movies?


Yes, but my statement would have held true after the second.

I was pretty down after Reservoir Dogs, I just think that your statement is awfully blankety.
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« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2004, 10:19:11 pm »
I liked Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but only because of the humor. Kill Bill Volume 1 was one of the most disappointing movies I've ever seen. It was boring, slow, and plotless. The characters were uninteresting and, except for a few roles, poorly acted. I guess this movie is an 'homage', but I found it less entertaining than any of the movies it's imitating. People keep telling me that he puts a unique twist on old styles of cinema, but to me it just seems modernized.

It didn't even have the sense of humor that made me love Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs... The only thing I liked was the music.
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« Reply #18 on: May 04, 2004, 10:28:16 pm »
I fell asleep watching Kill Bill 1 because there was no real story beyond the waking up and revenging thing. I did like the fight scenes and the music, and the set styling was really pretty cool too. I liked the movie for the most part but a story/plotline/character development would have made it more interesting for me. I hear we get all that in the second installment (I have a five year old, so who knows if I get to see it in the theatre....although I will have to see Home on the Range).
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« Reply #19 on: May 04, 2004, 10:48:42 pm »
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I fell asleep watching Kill Bill 1 because there was no real story beyond the waking up and revenging thing. I did like the fight scenes and the music, and the set styling was really pretty cool too. I liked the movie for the most part but a story/plotline/character development would have made it more interesting for me. I hear we get all that in the second installment (I have a five year old, so who knows if I get to see it in the theatre....although I will have to see Home on the Range).


I had many of the same problems as you with the first installment (though they didn't keep me from enjoying it, generally), and I vastly preferred the second.
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« Reply #20 on: June 27, 2004, 04:01:25 am »
It's like Jackie Brown has fallen off the face of the earth...

He's made five movies, if you count Kill Bill as two separate movies (apologies if you don't).  Plus his contribution to that one movie.  Four Rooms?  Something?

I love Jackie Brown, almost as much as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.  Resevoir Dogs is pretty OK too.

But, the Rodin of cinema?  I dunno...

He does kick ass.  And he is a master of the form (I say this, but I used to think he was a bit of a hack--just an ethical disclaimer).  But I still think that there is room for Tarantino disdain by people who generally love and understand the medium.

In Literature, it sometimes seems to me almost no one agrees on what is great.
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« Reply #21 on: June 27, 2004, 04:04:37 am »
Try finding someone who can dish on Shakespeare and still be taken seriously at cocktail parties.  

Some things are just unassailably great.
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« Reply #22 on: June 27, 2004, 04:20:38 am »
Agree with that.  Shakespeare is one of the few that everyone seems to agree on.  TS Eliot is a better example, I think.  I, among many others, adore the man.  Some people loathe him.  I still respect them as literary critics and lovers, and I'm sure that Eliot's detractors still respect those critics who admire his work.

But, I've never been to a cocktail party.

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« Reply #23 on: June 27, 2004, 05:19:39 am »
I haven't seen either Kill Bill yet (I will, just give me time) but I think Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs are two of the best movies of the last 30 years.  Pulp Fiction is one of the greatest movies evar.  Jackie Brown was a good watch but didn't reach the level of the first two.

I've seen Four Rooms a couple of times and enjoyed it on both occasions  Trying to remember who the four directors were -- Tarrantino and Robert Rodreguez are all I'm coming up with.  Oddly enough, this wasn't the first four directored movie -- New York Stories did the same thing about 10 years earlier.

We need a movie review thread.  Maybe I'll start one later.
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