WildGorillaMan wrote:Pulp Fiction was good and, for the time, different. I enjoyed Kill Bill for what it was: schlock. Most of his other movies have deeply unimpressed me. Inglorius Basterds felt like an SNL skit parodying Tarantino movies, or perhaps a short film that some comedians put together for his Friar's Roast night, except that it was too goddamn long.
The thing about Inglorious Basterds is, despite some serious weak spots, Christoph Waltz is one of the all time great villains in it.
Before Pulp Fiction, Vinny Barbarino's careeer was OVAH...There's no denying that Tarantino casts well and coaxes some really solid performances out of people.
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WildGorillaMan wrote:Pulp Fiction was good and, for the time, different. I enjoyed Kill Bill for what it was: schlock. Most of his other movies have deeply unimpressed me. Inglorius Basterds felt like an SNL skit parodying Tarantino movies, or perhaps a short film that some comedians put together for his Friar's Roast night, except that it was too goddamn long.
The thing about Inglorious Basterds is, despite some serious weak spots, Christoph Waltz is one of the all time great villains in it.
Before Pulp Fiction, Vinny Barbarino's careeer was OVAH...There's no denying that Tarantino casts well and coaxes some really solid performances out of people.
That's a good point. Most folks are either too old to care, or too young to remember that Travolta was making those god awful talking baby movies before Tarantino cast him in that role. It quite literally snatched him off of the Hollywood dung heap.
DiCaprio was great, but not as Candie. He was playing Tarantino-- an insecure teenage kid who was trying to impress the adults most of the movie, punctuated with scenes of exaggerated and over-dramatic violence. In a superior movie in the hands of a superior director (i.e. Gangs of New York), he wasn't overshadowed by an incredible performance by Daniel Day Lewis to the degree he was by a solid performance by Samuel L Jackson in Django. Poor writing and direction can't be overcome by even the great Leonardo, that is clearly.
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I finally got to see this over the weekend. My opinion of Tarantino has been that he is an incredibly talented director who has thus far foregone real emotion in favor of being really "cool". It's annoyed me for quite a while now.
Having said that, I liked this movie quite a bit and thought that there was some pretty dark stuff that went a little deeper than he has in the past.
His "performance" however was awful and completely took me out of the movie. No excuse for that there. First: just seeing him was distracting. Second: knowing his voice it was really distracting hearing him use that accent. Third: It looks like he's put on 40 pounds since the "Dusk Till Dawn" days.
Just for discussion his movies in my order of preference:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Resevoir Dogs
3. Django Unchained
4. Jackie Brown
5. Inglorious Basterds
6. Kill Bill 1
7. Kill Bill 2
A very distant 8: Death Proof
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Turdacious wrote:DiCaprio was great, but not as Candie. He was playing Tarantino-- an insecure teenage kid who was trying to impress the adults most of the movie, punctuated with scenes of exaggerated and over-dramatic violence. In a superior movie in the hands of a superior director (i.e. Gangs of New York), he wasn't overshadowed by an incredible performance by Daniel Day Lewis to the degree he was by a solid performance by Samuel L Jackson in Django. Poor writing and direction can't be overcome by even the great Leonardo, that is clearly.
Gangs of New York was a bad movie, with the only good thing being Daniel Day Lewis.
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I loved Death Proof - fits in well with Tarantino's post-Jackie Brown re-imagining of genre films style and it's probably the truest in heart to the genre (Two-Lane Blacktop/Vanishing Point b-movies) it's patterned after. He couldn't make it nine hours long, thank god.
