Tarantino

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i gotcha, rudroh

i dunno, basterds didn't feel samey to me overall as django...all of his movies have very similar elements, there's no denying that

[LoathedVermin72]

I just wish he would scale himself back a bit. I thought JB was an exciting step in the right direction. It felt like a maturation. Then he went in the totally opposite direction afterward.

That said, he obviously loves what he's doing and his movies continue to be immensely popular with just about everyone on the planet, so why would he want to change?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I just wish he would scale himself back a bit. I thought JB was an exciting step in the right direction. It felt like a maturation. Then he went in the totally opposite direction afterward.

That said, he obviously loves what he's doing and his movies continue to be immensely popular with just about everyone on the planet, so why would he want to change?

i think he's just one of those kid in a candy store type people...scaling down is probably incredibly hard for him to process

[zeb]

It's just fluff.

[LoathedVermin72]

It's just fluff.

[zeb]

This thread did motivate me to pull together a tidy little QT soundtrack playlist.

[LoathedVermin72]

Is it the same song repeated over and over?

[zeb]

No

[Kaius]

Team Tarantino. I haven't watched Jackie Brown, but everything else is good.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Team Tarantino. I haven't watched Jackie Brown, but everything else is good.

Again, I'm NOT SAYING his movies aren't good. They are. Just for me, they all are running together, so I don't look forward to another Tarantino movie as much as I used to.

[Kaius]

I don't really look forward too movies in general. Not anymore at least.

[epilogue]

I don't really look forward too movies in general. Not anymore at least.

Certainly not like I look forward to the new season of Mad Men (RIP ) or Game of Thrones or True Detective or whatever. But every once in a while I get pretty amped about something coming down the pike.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I just found out Boyd Crowder is in the H8teful Eight, so I'll probably go see it now. I love that guy.

[bada]

Cletus Van Dam

[The Argonaut]

OK, so, Hateful Eight. I know I just used this criticism about David O. Russell last week, but it's true here as well: Quentin Tarantino has officially crawled all the way up his own asshole. Now, he is still a stupendously talented filmmaker, with impressive taste, and a unique vision. But I still feel like I just spent the better part of the last three hours inside a guy's ass.

[VinylGuy]

At least it was better than Django.

But yeah, is he going to make something meaningfull again? Dont think so. Seems his next proyect is kill bill 3.

[The Argonaut]

This movie made me think about that, too. When did we stop needing Tarantino? I'd say after Death Proof.
One of the great things about his early movies, I'm thinking especially of Pulp Fiction, is that there were few truly evil characters. Other than in Jackie Brown, I can't think of any good guys in Tarantino movies. But there are very few purely evil characters. There's Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs. In Pulp Fiction, there's Zed and his buddy. But just about every other character, despite being a criminal or corrupt or a junkie or whatever is sufficiently fleshed out and humanized so that they all become real people and all become at least mildly sympathetic.
In his last three movies, there is nothing but cruel, evil characters. He goes out of his way to create characters with only one side: cruel and evil. This movie is called Hateful Eight, even.
Tarantino famously loves exploitation and B cinema. What was so great about his early movies is that he took that aesthetic and those tricks and fleshed them out to create full, rich worlds and movies. Recently, he's just copying and cleaning up. It's essentially become a parody.
All that said, I did watch a three hour movie that did not feel like three hours, and that means something. This wasn't a bad movie. It was a cruel movie (which is sometimes OK depending on one's mood). It was perhaps an unnecessary movie, whatever that means. It doesn't add anything to my spirit and it doesn't add anything to the culture, which is probably what I mean by that. But it was fine.
I think I'm just mostly sad that this is the best he's got.

[VinylGuy]

This movie made me think about that, too. When did we stop needing Tarantino? I'd say after Death Proof.
One of the great things about his early movies, I'm thinking especially of Pulp Fiction, is that there were few truly evil characters. Other than in Jackie Brown, I can't think of any good guys in Tarantino movies. But there are very few purely evil characters. There's Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs. In Pulp Fiction, there's Zed and his buddy. But just about every other character, despite being a criminal or corrupt or a junkie or whatever is sufficiently fleshed out and humanized so that they all become real people and all become at least mildly sympathetic.
In his last three movies, there is nothing but cruel, evil characters. He goes out of his way to create characters with only one side: cruel and evil. This movie is called Hateful Eight, even.
Tarantino famously loves exploitation and B cinema. What was so great about his early movies is that he took that aesthetic and those tricks and fleshed them out to create full, rich worlds and movies. Recently, he's just copying and cleaning up. It's essentially become a parody.
All that said, I did watch a three hour movie that did not feel like three hours, and that means something. This wasn't a bad movie. It was a cruel movie (which is sometimes OK depending on one's mood). It was perhaps an unnecessary movie, whatever that means. It doesn't add anything to my spirit and it doesn't add anything to the culture, which is probably what I mean by that. But it was fine.
I think I'm just mostly sad that this is the best he's got.

Great post. It reminds me of something i read about a conversation between oliver stone and quentin. Seems Stone said to him " your movies are just fine, but i make films. About real things¨".

I get it now.

[BurtReynolds]

I always figured Tarantino was some kind of autistic.

[stip]

I just saw this - not his best but still enjoyable. I've read some interesting arguments about how this is about contemporary US race relations that I find pretty interesting and adds a lot of extra dimensions to the movie


It did make me excited to see Channing Tatum play gambit