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Post by malbowski13 on Sept 1, 2008 10:11:11 GMT -5
I'd say Reservoir Dogs is his best directed film but True Romance is his best screenplay.What do you guys think?
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Post by shunty on Sept 1, 2008 21:08:18 GMT -5
Kill Bill Vol 2. True Romance though is definently his best screenplay. That one is a movie I like better than any Tarantino directed movie.
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Post by lowkey on Sept 1, 2008 22:40:18 GMT -5
Going to have to agree all the way with you there Mal. It would have been nice to have seen how Tarantino would have done True Romance himself though. It's a great movie as is, but it almost certainly got changed around from his own vision of it.
I'm going to give my pick for worst too: Jackie Brown. That one was a huge let down. It had a great cast, but managed to be pretty boring.
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Post by malbowski13 on Sept 2, 2008 5:48:52 GMT -5
What about Death Proof? I though it was very dialogue-heavy and boring. Like Jackie Brown, his tributes to exploitation, 60's-70's films don't translate well IMO.
Kill Bill 2 had a very unexpected ending. I figured it would be like a 10-minute duel between the two but cool just the same. The eye-yanking/crushing was a nice surprise.
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Post by lowkey on Sept 2, 2008 7:32:06 GMT -5
I haven't seen Death Proof, so I can't comment.
I didn't hate Kill Bill vol 2, but it was a major let down, after vol 1. I mean with the bloodbath ending the first one had, I expected it to at least keep up, but it didn't even try. Not that there weren't some cool scenes.
Also, Bill was a better character before we got to know him. This is one time where I think character development hurt the movie, because it just became impossible to accept him (Grasshopper of all people) as this evil, vicious, cold-blooded killer, when actually he seemed like a nice enough guy. I see where Tarantino was trying to go with Bill it just didn't work quiet right imo.
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Post by malbowski13 on Sept 2, 2008 20:04:04 GMT -5
I agree. Quentin would have been better to leave him mysterious.
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Post by shunty on Sept 2, 2008 22:43:55 GMT -5
tarantino didn't want to do the exact same thing with both volumes. vol 1 was supposed to be martial arts and vol 2 was supposed to be a western of sorts. anyway, what happened to everybody else here?
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Post by tsmooth31 on Sept 2, 2008 23:45:18 GMT -5
not really a fan of his, i have actually never seen a full movie of his, just parts, they werent terrible but i just didnt care for his style and couldnt really get into any of the movies
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Post by lazario on Sept 6, 2008 5:27:50 GMT -5
I'm going with:  as my favorite of his. Perhaps Pulp Fiction is better. But PF is genre-confused. Which is cool for the fans. But Jackie Brown is more focused as a genre work, more dramatic, more believable, powerful, romantic, soulful, and is actually a good damn tale of revenge. The woman gets to keep the money, gets revenge on Ordell, and snaps a few other twigs along the way - she gets the stupid blonde "chick" Melanie killed, screws over the ATF but makes them think they got what they wanted, and partially because of her- Robert De Niro's character gets killed as well. I don't mind that PF likes to bounce around a lot. But Jackie stays put and because of that, it manages to make me care about any of the characters. Something I can't say about PF. |
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