Re: Into Great Silence
I don't know that I'm going to make the same point as Reg, but Tarentino has a damned annoying habit of remaking movies that have already been made. I find nothing in his films to be original, and the dialogue that he's been so praised for I find to be utterly trite and unnatural.I was in film school in the early 90s right when Reservoir Dogs came out, then Pulp Fiction following it. This was also the same time as Rodriguez' "El Mariachi". Everyone around me was drooling over themselves to be the next Tarentino (or Rodriguez), but I just couldn't get it. Still can't. I wanted to be me. It just so happened that me had not enough ability to translate mental vision to the screen.I thought that Reservoir Dogs was good back in the day, and now is OK (just OK) because he was working on a small enough budget that some of his affectations seemed charming. Then to see Pulp Fiction, with all of it's references to 70s action movies, blaxploitation, and even directly back to RD (right down to character names and places), it just seemed so unnecessary. Then Jackie Brown, then the Kill Bills, and don't forget Four Rooms.... I also think that part of my intense dislike for QT is that he insists on putting himself into his films, and IMO he is the worst actor to ever get a SAG card, bar none.Not to say I don't find some things to like in each of his movies (Walken's watch story is still a classic, as is "Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead"), but on the whole they're just ripoffs of other films. And Grindhouse is an admitted ripoff of the low budget 70s z-film road movies, so I can only imagine how much I would dislike it. I'll wait for the DVD so I can make snarky comments and not get dirty looks from geeky kids who worship at the altar of QT.'Course that's only my opinion, and I have gone on far too long.
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I don't know that I'm going to make the same point as Reg, but Tarentino has a damned annoying habit of remaking movies that have already been made. I find nothing in his films to be original, and the dialogue that he's been so praised for I find to be utterly trite and unnatural.I was in film school in the early 90s right when Reservoir Dogs came out, then Pulp Fiction following it. This was also the same time as Rodriguez' "El Mariachi". Everyone around me was drooling over themselves to be the next Tarentino (or Rodriguez), but I just couldn't get it. Still can't. I wanted to be me. It just so happened that me had not enough ability to translate mental vision to the screen.I thought that Reservoir Dogs was good back in the day, and now is OK (just OK) because he was working on a small enough budget that some of his affectations seemed charming. Then to see Pulp Fiction, with all of it's references to 70s action movies, blaxploitation, and even directly back to RD (right down to character names and places), it just seemed so unnecessary. Then Jackie Brown, then the Kill Bills, and don't forget Four Rooms.... I also think that part of my intense dislike for QT is that he insists on putting himself into his films, and IMO he is the worst actor to ever get a SAG card, bar none.Not to say I don't find some things to like in each of his movies (Walken's watch story is still a classic, as is "Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead"), but on the whole they're just ripoffs of other films. And Grindhouse is an admitted ripoff of the low budget 70s z-film road movies, so I can only imagine how much I would dislike it. I'll wait for the DVD so I can make snarky comments and not get dirty looks from geeky kids who worship at the altar of QT.'Course that's only my opinion, and I have gone on far too long.
