Tarantino Poll

indeed. I have to wonder how anyone could miss that.

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huh pretty good results

i caught abt 10 minutes of 'death proof' last night on encore or some such - first time i'd seen it since the theater...the scene where the gas station attendant has a copy of italian vogue was way weird & bad. idk i just generally do not think it is a good movie

^ part of what makes me think QT just can't deal w girl culture the way he's used to dealing w boy culture. i cringed all the way through that scene

word i read some of your posts upthread and agree w/ that a lot...think i made similar sentiments originally when grindhouse was released

like around that time i recall him being on conan i think trying to expound abt 'girl talk' as a topic and i cringed all the way thru it

surprised that so few people voted for KB1 and so many voted for KB2 :D

(i like KB2 btw, but no one on the thread even spoke up for it as an all-around best)

i'm pretty sure i went with pf, but this poll got me thinking: one thing rd has going for it over its successor is there are no scenes completely without merit; i like it all. otoh tarantino's "dead nigger storage" bit in pf is just needlessly pugnacious and juvenile with no real payoff (i loved his 'like a virgin' speech in rd tho!). the blueberry pancakes bit is pretty annoying, too, as i think someone mentioned upthread.

i hated the d.n.s. stuff, and really all the stuff with Keitel and Julia Sweeny seemed totally useless, and kind of: "hey I've finally made it in Hollywood and now I'm gonna get all my friends and idols cameos in my great movie!"

Movie was way too long. By the time we get back to Jules and Vega in the restaurant, I really didn't care what happened. Every time I've watched it on VHS (it's been that long since I've seen it) I've turned it off after, "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead."

What? The "Dead nigger storage" scene is hilarious!! And it invented the phrase "That's Kool and the Gang," which I adopted as my own (Hey, cut me some slack, I was 15.)

the only scene Tarantino has ever acted in that I liked him in, was the last one in Four Rooms.

yeah the more i think about it, they could of edited like 15 minutes out of this bitch and been a-ok.

actually, i find myself saying that about like 90% of the movies i go see these days.

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What? The "Dead nigger storage" scene is hilarious!! And it invented the phrase "That's Kool and the Gang," which I adopted as my own (Hey, cut me some slack, I was 15.)

i don't mind the rest at jimmy's house, it's just the way QT delivers DNS, like 4 times with no apparent reason than to say "nigger"

& tbh, it would probably annoy almost as much if he was saying "dead fireman storage." it's more his delivery & awkwardness that kind oftakes me out of the action completely. Again, i kind of like the "dick dick dick dick dick dick dick" bit in RD. I believed that guy. (Mr. Brown?)

actually, i find myself saying that about like 90% of the movies i go see these days.

ya same here

when I saw PF in the theater, a bunch of people walked out during the D.N.S. scene. made an impression on me.

I've always had a completely diff reaction to the DNS scene - a number of scenes in pulp fiction show how power is exercised in the relationships between the players. the DNS scene demonstrates how low tarantino's character is, using the situation to humiliate jules in a way he likely wouldn't dare to otherwise - similarly to how butch is humiliated by marcellus and vincent at the bar. it also shows how jules handles things differently than hotheaded vince, who's in the same desperate situation but still can't help mouthing off to the wolf.

the problem with the scene is that tarantino doesn't have the gravitas to sell it, so he ends up looking like a guy who thinks it's funny to say "nigger" a lot.

can't argue with that first sentences, but the last one is more OTM

I like True Romance and Natural Born Killers better than all of these.

the DNS scene demonstrates how low tarantino's character is, using the situation to humiliate jules in a way he likely wouldn't dare to otherwise - similarly to how butch is humiliated by marcellus and vincent at the bar

bingo

Edward III: i like your reading of that scene. and your last sentence is 100% otm

honestly I think it has more to do with the tarantino logic "swearing = always cool" than anything racial

Glad Jackie Brown was at least a strong runner-up.

It's cool, Jackie Brown is probably a better film than Reservoir Dogs. It is nice to see that it seems to have lost the stigma it had when it was released, it's a great movie.

finish is in order of merit shockah!

really all the stuff with Keitel and Julia Sweeny seemed totally useless

...but there's always room for lunacy. Keitel plays the role like Jackie Gleason, one of the best things he's done since the '70s.

that's crazy talk...

really all the stuff with Keitel and Julia Sweeny seemed totally useless

no way, i loved that

i wish Julia Sweeney was in more stuff

that movie had Julia Sweeney, pre-unbearable Kathy Griffin and first season dude from MadTV

According to wikipedia, Sweeney was a 29-year-old accountant who took a class at Groundlings and ended up on SNL a year later :O

and both Griffin AND Sweeney were in It's Pat the same year as Pulp Fiction!

didn't tarantino do a re-write for it's pat or something?

he produced it, according to wiki

"It's Pat, Nigger!"

lol

hahahhahah

XD

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pS7sKjlzwFg/RmdXqEsq-ZI/AAAAAAAAAj8/IFPuR6OyxjY/s400/sweeney_pat.jpg

I tend to think of "Kill Bill" as one picture ... maybe it would have done better here if listed that way. I wasn't overwhelmed with either part in the theater, but they stand up better than expected on repeated viewings. "Pulp Fiction" seems a little weaker each time I see it.

I voted "Jackie Brown" because it's the best Elmore Leonard adaptation. "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight" are both good, but "Jackie Brown" actually improves on its source material, mainly because of Pam Grier.

voted jackie brown too and I'm glad it had a strong showing. it's true, pam grier is pretty great in it. and so is... uh, the guy from alligator?

it's probably the least annoying qt flick. but I like all of these besides death proof.

reservoir dogs is the one that really didn't hold up for me over the years. even tho it was my fave movie EVER in 8th grade.

it's been years since the last time I watched it, but at the time, all of the macho dialog seemed a little lame. but all of the love on this thread is making me think I should give it another go sometime.

Yeah, bam bam bam bam bam.

reservoir dogs is the one that really didn't hold up for me over the years. even tho it was my fave movie EVER in 8th grade.

yea, agreed (tho a little later than 8th for me). i was one of those dudes that was like "pulp fiction pffffffft yea it's okay but RESERVOIR DOGS is the MASTERPIECE" in say, 10th grade. but i watched it again a few months ago and it really didn't do anything for me. i was pretty turned off by it. i've got a strong threshold for violence but for some reason the ear-cutting scene really got to me.

voted kill bill part 2. i haven't seen either kill bill more than once, tho. i enjoyed both a lot

People preferring Reservoir Dogs to PF remind me of those guys who prefer Bleach to Nevermind.

yea i think PF is the better film now

ha, but what of us who preferred "In Utero" ?

kill bill fans? i prefer in utero

ha

I'm waiting for his "Unplugged"

People preferring Reservoir Dogs to PF remind me of those guys who prefer Bleach to Nevermind.

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 13, 2009 9:51 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is otm, i'd say

People preferring Reservoir Dogs to PF remind me of those guys who prefer Bleach to Nevermind.

hey, that's me! Apart from Bleach I can't really bear to listen to Nirvana anymore.