Tarantino Poll

jackie brown ownes, it's the only one that feels like a 'real' movie 2 me

otm. robert forster and pam grier scenes only time i thought i was watching actual people in any of these films.

death proof is good but that twenty minute diner conversation w/the second set of girls is painful to watch

^yeah maybe but i liked it as a self-homage to the opening scene of reservoir dogs

ending of pulp fiction >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ending of reservoir dogs

like, death proof fits pretty well into his filmography if you follow his career down the line - obv the kill bills were his 'epics', but death proof doesn't stray very far from his aesthetic and as a compact, 'trashy' film it's really great i think

the end of reservoir dogs is pretty good, if not predictable

jackie brown, for robert forster and pam grier

also for the out of sight crossover

also jackie brown has best use of music imo

this is a dope poll btw

kill bill volumes 1 & 2 fight scenes poll

i think maybe my favorite is when the jersey girl in death proof gives a lap dance to "jeepster"

also for the out of sight crossover

― max, Monday, February 9, 2009 5:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i forgot about this! fuck, that rules. michael keaton rules.

yeah Michael Keaton is really well used in that

jackie brown ownes, it's the only one that feels like a 'real' movie 2 me

i think this is true, but "real movies" aren't tarantino's specialty, it's not what he's actually good at. it's obvious, but i think pulp fiction best got what he does. it's the "if you only see one quentin tarantino movie" movie.

J0rdan, see Jackie Brown.

reservoir>jackie>pulp>>>the rest

Death Proof easily.

gotta good feeling bout his next movie, that war saga,though

not much of a tarantino fan but jackie brown is a really good film.

I watched RD & PF so many times on so much weed in high school that it's hard for me to differentiate b/w the two: It's one globulous circular narrative stuffed w/ pop-culture and b-movie references, 70's pop, snappy dialog & the good old ultraviolence. I guess I'll go with Pulp, since it does seem like the magnum opus, even if the kick ass action scenes in KB1 & DP have me stroking my beard a little.

jackie brown is a really good film

it's also a great book (rum punch)

i was amazed at how completely dead-on the casting and flow of the movie fit my concept of the characters (except for deniro as louis - louis is a much bigger character in the book and his stumblebumness is less obvious)

In a Playboy interview, he talked of smoking cannabis and using ecstasy while filming Kill Bill.[28]

He was thanked in the liner notes of Nirvana's final studio album In Utero although the spelling of his name is incorrect. Tarantino returned the favor by thanking Nirvana on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, along with the message "RIP Kurt".

def looking forward to inglorious basterds

KB1-Jackie B-Death Proof-Pulp-Res Dogs - KB2

Jackie Brown, for being full of characters I actually cared about, although I still recall the giddy heist-without-the-heist thrills of Reservoir Dogs feeling like some kinda revelation.

Pulp Fiction

Reservoir Dogs is great and all but it's basically Pulp Fiction in embryonic form.

Jackie Brown is the most underrated.

The Kill Bills are fun.

Death Proof works as the second half of Grindhouse. It's not so fun on it's own.

Jacki Brown for me too but Pulp Fiction is unique and runs it very close. KB1 was great and KB2 was awful.

Jackie Brown >>>>>>> everything else

tracer otm. rum punch is a good read and QT & cast did an admirable job with the material.

KB1 was great and KB2 was awful.

― jed_, Monday, February 9, 2009 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i think someone has played a prank on you by switching the numbers on your keyboard

Nah, they're both good, but the 2nd is much better.

that's definitely the way i heard it. after noting my KB1 disappointment among friends, i was assured KB2 was much better. even so, i've yet to put it on the netflix queue

kb1 is the action half, kb2 is the character half

roughly

kb2 is the boring half.

Yeah I was unneccesarily harsh on KB1 for the sake of the lol

So, when Tarantino inevitably gets itchy for an Oscar and decides to do a hagiographic biopic, what direction will he go?

This makes me want to watch all these again! I'm voting RD because it was the first one I saw and for the great Tim Roth storytelling scene.

So, when Tarantino inevitably gets itchy for an Oscar and decides to do a hagiographic biopic, what direction will he go?

Quentin Tarantino's Sam Fuller.

Jackie Brown.

Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs and Tarantino pisses me off most the time

Oh how I want to say fuck the challops and vote for boring old Pulp Fiction, but I just can't. I watched it a couple weeks ago and GODDAMN does the second segment drag. Quentin could've edited out the scene with Esmerelda and pretty much every scene with Bruce Willis' girlfriend and that'd be fine by me.

So Jackie Brown it is.

I am amazed I've seen 5 out of 6 of those. I did like Jackie Brown, but it wasn't really QT doing his QT thang. The Kill Bills were just silly, but amusingly silly. Pulp was compelling, but outpulped real pulp and was a bit too sick.

I voted Reservoir Dogs. T'was taut, strange without being too sick, and just silly enough you could walk out of the theater feeling entertained instead of violated.

I don't understand this "Jackie Brown isn't a REAL Tarantino movie" thing. Except for the fact that it wasn't an original script (and lol to a pastiche-io like Tarantino being the originator of nearly anything he's put out) what justification do you have for saying this? It seems like all his usual stylistic signatures are there, just toned down a hair, maybe.

I'd say refined.

^^^ precisely

KB1 was exciting and fun. KB2 was ponderous.

wait, I can resolve this

they both sucked balls

Christian Bale?

Random thought: I like Tarantino a lot, but nothing makes me more certain that a film is going to be embarassing bullshit than the words "influenced by Quentin Tarantino".

Oh, definitely.

Pretty much ... the gap between him and his imitators is about as vast as any I can imagine.

Tho, to be fair, the only movies I think we're talking about when it comes to "Tarantino imitators" are Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, no?

That

xp, Tarantino ruined dickwit testosterone film school kids

Pauline Kael isn’t going to be putting her bare feet up on the car dashboard in this film. At least I don’t think so.

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Tho, to be fair, the only movies I think we're talking about when it comes to "Tarantino imitators" are Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, no?

― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.),

It's a good question. Are there Jackie Brown heirs running around?

Tho, to be fair, the only movies I think we're talking about when it comes to "Tarantino imitators" are Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, no?

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Out of Sight had Michael Keaton playing the exact same character. You could make the argument that it is more of an Elmore Leonard thing, but I think Tarantino was the driving force behind the uptick in Leonard adaptations.

xp

Leonard was an excellent genre/movie writer who never earned his worth until Tarantination, which is another tick in Quentin's box for me but also really telling cos QT's Leonard adaptations are the worst possible adaptations of Leonard's work

do you consider Jackie Brown a bad movie or just not great as an adaptation?

i think most of Tarantino's movies are good to great, as movies. i was thinking about this between the bus stop and home: the thing that makes QT a bad influence for me is his winkingness. i'm not even sure that makes the films he's made himself bad. Jackie Brown is a great movie. but people who ape his style generally make shit

Leonard's stuff seems so downbeat to me and i don't think Tarantino can do downbeat. MR MAJESTYK (1974) is way better than any QT adaptation of Leonard imo at least in terms of articulating Leonard's vibe but probly also in terms of being a better movie, maybe

I'd say this is due for a re-poll but may as well wait the four or so years until the Kael movie is released.

Watched Pulp Fiction over the weekend; in honor, I guess, if its 30th Anniversary(!) year. It's been long enough since the last time I saw it that I was able to enjoy it with slightly "fresh eyes." It's not much to look at, and some of the "tech specs" (camerawork, lighting) are really not great; but the performances and many of the scenarios still pack a punch, enough to give you that sense memory of how hard it hit when it actually was fresh.

The main cast is terrific (of course), but also/especially some of the minor players, like Eric Stoltz & Amanda Plummer... so much so that you almost marvel at those performances (like, where did they pull them from?). Stoltz is someone I've seen in a bunch of movies, and while he's good, he never really makes a big impression (other than in Mask, I guess) – but he's so perfect in this, he just knocks it out of the park.

And Uma Thurman is just fantastic, in a role that could have been played any number of ways (most of them probably not as effective). I feel like if that performance had been weaker, the center would have fallen out of the movie, in a way. I didn't realize there are two (2) Arquettes in the cast, and had forgotten about some other minor/cameo appearances. The cast list is stacked, but in a way that feels low-key / well integrated, and not like, "Here's another famous player showing up..."

The Butch/Fabienne scenes (in the hotel room) were the faintest in my memory; and yet they may be the best written scenes in the movie (or at least they have the least "show-y" writing). The film gets a little dull toward the end, in The Bonnie Situation segment, but obv the final scene is great.

Circling back for one minor gripe (which I could only articulate after living in L.A. for years): for such an iconic "L.A." movie, it doesn't really have a strong sense of place. Other than a few times when specific neighborhoods/streets/cities are named ("Move out of the sticks, gentlemen..."), the action could be taking place anywhere. Most of the street/apartment scenes just feel like "generic Los Angeles." Though maybe that's kind of the point?

Yeah, they are mostly generic, but I do think that's part of the point. Interesting that the most "iconic" location, Jackrabbit Slim's, does not exist.

Marcellus' house scenes were shot up in the hills, ofc. Summitridge Drive, according to the webs.

It definitely doesn't feel like an L.A. movie in the way that, say, Lebowski does.

Or some of the "noirs" that are in its bloodstream – e.g., the famous one with a glowing suitcase. It's neat to think of Repo Man in contrast, which (like PF) pays homage both to Kiss Me Deadly and Grease, but has as deeply ingrained a sense of location any "L.A. movie" ever... (well, that I've seen).

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Aw, man

A pissed off movie critic goes on a Taxi Driver-esque killing spree. Was that the pitch? It does sound kinda lame imo. Perhaps he made the right call.

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Dudes brain is all fried since he movies to Israel

I still wish he did the Star Trek movie

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