Tarantino Poll

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

lol gtfo afaik tfg

true romance?

KB 1 > KB 2, but I still think they're going to cancel each other to an extent in this poll.

true romance?

― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:15 AM (18 minutes ago)

like this a lot too

pulp fiction is one of my favorite movies ever though, so it's getting my vote

Quentin could've edited out the scene with Esmerelda and pretty much every scene with Bruce Willis' girlfriend

otm that shit is terrible

What, you don't like pancakes?

True Romance was terrible and i hated it. Reservoir Dogs all the way.

true romance? - a flawed movie with one utterly classic scene ("You, you look like an eggplant") & a great ensemble cast. I always wondered how it would have turned out, had Tarantino directed it.

lol, "you look line an eggplant"? Might want to rescreen that, buddy.

Jackie Brown, as it has actual characters.

One of the problems I have with RD/PF I associate with that entire period of 90s indie flicks that being overly talky and constantly dropping pop culture references were the heart of the flick. The guys who wrote _Generation Ecch_(which came out right as PF hit) had a great line about this, saying something about the problem of using pop cultural signposts to contribute a sense of imagination or creativity but not having near the level that those referred to icons might have had.

i liked death proof. but then ill still watch pretty much anything he makes and find something good about it.

"you look line an eggplant" - ah yes, "you're part eggplant" amirite

constantly dropping pop culture references were the heart of the flick.

if that seems like that heart of the movie to you, you're watching it wrong. seems like received "wisdom" based on very little actual evidence.

What struck me about reading Rum Punch, with Jackie Brown fresh in my head, was just how thoroughly Tarantino rewrote Elmore Leonard from top to bottom. He actually made the film feel MORE like an Elmore Leonard novel as a result--and Leonard said it was his favorite adaptation. My friend Joseph calls JB a long coffee break of a movie, and that's really more the feel of Swag, my favorite Leonard, which would be a great Tarantino movie set in '70s Detroit--hey, Michigan needs the money.

I'd rank 'em:

Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill Pt 1
Death Proof
Kill Bill Pt 2 (the only one I wouldn't watch again)

"Death Proof", easily, as it's the most fun and vibrantly alive for me. and also the only one I would consider watching again from time to time. I could easily never watch the others ever again, although I've all liked them, more or less, at their release, KBs being the worst. Second could be PF because I really liked it at the time, or JB.

I really don't trust ppl who hatr "Kill Bill", possibly because of the stupid argument we had with Momus about it.

I'd have voted "True Romance", I got it out on Video to some very puzzled looks from g/friend based on the title, but...!

I know it wasn't directed by the man, but hey.

? I missed the momusness - can ya recap?

Kill Bill part 1. I've not really liked any of the others, Jackie Brown was okay.

True Romance doesn't belong on this poll for the same reason Natural Born Killers, From Dusk Til Dawn, Mr. Destiny Turns On the Radio, and whatever else don't belong on it

This poll is impossibly hard for me, but I guess I need to pick one in the next few hours.

"Jackie Brown" easily

? I missed the momusness - can ya recap?

Come anticipate Kill Bill with me

RECAP: A bunch of people get excited about the announcement of "Kill Bill". Momus does not.

Momus otm

A bunch of people get excited about the announcement of "Kill Bill". Momus does not.

Is it the pitch for the following tarantino movie ?

Moved*