Quentin Tarentino...

[Someguynamedmatt]

just wondering who like tarentino films, and which is your favorite. mine is Reservoir Dogs

[J.R.D]

hes only made four films........the one you mentioned.......pulpfiction|(my fravriot).......and the |Kill bill movies |(i like them to)

[Antonius]

I've only seen [i]Reservoir Dogs [/i]and [i]Kill Bill Vol. 1[/i] but I think the guy's a royal ([color=red]expletive[/color]). [i]Revervoir Dogs [/i]I didn't like, needless violence with a thin plot. Anyone could have made that movie, write some crazy dialogue, shoot two people having a conversation from 50 feet away, insert some nasty violence, and yoiu're done. Ridiculous.

[i]Kill Bill Vol. 1[/i]? Quentin Tarantino is the Elmyr of film. He can mix and match what every other director has done and make a film out of it, but he does not have his own art. He's a whackjob too. Ever hear him in an interview? [i]Kill Bill [/i]is a fun movie to watch, but that's it. You don't think about it after it's done, it poses no interesting questions other than, "Hey, I wonder if people's blood actually squirts like that?!" (By the way, the squirting blood was better done more than 30 years prior in [i]Monty Python and the Holy Grail[/i].)

I don't like the guy, and I still have to see [i]Pulp Fiction[/i], which I hear is a good movie, depite being directed by Mr. Tarantino.

Three more "by the way"s...

The writing for [i]Pulp Fiction [/i]was done by Tarantino and another guy, but Tarantino omitted the other guy's name from the credits so he could have it say, "Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino."

Quentin Tarantino worked in a video store and then became a director.

[i]Kill Bill[/i] was supposed to be one movie, but the Weinsteins (the producers) made it into two films to make more money. Duh! How anyone can like a director that's more into money than art is beyond me. Steven Spielberg is a great businessman, but is a detesble director.

[sarah]

i like his stuff. the only one i haven't seen is jackie brown.

yes they're graphic, but i do think tarantino has his style - its over the top - and when you see one of his films you know it's his.

[quote]"Hey, I wonder if people's blood actually squirts like that?!"  [/quote]

KB is taken from 60s & 70s hong kong action flicks. if you've ever seen those you'd understand why KB looks the way it does. yeah the dialogue was cheesy at times, but the fight scenes were great and, i think for the most part, true to the genre it was pulling from.

[quote] Reservoir Dogs - Anyone could have made that movie[/quote]
Yeah, maybe. but they didn't...

[quote]Ever hear him in an interview? [/quote]
haha! yes. good thing he makes films and isn't a speaker in the senate.

[quote]The writing for [i]Pulp Fiction [/i]was done by Tarantino and another guy, but Tarantino omitted the other guy's name from the credits so he could have it say, "Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino."[/quote]
i bet there was more to it than that, but yeah, smells of elderberries for the other guy.

[quote]Quentin Tarantino worked in a video store and then became a director.[/quote]
yeah. and lucky for him he was able to give a friend of a friend a script that ended up in harvey keitel's hands, who helped get funding and get the project going. and it didn't hurt that his timing was great - the rise of the independent film boom of the early 90s. (i wish another one of those would happen in the next few years.)

[quote][i]Kill Bill[/i] was supposed to be one movie, but the Weinsteins (the producers) made it into two films to make more money...How anyone can like a director that's more into money than art is beyond me. [/quote]
say what you want about the W brothers, but they know their stuff.
we gotta remember that the film industry is just that - an industry. its a business. it makes money (wow does it). if your movie doesn't make money then good luck making another one. i think tarantino, just like spike lee, loves the art of filmmaking, but knows good and well that he has to make money in order to keep his job. they know how to sell themselves and exploit their work, which you must do if you want to make the movies you like instead of the usual teen flick/explosion action/romantic comedy that hollywood always turns out because they know there's a stable profitable market for it. (i mean look at mel gibson - he did many of those films to earn enough money to make the passion with his own fortune. but i digress...)

i think its a little arrogant to advertise your film as "the 4th film by"...not only is it just your 4th (but then thats more than i've made! ) but a film isn't just made by one person alone. that's my main beef...

i think he's an interesting character. where would we be today with out tarantino?

[DancesforLove]

I really don't like Quentin Tarentino, I think hes pretty sucky.

[Matty_boy]

I think Tarantino is brilliant when it comes to Writing and Directing movies. Pulp Fiction has always been my favorite, andI thought it was his last really great piece of work...until I saw Kill Bill. Kill Bill was an amazing combination of the old hong-kong martial arts movies combined with american style humor and comic book-esque action scenes. The very end of KB2 is just about the best ending in any movie ever.

[J.R.D]

but he is weired

[ilovechrist]

hes weird...
kill bill was interesting... but not my style

[sarah]

i'm weird

[Apollo]

[quote]hes only made four films........the one you mentioned.......pulpfiction|(my fravriot).......and the |Kill bill movies |(i like them to) [/quote]

He also directed (at least parts of) a film called [i]Four Rooms[/i], which is awful for the first half, and hilarious for the last half. It is basically 4 separate movies in one, and I know Tarentino directed at least one portion (the last one I think).

[Apollo]

He also directed [i]Jackie Brown [/i]in 1997.

[Guest JeffCR07]

He is definately wierd, but I think he is, perhaps, the best director out there right now. I definately think he has his own style, and while his technique of chronology splitting wasn't an original invention, he most certainly perfected it, and shoved it into the mainstream. Moreover, anyone lacking philosophical debate need look no further than [i]Kill Bill Vol. 2[/i] for a deep discussion of retribution for our sins, whether people can really change their ways (a la [i]Unforgiven[/i]) and questions of love and family.

Also, on a purely movie critique, having already defined his own style (watch [i]Jackie Brown[/i], [i]Pulp Fiction[/i], and [i]Resevoir Dogs[/i]) he moved on with the Kill Bill movies to attempt to combine as many genres, cinematography techniques, etc as possible while keeping the movie interesting and entertaining for the audience.

Despite the absolutely horrendously excessive amounts of violence in his movies, I think hes an amazing director.

[Antonius]

aw, c'mon, guys. the whole splitting of time thing is cool, but he does it in every movie. he won't grow up or try new things! he's so post-modern, inserting in all this pop culture.... i mean, really, how can this guy stand the test of time?

[quote]he is, perhaps, the best director out there right now[/quote]

are you kidding? the lord of the rings trilogy alone is far superior in countless ways to quentin tarantino and all 4 of his films! (KB being two parts of one movie.) there is more thought, philoophy, art, and life in just those movies than quentin's own mind!

[quote]Moreover, anyone lacking philosophical debate need look no further than Kill Bill Vol. 2 for a deep discussion of retribution for our sins, whether people can really change their ways (a la Unforgiven) and questions of love and family.[/quote]

let's go back to LOTR once again. peter jackson keeps us on the edge of our seats wondering if Gollum can truly ever overcome the addiction the power of the ring, frodo constantly fights this same temptation, even being overcome by it in the end.

seriously, quentin tarantino as the best director out there is ridiculous.

[DemonSlayer]

The Kill Bill films were fairly good, but that's all.

[MorphRC]

I dont really like his stuff.

[J.R.D]

i was watching pulpfiction and man he made john travolta mean in that movie and bad u know what i mean lol

[Hermione]

I think Kill Bill was supposed to be a tribute Samurai movie. Everything about it's inspired by them. I don't think he meant for it to be an original piece; more like a tribute, like I said.

Reservoir Dogs is funny. Steve Buscemi is hillarious. I agree that it doesn't say much; the only time he tries to make you think are the random dialogues that appear here and there... like the opening dialogue where they discuss what Madonna's "Like a Virgin"'s about... Other than that, it's just a comedy with guns and guts..

Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies. I've watched it a billion times and still never get tired of it. Samuel L. Jackson single-handedly carries this movie most of the time, the remaining bit is held up by John Travolta, so the other characters pretty much have an easy time. It's good because of the script & "plot"; it's the way the characters live on the edge, being gangsters and taking drugs & shots, yet they talk about the most mundane of things... it's just the harmony of it all that makes the show so brilliant.

Natural Born Killers: he wrote this and sold it for very little. Oliver Stone took it up and did the directing. Basically I think Tarantino is an escapist. His films are always very anarchistic, about people living outside society. It's good cos it helps you escape too, without the consequences. Sometimes it even makes you wanna be the complete opposite of these characters cos their lives are just so fked up.

[Hermione]

Tarantino and Peter Jackson belong to different genres (at least the movies in question are from different genres). Tarantino's films are indie; LOTR is mainstream. Really can't compare. If you're comparing Tarantino to Stanley Kubrick or Darren Aronofsky... that's another story

[MorphRC]

Was Dust Till Dawn made by quen?

[Seatbelt Blue]

Kill Bill is teh awexome. I'm a huge Kill Bill fan. I love kung fu flicks, b movies, westerns, and good music, and KB combines all these things. It's a simple revenge story - kind of like Lone Wolf and Cub - and these don't need a lot of subtext. Tarantino just wanted to pay tribute to the things he loves, the things he was raised on.

Why do films have to raise questions? Why do films have to be deep a provocative? Why can't you just go in, enjoy an artfully-filmed piece and walk away happy?