Well always thought he was ----
A Damn good writer
BUT Glad he always got real good actors to work for him
I find huge portions of his movies boring
depands on which movie. bastards is pure garbage. django is ok but its dragged for too long. same with hateful eight. interesting idea but to long. once upon a time is garbage.
from all of those movies i would say both django and hateful eight are his best. i really dont understand what people find in pulp fiction. its average at best. same with reservior dogs.
and kill bill is garbage in my opinion
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shareNo One has ever made a "Good" Django movie --- and I've seen them all
Hatefully * is Ok , watchable BUT the cast is excellent
As the story goes, Billy Bob Thornton was a struggling actor in Hollywood who was doing a gig as a waiter for an event attended by the great old writer-director Billy Wilder. Billy(Wilder) elected to chat briefly with Billy(Bob) and it went something like this:
Wilder: So you are a waiter here. Are you really an actor?
Thornton: Yes.
Wilder: Well...have you thought of being a writer? Actors are a dime a dozen here. Good writers are always in demand. Write a role for yourself.
Thornton wrote the movie "Sling Blade" and gave himself the role of the mentally slow killer with a heart of gold and won the Oscar...for his screenplay, not his acting.
Billy Wilder read an article in which Thornton told his waiter story and Wilder called Billy Bob to come to his office and have lunch. Said Wilder to Billy Bob: "I have no memory of you at all -- I don't know you from Adam -- but I was pleased to read that I helped you that one time and I wanted to have lunch with you." Nice.
Well, QT too wanted to be an actor, but turned out to be a truly great and original and unique screenWRITER. He wrote himself SMALL roles in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction -- enough to give us a sense of who he WAS (his odd looks, his intense voice) -- but it was truly his writing that stood out then and stands out now. He's one of the greats, dialogue-wise.
I"ve always felt that QT's initial "Los Angeles crime trilogy" -- Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown -- was, collectively his best work. He went away for six years after Jackie Brown and came back with a new trick: he still wrote the best dialogue in town but suddenly he was an incredibly good director of ACTION. Uma vs the Crazy 88s in Kill Bill; the final car chase in Death Proof; the attack on the movie theater in Inglorious Basterds and the shootout at the plantatino in Django Unchained: now...QT did it all.
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But as he nears his 10th and final film(says he), I think QT will STILL go down in movie history for his writing talent first...and his direction of action second. With his acting -- alas for him -- a distinctive third -- but distinctive(try his opening bar story about pissing in a glass in Desperado.)
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