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is anyone sick of tarentino

posted 17 years ago by jackmeat
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all you do is make one decent movie (pulp fiction) and then buy your way to fame. you haven't done anything since then except pimp yourself through terrible acting and using rodriguez to make yourself famous. you are the thing that makes hollywood look terrible. you buy the rights to movies that have nothing to do with you and i really hope you read this. true movie fans would do much more than slap there name on something and say "brought to you by quentin tarentino" and people think you had something to do with it.

[–] jcobb2 17 years ago

I guess I was lucky in that I saw this movie before QT slapped his name on it. I wasn't bothered by him until I learned how much of a jerk he is. Then I found out how much he copied from "City on Fire" to make "Reservior Dogs". There are a few scenes in "Pulp Fiction" that can be claimed to have been copied. His greatest talent seems to be in taking other peoples ideas and fooling people into thinking it's original and his.

Even though he has slpped his name on this movie it is still one of my favorite Martial Arts movie of all time.

[–] gaiderdraco 17 years ago

First off, Tarantino himself would tell you that he worked in a video store for many years (before writing scripts like ) and saw every movie in it. We're talking thousands of films. Then he went on to write "True Romance" and "Natural Born Killers", in the mid 80's, and it took him 8 years to sell the two scripts. Afterwards, everything else that he directed was intended, entirely, as a homage to all the movies he saw. Look up the word "homage" at dictionary.reference.com
So pull the conceit out of your mouth and shove it up your ass, where it belongs. Do your homework before you bash anyone. Tarantino knows composition and scene analysis so he's fit to direct films on this planet.

Now, he's the reason that North America received Hero (the Jet Li version, not the Dustin Hoffman version), Iron Monkey, and other awesome kung fu films. Check out Kill Bill vol. 1 and 2 for paying tribute to Western and Eastern films of extravagant action. Jackie Brown is in and of itself a Blacksploitation film. And "Grindhouse" is an entire homage to the films one would see at a grindhouse.

Hero is the only complaint I'd make when it came to translating it because "All Under Heaven" was changed and that pretty much changes history.

D.

[–] jcobb2 17 years ago

I have enjoyed his movies but that doesn't matter. Why did it take him so long to even admit that he had even seen "City on Fire"?

Until he was publically called out on it he never acknowledged that he paid "Homage" to other directors and their films. Basically he started off, with his own films, stealing from others. It was only after being called out that he changed his tune and started admitting that he was paying tribute to these older movies.

Even knowing that he stole/borrowed from other movies to make both "Reservior Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" I still enjoyed those movies. "Kill Bill 1&2" didn't thrill me like it seemed to do for most. I understand what he's doing by slapping his name on everything, his name sells. It has worked with the Asian films didn't seem to work with the Zombie movies he tried to push.

[–] anghel_ng_kamatayan 16 years ago

Would anyone have cared? No one asked. The only real reason his name is slapped on these movies is because he believed in them, but the people he's talking to didn't. So, if the movies flop, it's on Tarantino.

[–] Falconeer 14 years ago

I'm more sick of tarantino fans then i am of Tarantino. i used to work in a movie poster shop on 14th street NYC. He was in town for a couple weeks and spent nearly every day in my shop. This was in the late 90's. I spent two weeks in our storage cellar with him, looking through 8x10 movie stills. We talked alot about cult films, and day after day i came up with obscure titles that i thought no one would remember, but he knew most of them. He taught me quite a bit about films, and introduced me to some crazy obscure stuff. It turned out that he was in town for the re-release of Lucio Fulci's "The Beyond," one of my favorite old horror/zombie films. I was thrilled that he was responsible for releasing a beautiful cleaned up print of that film. i went to it's premiere and when Quentin stepped out of his limo (with then-girlfriend Mira Sorvino) he recognized me from the shop and we talked for a bit, and my friends embarressed me so much by acting all stupid. The guy has good taste in movies, but I much prefer watching the original films that inspire him; i just think they are more real. I think tarantino's films are too clean, and too slick, and above all, too "mainstream friendly." In person, he is just a regular guy, a typical movie geek (not a bad thing) his films are not really to my personal taste, but i wouldn't deny the man has great talent. "Inglorious Basterds" is a very well-made film, and i was impressed that he had the actors speak French and German, instead of English with bad accents. just my 2 cents...

[–] tbrainerd 17 years ago

all you do is make one decent movie (pulp fiction) and then buy your way to fame.

Yeah, making a decent movie like Pulp Fiction hardly takes any effort!

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You know what I'm sick of? People that can't spell or use punctuation!

[–] Nakrophile 17 years ago

I think he is a hack. I enjoy some of his films, but the best thing he has ever been involved with will always be True Romance.

"Fu*k! Why can't I ever say what I really mean?"

[–] cbenc41 17 years ago

Two words:

Jackie Brown.

Not an original screenplay, but a terrific job at directing.

Everybody in Hollywood steals. Every film maker steals. There's little in the way of originality and new frontiers. All we have left is new perspectives. QT may have completely lifted the idea/plot/etc for some of his movies, but it's still a new perspective on them. Get over it and quit being so naive.

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[–] jmalmsten 16 years ago

Wise man once said...

"All writers steal from other writers. But great writers steal from the best!"

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[–] WhatsInAUserID 15 years ago

Putting Tarantino's name on films like this doesn't help him, it helps this film to ship a hed load of copies to people who would never have known about it otherwise. Anything that gets more people to watch this classic must be good.

[–] jtdam09 15 years ago

I like the way that QT makes his movies. He doesn't make his characters too classy and think they are perfect, and he doesn't care about what critics think about his movies. Just as long as he is making it and pleasing his fans.

I like Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2 for the fighting scenes. They were so excellent and raw. Quick, but excellent.

I like Death Proof for its characters. I actually enjoyed Death Proof more than Planet Terror. That movie was flat-out disgusting.

[–] BennyEggs7 15 years ago

Sorry, but Tarentino is a genius, although he may be an annoying movie geek. Most of his movies whether written or directed are excellent, except for a few bombs like Four Rooms and Grindhouse, and don't even get me started on his horrible acting. That would be the part the I am sick of. I hate directors that want to act in their movies when they cannot act, like Spike Lee.

"Fuggedabout Joe the Plumber, what about Don the Jeweler?".