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To those who don't like Tarantino...

posted 8 years ago by reisnersteven
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I'm seeing reviewers on here calling the man a hack. Tarantino a hack? I bet you like goddamn Michael Bay movies, everything he's ever put his hands on has become an epic masterpiece in its own way, notice that no matter how similar his films all seem they are all completely different. If you can't respect a guy who has put his hands in every single genre there is, a guy whose style has been copied more than anyone else's. If you don't like Tarantino then you don't like good movies, if you don't like movies then get the hell off this site.

[–] TheCommenteer 8 years ago

"If you don't like what I and others like then you're wrong and don't deserve an opinion"

Yawn. I don't like Tarantino movies, many don't like Tarantino movies. You're gonna have to suck it up and accept that, princess.

[–] jobla 8 years ago

Well said.

[–] hnt_dnl 8 years ago

I wouldn't call him a "hack", but I will say that starting with starting with Kill Bill Volume 2, he became a "one trick pony".

[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 7 years ago

There is nothing wrong about being an one trick pony if what you do works the way it does. Some will call it a lack of originality, and in a way it is. But... It doesn't bother me if what he does is awesome. In tarantino's case, i really don't mind that his movies are pretty similar. I love them.

[–] brux (14666) 7 years ago

They are entertaining in a certain way. Most of them I would not want to see again, and they are kind of the same. There have been some very compelling scenes that he has done, but I would not say he has ever really made a good movie.

For instance the opening scenes of "Inglourius Basterds" when I first saw it was so terrifying I almost could not take it. I don't know why, I have no real link to any of that, but the clever way it was set up really knew how to pull on the emotions. Another good scene was in the underground bar, and the line I'll always remember was "I don't look relaxed to you". These were clever, even brilliant, well-crafted scenes, and yet that movie was kind of a gimmicky thing.

I have to admit, I did like it, and it was entertaining. I almost left during that first scene because I thought it was disrespectful, but I am glad I did not.

An interesting thing about Tarantino is that he in his movies he gets at something uniquely American ... and shows it for what it is. Kind of wreckless law of karma society. But the ideas are not developed and exposed enough to make a really good movie.

[–] r-hudson13 8 years ago

Most people don't understand what cinema is. Most people prefer Michael Bay movies because it doesn't have any affect on them.

She has a kind of psychiatric cabaret. Very good. There was something about Suez.

[–] elduderino09 8 years ago

He's never done anything I've liked as mush as True Romance. And that was some time ago. His love of slow mo gratuitous violence gets old. However, he does know dialogue. And in these times of super hero CGI driving the story, it's easy to choose to spend money on one of his films. Not intended as a back handed complement. He has talent. Not as much as his rabid followers believe, but far more than his naysayers contend.

[–] brux (14666) 7 years ago

Yeah, the thing that appeals about Tarantino is his imagination and the clever way he uses it to express a kind of wild west American sensibility - it is tragi-comedy, almost Greek in its format. True Romance was very good. But I don't know that he has ever made a really good movie. TR is probably the closest, but he really knows how to ratchet up a scene. He would be a very good director, maybe he needs a writer to write him a real good story, or to cooperate with.

[–] darthsitkur 8 years ago

Okay, I'm more of a Robert Rodriguez fan, the only Michael bay flicks I like are the rock, bad boys 1 and 2, and pain and gain, I'm not into transformers anymore, I didn't care for reservoir dogs since the botched robbery was never shown and the pacing sucked monkey ass, I didn't like kill bill part 2 because it wasn't as much fun as part 1, I skipped death proof, and I didn't like inglourious basterds because they spent too much time on the shoshanna storyline and not enough time on the basterds, if it had just spent time with Brad Pitt and his crew, I would've liked it better (the theater shootout was *beep* awesome though). the only Tarantino movies I like are kill bill part 1 and django unchained. and I didn't like pulp fiction because the pacing was horrible

[–] mrrockey 8 years ago

Someone's got a short attention span...

[–] darthsitkur 8 years ago

Mr Rockey, i do NOT have a short attention span, I do like a good crime drama every now and then, such as the godfather 1, 2, and 3, scarface, goodfellas, casino, and the departed for example, so, I'm not JUST an action movie fanatic

[–] darthsitkur 8 years ago

I also liked the revenant, but that one is a drama thriller

[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 7 years ago

Well, this seems like a real effort to appreciate his movies... Or movies in general.

[–] brux (14666) 7 years ago

Why do you like the shootout? Like in the theater act, the best part was the absurity of Brad Pitt trying to speak Italian ... Gorlami ... I could not stop laughing, or the underground bar scene. When Tarantino learns that not every single scene needs to end up with people killing each other maybe he will be able to attempt to make a really good movie, but if he never does, what he does is still fun to watch for a laugh.

[–] Krishthegod 8 years ago

At some point, Tarantino became a parody of himself. He became that hyperactive, liberally stealing from genres kid people unfairly derided him as in the 90s, when in fact his crime movies are some of his best written and directed ouevre. Nowadays, it feels like he's trying too hard with his premises, and this is especially evident with the type of gore and soundtrack he picks. Neither of those particularly bother me of course because I've seen it all, but it's just obvious becauses made a name for himself, whatever subtlety and nuance he had in his earlier pics, he just chucked that *beep* out the window. Shame, the only post Jackie Brown film of his I really enjoyed was Inglorious Basterds, cause even though it had some of his present issues, it was a little more focused, and he took a slightly European approach to production, which I appreciated quite a bit

[–] terrytsilvester 8 years ago

Oh shut up and go watch a Tarkovsky film!

[–] mettallmk 7 years ago

I still haven't seen Hateful Eight, but after Kill Bill I'd say he's going down as fast as the 9/11 inside job made by Mossad with controlled demolitions of the buildings.

Death Proof - SJW girl power feminist BS - except Kurt Russell is *beep* cool

Inglourious Basterds - BS propaganda for zionist supremacists. The Weinstein Bros. wet dream to fap for.

Django - SJW white guilt retarded crap, even though Christoph Waltz, S.L. Jackson and Di Caprio acted amazing in it.

I wonder what's the next crapfest of self righteous SJW propaganda that makes this new generation of pussy whipped millenials say he's the greatest director of all time.

IMDB - Internet Moronic Database

[–] Ddey65 7 years ago

I still haven't seen Hateful Eight, but after Kill Bill I'd say he's going down as fast as the 9/11 inside job made by Mossad with controlled demolitions of the buildings.

Well, going by that "analogy" he must still be a brilliant filmmaker then, because 9/11 was not an inside job, it was not made by Mossad, and there were no "controlled demolitions" of any buildings.

Inglourious Basterds - BS propaganda for zionist supremacists.

See, this kind of crap is why people hate you twoof-tards. So many of you are blatantly fascist, goose-stepping, bigoted dimwits, that even the ones who aren't are ashamed to be associated with you.

Django - SJW white guilt retarded crap

So we should all be proud that we enslaved the people of Africa, and ashamed of pre-Civil War attempts to deter it? Is that what you're telling us?

[–] brux (14666) 7 years ago

That person was an idiot who did not really rate a response, more of a deletion. I wish IMDB had deleted the idiotic posts made my people like that. I don't know why they didn't except that there were probably so many of them.