Except that his films are all amalgamated cocktails of other films and ideas. Endless arguing has ensued for years over whether his particular mixes make for originality, but in this case, if you know QT's work and have a minimal knowledge of 60s/70s biker films and spaghetti westerns, there's just not a lot of QT's fingerprints on this stylistically. I know he contributed to the script and in the editing room, but for anyone who's seen Larry Bishop's first shot at writing/directing - the absurdist gangster deconstruction Mad Dog Time - and the Bishop-scripted Underworld with Denis Leary, will see this thing is him through and through. The dialogue especially with the repetition and homophones is very Bishop, rather than Tarantino. All of the elements in this that feel "Tarantinoish" date back much farther than Reservoir Dogs. Hell Ride, ironically, succeeds at being a more fully fledged grindhouse throwback than Death Proof.
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