Maybe... not sure, it was rather straightforward and nothing too deep or complex. What did I miss?
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Maybe... not sure, it was rather straightforward and nothing too deep or complex. What did I miss?
Adriatic
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Ya I hope he doesn't go in the route of another Django or Kill Bill. I loved those but I'm over them. I wish he would go back to making movies more like Jackie Brown or Reservoir Dogs.
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I don't know I feel he's done this revenge movie thing to death. Both Kill Bills, Inglorious, Django..
mitchmagic
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Kill Bill is one of his worst.
Django is unwatchable.
Inglourious Basterds is his best along with Pulp Fiction.
It goes --
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Jackie Brown
4. Death Proof
5. Kill Bill 2
6. Kill Bill 1
7. Django Unchained
8. Reservoir Dogs
Tabarouette
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you're straight up crazy, Jackie Brown and Death Proof are horrible
I'M OBJECTIVELY RIGHT
mitchmagic
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you're straight up crazy, Jackie Brown and Death Proof are horrible
I'M OBJECTIVELY RIGHT
I've argued that Jackie Brown is his best at times, mainly because it's based on other source material rather than his own annoying brain.
But it's not as fun as IB and Pulp.
Tabarouette
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1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Django Unchained
4. Kill Bill 1
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Kill Bill 2
7. Death Proof
8. Jackie Brown
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Django Unchained
4. Kill Bill 1
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Kill Bill 2
7. Death Proof
8. Jackie Brown
How is Reservoir dogs 8? I'd have it right under Pulp fiction, other than that your list is good by me. Can't sit through Django again.
mitchmagic
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Reservoir Dogs is noticeably amateurish and the dialogue is laughable. A good first step for him but really really cringe-worthy now.
Doesn't hold up.
mitchmagic
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But he didn't direct it so, no, it should not.
He also wrote From Dusk Till Dawn.
And directed a sequence in Sin City and Four Rooms.
But we're talking about his filmography as a writer/director.
True Romance has everything Tarantino all over it, I suspect Tony Scott and him were involved much more than in other movies' Director/Writer relations. Especially in this scene.
I haven't researched on Scott's and Tarantino's relationship on the set however.
mitchmagic
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Tarantino had nothing to do with directing the film. He was a long ways away from anything creative aside from the screenplay. He publicly stated that he didn't want to direct it.
The narrative structure was changed by Tony Scott, as well.
LaP
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1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Jackie Brown
4. Django
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Kill Bill
7. Death Proof
SB164
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Watching Inglorious Basterds in theatres the first weekend it was released remains one of my favourite movie experiences.
We were all literally on the edge of our seats most of the time.
I think that movie, while not as creative as Pulp Fiction, is just as good.
We were all literally on the edge of our seats most of the time.
I think that movie, while not as creative as Pulp Fiction, is just as good.
That's how this list would look for me...
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Jackie Brown
5. Kill Bill 1
6. Kill Bill 2
7. Django Unchained
8. Death Proof
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Jackie Brown
5. Kill Bill 1
6. Kill Bill 2
7. Django Unchained
8. Death Proof
mitchmagic
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It's Tarantino's most complete and mature work. Known for his dialogue, he pushed it as far as it could go with IB by using several languages.
He managed to create such incredible tension by playing with dialogue and language. It had his childlike fantastical violence but still had a maturity that we never saw with a Tarantino film.
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Jackie Brown
5. Django Unchained
6. Death Proof
7. Kill Bill 1
8. Kill Bill 2
Agreed, my best cinema experience by far (oh that and Shutter Island, which I had no clue what it was about).
I was travelling in California with germans when Inglorious Basterds got out. We had a good laugh about being able to understand most of what was said in french or german in the movie, while most people in the cinema couldn't. Great movie.
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Ex Machina is a commentary on most Hollywood blockbusters.
Normally, the female characters have no agency, they are a prize to be won as part of the hero's journey. Ex Machina pretends to be this for around half its runtime, then it shows how ugly that is.
The audience, via the characters, is asked how much agency Eve has, whether or not she's a person, because in most movies she has the body of a person but not the mind. In Ex Machina it turns out she actually has the most agency of any of the characters.
The coimax scene is an empathy test. Do you sympathize with her decision to leave the blonde guy behind? Some people do, some don't, it says more about them then the movie.
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I loved Tarantino's juxtaposition of the Nazi audience in the Parisian theatre cheering on the violence of a Nazi propaganda film while we (the intended audience) later take pleasure in seeing those same Nazi leaders, including Hitler, gunned down by Aldo Raine and co.
While I believe Pulp Fiction is a better film overall, I love Inglorious Basterds just a bit more. The sheer scope of it was amazing.
While I believe Pulp Fiction is a better film overall, I love Inglorious Basterds just a bit more. The sheer scope of it was amazing.
Adriatic
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Ya Inglorious was incredible. The casting, the setting, the different languages, the villan Hanz Landa, the opening scene...
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