Tarantino's Cult movies

i like his works. Pulp Fiction is a classic.

 

I like all of his movies, minus Hostel. Hostel was way too gruesome and I couldn't watch it. But nonetheless, Quentin is a god!

Peace and love

 

He only financed that movie.

 

He Guess Producer on Sin CIty

 

He was guess Producer in Sin city

 

I wouldnt go as far to say hes number 1... and he was guest director on sin city, and i personally hated kill bill.

and you forgot jackie brown, and if your talking of movies he produced/wrote, you forgot true romance, natural born killers, and from dusk till dawn, errr and every other robert rodriguez flick.

 

I have seen only four of Tarantino's films, and my personal favorite of his I have not seen mentioned at all in this thread - from the films of his that you guys rave about that I have seen, I think I understand why my favorite hasn't been mentioned. My favorite movie containing Tarantino's involvement was a movie entitled "The Four Rooms" .... I'm not certain if he was the sole one responsible for the entire production of it or not, but I do remember that he was one of three or four other people who co-wrote and co-directed the film. I liked it because it contained excellenct casting, and superlative acting by the cast (Tarantino himself was in the last room part of the movie); the direction was extremely insightful and well-done; and particularly impressive was the general idea for the overall theme the film carried. Innovative, to say the least, and filled with endless little nuances of business carried out that are ever so subtle, but they're there! I onlyrecently discovered Tarantino Because I was so impressed with "The Four Rooms" that I sought to find out who made it; and discovered Tarantino. I went to his website and learned that he had also made the other three of his I had seen in the past; those being: "Pulp Fiction", "Natural Born Killers", and "From Dusk To Dawn". All of these movies were contained in a collection of 500 video movies a friend of mine gave me, so I discovered Tarantino quite by accident. Although I do not actively strive to see movies containing a theme of a violent nature, I have to say that "Natural Born Killers" and "From Dusk To Dawn" were, again, innovative ideas for a movie theme as well as well-acted and cast, extremely well-directed; and looking at them strictly from a standpoint of a movie well-made technically, they both filled the bill in that regard. I did not, however, enjoy the blood and gore and violence they contained; and I definitely abhorred the tendency of both films to convey how much harm one human could cause another - I do not see portraying our society from the viewpoint of how much we can hurt one another as good entertainment value. The media carries an enormous amount of power in that it can greatly influence people by what it puts forth; and I favor the media delivering a moral message of the benefits of being good to each other, not the detriments of what happens when we're bad towards one another. If I had a kid coming up today, I'd much rather have him learning from positive examples.

Hey, not too many of you guys explained why you liked a certain Tarantino movie or why you didn't like them - I'd be interested in learning why you did or did not like whatever movies of his you've seen. Like, a lot of you say you didn't like "Kill Bill" - why did you not like it? Interesting thread anyway.

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Tarrantito shore is one cluedupness doodinous

 

Okay here are the things that Tarantino had directed either wholely or in part. For Hostel he was only as presenter for the movie.
Source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/

1. Inglorious Bastards (2008) (announced)
2. Grindhouse (2007) (post-production) (segment "Death Proof")
3. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2 episodes, 2005)
- Grave Danger: Part 1 (2005) TV Episode
- Grave Danger: Part 2 (2005) TV Episode
4. Sin City (2005) (special guest director)
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
7. Jackie Brown (1997)
8. Four Rooms (1995) (segment "The Man from Hollywood")
9. "ER" (1 episode, 1995)
- Motherhood (1995) TV Episode
10. Pulp Fiction (1994)
11. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
12. My Best Friend's Birthday (1987)

 

are you reading my mind? and saying what I think and feel?


sigh.

 

took a while for tarantino to grow on me, but now i'm rather fond of his work - glad someone thought to bring up "four rooms", as it's a gas!

 

He's ok. I love how he's improving some ideas he's got from other movies. Personally I like movies like Jackie Brown and Kill Bill more than Pulp fiction. Kill Bill may be over the top and some scenes (like the animé/manga whatever part) I didn't like at all, but his style is great in these movies. He should try something new though, the messing with the chronology trick is getting old.

 

All of the movies he's directed are bloody fantastic. He didn't do a damn thing on Hostel, and I'm glad because Hostel is one of the dumbest/worst movies I've ever seen. Pulp Fiction was probably the defining film of the 90's, and it might just be my favorite film of all time. Every moment of it is just perfect... the characters, the music, everything. I love the Kill Bill films. The characters are memorable, the fight scenes are amazing, the music is superb, the visual style is unforgetable. I even think Kill Bill 2 can pull on the emotional heartstrings a bit with the whole mother/daughter thing. The premature burial part is truly hair raising, at least to me. Jackie Brown is probably my least favorite, but even that I love. Hilarious characters, great music as always. Tarantino is simply one of the best directors around. I am afraid that he will never again equal Pulp Fiction, and I think deep down he knows that, which is why he has been so slow to release films ever since.

 

Oh, and two more comments... haven't seen True Romance but I've heard it's good, been meaning to see it. Natural Born Killers kind of sucked. I liked the beginning a lot, but it got old fast. From what I've read, the final script barely resembled Tarantino's original, so I wouldn't be too quick to chalk up its success or failure as a film to Tarantino. I think Oliver Stone, post-1991 or so, is one of the worst directors out there. Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July were both very moving. I've yet to see JFK. The Doors is ok, I guess, but how can you screw that up anyway? Everything else I've seen by him has been the work of a total hack (NBK, Alexnader). It is so easy to see straight through the obvious poltiical message with which he beats us over the head over and over and over in all of his films.

 

I agree with some of you who think the Kill Bill movies sucked. Tarantino writes such great dialogue in movies like:
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
From Dusk Til Dawn
True Romance
Four Rooms

 

Kill Bill has ruined my opinion of Tarantino's work. I am convinced that the movie was ment just to promote Uma and nothing more...

 

he's old and tired to me. That doesn't mean he didn't do anything good. Pulp fiction was fucking amazing. Best dialogue ever.

He just uses the same tricks time and time again and its not cool anymore.

 

first and foremost i'd like to warn every avid movie fan that the things i say in this particular forum may spark a bit of hostility or extremely heated arguments.

i was drawn to this thread because tarantino is my favorite writer slash director beside the great scorsese. i opened it expecting something more, i guess, but instead i found a lot of false information and sported opinions without reason.

i'd like to point out to all Natural Born Killers fans that it was originally a Tarantino film. however, once oliver stone gained rights to it, he made so many changes to the original script that qt disowned it completely. the only credit to him is the small "written by" on the back of the box.

sin city was not produced by qt. the one scene where clive owen flies through the air grabbing at benicio's head was directed by tarantino. his friend and partner, robert rodriguez directed the film and allegedly payed qt one dollar to direct the scene.

this next statement will probably get a lot of "Are you fucking crazy?" responses. however, my favorite tarantino movie is Grindhouse. The way it was thought up (qt finds an old exploitation movie poster in rr's house, the same at his own home, and they decide to make one), and the way it played in theaters blew my mind. They thought up things that would shock you and make you turn your head away from the screen at. The fake trailers and artificial shitty reels and the intermission were all part of the fun. to me, that's what going to the movies is all about: being entertained. these two geniuses did a great job at that. even if you were offended or disgusting, you were at the least bit entertained.

another false statement i read was the bit about hostel being a tarantino film. it's not. it's written by eli roth. qt produced the film, putting money up so the yound writer could get his name out there. the movie was shitty, but it did it's job in shocking the audience and drawing attention to it.

but, if you're bringing in all movies where tarantino is vaguely mentioned, why not bring in the tony jaa film The Protector?

As for Kill Bill, not my favorite by far, but to call it crap is not something i would do. the story line was the classic revenge engine, and it wasn't like he made it later in his career out of nowhere. no, kill bill was a graphic novel called The Bride before this, and qt and uma thurman talked about making the film, which was originally one but split in to two because of length, during the time in which Pulp Fiction was being filmed.

as a conclusion, i'd like to say that tarantino hasn't washed up or anything, he's just one film maker who isn't afraid of doing what the hell he wants. and i don't think anyone can't respect that.

ok, now it seems i've hugged his nuts a little too long. haha.​

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Seems like a pretty reasonable post to me!

 

I just watched Pulp Fiction again the other day- great movie however Reservior Dogs is my favorite over all.