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From dusk till dawn isn’t technically a Tarantino movie
The first half of it is, before he hands off to Rodriguez. Hell, he's even in it for crissakes.
What about tarantinos other movie, ‘natural born killers’.
Surely a contender for "best usage of soundtrack in a film ever" for the moment Woody makes his escape and RATM kicks in. I saw that film at the cinema and the entire theatre basically went Team America "**** YEAH!"
Rest of the actual film was brilliant. Loved it.
Yeah I'd broadly agree with that.
And the scene with the voice-over recap is terrible. Snip that and it's fabulous.
Love: 8, Basterds, OUATIH, Dogs, Pulp, JB, True Romance (yeah I know)
Not great: Django, KB, Death Proof
Django was so nearly great but goes on and on on a very clumsy fashion.
I'm with Kermode; he's gotten too indulgent in his latter films at the expense of quality and tightness.
Still - Pulp Fiction utterly changed Western cinema.amd is pretty much timeless.
Don’t think I’ve watched “Once upon a time in Hollywood” yet so I’ll give it a try later.
Watched Once Hollywood tonight for the first time, the ranch scene with Pitt was like the start of Inglurious where the terror and menace ramps up. Was laughing my head off when Rick came out with the flame thrower (that I'd spotted earlier when Pitt fixes the aerial). Needs a bit of Google time and a few more watches to fill in the details.
Solid 8.5/10
Quentin Tarantino = The Emperor's new clothes
I mean I'm not his number one fan, but pulp fiction is the defining film of the 1990s and was released 27 years ago
That's hardly emperor's New clothes territory.
His films have taken close to $2bn, is suspect that wouldn't happen if he was ENC.
Admittedly nearly all his films are A Day at the Races with swearing.
I mean I’m not his number one fan, but pulp fiction is the defining film of the 1990s
I thought the defining film of the 90s was Trainspotting.
"I thought the defining film of the 90s was Trainspotting"
Defining in the UK maybe, though as a film it's a bit of a re-tread of Goodfellas, (as was City of God).
EDIT:
Goodfellas has a good claim to being the defining film of the nineties, (released in 1990 iirc, kicking off the decade).
Tarrantino's skill is in taking the kitsch and making it poetic. His films are about his own obsession with film, not just the good ones but the bad ones too. We don't so much goes onto his world as much as he comes into ours, mining our our brains' hard drive for all the trash we have absorbed on and through the screen over our lifetimes.
With the jump cuts and endless cultural reference hes reminds us just how much of our experience of reality is tied up with synthetic images and storylines.
His films were memes before memes became a thing.
Goodfellas might be the better film, but it's more a refinement of Scorsese's individual output than an era-defining piece of work. IMO.
Trainspotting might be just as accomplished and inventive as PF, but it's huge success was still a fair bit smaller and more UK centric.
From my perspective, which is subjective obvs, PF was more formally innovative and the fact that it could be dismissed as superficial cleverness was kind of the point. It was pure entertainment.