How many memorable lines in Pulp Fiction? How many memorable lines in Reservoir Dogs?? How fun was Kill Bill Vol.1? If you look at Tarantino's filmography, you pretty much have a peek interest in diving into world cinema.. Before Tarantino, I had no knowledge of Hong Kong Cinema/Shaw Brothers/Spaghetti Western/Italian crime films, none of it and it was because of Tarantino's movies in high school that pretty much gave me some perspective and acknowledgment in subtitle films worldwide, damn I'm old... The pop culture references/ the snappy dialogue, the soundtrack to all his films are influential and I bet almost all the up and coming filmmakers that came out in the 90s wanted to copy Tarantino style... It's because of tarantino that I have a wide taste in cinema today... Is he a hack because none of his films are original?? Then again define original in art, some things are bound to copy other things and it sucks that Tarantino will retire after Django???Again if it wasn't for Tarantino I wouldn't be this deep in cinema or even cared for... Thoughts??
He's one of those directors where after watching his films, you would go seek out other movies in that genre or what influence it??? Maybe I'm dick riding Tarantino a little too much, no???
He made Pulp Fiction. If Tarantino did nothing else during his career, I'd call him a great writer/director. Yeah, the lunatic is a genius.
Revisiting Pulp Fiction again, damn it's so good... That Vincent Vega and Marcelles Wallace Wife bit is vastly underrated...
Genius, but mostly because he studied Asian cinema and incorporated the best points into his work. True Romance is vastly underrated because of all the hype Reservoir Dogs and Pulp got.
I'm not a fan of most of the stuff he's done lately, but Rushmore and The Royal Tannenbaums are quite good.
True Romance starts off awesome, but after a while it gets a little too silly IMO. I did like it better than Reservoir Dogs, though. Also really liked Jackie Brown.
Reservoir Dogs did not get much hype at all when it first came out. it only lasted one week in Houston. It didn't get "hyped" until after Pulp Fiction, from my memory.
True Romance, written by Tarantino & directed by Tony Scott, was an electrifying film. For that alone, he's a genius, in my book. Gary Oldman delivers a classic performance as Drexl, the ruthless, inner-city pimp ("You must've thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?"), and the legendary dialogue between Walken & Hopper about Sicilian ancestry is an all-time favorite of mine.
GOLD. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/S3yon2GyoiM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
People also forget that he wrote From Dusk Til Dawn and Natural Born Killers. Indecently, Tarantino has stated that he hates Oliver Stones NBK but loves FDTD. He's wrong. NBK is infinitely greater than FDTD. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p7_Z1nyKbNw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Jackie Browns is his best film. Bar none. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M6PTAf5zL_4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
