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Inglourious Basterds
Ikrik:
I cannot stand anything Tarantino has done except Reservoir Dogs. Bits and pieces of other films I like but it's really only bits and pieces. Whenever he puts himself in front of the camera my appreciation for the film stops completely. He has like 4 lines in Reservoir so it's not too bad.
Every time I see him I just get the feeling that he's one of the smuggest film directors out there. It's like he thinks he's doing these absolutely mindblowing films when all he's doing is remaking exploitation films. It seems a large portion of his audience have never seen an exploitation film before. It bothers me that he's very buddy-buddy with Takashi Miike who actually has an insane amount of skill, he hops from genre from genre with such proficiency. Watch Ichi and then watch Zebraman and then watch The Bird People in China.
I just get the feeling from Tarantino that if you got into a serious argument with him about his movies he would scream a bunch of films that you've never heard of before but that he knows and loves. And then he would go home and cuddle with Robert Rodriguez.
Alex C:
I feel pretty much the opposite. I find a lot of Reservoir Dogs to be pretty unwatchable.
beat mouse:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 28 Dec 2009, 15:45 ---I cannot stand anything Tarantino has done except Reservoir Dogs. Bits and pieces of other films I like but it's really only bits and pieces. Whenever he puts himself in front of the camera my appreciation for the film stops completely. He has like 4 lines in Reservoir so it's not too bad.
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Because Hitchcock did it first?
--- Quote ---Every time I see him I just get the feeling that he's one of the smuggest film directors out there. It's like he thinks he's doing these absolutely mindblowing films when all he's doing is remaking exploitation films.
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From every interview I've seen of him, he's talking about his new movie, why he's excited about it, and what he was trying to do with it. This is what we call "being interviewed." There's nothing wrong with being excited about your work.
--- Quote ---It bothers me that he's very buddy-buddy with Takashi Miike who actually has an insane amount of skill, he hops from genre from genre with such proficiency. Watch Ichi and then watch Zebraman and then watch The Bird People in China.
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First implying that Tarantino is not talented, but to follow it up with Miike, who has churned out some unadulterated garbage (example; the 1980s soap opera camerawork in Audition, which is hardly a groundbreaking piece of cinema to begin with) And so my retort would be, watch Reservoir Dogs, Four Rooms, and Kill Bill, (and now Basterds) in that order, and tell me Tarantino has not covered his bases.
--- Quote ---I just get the feeling from Tarantino that if you got into a serious argument with him about his movies he would scream a bunch of films that you've never heard of before but that he knows and loves. And then he would go home and cuddle with Robert Rodriguez.
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My question to this is what purpose would anyone have getting into any kind of altercation with an artist over their work? If your biggest complaint is that his pool of inspiration is something you know nothing about or care to know about, how on earth are you supposed to make this guy give a shit about the things you are saying when you have absolutely no frame of reference? And he would go cuddle with his friend of 20 years, yeah that's quite the personal attack, gg.
I understand not liking someone's work, but your argument is that he sucks because you don't like him, and to bring that up in a thread about his new movie is oddly self-serving. He obviously has a style that he has worked on developing over the last 15 years, but you're not really making much headway here.
Chesire Cat:
The dude's not good terribly good at separating fact from opinion, cut him some slack.
sean:
beat mouse i now think you are pretty much a total douche bag for the way you made that post. its a fucking movie and he doesn't like its director who the fuck cares?
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