Quentin Tarantino, yay or nay?

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction are classics and these shouldn't be forgotten. Inglorious ******** has grown on me more and more, but to be honest his style is a little bit over-ripe now. It's a bit all-knowing and self-aggrandising. I haven't seen Hateful Eight because actually it looks quite dull, even from the trailers and that's never a good sign. I haven't seen Django yet which is quite annoying. I think after Kill Bill I sort of lost any sense of excitement about his films.
 
Always looked forward to see what he has on offer. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are great, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill V1 are good and the rest (haven't seen Hateful Eight) are ok.
 
Yay.

Love Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown; liked most of his other stuff, although wasn't keen on Kill Bill or Death Proof. Even the stuff I wasn't super keen on had some great music and dialogue but maybe not quite the relatable/likeable characters.

Missed Hateful Eight at the cinema unfortunately, combo of things including the whole Cineworld thing.
 
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Yay to some of his early films - nay to most of his more recent ones.

Yay : Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction and to a lesser degree Natural Born Killers and True Romance which he both wrote.

Nay : The rest from what I've seen.

For me he's been like a directing alter-ego of Jim Carey. Fun, fresh and exciting in the beginning as the genius in his madness unfolded, but after seeing the same format spewed out over and over again as time went by I simply found myself wanting to punch him in the face repeatedly.
 
Seen all of his movies and in my opinion most are brilliant. Death Proof being an exception. That movie was dreadful. Also, I wasn't bowled over by the Kill Bill movies either but they were ok. One of my favourite Tarantino films is True Romance. He didn't direct it but he wrote the script. That scene with Denis Hopper and Christopher Walken is movie gold.
 
Like a few others in this thread, I've gave up on Django long before it ended. I liked all the stuff preceding that and KB Vol1 is right up there as one of my favourites.
 
Well... QT has a lot of talent, creativity and skill, which is very well presented in a great many of his films. I totally get what he's doing most of the time and commend him for achieving it, fully recognising the genius behind it.

I just tend not to actually enjoy what he does.

There are a few such artists and performers whose work I utterly despise, yet can still appreciate the talent exhibited. Tarantino is definitely one of those.
 
Pulp Fiction is a cinema masterpiece one of the greatest movies of all time. Its up there with the Goonies & Starwars.
 
I've never been a huge fan. His films just come off as masturbatory fantasies with excessive gore, or just trying to be edgy for the sake of it, and I don't find the whole "little small conversations about nothing" schtick particularly compelling either.

If you're a fan of Reservoir Dogs, do yourself a favour and watch City On Fire starring Chow Yun Fat.
 
QT has a mixed bag but his bad stuff is better than a lot of directors good stuff.

Don't get me wrong, pulp fiction is no highlander, but it's pretty good! :D
 
Mr Blonde said:
Yay to some of his early films - nay to most of his more recent ones.

Yay : Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction and to a lesser degree Natural Born Killers and True Romance which he both wrote.

Nay : The rest from what I've seen.

For me he's been like a directing alter-ego of Jim Carey. Fun, fresh and exciting in the beginning as the genius in his madness unfolded, but after seeing the same format spewed out over and over again as time went by I simply found myself wanting to punch him in the face repeatedly.
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Bang on the money for me.
 
See, I don't understand why Reservoir dogs is so popular, his worst film. Shortly followed by Jackie brown.
Kill bills and inglorious are good
Hateful eight, pulp fiction and django are all masterclasses.
 
Theres only been 1 QT film i wouldnt want to see again and that was Death Proof. All the other films he's had anything to do with have been highly entertaining with clever dialogue. Dusk till dawn, true romance, jackie brown, kill bills, django, resivour dogs, pulp fiction, planet terror, inglorious and hateful 8 i could watch over and over. Samuel l jackson has been exceptional when working with QT, love the chemistry there.

I do understand not everone likes over the top gore, but its a film, not real life!
 
Smeghead said:
His films just come off as masturbatory fantasies with excessive gore, or just trying to be edgy for the sake of it
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Much of that seems to be homages to/in the style of other films or film genres (often little-known cult stuff) and if you don't get the references, I find it does come across as just weird and silly... I don't get everything, but enough has been pointed out that I was able to 'get it'.
Still not much to my taste, but credit where due, IMO.
 
Smeghead said:
I've never been a huge fan. His films just come off as masturbatory fantasies with excessive gore, or just trying to be edgy for the sake of it, and I don't find the whole "little small conversations about nothing" schtick particularly compelling either.

If you're a fan of Reservoir Dogs, do yourself a favour and watch City On Fire starring Chow Yun Fat.
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You sir, win the Internets!
 
Glaucus said:
See, I don't understand why Reservoir dogs is so popular, his worst film. Shortly followed by Jackie brown.
Kill bills and inglorious are good
Hateful eight, pulp fiction and django are all masterclasses.
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I saw Reservoir Dogs when it came out 24 years a go and watched it again in the late 90s too I'd guess. I doubt it would hold quite as much sway for me now as it did back then but I suspect I'd still put it in the 'good watch' category. For me and probably a lot of other people out there there's always been a couple of constants that will help to slow or occasionally stop a film from becoming an also ran relatively quickly, those being the script and the acting in them. Personally speaking here, I'm not convinced that the Hateful Eight and Django would hold up to scrutiny as well as Reservoir Dogs would in another twenty plus years time going on those two facets and maybe some others too.
 
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