Favorite Tarantino Flick? - Page 2

Sarah · #16 05-10-2004, 10:28 PM

k. I like Tarantino. It's Kill Bill all the way. (I've not seen vol2 yet, but.. mmmm.. as soon as I get a night off.) And Pulp Fiction definitely has a special place in my heart. My my, that IS a mighty tasty hamburger.

As far as Natural Born Killers goes, oh hell yes. It makes me cringe so bad, but I love it. There's so much weird crap going on.. I have to appreciate something that twisted. The movies I usually like best are the ones where I root for the bad guy(s).

dissention · #17 05-11-2004, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Lux

Don't you mean you think it's one of the worst? I don't think you can say outright that it is. I love it, if for nothing else, for the fact that he was able to use so many formats and yet the movie still ran smoothly. I think it's quite possible one the better film ever made.

Since when are any of my posts considered fact?

Have you seen the directors cut? Ugh. It's unbearable.

dissention · #18 05-11-2004, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Lux

Yes, I've studied it almost shot for shot. I'm not such a huge fan of the interview with Mickey onwards ie. the jail chaos. Up until then I love it. Just out of curiousity, what makes people hate it so? I know some who do, purely because of the violence, which is rather ironic, considering the intentions of the film. Is it the violence, or perhaps the editing? It's one giant comment on the media which generally gets my attention, plus I'm a film student (or was until I was kicked out just before graduation) and tend to play films frame by frame analysing every composition, edit, and in this case filter and format aswell.

The violence doesn't bother me at all, I just don't like the tone of a lot of Stone films and this one was just ridiculous. I think it's one of the most pretentious movies I've ever watched. Stone took the point of the movie and shoved it down your throat with every shot, then proceeded to bash you over the head with it. And all of the violence and ADD camerawork gets on your nerves after awhile and you lose interest. It was all style and no substance. Unfortunately for Stone, style does not equal good filmmaking. After an hour, it was simply unoriginal, too. There's right way to do satire and there's a wrong way, in my mind, Stone did satire the wrong way. In order to do it right, you have to keep it fresh thorughout the whole movie. He didn't.

I do love Heaven & Earth and Nixon, though. Any Given Sunday was pure garbage, as was U Turn. JFK was alright, nothing special.