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Date Posted: 18:12:36 10/27/05 Thu
Author: Silk
Subject: Me, too.
In reply to: The Rhino 's message, "Don't give Tarantino any ideas" on 18:57:28 10/26/05 Wed

Think he's extremely overrated, and essentially living off the hype of Pulp Fiction. Too look at his films -

Reservoir Dogs - great film, although it's allegedly a copy of some Japanese flick. Tarantino also demonstrates his penchant for letting scenes running far too long in the play-fight Chris Penn and Michael Madsen have. How long did that go?

True Romance - actually not bad (probably because it was directed by somebody else), but draws much from the excellent Badlands with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

Pulp Fiction - I'm not a big fan of this flick. I thiink the dialogue's great, as are most of the performances (Quentin "I don't need you to tell me how good my coffee is" Tarantino aside), but it all seems rather meaningless.

From Dusk Til Dawn - fucking awful, and only partly redeemed by an early George Clooney performance, (and before Clooney demonstrated he only plays Clooney).

Jackie Brown - God-awful, and Tarantino at his slowest in terms of directing. How long does he have to let scenes run?

Kill Bill 1 & 2 - had Tarantino bit the bullet and cut both volumes into one epic film that ran about 150 minutes, he would've had a great flick. But both really illustrate his trademark "I don't want to yell cut." They have their moments, but are too slow.

I'll exclude Natural Born Killers (which was atrocious and) which Tarantino disowned because it'd been changed so much from his original vision.

But, in my opinion, Tarantino really needs to learn to cut and edit. I've read that the hardest thing for filmmakers to do is cut their favorite scenes (when it's essential). Not for Tarantino. He leaves them all in.

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