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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Mar 26, 2018 13:58:20 GMT
Best - Kill Bill (I treat it as one volume) Worst - Hateful 8 was the one I enjoyed least.I guess I don;t like movies, no matter how beautifully shot, that have characters that are indeed hateful. It's funny that you mention how well shot The Hateful Eight is and that is actually my least favorite aspect of the film. The script and performances are what make the movie good imo. I don't see it as all the characters being hateful and a couple of them aren't even THAT bad, such as Samuel L. Jackson's character. The only characters that are absolute horrible people are Jennifer Jason Leigh and her gang and Bruce Dern's character. The other characters certainly aren't good people but they all have redeeming qualites. Kurt Russell's character may be brutal to his prisoner but she isn't exactly a good person or anywhere near being a good person for that matter. The 3 main characters are written as 3-dimentional human beings imo and that is what makes them so interesting and watchable. The whole point of the ending is how the racist and the African American have to team up and even start getting along to a certain extent. Another reason the movie is able to pull this off is because it is all done in a satirical way. The script and the performances are fine. It's the story that sucks. I think it is a testament to the script that so many people can find their level of redeeming qualities in people that have none. Samuel L. Jackson's character is truly despicable and the story itself is so slight to not even have a way to redeem themselves- just a bunch of lowlifes all deserving the death penalty stuck in a blizzard trying to survive. Maybe the stagecoach driver is the most fleshed out person I feel sorry for but I don't think he is a part of the Eight. |
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Mar 26, 2018 14:05:50 GMT
Best:
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Worst:
Death Proof
He started out great, but began the downhill slide after JB...the Kill Bill saga was pretty solid, but after that he started his descent into standard revenge flicks that would start strong but by the end devolve into silly, over-the-top gore. He's basically become a self-indulgent man-child.
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Post by tastytomatoes on Mar 26, 2018 15:34:00 GMT
Best:
Inglourious Basterds
Worst:
Kill Bill: Vol 1
Haven't seen Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol 2 and Death Proof.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Mar 26, 2018 18:48:05 GMT
There hasn't been a single Tarantino movie that I have not enjoyed.
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Post by drystyx on Mar 26, 2018 20:24:54 GMT
Tough for me, because I consider all Tarantino to be from 3/10 to 6/10. Not terrible, but definitely not good.
I think a lot of people are like me, willing to put up with Tarantino's "hatefulness", because he is so ready to lampoon that very hate. He knows it's a demon, and he's willing to tell us it is. In fact, all the movies I've seen of his are obviously making fun of the Beavis and Butthead lunatics who think that such hate is "cool".
I'll give PULP FICTION the edge, because if you edit out the two dull obnoxious hit men scenes, it's pretty funny. The over the top pawn shop scene works great, and reminds us all of that one kid who would turn any make believe situation into such a scene.
Also, PULP was a story of kids growing up in the early seventies, imagining the world of the mid nineties when they'd be young men. We get the mix of sixties imagery with the nineties over and over, often in subtle ways. The make believe world the kids imagine is one where everyone is either a gangster, a boxer, or some other such over the top sort.
The worst, I'll give that to THE HATEFUL EIGHT, but again Quentin is really making fun of the Hollywood cliché of killing all the likable characters first so you are forced to choose either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton to root for.
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Post by mslo79 on Mar 30, 2018 7:19:34 GMT
Best: Pulp Fiction (1994)(9/10)
Worst: Death Proof (2007)(3/10) (although Inglourious Basterds (2009)(4/10) is close)
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