Quentin Tarantino

Update: The last of his films that I enjoyed was Jackie Brown. I particularly liked its lack of artiface. He's inclined to say "Look at me!" when directing. In Jackie Brown he was more content to just tell the story - probably due to the quality of the source material, an Elmore Leonard novel, and the casting of a seasoned actors like Pam Grier, Robert Forster and Robert De Niro who don't need directorial pyrotechnics to make the screen come to life. Samuel L. Jackson, while compelling to watch in this film was simply reprising roles he has played before.

His recent films the Kill Bill sisters, Inglorious Basterds and his latest one amount to self parody of his film signature and are discounting his legacy.

Original 3/30/2006: He seems like a giddy teenager who snuck into a strip club with fake ID. The fact that he loves what he's doing shows on the screen. I hope he tries his hand a something a little different than Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction/Jackie Brown/Kill Bill next time out. Maybe a revival of an old MGM musical. I read that he wanted to go back and make James Bond films that were true to the Ian Flemming books. That would have been interesting.

This rating is based on Quentin Tarantino's movie, "Django Unchained"

I knew that Quentin Tarantino movies had a reputation for being vulgar, violent and gritty. These kinds of movies are not my thing anymore so I was strongly opposed to seeing this movie even at the pleading of a good friend that it was worth seeing. When I read that Spike Lee criticized this movie and made comments against it, that was the moment when I knew I had to see it.

Typically Quentin Tarantino movies are a bit too much for me but I had to see what made Spike Lee critical of this film. Spike Lee is a African American movie producer who spent years writing and producing racially themed movies like "Jungle Fever" with a depiction of every race of people from whites, blacks, Asians, Latino's using racist words on one another and acting like they all came out of a southern plantation. How could Spike Lee of all people say a white guy's movie on racism was disrespectful? I had to see what all the fuss was about especially coming from Spike Lee. There are certain people who have a hard time understanding Tarantino's quirkiness.

Sure enough Tarintino was true to form. The movie had over the top scenes of extreme violence, and the use of the Ni---ger word to boot, even in places when it was not needed. With that said, I never felt Tarantino was being racist or glorying in those who are. I think he most likely wanted to make an over the top lasting impression on the horror, brutality and senselessness of racism and the slavery it produced in all it's gore, ugliness and violence.
Tarintino is a movie Shock Jock and anyone buying a ticket to see his movie should be aware of this before seeing his films then getting all worked up.

Rumor has it Will Smith turned this role down then Jamie Foxx ended with this lead role.

There is also a real funny scene on the sheet wearing KKK that scored a big laugh. The move in a nutshell is Django is an ex-slave who teams up with a German-born legitimate bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz to catch the evil, murderous band of slave torturing, white guys who are cast as relatives ( brothers). The lovely Kerry Washington plays Jaime's wife he is trying to find after she was sold in in the slave trade. Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the owner of "Candyland plantation. He played a convincing part as a brutal famous plantation owner that is Oscar worthy.

The movie bought out the worst in every character. Like Martin Luther King once said you can't keep a man down without getting down their with em. Everybody in this movie got down, dirty and ugly. I rated it great because it should be a reason to end the ugliness of all racial hatred if it leads to behavior as depicted in this movie. Leave Quentin be.. he made a noteworthy point in Django Unchained.

While some of his stuff is much better than others,he still kicks the ass of the majority of "Directors" working today.He might not compare to the giants,but they're almost all dead or retired. His best stuff is brilliant.

He's really hit or miss with me...

There are a couple of movies that I do like, however there are a couple that I would prefer to watch paint dry and be more entertained....

He's really hit or miss with me...

There are a couple of movies that I do like, however there are a couple that I would prefer to watch paint dry and be more entertained....

Uneven doesn't even begin to cover it. Sometimes you can't look away and sometimes you actually feel like yelling for someone to turn that shit off...

Tarantino proves that all that you need to make good movies is observational skills, focus, good perception, vision and drive. He crafted his basic skills by working at a video store for years, carefully noting every scene in every movie he saw. Pulp Fiction created an entire (or recreated) a new genre of action movies, revitalized the career of John Travolta, and put Samuel Jackson on a new level. Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Inglorious Basterds, are all great movies. Stylish, inventive, slick and polished movies that are always entertaining are just some of his trademarks. He doesn't always hit the mark, but does always manager to not be boring to say the least. And in the age of cheap knock-off redundant movie-making, that is saying a lot.

I don't understand why some people think he's some sort of genius. His movies range from completely screwed up to just plain bad. When I finished watching Pulp Fiction I just sat there and wondered what the hell I'd just seen. I recently tried watching Death Proof, but it was so bad I stopped watching it about half way through. The Kill Bill movies looked so bad I didn't even bother watching them.

I've seen him enough interviews to come to the fair conclusion that's he's a complete knob.  Take away the blood letting and his films are bereft of plot, characterisation, genuine thrills etc. My guess is if he wasnt in the movie business he'd be a serial killer.

This weirdo has given us some spectacular cult films- Dogs, Fiction, Kill Bill, and Jackie Brown- he does a great job of packaging pop-art into some slick filmmaking. . .

his 15 min ended with pulp fiction (and that film wasn't all that good to begin with)

If Quentin Tarantino had died shortly after directing "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) and "Pulp Fiction" (1994), my guess is that he would have gone down as the great wonder of his generation in film. While these two movies were obviously violent, none of it was really gratuitous and the situations felt genuinely disturbing (as opposed to what was done with his screenplay of "Natural Born Killers"). These films appeal to me due to Tarantino's nonlinear stories and his setting the tone with dialogue rather than action. Nevertheless, he quickly lost his way with films like "Jackie Brown" (1997) and "Kill Bill" (2003/2004). There are few movies that I put on my "must see" list due to the director, and Tarantino used to be one, but no longer resulting in three stars. Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born March 27, 1963 in Knoxville.

This guy is bad. I still can't believe all the kudos that "Pulp Fiction" gets from critics and movie reviewers. That was pure blood splatter trash. I was with a group or I would have walked out early. I chatted with patrons as they left and most were astounded how bad this flick was. The rest of Tarantino's product is just as unmemorable. Is anyone going to state that "Reservoir Dogs" or the "Kill Bill" duo is any kind of art other than slash and splatter?

Sucks

A complete geek who's clearly trying to make up for his nerdiness by making gratuitously violent, pointless and nasty little films.

Pure Genius! I love every one of his movies, He is truly an original. There is no Director out there that comes even close!

Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece that is actually studied by critics and film students, thats how far that film has made it. Reservior Dogs was made with hardly any money and it's a classic. Tell me someone else that could have done the Kill Bill movies and made them as authentic as they were

One good movie - Pulp Fiction. The rest are forgettable or bad.

his films are hysterically funny, well written and have memorable characters. mr. tarantino is a brilliant director but he has still made too few movies to be compared with the best directors of this era or any other.

Consistently edgy and creative, Tarantino has developed a directing style that is all his own. Combining an artistic skill that pushes the envelope, he uses everything to his advantage when directing a film- music, narration, daring and fluid camera angles. While his films may not be for everyone, you can't deny Tarantino's touch.

He's fine. Entertaining with the excessive use of the word (expletive).

He is probably the worst director to ever hit Hollywood...just awful ! One must only view a few of his ridiculous movies to truly understand what I am talking about....and if the movie is good too someone, it certainly isn't because of the director...(Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, etc)....

I only like Kill Bill

Way better than average. Good narrative skills, edgy and pushes the artistic envelope. Not enough work yet to determine his range of skills.

Jury's still out. "Reservoir Dogs" has been his best film, yet that entry was pretty derivative. "Pulp Fiction" was a ridiculous disappointment. "Jackie Brown" was a waste of film. "Natural Born Killers" was a good script, but "True Romance" missed the mark. I've been generally unimpressed with this guy, so I never bothered to see "From Dusk..." From what I hear, I didn't miss much.

Sure, Quentin is a wonderful producer and film writer, but as a director, his resume is incredibly thin. "Pulp Fiction" was a great film, but what else has he done that is really great as a director? Too bad that he chose to capitalize on his success with "Pulp Fiction" by pursuing an acting career rather than a directing career.

The only reason he didn't get a 5 was because the man refuses to make more movies. His movies to date are phenomenal, aside from his acting in From Dusk to Dawn. But seriously, where has this guy been lately!!

How does he do it? Quentin Tarantino can make a movie that will leave you stumped for a couple of weeks (or more). He is brilliant, period. There is a definite link to my admiration of Quentin Tarantino: I am also a big John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Deniro fan, and each of these actors has been in at least one Quentin Tarantino movie. He truly has a signature to his movies, the out of order scenes and meaningless conversations that are actually clues as to what the whole movie is about...it almost makes too much sense. Not to mention, he always manages to mix some humor in to the brutal scenes. I am so intrigued by Quentin Tarantino, where does he come up with this stuff? What's running through his mind? If he's able to transfer these perplexing concepts on to a movie screen, that is pure talent.

Other than Pulp Fiction, he hasn't really done anything that impressed me. And that film was seriously flawed too. The part where they go to his house because they shot a kid in the back of the car??? Come on, they had been shooting people all over the damn place and all of a sudden they get worried about the cops, so they CONVENIENTLY go to Tarantino's house in the movie to CONVENIENTLY give himself a part in the movie, and he can't act anyway! This made the movie unnecessarily long and a little tedious in the middle. They should do a NON-director's cut and cut him out.

Highly stylized and cool on the surface

Where in the world is Quentin Tarantino? I don't understand! He proved himself to be a genius (not ordinary, run-of-the-mill genius, but Orson Welles-type genius), but it seems that alas like Welles, his flame burned too bright and too fast and just disappeared! By God, I hope that's not so! This is the writer for movies like True Romance and Natural Born Killers; and the director for movies like Resevoir Dogs (my personal favorite) and Pulp Fiction. I hope the world hasn't seen the last the last of Tarantino and his colorful violence! It wouldn't look good for the man who has his own adjective: Tarantino-esque!

"Pulp Fiction" was a great movie. Do you remember how hot Tarantino was after that movie hit? People were talking about him like he was a genius. And his earlier movie "Reservoir Dogs" ensures that he's not a one-hit wonder. But what else has he done? "Jackie Brown"? Ugh. And please tell me what possessed this guy to start acting? You'd think someone intelligent enough to direct "Pulp Fiction" would know better than to take a crappy part in "From Dusk Till Dawn."