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I liked Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
I liked Hateful Eight until a point and then it got dumb.

Kill Bill and Inglorious Bastards my faves even more than the one he’s most known for, Pulp Fiction.

[ousdahl]

lol yea.

I saw Django Unchained in theaters with my gf at the time. She was made uncomfortable by it, and, eventually asked to leave (I think the dog scene is what did it). I remember thinking Jamie Foxx sucked, seemed like each line was being read off the script for the first time, just wasn't vibing with the role. Years later, I learned Tarantino wrote the part for Will Smith, who turned it down. Seemed long, and as soon as I thought it was finally reaching some climax, enter another hour of Tarantino's cameo as an Australian cowboy.

Recently saw Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Seemed to take forever and just kinda wander, but I'm pretty sure the entertainment is less in the story and more in the dialogue and stuff, plus lots of easter eggs. And just lighter on the clever one-liners and funny exchanges that movies like Basterds and Kill Bill are good for. (those are his best two). I thought the flame thrower in the pool was stupid (just go under the water!), but maybe there's some earlier joke about that I missed. Was kinda creeped out by Tarantino sexualizing the fuck out of the underage hitchhiker. The one part that made me LOL was the acid cigarette, which all along ended up being nothing more than a plot device to set up the "are you real" joke.

I think there's one other? Hateful Eight? I just remember a long ass wagon ride where I think Kurt Russell keeps beating the shit out of some bloodied up girl. Or something. Then a lot of hanging out in a cabin, but I don't remember much else. Am I thinking of the right movie?

[Mjl]

I liked Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
I liked Hateful Eight until a point and then it got dumb.

Kill Bill and Inglorious Bastards my faves even more than the one he’s most known for, Pulp Fiction.

Django and Bastards were basically the same movie

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Yea. Agree.
Basterds came first right?

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Django sucked balls
Inglorious wasn't very good
Hateful 8 sucked balls
Kill Bill sucks balls
I like pulp fiction, though its been 20+years since I've seen it
I liked reservoir dogs when I saw it 20 years ago, but ive never watched it again.


What else did he make. So far I kean towards I really dont like his movies
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[Mjl]

Yea. Agree.
Basterds came first right?

Yep

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Kill Bill rules.

[TDub]

eh. not my thing i guess. I watched it, hated it. Maybe ill try again someday.

[MICHHAWK]

his movies are too long.

[jfish26]

(Not replying to anyone in particular.)

I think about this essay a lot.

https://deadspin.com/how-wile-e-coyote- ... 1752248034

[Shirley]

(Not replying to anyone in particular.)

I think about this essay a lot.

https://deadspin.com/how-wile-e-coyote- ... 1752248034

Very interesting. Long, but interesting.

Tarantino is a national treasure, and Pulp Fiction is one of the best movies ever made.
Thankfully, we can all agree on that.

(Especially if you cut out the part with Bruce Willis and his French girlfriend.)

[KUTradition]

how can you not love Butch and Fabien?

[Shirley]

how can you not love Butch and Fabien?

You mean, "Blueberry Pie", Butch's nickname for her?

That scene was too smarmy for me.

Also, she was Portuguese, not French.
#mybad

[KUTradition]

how can you not love Butch and Fabien?

You mean, "Blueberry Pie", Butch's nickname for her?

That scene was too smarmy for me.

Also, she was Portuguese, not French.
#mybad

i always presumed French

[Shirley]

how can you not love Butch and Fabien?

You mean, "Blueberry Pie", Butch's nickname for her?

That scene was too smarmy for me.

Also, she was Portuguese, not French.
#mybad

i always presumed French

Proof all Europeans look and sound alike.

[Overlander]

Django sucked balls
Inglorious wasn't very good
Hateful 8 sucked balls
Kill Bill sucks balls
I like pulp fiction, though its been 20+years since I've seen it
I liked reservoir dogs when I saw it 20 years ago, but ive never watched it again.


What else did he make. So far I kean towards I really dont like his movies
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How about True Romance?

[jhawks99]

I didn't like Django at all
I thought Hateful 8 was pretty good although way too long and slow.
I have mixed feelings on Inglorious Basterds. The opening scene is one of the best ever. Brad Pitt's scenes are good. I wasn't into cartoonish nazis though.
Never saw Kill Bill way too long for my attention span.
Pulp Fiction is jeenyus.
Reservoir Dogs is very good too.

[Overlander]

The nod to Birth of a Nation scene in Django was hilarious

[ousdahl]

never heard the take that Django and Basterds were the same movie.

One is taking storytelling liberties of historical revisionism to fuck up nazis. I, at least, find that more entertaining than taking storytelling liberties of historically way-too-accurate depictions of slave violence and racial slurs. Gross.

But sorry, that's maybe too woke or whatever.

so how about this take instead:

one introduces us to the brilliance of Cristoph Waltz, as a clever multi-lingual double agent military officer; along with Brad Pitt at his over-the-top character-actor best, as a plays-by-his-own-rules special forces redneck. The other movie basically reprises Waltz as a very similar character, but now as some kinda...frontier dentist? It also treats us to one of Jamie Foxx's worst roles, as the wannabe Fresh Prince. I guess that's a fancy way of saying brilliant casting for Basterds, but more meh casting for Django.

And I hear reservoir dogs is good, but but never been able to get all the way through it. Too many stressful bloodbath sorts of scenes, or something. And, maybe it's that it's hard to tell where the movie's going? It starts out with a bunch of doods in suits bullshitting about leaving a tip at a coffee shop, then goes straight to some bloody dood having a panic attack in a car. Still not sure what that movie's about.

Contrast that with Kill Bill, where you know right away the movie is about killing Bill. It's right there in the title! Or, in Basterds, you're introduced right away to the sneaky Jew hunter and the Jewish chick who looses her family, which does a better job of setting the stage for the rest of the movie, and is wonderfully suspenseful so as to engage the viewer right off the bat, rather than expecting you to just sit there listening to some shit about how Donny doesn't tip.

Either way, it's kind of a shame that "Tarantino to direct his final film" headlines don't also coincide with anything along the lines of, "Kill Bill 3."

oh, and dark horse candidate for goat Tarantino: Death Proof.

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The Fablemans.
Eh.