wHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE tARANTINO FILM?

JudasMonkey

So this is my second time to post this accedently posted it in Literature me beings a newbie and all i got confused.anyway so along with Curbick and Hitchcock tarantino is my favoutite directior/writer born to this earth he's great my favourite film of his is Pulp Fiction it is more than just any old flick it is unique and different it hold more to it than just violnce and drugs it is deep and a true classic of the 90's. tel me your favourite film of his or if you dislike him i'll be glad to argue

ixoy

My favourite film of his is Quentin Tarantino's "Full Stop - Grammar Wars".
Of the others, it's hard to say. "Pulp Fiction" is a tad over-rated. That's not to say it's not any good - it is - just not quite the seminal classic it's lauded as. I think then, for myself, it's the gritty massacre that is "Reservoir Dogs" - snappy dialog, minimalist sets, and a spot of the old ultra-violence.
Having said that I reserve the right to change my mind upon viewing "Kill Bill - Volume II" which, if it matches the quality of the first installment, will be my new favourite.

JudasMonkey

i must agree, Kill Bill is fantastic Tarantino hasn't let me down yet i dont expect him to either as in the word of the great man himself "When i direct my films i direct them right" Sorry couldnt put in the hard jestturs:D

Gillie

R. Dogs aswell.
Pulp Fiction was class but I enjoyed Dogs more.
Dialogue was A1. Madonna Scene!:D

UnrealQueen

Resevoir Dogs.

Makaveli

Jackie Brown.

MrPinK

I'd have to go with Reservoir Dogs too (suprise suprise), but they've all been fantastic. Eagerly awaiting Kill Bill Vol 2.

watman

Resevoir Dogs

Emboss

Tough choice.....


Pulp Fiction.

User45701

The Best movie i have ever seen in the cinima was Kill Bill volume1.
Its also the best or 2nd best movie i have ever seen. (Kill Bill and matrix fight a constand battle for No.1) I have seen both over 30 times

smoke.me.a.kipper

pulp fiction.

kill bill vol2 might make kill bill my favourite.

Mossy Monk

i really liked the bit he directed in 4 rooms. good film in total btw. Tarantino directed the last quarter of it

lodgepole

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
i really liked the bit he directed in 4 rooms. good film in total btw. Tarantino directed the last quarter of it

Half a good film.

Jackie Brown is the most watchable of his films IMO... I think I probably watched Pulp Fiction too much when I was younger, though when I do watch it now, I really enjoy it.

echomadman

Jackie Brown is the only one I can still watch thanks to dumb fucks ruining all teh other ones by quoting and misquoting them all teh fucking time.

Hopefully the same wont happen to Kill Bill but tbh, I can't see that happening.

"I need Japanese steel" doesnt quite have the same quotability as "a royale with cheese"

MisterAnarchy

Pulp Fiction is the best by a country mile.
The other 3 dont even rate to be honest.

gandalf

Jackie Brown followed closely by True Romance !!

Gandalf.

Tarantino is the most overrated film maker of all time. He merely recycles other peoples ideas.

Franky Boy

jackie brown,and yes i do agree that pulp fiction is quite overrated!!!!!!!!!!

byte

Pulp Fiction tbh

Ebony

true romance by far [PHP]ps by writing this i am making a statement not a mistake....... think about it![/PHP]

Ebony

Originally posted by Darko
Tarantino is the most overrated film maker of all time. He merely recycles other peoples ideas.

well put

catsup

tarantino really knows what hes doing. reckon pulp fiction was my fave until kill bill vol.1 came out. cant wait for closure on that one, so unless the second volume goes completely pear-shaped its gonna be kill bill.

Gillie

True Romance was directed by Tony Scott.
Quentin wrote the screenplay.:)

MrPinK

Originally posted by Darko
He merely recycles other peoples ideas.

When I'm watching a film I don't really care where the ideas come from, just that I enjoy the end product. Bottom line is he makes good films. Can't act for **** though.

When I'm watching a film I don't really care where the ideas come from, just that I enjoy the end product. Bottom line is he makes good films. Can't act for **** though.

Waht I should have said is that Tarintino takes a film and rewrites it. Take City on Fire for example. Reservoir Dogs is identical in almost all aspects. His screenplay for Natural Born Killers was a direct lift of Badlands, it was Oliver Stone who wrote most of what you see on screen.

Tazzle

I quite liked Four Rooms, interesting movie And yes, I know he only directed the last scene.

Capt'n Midnight

Way over rated.

El Mariachi - better than the remake (but Salma and Buscemi are worth watching in it)
Dusk till dawn - mainly cos no one else mentioned it and Salma's there again.

Be interesting to see Pulp fiction in chrolological order to see how well it stood up without the novelty value - but not interesting enough for me to put it in order.

lodgepole

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
El Mariachi - better than the remake (but Salma and Buscemi are worth watching in it)

Quentin had nothing to do with El Mariachi.

projectmayhem

kill bill is pure class.. can't wait for volume 2

superfly

what films is he involved in

the ones i know about are

Directed

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Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Four Rooms (1/4)
Kill Bill 1+2

Wrote

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True Romance
Killing Zoe
Natural Born Killers???(not sure about this one)

Starred in

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Destiny turned on the Radio (or something)
From Dusk Till Dawn
Little Nicky

lodgepole

He executive produced Killing Zoe.

He wrote the original screenplay to Natural Born Killers, though the finished film differs greatly in style and slightly in story.

jonno

Originally posted by Darko
Waht I should have said is that Tarintino takes a film and rewrites it. Take City on Fire for example. Reservoir Dogs is identical in almost all aspects.

Isn't that what is done with every movie. There are only eight basic stories after all. After that every writer just takes his own take on it.

His screenplay for Natural Born Killers was a direct lift of Badlands, it was Oliver Stone who wrote most of what you see on screen.

Actually the credited writer is David Veloz. Oliver Stone directed so you are right in one way that what you see on screen was Stone's work, but he did not write it for the screen.

As for me Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Reservoir Dogs are my favourites. Jackie Brown was pretty decent too.

Still waiting to see Four Rooms which is being recommended to me by anyone I know who has seen it.

Isn't that what is done with every movie. There are only eight basic stories after all. After that every writer just takes his own take on it.

But most films have some original ideas.

Cake Fiend

Four Rooms is woeful.
As is Natural Born Killers, but we have Stone to blame for that.

krattapopov

ok i think pulp fiction is a class film

however i really dont like kill bill, wasnt impressed at all; but i have alot of friends whose opinions i respect do like the film, so ill probably go and see kill bill 2. It might make me reconsider my position on part one, but im not holding my breath

lodgepole

Originally posted by Sico
Four Rooms is woeful.

I've always felt it was half a woeful film... One quarter average (Tarantino's section) and one quarter stunning (Rodriguez's section).

jonno

Originally posted by Darko
But most films have some original ideas.

Most of them can be traced back to one of the eight stories. What makes a film original is how original the creators take is on the stories!! As in mixing them together or taking the original idea and making it mean something different - whatever the writer takes from the story.

Hope that I made sense there I'm even lost

Okay just watch City on Fire, it stars Chow Yun Fat and is directed by Ringo Lam. Then watch Reservoir Dogs. Try and find any differances.

Terminator

Kill Bill - can't wait for Vol 2. Hope it doesn't disappoint.

nadir

Ok, well I get alot of crap for my opinion on this but i stick by it, I think hes crap basically.

so it looks like its this way

Directed

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Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Four Rooms (1/4)
Kill Bill 1+2

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He Calls em Tributes, I call is unorigional tripe

Ok so what do we have here, as Darko said Reservoir Dogs rips off scenes from City on Fire (big time afaik) amongst other flicks.

I mean he kinda just must watch loads of asian films and make notes, oh thats cool ill put a bit of that in my next film, like I mean kill Bill (which surprisingly i thought was crap too) whats he done, ok so katana's , a plot of revenge, the chick from battle royale dressed up in a kinky japanese school uniform with a ball and chain(ok so I havnt seent that before , but if she had a katana She may aswell have been saya from Blood the last Vampire). What else, a half chinese japanese yakusa leader with issues about her heritage, erm ok, almost sure Ive come across that too at some stage. And then we have the anime sequences thrown in, ok so they look nice, I wonder how hard it was to pay some animators to do all that.
Argh, he just frustrates me.
I guess Jackie Brown was origional enough, but I didnt really like that either. I found it kinda uninteresting or something. Just not my type of flick I guess.

Karl Hungus

Actually, Nadir... Kill Bill is just as much of a rip off as Reservoir Dogs, expect this time he ripped off Lady Snowblood. Even took some of the very same shots from it, and the whole thing with chapters, and the yellow subtitles was taken from it also.

I just think it's sickening he gets away with it.

I mean he kinda just must watch loads of asian films and make notes, oh thats cool ill put a bit of that in my next film,

Which is exactly what Tarintino did for Kill Bill. Hes admited that he spent a year watching loads of Asian films.

What worries me most is that when I do film in uni I'll get some twat who believes that Tarintino is the savoir of cinema.

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by Darko
What worries me most is that when I do film in uni I'll get some twat who believes that Tarintino is the savoir of cinema.

Thankfully, that's never come up at my course.
I think once you get into films in general, you realise that Tarantino is just a hack.

The Phenom

Naa Pulp Fiction is my favorite its so brilliant. Kill Bill is pretty good to though.

Thankfully, that's never come up at my course.

May I ask where you are studying film?

exiot

Originally posted by Darko


What worries me most is that when I do film in uni I'll get some twat who believes that Tarintino is the savoir of cinema.

He's not?

I though Kill Bill was ace, I cant wait for Vol II, and when the DVd comes out

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1 Pulp Fiction/Kill Bill vol. 1
2 Reservoir Dogs
3 jackie Brown

they're all great films, but that's my list. and yes, i think kill bill is as good as pulp fiction.

avatar

Originally posted by jonno
Isn't that what is done with every movie. There are only eight basic stories after all. After that every writer just takes his own take on it.



Actually the credited writer is David Veloz. Oliver Stone directed so you are right in one way that what you see on screen was Stone's work, but he did not write it for the screen.

As for me Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Reservoir Dogs are my favourites. Jackie Brown was pretty decent too.

Still waiting to see Four Rooms which is being recommended to me by anyone I know who has seen it.

tarantino actually did write natural born killers, but when the film was finished he was so disgusted with the changes that he asked them to take his name out of the credits.

nadir

Well at least there are a few of us here with the same opinion. I mean I dont know much about film, but from the few asain movies I have seen, it seems that he has robbed an unbelevable amount. I can ony guess the magnitude of his plagiarism should I continue watching more and more hong-kong / Japanese flicks, which would seem to be the way my taste in movies is going.

Terminator

AngelWhore and Nadir please remember that this is a discussion about favourite Tarantino films. If memory serves me correct Angelwhore already started a discussion outlining why he dislikes Tarantino - please continue your discussion there as us fans really don't care for your opinions which you are perfectly entitled to.

Karl Hungus

I was going to say "The ignore button is there" but you are right, Terminator... And that would be rather muppety of me.

So, I'd say Pulp Fiction was my favorite.
It's easily the least derived of his works.