What was the last movie you've seen?

[BurningDoom]

I'm not a Tarintino fan. There's far too much focus on violence and brutality, and not enough on story, IMO. I know that's the point, it's just not for me. However, I do have one exception: I REALLY liked the first From Dusk Till Dawn movie.

[Jmustang1968]

I'm not a Tarintino fan. There's far too much focus on violence and brutality, and not enough on story, IMO. I know that's the point, it's just not for me. However, I do have one exception: I REALLY liked the first From Dusk Till Dawn movie.

I can understand not liking a Tarantino movie. However, you saying you don't like them because of to much violence yet like From Dusk Til Dawn is doesn't make sense to me.

[8bit]

I'm not a Tarintino fan. There's far too much focus on violence and brutality, and not enough on story, IMO. I know that's the point, it's just not for me. However, I do have one exception: I REALLY liked the first From Dusk Till Dawn movie.

I can understand not liking a Tarantino movie. However, you saying you don't like them because of to much violence yet like From Dusk Til Dawn is doesn't make sense to me.

I'd have to agree since Dusk Til Dawn has the least story of all his movies and is pretty damn in your face violent.

[BurningDoom]

I'm not a Tarintino fan. There's far too much focus on violence and brutality, and not enough on story, IMO. I know that's the point, it's just not for me. However, I do have one exception: I REALLY liked the first From Dusk Till Dawn movie.

I can understand not liking a Tarantino movie. However, you saying you don't like them because of to much violence yet like From Dusk Til Dawn is doesn't make sense to me.

I'd have to agree since Dusk Til Dawn has the least story of all his movies and is pretty damn in your face violent.

I'm a big horror fan, so that has a lot to do with it. And I like a good rack, which there's many in that movie.

And I'm not against violence or brutality in a movie, at all. It just seems to me that Tarintino adds excessive brutality and violence to his films just for the sake of adding it. In Dusk Till Dawn it at least made sense because they were bloodthirsty vampires.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Kill Bill is okay. I like to think of both movies as one thing... but I definitely think the second movie is significantly better. Overall though, I can think of several revenge stories that I would put above it. I don't see myself ever revisiting it. I would rather watch one of the movies it is emulating.

My favorite Tarantino movie is Pulp Fiction. I haven't seen any of his "new" stuff (anything past Death Proof, not even sure how much else he's done by now).

I can't stand death proof. I went in thinking 'oh it's Tarantino, how can he do anything under superb'. Came out thinking 'well, there's a first for everything'.

My problem with Death Proof is that Tarantino spent so much time on setup, I forgot Kurt Russell was in the film. I considered it the weakest part of Grindhouse, after the constant action of Rodriguez's Planet Terror followed by all of those rapid-fire trailers. I know he's known for his dialogue and his "everyone sits around a table and talks pop culture" shots, but I think he missed the mark by including such a scene in the film and embracing his personal style as opposed to the grindhouse film style he was supposed to be emulating.

I think we've had this discussion in this thread before, but I continue to point out that, in the carsploitation genre, long scenes of shit that doesn't have anything really important going on between car scenes is pretty much how they work. Now, Death Proof is a bit worse in that aspect, but I like it because it has the Tarrantino vibe to it.

[brunoafh]

I've been avoiding Django because I kept hearing about a "horrific dog scene" or something, and I really just can't stomach stuff like that even if it's fake. Then I heard that the scene is dogs eating some guy, so now I can watch it without having to worry.

As for Tarantino violence, I don't think he overdoes it really. Most of his shock moments are delivered in a situational manner rather than excessive gore. That's not saying his movies aren't often very violent, but I would say for the most part his stuff is far from just being random senseless violence.

[Forlorn Drifter]

If you have issues with things like the dog scene, then yes, I would probably avoid the movie. That scene is pretty graphic.

[brunoafh]

Well I meant that I had been assuming the dog scene I was hearing about would be one depicting animal gore or abuse, which would deter me from watching the movie. But apparently the scene is of dogs eating some guy, which wouldn't bother me.

Unless you mean there is in fact a graphic animal scene as well.

[Ack]

I think we've had this discussion in this thread before, but I continue to point out that, in the carsploitation genre, long scenes of shit that doesn't have anything really important going on between car scenes is pretty much how they work. Now, Death Proof is a bit worse in that aspect, but I like it because it has the Tarrantino vibe to it.

We have, yes. But looking at the carsploitation genre, with films like Death Race 2000, Vanishing Point, Gone in 60 Seconds, and Mad Max, I never forgot what those films were about. With Deathproof, I did. That's why I don't find it effective.

And the "Tarantino vibe" is not enough to make me enjoy a film. I love Reservoir Dogs not because it's Tarantino, but because the actors brought their characters to life in ways I genuinely enjoyed. Madsen's Mr. Blonde is psychotic and terrifying. Buscemi's Mr. Pink is frantic and paranoid. Keitel's Mr. White is intelligent and reasonable, almost fatherly. I feel like I get to know these characters over the course of the film, and this is because the actors do such a phenomenal job, not just because the film has a certain feel.

I prefer Inglourious Basterds to Kill Bill Vol. 1 at least partly because I prefer the performances of Pitt, Waltz, Fassbender, and Laurent far more than Thurman, Liu, Hannah, and Caradine. I also think it's a far more interesting film because of how it evolves into an exploitative revenge fantasy over one of the largest atrocities committed in the 20th century. By creating a film in which a Jewish US soldier murders Adolf Hitler, Tarantino entered a fascinating place, entirely revisionist and interested in violent revenge not for a single person but for an entire people. Kill Bill is a single person's kung fu/chanbara revenge fantasy. In some ways, that one scene in Inglourious Basterds is one for everyone affected by Nazi perpetuation of the Holocaust. Now I have yet to see Django, but if I ever get around to it, I'll be interested in seeing how Tarantino shapes this idea concerning blacks in the pre-Civil War South.

[MrPopo]

Well I meant that I had been assuming the dog scene I was hearing about would be one depicting animal gore or abuse, which would deter me from watching the movie. But apparently the scene is of dogs eating some guy, which wouldn't bother me.

Unless you mean there is in fact a graphic animal scene as well.

I think this is kind of funny, that a dog being mutilated by a man is horrible for you to watch, but a man being mutilated by a dog is ok.