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re: Ranking Tarantino's films.. what ya got?
Posted on 12/28/12 at 9:55 am to Carson123987
Posted on 12/28/12 at 9:55 am to Carson123987
Carson, I trust your judgement on movies more than most; would you really pin Django below Basterds and Jackie Brown?
I haven't seen it yet and from everything I am hearing from friends, it sounds incredible.
But, I do have an objective look at films when they come out, though - particularly, because people have short memories when assessing what they watched and contrasting it from past movies; hence, the shortened memory can lead to a heightened and sometimes false sense of superiority with regard to the movie they just watched.
My point is, I know Django is well-worth watching, but what about it (I don't mind spoilers) has you ranking it so low on the totem pole?
I haven't seen it yet and from everything I am hearing from friends, it sounds incredible.
But, I do have an objective look at films when they come out, though - particularly, because people have short memories when assessing what they watched and contrasting it from past movies; hence, the shortened memory can lead to a heightened and sometimes false sense of superiority with regard to the movie they just watched.
My point is, I know Django is well-worth watching, but what about it (I don't mind spoilers) has you ranking it so low on the totem pole?
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Posted on 12/28/12 at 10:23 am to brewhan davey
My list, after 1 viewing of Django:
Inglorious Basterds
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill 2
Django Unchained
Kill Bill 1
Jackie Brown
Death Proof (haven't seen it)
Django was good, but I love those other movies too much to rank it ahead of them. . . at least for now.
Inglorious Basterds
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill 2
Django Unchained
Kill Bill 1
Jackie Brown
Death Proof (haven't seen it)
Django was good, but I love those other movies too much to rank it ahead of them. . . at least for now.
Posted on 12/28/12 at 10:24 am to brewhan davey
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Django below Basterds and Jackie Brown
Definitely below Basterds. Definitely not below Jackie Brown. For me.
Posted on 12/28/12 at 10:48 am to brewhan davey
Driving, hang on bro
Posted on 12/28/12 at 2:19 pm to brewhan davey
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Carson, I trust your judgement on movies more than most
thanks brah
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would you really pin Django below Basterds and Jackie Brown?
Absolutely. Basterds was much, much better in my opinion.
Django was great. It was a very, very fun movie. It just wasn't as Tarantino-y as I hoped. It didn't have the incredible scenes or the clever dialogue as in his other movies.
The humor in QT's movies is, and I don't mean to sound pretentious, hard for the general population to catch on to. For example, I watched Jackie Brown with two buddies and they didn't even laugh at the scene where SLJ puts the guy in the trunk and tells him to pop out. I was in tears, and it was like the 100th time I've watched the movie. It gets me every time. I feel like, knowing who the projected audience was (yswidt), he dumbed down the humor a bit. The laughs came from pretty run-of-the-mill humor, not the clever, quippy writing that we're so used to seeing from Tarantino. My dad is a huge Tarantino fan, and he felt pretty much the same way.
There also wasn't as great a supporting character roundup either. The three characters who were really interesting were REALLY interesting, and the actors did an amazing job. The rest of the characters were pretty cardboard IMO.
It was a very good movie, so don't get me wrong here. It was a blast to sit through. Even though it's at the bottom of my QT Totem Pole, it's still better than any other movie I've seen this year. That's how good QT's filmography is. I do agree that people are raving because they just saw it and it's so fresh and popular right now.
I firmly believe that Tarantino is one of those directors whose movies get better with each subsequent viewing, and Django will be no different. I'm going see it again this weekend.
If you are a fan of Peckinpah's movies, you will LOVE it. There are so many tributes to Peckinpah's work.
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