Chula Vista

Jackie Brown rocks for one simple reason.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

Remember that one with the train? Just like it was coming right at the audience! People were running out of the theatre, it was really something.

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Frownland

Sun Choke

That was unsettling and sadistic as ****.

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Justthefacts

Among the rest of the film. But yes friend, especially when Deniro mows her down in the parking lot.

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grindy

He didn't rewrite ****.
He took a bunch of stuff from mostly 60s/70s movies and condensed it into easily digestible form for the modern crowd. Fun and well done, sure, but surely nothing too special. He isn't half as clever as dumbasses who are confused by the slightest deviation from linear storytelling would make one believe. And the shtick with all that 'coolness' and the contrast of violence and crime with mundane themes and dialogues gets a bit tiresome pretty fast.

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djchameleon

I hear people rattle off that opinion all the time but they never go into why or I just straight up disagree with their why.

So I'm going to ask you.

Why do you think it isn't great?

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

Frownland

The characters are really flat.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more had I seen it when it was released in theaters as the double feature, but I didn't and because of that whenever I watch it kind of comes off as a novelty piece. Don't get me wrong, I like the move, I think I gave it a 7/10 on imdb, but it just doesn't measure up to Tarantino's other films in terms of dialogue or characters. My favourite part about Tarantino films are the characters, i.e Vincent & Jules, Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, Brad Pitt & Cristophe Waltz in Inglorious Basterds, etc. etc. I feel that Deathproof lacks that same sort of dynamic cast, even though I do usually love me some Kurt Russell.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

Damn, somehow Frownland took what I said, turned it into one sentence, and ninja'd me.

****ing ***got.

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Chula Vista

That's one terribly jaded way to look at it. The other is to recognize the vast number of films that were directly influenced by his style in the wake of RD and PF. The number of awards the dude has gotten. And the acclaim he's been given by his peers and the industry regarding his influence. I'll side with this guy on QT.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”