MicShazam

The bit about why he was technically a legit space pirate was great,

The Batlord

Oh god yes. And "I'm gonna science the **** out of" line was just perfect.

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Chula Vista

I read the novel before seeing the movie and was worried that they were going to hack it up. They nailed it.

Best line of the movie?

"They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So, technically, I colonized Mars.

In your face, Neil Armstrong!"

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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.”

Cuthbert

Watched Pulp Fiction last night. A shit film.

MicShazam

Not too big a Tarantino fan in general and I remember thinking Pulp Fiction was just sort of passable. Jackie Brown is his best movie since it's the only one where the characters don't feel cartoony.

Cuthbert

It's the second one I've attempted, after Reservoir Dogs. Got bored of both about an hour in.

MicShazam

I like Inglorious Basterds and Jackie Brown. That's about it of all the one's I've watched, which is most of them. His style just doesn't appeal to me at all. It's like he's trying way too hard to make the characters and dialogue edgy and cool. I can't get into the stories he tells - his style keeps me at an arms length so I usually don't care about the characters at all.

djchameleon

He is a fellow foot worshipper. Watch his other films and be on the look out for little scenes where he highlights them. I do that bust out laughing every time. The two Kill Bill movies and Deathproof are my faves. I have to re watch Jackie Brown to see if there was any foot worship going on.

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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.

Paedantic Basterd

I'm a huge Tarantino fan, but that said, I think Tarantino gets better with time. I'm not a huge fan of his early pastiche stuff, but I think he's brilliant when he puts a linear story together.

For me, the appeal of Tarantino is how he humanizes his antagonists in a world that is otherwise highly stylized and hyper-realistic. Tarantino's villains are often the most realistic aspect of the entire story, protagonists, violence, and plotlines be damned.

Any one of his antagonists could easily be found outside in our world, because they're normalized people with concrete, human motives. This is in contrast to the vast majority of movie villains who are often motivated by some sort of vague, illogical desire to destroy the world.

My take on his use of violence is not that it's there to be edgy, but that it's there to lampshade society's perverted love/hate relationship with violence. We're so frightened of it and we admonish it vehemently, but we also DEVOUR it in every aspect of our free time, from video games to sports to film to TV. We're obsessed with it, and for me, it's like Tarantino is taking that interest in violence and wryly ramping it up exponentially as if to say "this is what you wanted, isn't it? Isn't it? ISN'T IT?".

Also, he's a brilliant director, even if you can't get behind his stories.

Chula Vista

Liked Jackie Brown the first time just because I wanted to see how it played out. Got bored and bailed the second viewing. I can watch Dogs, Pulp, and the Bill movies over and over again. Style over substance? Sure.

Not that's there anything wrong with that. Plus he writes some of the best dialogue ever.

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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.”