(May 4, 2020 at 8:50 pm)WinterHold Wrote:

(May 4, 2020 at 5:11 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Which is it, cut him or break him?

Einstein was a genius.

Tarantino is a purveyor of mediocre movies.

Pulp fiction? Django ? Kill Bill ? face it: the guy provided a very different face to American movies, especially with Django -where he put white people as the main villain-.

Making white people the bad guys isn't unique or original with Tarantino.  All he's done is attempt to revitalize the 'grindhouse' genre.  I'll grant that he does it pretty well, but it comes down to basically being a slightly higher quality of crap.

Boru

(May 5, 2020 at 5:45 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(May 4, 2020 at 8:50 pm)WinterHold Wrote: Pulp fiction? Django ? Kill Bill ? face it: the guy provided a very different face to American movies, especially with Django -where he put white people as the main villain-.

Making white people the bad guys isn't unique or original with Tarantino.  All he's done is attempt to revitalize the 'grindhouse' genre.  I'll grant that he does it pretty well, but it comes down to basically being a slightly higher quality of crap.

Boru

Very true. It's hard to consider Tarantino as "high art". Doesn't stop lots of people from doing that, of course. Lazy thinking.

(May 5, 2020 at 5:55 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(May 5, 2020 at 5:45 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Making white people the bad guys isn't unique or original with Tarantino.  All he's done is attempt to revitalize the 'grindhouse' genre.  I'll grant that he does it pretty well, but it comes down to basically being a slightly higher quality of crap.

Boru

Very true. It's hard to consider Tarantino as "high art". Doesn't stop lots of people from doing that, of course. Lazy thinking.

But the violence is SO realistic!  You know how you shoot someone in the head with a small calibre derringer, and the head explodes like a melon hit by a freight train?  Quentin nailed it.

Boru

(May 5, 2020 at 6:00 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(May 5, 2020 at 5:55 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Very true. It's hard to consider Tarantino as "high art". Doesn't stop lots of people from doing that, of course. Lazy thinking.

But the violence is SO realistic!  You know how you shoot someone in the head with a small calibre derringer, and the head explodes like a melon hit by a freight train?  Quentin nailed it.

Boru

It was soooo realistic they had to convert the Bride's battle with the Crazy 88s to B&W because there was tooo much blood. More that a human body would actually hold. The cartoonishness of "Kill Bill's Willy" makes it fun, but doesn't make it art.

(May 5, 2020 at 6:04 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(May 5, 2020 at 6:00 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But the violence is SO realistic!  You know how you shoot someone in the head with a small calibre derringer, and the head explodes like a melon hit by a freight train?  Quentin nailed it.

Boru

It was soooo realistic they had to convert the Bride's battle with the Crazy 88s to B&W because there was tooo much blood. More that a human body would actually hold.    The cartoonishness of "Kill Bill's Willy" makes it fun, but it doesn't make it art.

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That might be the best assessment of Tarantino's films I've ever heard.

Boru

Bill's a murder pimp and his girls are murder whores. Makes me wonder what his brother's position in this really was.

I could never hang out with Tarantino.
He has such an annoying face and voice, poor bastard.

(May 3, 2020 at 8:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(May 3, 2020 at 7:39 pm)WinterHold Wrote: The British/Irish guy, you mean ? his accent is cool BTW

Yes, that’s what I mean.

Boru

Sorry to risk the resurrection of an old disagreement Boru, but this has to be noted: You've no problem with the title of the Scorsese film "The Irishman" - all about a mass murderer?

(May 5, 2020 at 7:55 am)Editz Wrote:

(May 3, 2020 at 8:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yes, that’s what I mean.

Boru

Sorry to risk the resurrection of an old disagreement Boru, but this has to be noted: You've no problem with the title of the Scorsese film "The Irishman" - all about a mass murderer?

Not a bit of it, since the cases aren’t remotely parallel. Frank Sheeran WAS an Irishman (or at least an Irish American). His mob associates referred to him as ‘the Irishman’. He was a real person and a vicious killer. 

The character in ‘Sin City’ was nothing more than the stereotype of the mad Irish bomber. 

Boru

(May 5, 2020 at 8:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(May 5, 2020 at 7:55 am)Editz Wrote: Sorry to risk the resurrection of an old disagreement Boru, but this has to be noted: You've no problem with the title of the Scorsese film "The Irishman" - all about a mass murderer?

Not a bit of it, since the cases aren’t remotely parallel. Frank Sheeran WAS an Irishman (or at least an Irish American). His mob associates referred to him as ‘the Irishman’. He was a real person and a vicious killer. 

The character in ‘Sin City’ was nothing more than the stereotype of the mad Irish bomber. 

Boru

My bold - I never knew that, kudos. Yeah, very different things, I catch your drift.