• Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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    25 days ago

    Hot take: Quentin Tarantino is the most overrated living director. His only good movies were Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction. Everything else is a parody of itself (not in a good way) because he just takes scenes from other movies, mashes them together in a nonlinear story, then has everyone die because he doesn't know how to write an ending to the incoherent plot he's spliced together from better filmmakers.

    I also suspect he was buddy-buddy with Harvey Weinstein but managed to slip under the radar because he avoids talking about his personal life.

    • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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      25 days ago

      not really a hot take. he is a technically proficient slop merchant, makes some enjoyable movies but it's laughable when he comes up in the conversation for best american director. Kubrick imo is basically untouchable in that department.

    • UlyssesT
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      17 days ago

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    • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org
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      25 days ago

      he just takes scenes from other movies, mashes them together in a nonlinear story

      What about his camera angles?

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    • peppersky [he/him, any]
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      25 days ago

      it sure is quite something when you watch lady snowblood and realize that tarantino actually means "stealing" when he says "stealing" and that the originals always have a coolness to them tarantino couldn't even dream of

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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      24 days ago

      only thing i like about QT films is the dialogue, characters interact as normal human beings instead of comically stylized dialogue that every damn film does. his dialogue is a breath of fresh air, but damn do i despise the hyper violence that his films have.