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My main problem with Tarantino is that every single shot of every single film, and pretty much every scene at that, can be traced to another earlier film. People like to say "oh it's a homage!" Nah, it ain't a homage. Scorcese referencing the lost weekend in taxi driver (the shot with the aspirin bubbling in the glass of water) is a homage. Stealing every shot without a hint of originality of your own is just theft. Plus I'll never forget Mark Kermode pointing out that every character sounds the same is/sounds like Tarantino. Once I heard that it was a "holy shit so they do!" moment.
Don't get me wrong Pulp Fiction and so on are enjoyable but is he as brilliant as everyone seems to think? Fuck no.
Fuck him. Hack.
Edit:And if anyone throws that Picasso line of great artists stealing I will hunt you down and stab you.
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Down with this sort of thing.
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