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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
As a young college student we would watch our VHS of reservoir dogs and True Romance, and we got to know and love Tarantino, who made movies without all the fluff shit added by standard filmmakers, focusing more on dialogue and well framed character acting.
Pulp Fiction blew everyone's mind. I did not "like" it in the theater, but it was because i was so busy trying to determine how he was telling the stories and did not pay attention to the stories. Watching it again and again on VHS at home was awesome.
Jackie Brown was not what anyone expected and is an amazing film. Nothing in it was predictable.
However, when I saw Kill Bill, I found it very "standard" in it's tropes and story, but it was amazing visually. KIll Bill 2 I find extremely boring to this day. I ahve seen it thrice and each time I get bored and find myself wishing it did not exist, as it undercut all the excellent tension and dread created by the first one. I saw it as KBI being Tarantino's mashup of asian cinema, while KBII was his mashup of american cinema. american cinema is far more boring.
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Well, it's been a while since I last saw it. I remember being ever so slightly bummed that it wasn't "good" in the way his previous films were, and that it was more of a "is this good, or is this dumb? Is it both?"
Of course it's both. It's good and really dumb. And it lumps together odes to all these disparate kinds of revenge and hero stories, and it doesn't have any kind of consistent tonal flow to it. But I still think it's just great. I think it works. I'm not sure if feel that way now, but last time I saw it, as a film-watching experience, it still kind of blew me away.