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Your Favorite Tarantino Movie?

Reservoir Dogs 6 8.11%
 
Pulp Fiction 34 45.95%
 
Jackie Brown 1 1.35%
 
Kill Bill Vol. 1 12 16.22%
 
Kill Bill Vol. 2 1 1.35%
 
Deathproof 0 0%
 
Inglorious Basterds 9 12.16%
 
Django Unchained 7 9.46%
 
The Hateful Eight 3 4.05%
 
Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair 1 1.35%
 
Total:74
Ruler said:
potato_hamster said:

So just so we're on the same page here paying homage to something is "shamelessly it ripping off" now?

"Quentin Tarantino heavily used this film as an inspiration to Kill Bill. Using the same plot, style, design, setting, characters, and moral. Even during breaks from shooting, Tarantino would even tell his cast and crew to watch Lady Snow Blood to stay in touch with what kind of film they were making."

Seems to me he wasn't ripping it off at all. He's never claimed that the movie wasn't heavily inspired by Lady Snowblood. What more could you ask for?

hes paying way too much homage to this film dont you think?

Kill Bill had a Box office of 180 Million $ while Lady Snowblood which is the better film and the original remains a nieche film, its unjust. Tarantino should give money to the original Japanese creators Hes a bad movie creator and a thief, a lot of people agree with me.

Wow, maybe scale it back to sanity levels.

You sound insulted that a holywood version of a 30 year old japanese film made more money than a small foreign film with a tiny budget, that was released when the industry was smaller and otherwise forgotten. Just get over it. Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid was directly inspired by Snake Plissken, a character in Escape from New York. Does that make Kojima a thief? Of course not.

Tarantino isn't a thief. He made his own version of a japanese movie. He never claimed it was his own idea. He never claimed his script was straight from his own head. He's not hiding behind anuthing. He continuously gave credit where it was due. He never stole anything. In fact he's actually made a special effort to take a lot of the lesser known japanese films that inspired him, and re-release them in the US.

P.S. The fact that other people agree with you doesn't make your statement any more true - it's a logical fallacy. A lot of people agree the earth is flat, but they're still objectively wrong.



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1) Pulp Fiction (one of the best original screenplays of the last 25 years, Sam L. Jackson should have won the Oscar)
2) Jackie Brown (excellent adapted screenplay, gorgeous Pam Grier should have won several awards incl. an Oscar)
3) Reservoir Dogs (another excellent original screenplay)
4) Kill Bill 1 (that's when he started with too many movie references for my taste)
5) Kill Bill 2 (most people think it's inferior, I'm no exception)
6) Inglorious Basterds (watchable, but strongly overrated)

Still not seen yet, but I will some day: Deathproof

Not seen, not really interested in those: Django Unchained, Hateful 8 (trailers look like copy/paste galore, plus: I can't stand Jamie F. and Christoph W.)



1) Pulp Fiction
2) Kill Bill V1
3) Jackie Brown
4) Resevoir Dogs
5) Kill Bill V2

2-5 are all close, sometimes the order might change depending on which I last watched. Not seen any others.



Kill Bill Vol 2: one of my favorite films of all time. I never get tired of watching it.  I love the character development. Takes what was basically a cartoon character and gives her a soul.

Pulp Fiction: a masterpiece. Didn't like it at first because I didn't understand it. Got better upon repeat viewings. It's actually better than KB:V2 but I still like that one more.

Hateful Eight: I love this movie so much! I'd rate it higher but I need to watch it a few more times. My only gripe is that everyone except Samuel Jackson is acting their asses off. Meanwhile, he's just playing himself in Western clothing.

Reservoir Dogs: So much with so little! Dialog makes this movie. It hasn't aged as well due to different expectations but I still watch it at least once a year. Already watched it this year!

Django Unchained: another great film with great performances but gets a little silly at the end.

Inglorious Bastards: Builds amazing tension throughout. The ending..... WTF? Seems like he didn't know what to do.

Kill Bill Vol 1: Good but too cartoony. It set the stage. I liked how, in volume 1, she killed like 100 people. In the second half, though others died, The Bride only killed Bill.

Jackie Brown: I only saw this one when it first released. Didn't really enjoy it as much but I remember it being okay. My least watched of his films.

Deathproof: decent at best. Goes "full retard" at the end. My biggest gripe? Women don't really talk like that!



Wright said:
Ruler said:

hes paying way too much homage to this film dont you think?

Kill Bill had a Box office of 180 Million $ while Lady Snowblood which is the better film and the original remains a nieche film, its unjust. Tarantino should give money to the original Japanese creators Hes a bad movie creator and a thief, a lot of people agree with me.

 

This happens all the time, you can't blame Tarantino for it. Star Wars was inspired (and based) upon Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. Even if the later is, arguably, a better film, the former had better consumer reception, and thus, we've got a whole titanic franchise out of it, while The Hidden Fortress remains as a single movie. It wasn't George Lucas fault, nor he should have had to give Kurosawa money because of it. This is the same scenario with Tarantino.

yeah and what many coincidences? Japanese content creators invent all the things while American/Western film creators steel and reap all the fame and money, there are too many examples.



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potato_hamster said:
Ruler said:

hes paying way too much homage to this film dont you think?

Kill Bill had a Box office of 180 Million $ while Lady Snowblood which is the better film and the original remains a nieche film, its unjust. Tarantino should give money to the original Japanese creators Hes a bad movie creator and a thief, a lot of people agree with me.

Wow, maybe scale it back to sanity levels.

You sound insulted that a holywood version of a 30 year old japanese film made more money than a small foreign film with a tiny budget, that was released when the industry was smaller and otherwise forgotten. Just get over it. Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid was directly inspired by Snake Plissken, a character in Escape from New York. Does that make Kojima a thief? Of course not.

Tarantino isn't a thief. He made his own version of a japanese movie. He never claimed it was his own idea. He never claimed his script was straight from his own head. He's not hiding behind anuthing. He continuously gave credit where it was due. He never stole anything. In fact he's actually made a special effort to take a lot of the lesser known japanese films that inspired him, and re-release them in the US.

P.S. The fact that other people agree with you doesn't make your statement any more true - it's a logical fallacy. A lot of people agree the earth is flat, but they're still objectively wrong.

both characters are not comparable. The one is a warlord making chaos while snake is an agent using stealth. Define foreign? American Hollywood movies are all foreign to me.

I just think people should be more aware of things like these



I only liked Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds. The rest is mediocre.



Pulp Fiction by a landslide, movie's genius. Half of the others, but especially the top 3 (even though I'm not really a fan of the rewritten history in Bastards), are great too. Haven't seen the new one, Hateful Eight, yet so I'll leave that one out here. I won't count From Dusk till Dawn eithet because, well, it doesn't count.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Django Unchained
3. Inglorious Bastards
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Kill Bill Vol. 1
6. Kill Bill Vol. 2
7. Jackie Brown
8. Death Proof

Like I said, haven't seen Hateful Eight yet. After my number 4, I feel quality drops fast and I hated Death Proof (and Planet Terror as well).



Ruler said:
potato_hamster said:

Wow, maybe scale it back to sanity levels.

You sound insulted that a holywood version of a 30 year old japanese film made more money than a small foreign film with a tiny budget, that was released when the industry was smaller and otherwise forgotten. Just get over it. Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid was directly inspired by Snake Plissken, a character in Escape from New York. Does that make Kojima a thief? Of course not.

Tarantino isn't a thief. He made his own version of a japanese movie. He never claimed it was his own idea. He never claimed his script was straight from his own head. He's not hiding behind anuthing. He continuously gave credit where it was due. He never stole anything. In fact he's actually made a special effort to take a lot of the lesser known japanese films that inspired him, and re-release them in the US.

P.S. The fact that other people agree with you doesn't make your statement any more true - it's a logical fallacy. A lot of people agree the earth is flat, but they're still objectively wrong.

both characters are not comparable. The one is a warlord making chaos while snake is an agent using stealth. Define foreign? American Hollywood movies are all foreign to me.

I just think people should be more aware of things like these

Right, so what more is Quentin Tarantino supposed to do besides cite his sources, encourage people to watch it, and go out of his way to get more of this more obscure movies he loves available to audiences around the globe?

I mean he's literally trying to spread awareness of these movies, and here you are calling him a fraud. You're acting like your own worst enemy.



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