Has anyone seen this? It was briefly in the theaters and is dropping today on streaming as a rental. I was curious if it was worth it.

For the record, I'm not a Tarantino fanboy. He has some good, some bad, and some average like everyone else. That being said, Kill Bill or Django might be his finest works. Pulp Fiction is up there and probably more influential but Kill Bill and Django are just brilliant.

15 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Has anyone seen this? It was briefly in the theaters and is dropping today on streaming as a rental. I was curious if it was worth it.

For the record, I'm not a Tarantino fanboy. He has some good, some bad, and some average like everyone else. That being said, Kill Bill or Django might be his finest works. Pulp Fiction is up there and probably more influential but Kill Bill and Django are just brilliant.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is pretty f'in great too.

5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is pretty f'in great too.

I'd agree with that but I wouldn't put it up there with the other three. It's a great rewatch and a great movie, though.

I just don't care for Reservoir Dogs, Hateful Eight, Inglorious Bastards, etc.

Reservoir Dogs gets a pass because he did that first on a shoestring budget. And it's got some iconic scenes. It's also relatively short compared to his other movies. Only saw Hateful Eight once. Thought it was good. I enjoyed Inglorious Basterds.

I hear Jackie Brown is terrific though I've only seen bits of it here and there over the years.

The extended Kill Bill is just Part 1 and Part 2 combined in one 4+ hour movie, right?

3 minutes ago, WBT said:

The extended Kill Bill is just Part 1 and Part 2 combined in one 4+ hour movie, right?

Yes, plus there was some new animation scene, if I recall which added 15 minutes or so, which helped tied the two versions together.

5 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

I'd agree with that but I wouldn't put it up there with the other three. It's a great rewatch and a great movie, though.

I just don't care for Reservoir Dogs, Hateful Eight, Inglorious Bastards, etc.

Man. I think Inglourious Basterds is his best film.

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. When in the fuck is his next movie coming out?

Very different film makers, but Nolan made Oppenheimer and The Odyssey in less than 4 years. QT’s last movie while an instant classic, was released in 2019. What has been working on for the past 7 years?

26 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

Man. I think Inglourious Basterds is his best film.

Yea this thread it wild. Hateful 8 might be his only movie that isn’t legitimately great. IB is an all time great. Just a remarkable movie.

4 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. When in the fuck is his next movie coming out?

Very different film makers, but Nolan made Oppenheimer and The Odyssey in less than 4 years. QT’s last movie while an instant classic, was released in 2019. What has been working on for the past 7 years?

He has the cliff booth movie this summer that he wrote and Fincher directed. I wish he would just ditch his stupid 10 movie thing though and make shit.

5 hours ago, Pablo said:

Yes, plus there was some new animation scene, if I recall which added 15 minutes or so, which helped tied the two versions together.

O-Ren Ishii’s animated back story is extended to tie up loose ends. It was definitely worth a trip to the theater for me because I didn’t see the original releases in theaters for some reason.

7 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Yea this thread it wild. Hateful 8 might be his only movie that isn’t legitimately great. IB is an all time great. Just a remarkable movie.

He has the cliff booth movie this summer that he wrote and Fincher directed. I wish he would just ditch his stupid 10 movie thing though and make shit.

This.

the self imposed 10 movie thing is so dumb and serves no purpose.

6 hours ago, C-Man said:

Reservoir Dogs gets a pass because he did that first on a shoestring budget. And it's got some iconic scenes. It's also relatively short compared to his other movies. Only saw Hateful Eight once. Thought it was good. I enjoyed Inglorious Basterds.

I hear Jackie Brown is terrific though I've only seen bits of it here and there over the years.

Jackie Brown is the one I didn't think I liked and, upon rewatch, absolutely loved it. It's only sin was following Pulp Fiction and my being a dumb 20-something when it came out. It might be #3 for me after Pulp Fiction and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Since this is now the QT Appreciation Thread, I'll go ahead and nominate Pulp Fiction as the most influential film of all time. Maybe not in cinematic history, but definitely in HornOnTheBayou history.

It was my first R-rated movie to sneak into. Apparently, the ticket takers at the mall cinema weren't carefully scanning IDs. But the time jumps, the humor, the dialogue, the music, everything blew me away. It was like the first time I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. Just the moment of "This is completely different than anything I have ever experienced before"

So let’s he only makes 10. What film would we want to take back to get an additional film?

• I think most would rank The Hateful Eight last. Still a great movie, just up against steep competition. Django is the better film and it’s also a Western. Hence, my nomination to strike Hateful Eight from the record.

• I believe he’s said before he wanted to release Kill Bill as a 4+ hour movie, but he was talked out of it. He could reasonably argue he’s only made 8 films. I hope he pursues this logical path and we get 2 more.

• Does the long rumored Star Trek movie count? Has the franchise become so hopelessly irrelevant that he doesn’t want anything to do with it?

I hope his people have other jobs. Waiting for the genius to start working on anything other than the Cliff Booth script would be frustrating.

I was too young to see the original in theaters, so saw the whole bloody affair in 70mm theatrical when it showed a few weeks ago. Worth the price of admission just for the coffin scene. Holy shit.

1. Inglorious Bastards

2. Pulp Fiction

3. Hollywood

4. Jackie Brown

5. Kill Bill(s)

6. Reservoir Dogs

7. Django Unchained

8. Hateful 8

9. Death Proof

6 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

So let’s he only makes 10. What film would we want to take back to get an additional film?

• I think most would rank The Hateful Eight last. Still a great movie, just up against steep competition. Django is the better film and it’s also a Western. Hence, my nomination to strike Hateful Eight from the record.

• I believe he’s said before he wanted to release Kill Bill as a 4+ hour movie, but he was talked out of it. He could reasonably argue he’s only made 8 films. I hope he pursues this logical path and we get 2 more.

• Does the long rumored Star Trek movie count? Has the franchise become so hopelessly irrelevant that he doesn’t want anything to do with it?

I hope his people have other jobs. Waiting for the genius to start working on anything other than the Cliff Booth script would be frustrating.

You are forgetting death proof, buddy. He’s already at 10 if you count both Kill Bills.

He was already into preproduction on The Critic but decided he didn’t want that to be his final film. Since he’s starting over from scratch, it will be 3-4 years before we see a movie if we’re lucky.

12 hours ago, BingoDinoDNA said:

O-Ren Ishii’s animated back story is extended to tie up loose ends. It was definitely worth a trip to the theater for me because I didn’t see the original releases in theaters for some reason.

Man, Lucy Liu with those freckles in that movie worked.

i swear i'd heard that there was a fight scene in austin in an early script but now i can't find anything about that online.

Saw Pulp Fiction at Riverside Theater when it was released in October 1994. The same month Shawshank Redemption was released. And a couple of weeks later Tom Petty's Wildflowers came out on CD. That was a damn good couple of months in college.

Pulp Fiction was obviously a phenomenon and I can clearly recall friends who absolutely loved it and some who loathed it.

Personally I like all his movies and my biggest nit to pick with him is the use of the over the top blood squirting thing subsequent to Kill Bill. Feels squeezed in and hacky in later movies.

PF, RD, JB, KB1 at the top

The others(still high regard)

Death Proof at the bottom, admittedly only watched once and have never had any desire to watch again.

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1 hour ago, field said:

Saw Pulp Fiction at Riverside Theater when it was released in October 1994. The same month Shawshank Redemption was released. And a couple of weeks later Tom Petty's Wildflowers came out on CD. That was a damn good couple of months in college.

I had to go see Schindler's List for a class in college. While at that theater, Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction were also showing. The last room had some movie I'd never heard of called Shawshank Redemption.

Young people today don't even know what they lost.

11 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

I was too young to see the original in theaters, so saw the whole bloody affair in 70mm theatrical when it showed a few weeks ago. Worth the price of admission just for the coffin scene. Holy shit.

1. Inglorious Bastards

2. Pulp Fiction

3. Hollywood

4. Jackie Brown

5. Kill Bill(s)

6. Reservoir Dogs

7. Django Unchained

8. Hateful 8

9. Death Proof

You are forgetting death proof, buddy. He’s already at 10 if you count both Kill Bills.

Django needs to be rated higher. If I needed to pick a movie about slavery, this would be it even over Twelve Years a Slave. There are numerous GREAT actors in this movie working a clinic. Candy and Big Daddy are deliciously evil characters and DiCaprio and Don Johnson seemed like they had a great time.

Also, I knew a guy once who named his dog Django. I laughed. "DJANGO!!!!!"

3 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

I had to go see Schindler's List for a class in college. While at that theater, Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction were also showing. The last room had some movie I'd never heard of called Shawshank Redemption.

Young people today don't even know what they lost.

We used to make shit in this country

14 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

He was already into preproduction on The Critic but decided he didn’t want that to be his final film. Since he’s starting over from scratch, it will be 3-4 years before we see a movie if we’re lucky.

I wonder how much of that script makes it into cliff booth

I've got Jackie Brown as my number one. The music, the era, the mall, the Robert Forster. It's all in there, man.

I may be one of the few who doesn’t care for PF and Django, have never watched RD completely. Always has a great soundtrack and the over the top violence is fun.

Jackie Brown

Hollywood

Basterds

Are my top 3.

I feel like Pulp Fiction has now somehow become underrated.

We rented Reservoir Dogs freshman year at college after hearing buzz about it. There wasn't really dialogue like that in mainstream movies and then the use of soundtrack and song and violence. You could tell he was working to tie together all possible elements of film, ratcheted up to 11.

Which hit full force with Pulp Fiction. That was just mind-blowing back then. It was more like a ride you had to hang on for dear life. By the end you were practically sweaty and delirious.

For lack of a better word it was incredibly "cool" and went on to redefine cinematic visuals, style and language.

The back-to-back-to-back trio of Reservoir Dogs, True Romance and Pulp Fiction is still a remarkable and rarely seen influential collection of work.

I just want to make sure we give Tony Scott his credit for True Romance.

And Patricia Arquette’s tits.

16 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Django needs to be rated higher. If I needed to pick a movie about slavery, this would be it even over Twelve Years a Slave. There are numerous GREAT actors in this movie working a clinic. Candy and Big Daddy are deliciously evil characters and DiCaprio and Don Johnson seemed like they had a great time.

Django is really good. But I think all the movies the Reynolds listed are superior to Django. That's how good QT is. His third worst movie is fucking fantastic.

I saw The Whole Bloody Affair in theaters (I think I put it in another thread), as I probably hadn't seen either one straight through in 20 years. It still fucking rips. I would try to avoid your phone while watching (which I know is hard for all of us in this age). Sitting with it for 4+ hours is a lot of fun.

Yes, there is one additional scene in the O-Ren Ishi animations, but nothing else.

Back in 2006, mdmost and I were lucky enough to see Tarantino's personal Cannes print of The Whole Bloody Affair at the original one screen Alamo Drafthouse. Tarantino was there and did an intro and ended up sitting in the row right behind us (laughing louder than everyone else). That was during the time when he was in Austin filming Grindhouse/Death Proof. In fact, we watched as Kurt Russell walked into the theater, looked around and took the first available seat he saw next to people. Then someone came up to him to let him know he had a seat reserved for him. I remember they had a film crew recording audience members as they were leaving for bonus content to be included on an "upcoming" home release of both films cut together. Turns out, that was 20 years in the upcoming. I wonder if that footage will end up in home release.

I love all Tarantino films but Kill Bill is my personal favorite for all of its easter eggs and references to older movies, shows, etc. (and which led me previously to go down the rabbit hole of checking out all of them that I hadn't previously seen). If you are a uber-nerd fan of the movie (like me), you should look them up....as there are far more than the obvious ones everyone notices.

3 hours ago, Red Five said:

I feel like Pulp Fiction has now somehow become underrated.

People either don't know, or don't recall, what a game changer that film was.

2 hours ago, BingoDinoDNA said:

I just want to make sure we give Tony Scott his credit for True Romance.

The 4k transfer of True Romance is amazing, if you have a player and a nice TV.

My roommate and I saw Pulp Fiction on opening night at the Arbor (IIRC, there were two theaters right by each other). We were so blown away we went and saw it the next night again. The only movie I can remember seeing in the theater back-to-back nights was The Matrix.

26 minutes ago, Deej said:

The 4k transfer of True Romance is amazing, if you have a player and a nice TV.

I just got the 4K Arrow UK release. Haven’t fired it up yet, but even the packaging is awesome.

11 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

I just got the 4K Arrow UK release. Haven’t fired it up yet, but even the packaging is awesome.

That's the one.