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Would anyone like to see Quentin Tarantino do something different? He seems to have got stuck in a rut making bubblegum violence movies. I didn't like Kill Bill, and felt I'd seen everything in his box of tricks. Maybe he could try an art movie, for a change of pace.
Quote: Bad dog @ June 2 2009, 5:09 PM BSTWould anyone like to see Quentin Tarantino do something different? He seems to have got stuck in a rut making bubblegum violence movies. I didn't like Kill Bill, and felt I'd seen everything in his box of tricks. Maybe he could try an art movie, for a change of pace.
I'd definitely like to see him do something different. And I think the first Kill Bill was okay, but he dide seem to be treading water somewhat. Then again, how many big directors manage to sustain a long-term career? Most seem to fizzle after a while.
I think the greatest talents are those who are able to vary it a bit. At one point after Pulp Fiction, Tarantino was talking about making a small movie, a romcom. I don't know if that morphed into something else, but one gets the feeling that his version of such a project would be True Romance. I'd like him to go for something outside his comfort zone now.
Quote: Bad dog @ June 2 2009, 5:22 PM BSTI think the greatest talents are those who are able to vary it a bit.
Maybe he's just not that great a talent?
It's possible. There are those who say that his greatest stuff was written by Roger Avary.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a157938/mtv-confirms-eminem-cohen-prank-staged.html
Eminem has a better sense of humour than anyone gives him credit for shocker.
Quote: zooo @ June 2 2009, 10:48 PM BSThttp://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a157938/mtv-confirms-eminem-cohen-prank-staged.html
Eminem has a better sense of humour than anyone gives him credit for shocker.
...Still a cock.
Agreed
LOL!
Quote: Bad dog @ June 2 2009, 5:42 PM BSTThere are those who say that his greatest stuff was written by Roger Avary.
They would be wrong though, it seems to generally be said by people who don't like him and don't want to give him the credit he deserves as a writer. I've enjoyed all Tarantinos films so far, to varying degrees, but agree it would be nice to see him do something a bit different, like P.T. Anderson did when he came out with 'There Will Be Blood', or Aranofsky with 'The Wrestler'.
You could also argue, of course, that he already has done something a bit different, with 'Jackie Brown'. Yes it was gangsters who all spoke like Tarantino characters, but it was also quite a bit more 'grown up'(ugh) and emotional than the kind of thing he's more known for. The relationship between Brown and the bail bondsman was really quite touching and well drawn.
He's certainly taken a turn for the more cartoonish since then though, so it would be nice to see him tackle something a bit more weighty again.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 3 2009, 9:09 AM BSTThey would be wrong though, it seems to generally be said by people who don't like him and don't want to give him the credit he deserves as a writer. I've enjoyed all Tarantinos films so far, to varying degrees, but agree it would be nice to see him do something a bit different, like P.T. Anderson did when he came out with 'There Will Be Blood', or Aranofsky with 'The Wrestler'.
I think Paul Thomas Anderson is a much more talented director, along the lines of a young Martin Scorcese, and therefore better equipped to bounce off in different directions. And Aranfosky has always been a very interesting director, right from his first weird film, Pi, through to loony oddball stuff like The Fountain.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 3 2009, 9:09 AM BSTYou could also argue, of course, that he already has done something a bit different, with 'Jackie Brown'. Yes it was gangsters who all spoke like Tarantino characters, but it was also quite a bit more 'grown up'(ugh) and emotional than the kind of thing he's more known for. The relationship between Brown and the bail bondsman was really quite touching and well drawn.
Agreed. This was a great film, possibly because it was one of his few adapted works? And fair play to the pointy-chinned tit, he is one of the few directors to do Elmore Leonard justice.
Quote: chipolata @ June 3 2009, 9:49 AM BSTAnd Aranfosky has always been a very interesting director, right from his first weird film, Pi, through to loony oddball stuff like The Fountain.
Well quite, yeah, he was quite a frenetic, oddball, cold film maker, who then, with 'The Wrestler', produced a more emotionally involving, I suppose, drama. I love 'Pi'. And pie.
Love P.T. Anderson too, though I have to say I wasn't as bowled over by 'Blood' as I was expecting. It was actually a bit of a letdown. Love, love, love Magnolia and Punchdrunk Love though.
I saw a trailer for that on TV earlier. Was that Sam Tyler's dad I saw in it?
Think it might be, yes. 