If you see one Tarantino movie have you "seen them all" ?

[GreatGazoo]

Which Tarantino movie is this:

5 to 8 guys talk tough, banter like "Seinfeld" and wear skinny black ties. They jointly commit some crime which goes wrong then they spend the balance of the movie in a safe house arguing, torturing some guy and posturing.

Answer: all of them

I finally saw the much hyped "Reservoir Dogs" the other night. Well part of it. Only the acting saves it from being a student film that rips off every mafia movie cliche' in service of a who-cares-who-dunnit plotline. A movie inspired by prior movies with no ring of truth or nuance (and no women). Every character seems to go on rants like George from Seinfeld and Steve Buscemi is the same character he play in every film (but the Coens do more with it).

Hollywood loves Tarantino because he is bankable but I find his films to be some combination of boring artifice and Tarantino's disturbing, semi-repressed love of B&D sexuality.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Haven't watched a Tarantino movie in years....

been there, done that. Passed on the T-shirt, too.

[The Second Stone]

2. Jackie Brown is a more traditional movie made by Tarantino

and less an homage to other films. But it is an action film in the heist genre. It is Tarantino's best movie because it isn't overly stylized like his others. That's just my opinion.

It does not insist on itself, and it has a much lighter touch.

[haele]

3. Jackie Brown, the Kill Bills, Django Unchained, Reservoir Dogs...different

While there is a commonality is "snappy" dialog, an overwhelming supply of blood, and an element of either crime or revenge in the story, there are a wide range of personalities, genders, and motives found in each movie. Saying there is only one Tarantino movie made several times is rather like identifying all thriller or crime movies as the same...

I haven't watched all Tarantino movies (not a big fan of lots of blood or casual violence), but I have found there are sufficient differences in plot line and characters to that allows me to enjoy (with a cringe) some of his movies, but not others.

Just my two cents. I can understand why a lot of people don't like Tarantino, I don't like a lot of his work, either. And much as I prefer to watch their movies over Tarantino's, the Coens can also turn me off with some of their films. Directors (especially director/producers) direct films for their tastes, not necessarily for those of the viewers. And then, the studios get involved post production, and that also affects the way a movie is going to turn out. The wrong studio can always ruin an otherwise decent movie with the edits they put in to market it.

Haele