initial success
One cannot argue that when Quentin Tarantino first entered the Hollywood arena with Reservoir Dogs, that generation of movie-goers were mesmerised by his brash new style, funky dialogue and irreverence for many established tropes. After Reservoir Dogs, and with screenwriting credits to other top movies such as True Romance and Natural Born Killers, as well as later From Dusk Til Dawn, he released Pulp Fiction which many rightly regard as his greatest work.
credits fixation
Jackie Brown was not written by him which is important bearing in mind his love for elaborate and silly initial credits. A movie fapped over by Quentin Tarantino would be more than enough one imagines. Yet it is the strong performances that really rescue this film. It is worth a watch along with all of his earlier work. It can be argued that Kill Bill 1 is his best movie, surpassing even the great Pulp Fiction.
abducted by aliens
During the completion of Kill Bill 1 but before the completion of Kill Bill 2, it seems possible that dear Quentin was abducted one night on his way to Sam's house in the darkest of dark, and replaced with a Cylon clone or a reptilian shapeshifter copy or even the undead soul of any yet-to-be-deceased bad director you may name. This sparked his descent into disruption of malignant movie memes or entrance into the bowels of the temple of Hollywood worship or whatever it is he started doing.
the real agenda
The cartoon violence of Django Unchained and the aforementioned world war two movie also attain to the veracity of such a claim that he got anal-probed and dunked back to us to push some ghoulish agenda. Plots began to gain holes, not yet the fishnets of The Hateful Eight but with that promise clear and bright.
war film
Fair dos, the war film Inglourious Basterds was okay, and he hasn't yet completely lost his ability for witty and original dialogue, it's the glaring holes in his script and the long since cheekily original disrespecting of logic in favour of proudly blatant Deux ex Machina clear-ups of his messy first and second acts that is spoiling his work.
the bottom
What is to be said of his latest fare? That The Hateful Eight was some kind of self-congratulatory onanism for the bloatiest of egos seems perfectly clear, with its pointless narrative directions, idiotic scenes and meaningless motivation, if motivation there is any. One tends to think that he may have been taking the piss as the British tend to say.
the end?
Pity the poor sad fools who feel they have a relationship with him; if you think about Tim Roth and Kurt Russel who should know better, and what's his name from The Shield who maybe shouldn't but should learn. At least the recent nosedives of DENZEL WASHINGTON and TOM HARDY cannot be easily ascribed to him.
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