Do you get Tarantino?

I actually hate the kill bill movies. But some other stuff is really cool and awesome. He really does things outside the box. But yeh, his mind is reaaaly fucked up.  
What's up with the guys laughter?
Anyway, he really knows what he's doing and he likes it.
I'm glad that he can earn money from that stuff :P
 
 

I think his movies are supposed to be 'love letters' to genres past.
Really, I just wanted to say Jackie Brown is great. Deal with this.

I love his movies, I think there greeeeeaaaaaaatttt.

• Kids and teenagers think cussing is cool
• Kids and teenagers think blood is cool
• Kids and teenagers think violence is cool

The 'Bear Jew' is reason enough for him to earn my respect. I still haven't seen Pulp Fiction, though, so I really can't judge.

His films are the only films i really enjoy watching .

What is there not to get :) 
 
He is great, I am not to fond of his latest duo, death proof etc. 
 
But he captures a mood in his films that are quite unique imho. 
 
Everything is art, and everyone will appreciate different things... just let it go

Inglorious Basterds was awesome! Funniest movie I've seen in a good while. Don't go to it expecting a deep, meaningful movie. I hate it when people dig deep into a film which doesn't, and isn't supposed to have much depth. His movies are what they are, and take them at face value.

 
I've enjoyed most of what I've seen from Tarantino. :)

Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs are two of my favorite films ever and I definitely regard them as masterpieces. At least at the time, the nonlinear approach of PF was groundbreaking, the writing was stellar and original, and the acting was fantastic. I just saw Inglorious Basterds and thought it was one of the best movies  I have seen in awhile. It is up there with Reservoir Dogs in my opinion. 

I enjoy his movies a lot, but I don't like him as a person. I watch interviews with him and I try to like him, but I just can't.
 
I completely understand anyone not enjoying his movies though.

From what I have seen, the man has a way with words. That is enough for me.

Quentin Tarentino is a cocain-adled plagarist.

I get him, it's superficial, some people like it, I don't.

"I will admit there is an inherent 'splitting' between critics in where they fall with regards to Tarantino, but there is a reason why the man is studied in depth at Universities all over the world, there is a reason why students will write papers in exams on the man and his work, and I can assure you it has nothing to do with them bashing his work as artless gibberish with no iota of talent to be seen. "

 @bulletbeast: Pretty much all right. 

 @jakob187: Haha, same goes for yourself - refreshing to have some nicely constructed discussion about film!

"  @jakob187: Haha, same goes for yourself - refreshing to have some nicely constructed discussion about film! "

His movies are alright.

Both his writing and his directing are acquired tastes...

What's a Movie? A movie is there to tell a story. In my opinion close to no one has done that better than Tarantino in the last 20 years. His movies are engaging and ripe with great dialogue, and have style for days. Not a whole lot to "get". It's a movie, it's there to entertain and that's what it does. I think a movie that succeeds is one that you can come back to many many times and still find something new and exciting about it. All his movies have that quality so yeah I'd say I "get Tarantino".

" Anything after True Romance is terrible. You'll get people coming in here trying to defend Pulp Fiction etc but they're nothing more than the Family Guy of movies for me. In the same way that will rip something off verbatim and use the direct reference as a joke, Tarantino takes full scenes and ideas from other movies and because they're usually foreign, acts as if the audience won't notice.  Oh, wait, I forgot Samuel L. Jackson says nigger a lot and shouts in Pulp Fiction. That film is awesome. "

" Quentin Tarentino is a cocain-adled plagarist. "

He's goofy, but I love it. 
 
Kill Bill was fantastic, Grind House was fantastic, and Pulp Fiction was a classic. 
 
I can't wait to catch his new film.

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Tarantino is a great writer. One of the greatest of our generation. If you don't think so, you're a fucking moron. You have horrible taste in whatever writing you prefer. If you don't like the flow of a natural conversation because you hardly ever enter conversations, then so be it. But don't say the guy can't write when almost every movie he's written for, the dialog has been way above the par.
 
Now for directing. Tarantino is very on and off about the direction stand point of his movies. Movies like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction stand out as his best because he was new to the big game and nobody knew his name. Now most of Tarantino's movies consist of him directing them as if he was rubbing his dick on the camera just so everybody could see. Just because he can write a single scene using an hour's worth of dialog, doesn't mean he should. For the most part I love most of Tarantino's movies (Haven't seen Inglorious yet) but I have to admit, at some points, Death Proof was pretty dreadful because of all the tiny tiny subtexts in his dialog that could have been edited shorter to flow better with the story and the action. But all Death Proof did to me was entertain me for 20 minutes, bore me for an hour, and entertain me for the last part again. I really enjoy his movies when he incorporates his genius writing well with his stories, but if he up fronts his stories with the dialog, then you have the Tarantino I hate.