What is YOUR favorite Quentin Tarantino film?

[Sheilbh]

I really, really wish I were as young as you think I am, man.

Same

But seriously, people who treat it like the Watchmen of film are taking it a little far.

I had the same view of Watchmen, when I read Watchmen.

[CountDeMoney]

*DIRECTED SOLELY AT CDM.  I'm mainly joking.  Though, seriously, people who treat it like the Watchmen of film are taking it a little far.

The fact that you actually referred to Watchmen tells us all we need to know about your thought processes when it comes to film.

Oh, and your reviews don't help, either.

[Ideologue]

*DIRECTED SOLELY AT CDM.  I'm mainly joking.  Though, seriously, people who treat it like the Watchmen of film are taking it a little far.

The fact that you actually referred to Watchmen tells us all we need to know about your thought processes when it comes to film.

Damn, you're really ignorant sometimes.

I had the same view of Watchmen, when I read Watchmen.

OH SNAP.

If you were a comics formalist--and there's no reason to be--you'd probably feel differently.  If you didn't care about film techniques, you could also be forgiven for thinking Citizen Kane is just a nice movie about William Randolph Hearst.

[Ed Anger]

Comics suck. Except for Ziggy.

[Capetan Mihali]

For the purposes of this poll, I have to say Jackie Brown.

I agree, of course, with everyone in terms of Pulp Fiction being the world-historical film of the bunch, and with Money's comment about Reservoir Dogs being a great example of how to construct an interesting, entertaining film on a low indie budget.

But I like JB best, of the ones I've seen, for some of the reasons that others here don't.  I enjoy watching a Tarantino version of a more traditionally structured film.  The characters are wonderful (as well as easy to engage with), and I think some of the performances are amazing.  De Niro is hilarious, especially in his interactions with S.L. Jackson's girlfriend.  Samuel L. Jackson is great of course.  Even Chris Tucker has a great performance.  Pam Grier is plainly a very talented actress, and her love arc with the bondsman is, as celdh said, about as humane/sincere as QT gets.  Maybe that goes against his style, but I think he pulls it off very well in this film.

Ultimately, I like seeing Tarantino's intense stylistic drives forced to reckon with a story that's already present and not built entirely to serve QT's total cinematic vision.  Again, as celdh said, the fact that it's an Elmore Leonard story goes a long way.

Looking at the recent crop of Tarantino movies, they're good, but I almost feel he'd be one of those directors better served by a more restrictive movie-making system a la Old Hollywood, where his originality would shine even brighter within more conventional frames, rather than being allowed to run completely wild.

[Ideologue]

Even Chris Tucker has a great performance.

Where's Luc Besson's parade?

Looking at the recent crop of Tarantino movies, they're good, but I almost feel he'd be one of those directors better served by a more restrictive movie-making system a la Old Hollywood, where his originality would shine even brighter within more conventional frames, rather than being allowed to run completely wild.

Emphatically disagree, but I'd have to.  Death Proof could not exist; nor, probably Django.  (Although Basterds probably could.)

[Siege]

Fukie brown is a trantino movie?

I didt know.

[Siege]

Jango, hands upp.

[Gups]

Pulp Fiction for me. Watched it in the cinema when it came out and it absolutely blew me away. So fresh and different to anything I'd seen before.

I've not seen Death Proof but like all of his others including Jackie Brown (which I think has the best soundtrack of any of his films and that's high praise indeed).

Django was marred for me by the over-the-top cartoonishness of the shoot out and Tarantino's appalling cameo. The first hour was as good a anything else he's done though.

[grumbler]

Ultimately, I like seeing Tarantino's intense stylistic drives forced to reckon with a story that's already present and not built entirely to serve QT's total cinematic vision.  Again, as celdh said, the fact that it's an Elmore Leonard story goes a long way.

Looking at the recent crop of Tarantino movies, they're good, but I almost feel he'd be one of those directors better served by a more restrictive movie-making system a la Old Hollywood, where his originality would shine even brighter within more conventional frames, rather than being allowed to run completely wild.

I'd say that this was an interesting and accurate assessment of both JB and Tarantino's latest movies, except that I don't want to re-trigger that whole ad hom/pointlessly rude fuck discussion. 

[Habbaku]

 

[jimmy olsen]

For me it's Pulp Fiction and Django

[CountDeMoney]

*DIRECTED SOLELY AT CDM.  I'm mainly joking.  Though, seriously, people who treat it like the Watchmen of film are taking it a little far.

The fact that you actually referred to Watchmen tells us all we need to know about your thought processes when it comes to film.

Damn, you're really ignorant sometimes.

Watchmen: neat movie.  Not a Pulp Fiction.

[Jacob]

For the purposes of this poll, I have to say Jackie Brown.

I agree, of course, with everyone in terms of Pulp Fiction being the world-historical film of the bunch, and with Money's comment about Reservoir Dogs being a great example of how to construct an interesting, entertaining film on a low indie budget.

But I like JB best, of the ones I've seen, for some of the reasons that others here don't.  I enjoy watching a Tarantino version of a more traditionally structured film.  The characters are wonderful (as well as easy to engage with), and I think some of the performances are amazing.  De Niro is hilarious, especially in his interactions with S.L. Jackson's girlfriend.  Samuel L. Jackson is great of course.  Even Chris Tucker has a great performance.  Pam Grier is plainly a very talented actress, and her love arc with the bondsman is, as celdh said, about as humane/sincere as QT gets.  Maybe that goes against his style, but I think he pulls it off very well in this film.

Ultimately, I like seeing Tarantino's intense stylistic drives forced to reckon with a story that's already present and not built entirely to serve QT's total cinematic vision.  Again, as celdh said, the fact that it's an Elmore Leonard story goes a long way.

Looking at the recent crop of Tarantino movies, they're good, but I almost feel he'd be one of those directors better served by a more restrictive movie-making system a la Old Hollywood, where his originality would shine even brighter within more conventional frames, rather than being allowed to run completely wild.

Yeah, I voted Jackie Brown too. Well articulated

[Scipio]

Perhaps because I so love Jackie Brown, I can't seem to remember that it's a Tarantino movie. I always think of it as a Soderbergh piece.

I voted Pulp Fiction, because it seems to me to be the quintessence of Tarantino.