Fuck this movie.

Who finally gets to prove the Law of Diminishing Returns first?

Dogs - Awesome. Pulp - Beyond Awesome. Jackie - Average. Four Rooms - Poor. KB1 - Average. KB2 - Poor. Death Proof - Poor.

Methinks the boy doth need a hit...I'm praying it's Inglorious Bastards!

Night is now a hack - or close to...

Get over it son....he lost whatever he used to have.

Helena my ass!

Fuck Tarantino.

FYI, Avary didn't direct a minute and didn't write a word of dialogue for Pulp Fiction. He contributed the rough story for the Bruce Willis segment.

Dogs and Fiction are superb Movies. The rest I find average to fairly good.

But the never ending features on this film are really beginning to make me wonder just what it is that's so "special" about this movie. The script must be extraordinary but that doesn't guarantee a brilliant film.

So I don't have real high hopes for this one. What the fuck is this anyway? Tarantino's take on an Italian film that was basically THE DIRTY DOZEN? Doesn't really blow my skirt up, but I'll give it a shot.

Yeah, it was the same dumbass look she's always got on her face. I've never liked Rosario Dawson. I think she's a shit actress and she irritates the fuck out of me.

But I know a lot of people like her, so it's no sweat off my sack.

(answer: he was busy making DREAMCATCHER)

wesley snipes' jewish robothanded asskicker vs mickey roarke's steelhanded nazi.

Then he decided he wanted to be a B-movie exploitation king.

Sigh.

God bless him, I'm sure there a lot of people that aspire to that level of filmmaking. But we expect that from the Paul Anderson's of the world, not the Quentin Tarantino's.

QT's Oscar days are behind him, his chance to be a great director...a Scorcese or P.T. Anderson or Coen Brothers or Spielberg. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like his movies (although they have been consistently worse and worse...simpler and simpler) and he has yet to reach the depths of faded glory that DePalma or Coppola have sunk to. His movies are still coherent and entertaining for what they are. But they should be better. He's a a talented chef cooking hamburgers every night. Tasty, delicious hamburgers...but he's playing it safe and staying in his wheelhouse, not daring to be creative anymore. Maybe, like Scorcese, he will find material to re-energize himself and have a creative comeback to once again be the QT that he was and reach the heights we thought he would. I think a lot of us thought this movie was going to be it. It will not be. I'm sure he'll make it entertaining enough, he has the talent for that, but it won't be a movie that people will remember or praise or look back fondly on like Pulp Fiction.

And that's why the "elitists" sadly shake their head at QT, not because he's terrible, but because he's just very good. And he should be exceptional.

And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Let him get in with with it, and let's all look forward to commenting on this new film and how much it owes to The Big Red One when it comes out.

If Spielberg made House Bunny or Peter Jackson directed Death Race or Shyamalan did Lady in the Water (lol) everyone should rightly say what the fuck?!?!?! Maybe it would be cool as a one-off thing if Jackson did something like a Death Race, a great director tackling B or C-level genre work like that, but if that's all he ever aspired to do again, if that's all he ever made again, we would be disappointed.

As we are with QT.

How about in EVERY FUCKING QT MOVIE.

So...yawn.

As in the Olympics, there is "difficulty" and "execution". A gymnast may go up on the beam, execute a single forward flip, and it may be the most goddamn beautiful, heart-wrenchingly gorgeous single front flip in the history of mankind. But that person will not be thought of as a gold medal Olympian, because they did not aspire to anything great...they did not push themselves or try something difficult.

Likewise, a filmmaker may be content making simple movies, and the films may be a hell of a fun ride and may be well-crafted little genre movies. But to become something exceptional, they need to aspire to more.

Now, we're not discussing relative merits of the movies, but as you said, these two sites can say a lot, and looking at those figures I'd say QT is slipping. And just looking at the way AICN is hyping up IB, I got a feeling it will end up lower ranks than even Deathproof. I hope am proven wrong, nothing will please me more.

But fact is, QT is slipping, though not as badly as M Night or anything, but QT is in a leauge of his own and needs to be compared to no one but his own work.

That's how I do it, anyway.