Is Quentin Tarrantino rubbish?

Question

The two Kill Bill movies stink like a bumper bag of prawns hidden behind a radiator for six months was he really any good at all...?

Answer 1

Well, I dunno. I think the problem is he's over-hyped. I know people who think he's lord god almighty, who drone on and on about his genius and how he single handedly changed the paradigm of the media etc etc.
So when you have been inundated with all the praise for this genius, watching the actual movies can be quite an anti-climax!

I actually enjoyed Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill 1, but I didn't find them the mind-expanding experience I had been told to expect by his devotees!

And I do have to say the guy himself comes across as a pretentious wanker of the first order when you see him being interviewed!

Answer 2

the thing is that with Quinten Tarrantino movies, u are always going to have some people who love his style of movies, and others who just don't get it at all. personally, i love his movies. my favourites are Pulp Fiction, and 4 Rooms (not so well known, but very funny). i even really enjoyed the Kill Bill movies. what it really all boils down to is a difference of opinions - everyone likes different things.... so what u think is cr*p, other people will think is amazing..... that's just how life is.

Answer 3

No, certainly not rubbish. I think his best work was Jackie Brown, which was genius, closely followed by Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs (watched this last night actually).

Admittedly the second Kill Bill was not as good as his other work, but kudos to an innovative approach

Answer 4

Certainly not, he's actually a very talented writer. However his films don't appeal to a lot of people and that's understandable, maybe the violence quotient is hard for many to stomach.
I agree that Kill Bill (both volumes) although visually stunning, are not his best work in terms of story or dialogue, but Reservoir Dogs is a work of genius.

Answer 5

here's the thing about tarantino.... either it really works, or it really doesn't. reservior dogs i would say really worked. pulp fiction, the travolta/thurman scene really doesn't work, it sucks, quite frankly. but the bruce willis story is probably the best thing tarantino's ever done, it's well played and the theme of honor is very well portrayed. the travolta/jackson story also really works, but isn't as good. jackie brown pretty much doesn't work at all. total snoozefest. and the kill bill movies, well.... over all, i don't like them. they're supposed to be like this ode to 70s kung fu movies or whatever and they're supposed to be this greatly original project and all that blah blah blah. but they're not. they're pretty much just rip-offs of a ton of other films and directors. you can see where he ripped off anime films like ninja scroll and crying freeman, he totally bites oliver stone with the black and white scenes (this from the man who faulted stone for making his idea such a serious film - natural born killers, if you didn't know) and the whole thing is something you've already seen. they do have their moments, though. the hatori hanzo scenes are really good, in my opinion, as is the o-ren rise-to-power sequence and final fight. the training scenes in the 2nd movie are also good. everything else sucks. i don't think he totally sucks, but it would definitely be refreshing to see him do something original again. but it probably won't happen.

Answer 6

Yes. 100% pure unadulterated rubbish. Pulp Fiction was mediocre at best. As for the Kill Bill movies, I get them, but I don't understand the hype. For the most part, his films are just a hodgepodge of warmed over highlights from old Spaghetti Western/Yakuza/Samurai/Kung Fu/Blaxploitation films. Unoriginal and held together by water thin plot lines. (Kill Bill vol. 1 vs. Lady Snowblood, anyone...?)

Answer 7

A lot of my male friends were unnerved by the KIll Bill films. They couldn't cope with having a violent woman as the 'star', specifically in Volume 1 where she kills the nurse that was abusing her.

Funny that. Men love the films when it's all strippers and snakes. Have a strong female lead and they get upset...

Answer 8

Answer you question no, but even the greatest in any feild have their moments when they make p1ss poor decisions


if you had watched all his movies you would understand they are nothing really out of the norm for him at all

on the other hand you need to give him credit for pulp fiction and resviour dogs. Particully pulp fiction changed the movie scape vastly it introduced us to a new genre of film making

you definetly get a better insight into the man if you read a biography about him, man he is one really screwed up dude, but brilliant all the same...

in anycase still waiting for another wow film from him i agree

Answer 9

I could live w/out the Kill Bill movies-- although I didn't the first one.

QT's other movies are pretty good-- strange and out of the ordinary -- but pretty good in their own right.

Come on-- Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Res Dogs-- and didn't he do that vampire movie too (dusk til dawn I think it was)?

Answer 10

I liked Jackie Brown & Pulp Fiction. I haven't been able to sit thru the Kill Bill movies.