Adam Atheos
9Jan12
How so?
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serotoninronin
10Jan12
It's a long story, but to make it short, it seems to me that Tarantino robs everything of value from the things he claims to be doing homage to. Originally I think it stemmed from his simple lack of talent and surface level understanding of the films he saw when he was younger, but as time goes on a people point this shit out to him constantly, I can't help but think that it's becoming more and more conscious and so more and more unforgivable.
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serotoninronin
10Jan12
And speaking as someone who has dedicated much of his time on earth to watching and thinking about the types of films Tarantino claims as influences (kung fu junk, old grindhouse stuff, the classic drive-ins, etc.) his sins against the genre(s) make me particularly ill. Don't take me for a genre purist though. I'm all for experimentation and new ideas, even (and perhaps especially) in genres with entrenched mores. The problem is that there are no new ideas in any of Tarantino's films.
mooniac
11Dec11
He has a great sense of humour which makes the violence look like a daily habitual and more tolerable.
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Valentino Bahun
30Oct11
Hey, does anyone know which segment of Sin CIty did he directed? I couldn't get that information anywhere
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David Higgins
13Jul10
I WAS JUST REVISITING - Soylent Green. There's a lot more to that movie than ground Chuck. A remake would speak to us today of a world living on processed food because In the year 2022, the population has grown to forty million people in New York City alone. Most housing is dilapidated and overcrowded, and the homeless fill the streets and line the fire escapes and stairways of buildings. Food as we know it today is a rare and expensive commodity. Most of the world's population survives on processed rations produced by the massive Soylent Corporation, including Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow, which are advertised as "high-energy vegetable concentrates." The newest product is Soylent Green — a small green wafer which is advertised as being produced from "high-energy plankton". It is much more nutritious and palatable than the red and yellow varieties, but it is — like most other food — in short supply, which often leads to food riots. Ty Thorn (Charlton Heston) is a New York City Police Department detective who lives in a dilapidated, cramped one-room apartment with his aged friend and roommate, Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson). Roth is a former professor who searches through the now-disordered remnants of written records and books to help Thorn's investigations. Roth and his like are known as "books". He tells Thorn about the time before the ecological disaster and population crisis, when real food was plentiful, although Thorn is generally not interested in the stories, finding most of them too hard to believe. Thorn is assigned to investigate the murder of William Morris Simonson (Joseph Cotten). At the crime scene, he finds Simonson lying in a pool of blood due to being struck multiple times in the back of the head. Instead of looking for clues, the poorly paid detective helps himself to the wealthy man's food, liquor, shower with real hot water and soap, and books. He questions Shirl (Leigh Taylor-Young), an attractive 24-year old "kept woman" (euphemistically known as "furniture") who comes with the apartment, and Simonson's bodyguard, Tab Fielding (Chuck Connors), who claims that he was told to escort Shirl on a shopping trip when the attack took place. Returning to his apartment, Thorn gives Roth the Soylent Oceanographic Survey Report, 2015 to 2019, which he took from Simonson's apartment. Thorn returns to work and talks to his superior officer Lieutenant Hatcher (Brock Peters), telling him that he suspects it may have been an assassination, since nothing was stolen from the apartment and the murder seemed professional. He finds it odd that the luxury apartment's sophisticated alarm and monitoring electronics happened to be inoperative on the night of the murder, and his bodyguard just happened to be out of the apartment at the time. After questioning Fielding's live-in "furniture", Thorn returns to his own apartment to eat a meal of the purloined food, where Roth tells him that Simonson was a member of the board of directors of the Soylent Corporation. When he presents Roth with a spoon of strawberry jam surreptitiously palmed from Fielding's apartment, Roth tastes it and declares that Fielding's "furniture" is eating some "$150 a jar" strawberry jam, which is an out-of-place luxury for the prostitute of a bodyguard. Thorn returns to question Shirl, who tells him that Simonson became deeply troubled in the days before his death, even taking her to church. Thorn later attempts to question the priest about Simonson's confession, but the priest is almost catatonic with exhaustion and has a hard time remembering Simonson, even though Simonson, as a rich man, would have stood out among the impoverished people who normally frequent the church. When the priest remembers Simonson, he tells Thorn the memory of what Simonson told him was haunting him, and is unable to describe what Simonson said to him. Fielding later murders the priest to ensure he never talks. After Thorn begins uncovering evidence as to why Simonson was murdered, New York Governor Santini (Whit Bissell) instructs Hatcher to close the investigation. However, Thorn continues his investigation into the murder. When Thorn is on riot duty during the distribution of rations, Simonson's murderer fires several shots at Thorn, but Thorn is able to push his attacker under a riot control vehicle. Roth examines Soylent's oceanographic reports at the "Supreme Exchange", a library and gathering place for fellow "books". The "books" and Roth finally realize that the reports indicate a "horrible" truth which, despite reading it for themselves, they find nearly impossible to believe. Unable to live with what he has uncovered, Roth opts for assisted suicide at a government clinic referred to as "going home". As Roth is dying he watches Video clips of earth long ago when Animal (Sheep, Deer and Horses) & Plant life was thriving and there was no pollution while listening to classical music. Thorn forces the staff to allow him to see and talk to Roth. During Roth's final moments, he begs Thorn to divulge the horrible truth about the Soylent corporation. Prompted by Roth, Thorn sneaks into the basement of the assisted suicide facility, where he sees corpses being loaded onto waste disposal trucks. He secretly hitches a ride on one of the trucks, which is driven to a heavily guarded waste disposal plant. Once inside the plant, Thorn sees how the corpses are processed into Soylent Green wafers. Thorn escapes and heads for the "Supreme Exchange", but is ambushed by Fielding and several other gunmen. He retreats into a cathedral filled with homeless people. After a desperate fight through throngs of sleeping homeless, Thorn kills Fielding. When police backup arrives, the seriously wounded and nearly hysterical Thorn confides to Hatcher the horrible secret behind Soylent Green, finally urging him to spread the word: "Soylent Green is people! We've got to stop them somehow!"
Bradley Luvaas
9Jul10
dear MR QT I would like to see you do a film on northwest loggers taking out the vampires , like they did the biker about 20 to 30 years ago on the 4th i think. i was just kid , chiansaws a chorkboots thanks brad luvaas sr
jamielebish
13Jun10
Hi Q, I was in a coma in December from H1N1, in my coma I had a freakin crazy ass dream that was so real i had to write it down. Scaryier than shit. Pls advise. the Dead Glades.
codyafghan
8Jun10
Hey Quentin, how about a film concerning Kursk, cica 1943 from both Nazi and Soviet perspectives!!
Maximilian Bercovicz
8May10
The HOSTEL movies should be listed here; he was executive producer on both.
Olga Fält
30Apr10
"Bee fan"? I'm allready .Long ago.Now it's your turn bee our fun.We try to do some scarymovie.In Sweden.You were here with your "Bastard"."De fördömda den mörka hemligheten"-or "as Pathfinder in The Damned The Dark Secret" I*m plaing there a 75 years murderer.Olga Fält ,director Anders Ekedahl,he is a writer too.He is just 28 years.We have low budget.Some school help us.GOD! If we could do like you! I want to be this film to high level!But how?I love very fuck...g much Kill Bill and From dust to down.You can see me with the 3snakes-foto.My dream was to dance like Salma Hayek.Maybe I'm not so beautuful,but can dance better.OOOH! If you could be with us! Look little bit if you have nonthing to do.