Overrated movies
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I have forgotten about that movie. One of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I couldn't even get all of the way through it.
My two cents on Tarantino...
I think he is an exceptionally talented filmmaker with a gift for engaging his audiences and telling a story, but there are two things that I personally dislike about him and his movies.
1) His personality; I've read interviews and stories with and about him where he comes off as a ginormous, entitled, arrogant d-bag and is remarkably unlikeable.
2) The level of misogynistic violence towards women in his movies. Now, I do know that he has featured some strong, kick-*** female characters in his movies, like the Bride in the KB movies and the trio of female heroines in "Death Proof", but I also feel that some of his violence towards women in some other movies (like Inglorious Basterds) is completely gratutious and unneccessary.
At the risk of sounding sanctimonious and self-righteous I like to think I have a pretty strong sense of chivalry, so it's always disturbed me, regardless of who the director is, to see violence against women in movies and TV, especially if I feel it's unnecessary to the plot/story.
So must have an issue with reality and how violence towards women has been a fact of life for eons in almost every culture. I understand your point, but it's not like his concepts are unfounded.
Interesting. As you said, he has strong women characters in those you mentioned. But I think in every movie he has women characters, they are all extremely powerful characters. I think his characters are some of the strongest in recent memory. Uma in Pulp Fiction, all the women in the Kill Bill movies, the revenge women in Death Proof and even the ones that get killed off in the car are all strong women, the two women in Inglourious Basterds, Patricia Arquette in True Romance, Pam Grier in Jackie Brown.
Well, I don't think I have any issues with "reality", and I'm not quite sure how you got that...anyway, fair enough point on the "fact of life for eons" part. I just think he goes overboard occasionally (not in every single movie he's ever made) with the violence, and I'm personally sensitive when it's directed towards women. I guess in that respect I'm similar to Angie.
It and Catcher in the Rye are by far my two favorite books. P&P is so delicate and subtle, wonderfully written and excellent character development. Lots of very dry humor, too.
I know Im late, but anyone who says Star Wars is overrated (especially the first trilogy) should be perma banned from this site.
On the otherhand, the prequels can't be called overated, because everyone knows they suck.
I wasn't thinking that, and I do see where you're coming from on this. I just think on these recent movies he's made these stylistic choices and I know that going in so I try to judge the rest of the movie in that framework. And to be honest if he spends the next 20 years making only excessively gory movies that are homages to some genre I'll be right there saying "Yo QT, dial it back a bit".
I think that once he got the power to make whatever movie he wanted, he wanted to pay homage to what influenced him as a filmmaker so this is what we've gotten the past few movies. I'll be interested to see what he does going forward.
I feel like Tarantino is a pretty equal opportunity guy when it comes to violence.
Star Wars. The acting is beyond awful. The ****** is terrible. The set design and direction is not good. The special effects were amazing for 1977. Outstanding. That's it though. The movie itself is terrible.
Slumdog Millionaire. Also just not a very good movie. Ridiculously overrated.
The Dark Knight is a good movie. Highly entertaining and I, as well as many others have watched it many times. However, it is not even close to being one of the best movies ever made. Heath Ledger made that movie. In reality the only entertaining thing about it is The Joker. The rest of the scenes are not that entertaining. I always turn it off when it gets close to the end when Batman finds the Joker using cellphone radar. Stupid. With that technology, there is no need for a Batman. Batman Begins is superior film.
Why is the word S.C.R.I.P.T. starred out?
Slumdog Millionaire. Also just not a very good movie. Ridiculously overrated.
The Dark Knight is a good movie. Highly entertaining and I, as well as many others have watched it many times. However, it is not even close to being one of the best movies ever made. Heath Ledger made that movie. In reality the only entertaining thing about it is The Joker. The rest of the scenes are not that entertaining. I always turn it off when it gets close to the end when Batman finds the Joker using cellphone radar. Stupid. With that technology, there is no need for a Batman. Batman Begins is superior film.
Why is the word S.C.R.I.P.T. starred out?
Was it me or was Avatar just an alien version of Dances with Wolves. Very similar story-lines I thought.
