With Inglourious Basterds hitting theaters Friday, Josh Wolk and I got to thinking: What’s the best Quentin Tarantino movie ever? Reservoir Dogs? Pulp Fiction? Kill Read the full post.
Aug 19
2009
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Must List Live!: What's the best Quentin Tarantino movie?
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Kill Bill 1 for style, Kill Bill 2 for something truly moving and affecting.
I absoulutely agree!!
pulp fiction in the direction for shiz…but true romance is by far his best screenplay
Quentin said it himself perfectly on the Jackie Brown special features: people fall in to three camps:
1 – Jackie Brown is too slow.
2 – Jackie Brown is good but not as good as Pulp Fiction.
3 – Jackie Brown is his best film.
Also, does that scene in Sin City count?
Good grief…I didn’t think ANYONE remembered or liked Jackie Brown…that’s tied with Pulp Fiction for me as his best. Bridget Fonda’s character from JB was spot-on awesome—”Lou-isssssssssssss”–I say that almost every time I’m crossing a parking lot! Tarantino is absolutely fabulous! Also loved loved loved Kill Bill 1 & 2 and his other movies, too….i never miss a QT flick.
Best Quentin script: True Romance
Best Quentin Film: Res Dogs with Pulp a close second
Tie between Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs for me. Love both of them equally. Kill Bill Vol. 1 is my second favorite.
I don’t mind QT movies but his dialogue is just the worst, most unbelievable crap ever. People just don’t talk like that. Maybe one person in the movie but not everyone. David Mamet may be worse, it’s a tough call.
I like that both QT and Mamet write dialogue with an almost poetic rhythm. It’s not realistic, but who cares? It’s also not realistic that one women can kill 88 gang members single-handedly. Both QT and Mamet view language as art…it’s refreshing because so few screenwriter’s do that.
Yeah but watching one woman kill 88 gang members is cool, their dialogue is just lame. Mamet – “My mother f’er’s so cool, when he goes to sleep, sheep count him.” Are you kidding me? Is that supposed to sound hard?
Oh and since we’re including script only films, no love for Natural Born Killers? Love that movie.
Most of QT’s original script was scrapped for NBK. He’s really just credited with the story.
Robert Deniro’s last great movie role wasn’t his performance in Jackie Brown, but raher Ronin, which was released two years later.
true romance is probably my 2nd favorite film ever, it is true he didnt direct it, but I believe he wrote the screenplay. That being said, his dialogue is pretty terrible, especially the way he writes his black characters, the lone acception being sam jax in PF. I will admit to liking all of his films, but deathproof was my least fave, those chicks were so annoying, especially the ridiculously over the top black girl, great chase scenes though, and zoe bell is a true badass.
Ted the bell hop in four rooms played by tim roth is a hilariously manic ball of energy, and probably my favorite of his characters, followed closely by michael madsen in RD and of course Uma as the bride, she is my pick for most kickass movie heroine. KB features every filming style ever imagined and then some, B&W, Anime, Noir, hong kong wire-fu, Arterial spray horror, sergio leonne western,…..As far as movies he has actually directed go;
1-PF 2-RD 3-KB1 4-KB2 5-GH(DP)6-JB
Thank you Dalton Ross! For me Jackie Brown has always held a special place in my memory. The first movie I remember seeing as a kid was Sheba, Baby with the great Pam Grier. She and Robert Forster really made this film enjoyable for me.
Pulp Fiction was easily the most influential movie of the last 20 years. But if i put a Tarantino movie in the dvd player, 9 times out of 10 it is Resevoir Dogs.
Pulp Fiction was great- but the success went to his head. Kill Bill could have been one great movie- but he doesn’t seem to believe in editors. Agree with everyone- Jackie Brown is very underated.
by itself, Kill Bill vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol 2, definitely.