Has Quentin Tarantino lost his groove?

Not seen a QT film I didn't enjoy immensely. They're the sort of films that just make your brain smile all the time you're watching them. My GF hates them, which in itself profoundly validates everything I just said about them.

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If kill bill had actors who could actually do martial arts rather than people who looked like they'd only learnt the moves that morning it wouldn't be so excruciatingly painful to watch - the story and style of the film is great though. If only the action scenes were better it would probably be a great movie.

What does my head in is people go on about the great fighting and I just look at it and go "WHAT in the name of F**k are you on about - the fighting is terrible."

Practically comedic. The only decent guy is the master who plucks Daryl Hannah's eye out and he's hardly in it.
 
Tarantino set the bar very high for himself early in his career with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.

But when I saw Jackie Brown at first because it was very different to his usual style I didn't like it - yet with successive viewings I have grown to love it, and think it's his best film.

And I have found the same with all of his other movies...they take a while to sink in, and you don't always 'get' them on the first viewing.

Death Proof is the only film I have seen I have not liked...but I did only watch it once, neeRAB another viewing to be sure.
 
I watched Death Proof again last night. It's the perfect Saturday night movie, for me it's right up there with Jackie Brown as his best film.

It's a pity the critics turned on it so dramatically, and I think IB was in many ways an attempt to try and appease the Hollywood critics. What's ironic about that is that most of the reviews I've read for IB criticise it for lacking that Tarantino quirkiness, something which Grindhouse had plenty of (which was applauded on release but then suddenly slated).

I guess this is a case of 'you don't miss it until it's gone'.
 
Not seen the film yet, but will have to do so.

I rather like Tarantino. I think all four of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill are classics.

Deathproof was absolute bilge, though :p
 
Inglourious BasterRAB was awesome, better than Death Proof, as long as you don't go in expecting an accurate history film then you'll like it. Again, usual criticism about Tarantino films is that the dialogue can be too long in some areas, but trust me, at the end it all connects, especially the long speech at the start of the film, which seems like a slow way to start the film but by the time you get to end, it's rather clever.

Out of the Tarantino films, personally I'd put it above Kill Bill as I enjoyed this more.
 
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