Reservoir Dogs - Homage or Stealing? Rotten Tomatoes Show

[gubeym]

hey. Shakespeare did it. Or sopposedly he did.

[TheKirkYates]

as long as its as good or better than the source material who gives a shit? after you've seen as many movies as Quentin has, i would imagine you'd start borrowing things from other movies too

[talc89a]

good artists borrow, great artists steal

[xburk]

all of tarantino is homage

[pantonec]

It appears the word "homage" has change its meaning--- Also, that peculiar style of telling a story --dissected in different times (starting with Part 3, then Part 1 then part 5...) was used many years before in an old noir film from the 50's, directed by Stanley Kubrick: "The Killing." Tarantino's talent lays more on reviving "a Frankenstein" than "creating a Frankenstein"

[iamductri]

quentin might steals from others, but as long as he makes great stuffs, who cares?

[airHaakon]

@iamductri He doesent steal anything he renews stuff. All these action hollywood crap films is stealing because they all steal from the previous action movies

[tf2tonight]

If credit isn't given than yes, it is stealing and Tarantino does that, a lot. It's his way of not having to pay royalties to an author I guess, because he can write dialogue, but he isn't creative when it comes to coming up with new ideas.

[MrChimpNipples]

this show is dedicated to ruining my life!!

[wingtorn]

well i guess you would have to ask wong fu productions about their love stories.... they are based on HK movies.

[gundampigeon]

I say stealing all of tarantino's contain alot of asian based movies and he takes full creds for it. Unless i'm proven otherwise.

[dogliford]

he may have took the story but he still presented it in a WHHHOOOLLLEEE new way, TARINTINO STYLE!!

[thegunclub123]

@dogliford-Yeah, I personally like City on Fire more, but I definitely never thought that Reservoir Dogs was a ripoff of the former. Very different, even in their similarities.

[jjdebenedettojr]

John Travolta: Do you know what they call a blatant ripoff in Tarantino-ville?

Samuel Jackson: What?

John Travolta: A Homage with Cheese

[AnEnemyToLove]

@jjdebenedettojr love it

[ClockWorKRuptured]

"no ideas original there's nothing new under the sun, it's not what you do, it's how it's done."... nas

[ryanrox17]

now i want to watch city on fire

[lowlypeasant]

This blows my mind. Almost as much as all the stealing Led Zeppelin did in the early days.

[thegunclub123]

Chow Yun Fat and Tim Roth are incredible! This might be Ringo Lam's best.

[EvertLind]

Thumbs up if you think STEALING!!!

[daniel171095]

tarantino's admits all the time that he steals from every movie ever made. what he does, is he uses those ideas and looks at them from a different perspective. like reservoir dogs being a heist film without the heist.

[henryprost]

Besides reservoir dogs is special for never showing the actual stealing

[blah64924]

i love how they managed to spoil two great movies at the same time

[rekrings]

OH that makes sense I was wondering how Tarantino could make a badass flick like Reservoir Dogs and jerk off such SHITTY movies like Jackie Brown and those Kill Bill train wrecks

[DonRMB]

Gotta say though.. ALL ARTISTS STEAL!.. Especially musicians and filmmakers, shit even the Beatles took a Chuck Berry line for "Come Together".. Homage and Stealing is the same thing, So lets stop kidding ourselves. PS. I wouldnt know about half of these movies if Tarantino didnt have point them out to me,So I guess its not such a bad thing.

[TetsuyaBrazil]

@DonRMB There's a diference between a line and a fucking movie you asshole

[IDaCashman]

I recognize Tarantino's love of homage, but this is stealing.

[Voutshy]

Tarantino often "steals" scenes and camera-angles, obviously.

But he's doing it in a good way, am i right?

..maybe i'm just a little fanboy.

[rbh1138]

Uh you only mentioned parts of it. Similar with those few scenes but They're nothing a like. Reservoir Dogs had a lot more to it then that. Plus its from different perspectives in Reservoir Dogs. The other movie might have came out first but Reservoir Dogs is a much better film.

[raoulhery]

hommage

[larafoo]

bad artists copy. good artists steal

[Rimbaud1531]

if it was really a "homage" it should have been labled a REMAKE which is exactly what Reservoir Dogs is. the writers of City on Fire shoud have been credited for Reservoir Dogs. They were not.  While doing press for the movie Tarantino shoud've referrenced City on Fire and given it credit for inspiring him. He didn't.

Tarantino is a rippoff artist. more people should know this.

[ogukuo72]

Stealing. Only in Hollywood would this be called 'homage'. If Bollywood or Hong Kong made a version of a Hollywood movie - almost shot for shot, it'll be called stealing. But if it's the other way around, even if it's almost shot for shot a copy of the original, it's called 'The Departed'... I mean stealing.

[kihhn]

@ogukuo72 what was The Departed stolen from? This?! lol

[AQGOAT24]

@kihhn Internal affairs

[Redgrant80]

@ogukuo72 No The Departed was a remake. Scorsese acknowledged this from the very beginning and WB bought the rights for the movie. Besides, despite the fact that both movies share many plot points they differ tremendously both thematically and tonally.

[musevash]

Um homage is using a similar style etc. Having scenes and aspects of the story that are the same is not homage it's ripping off, if it's not what the hell is?

[tubebellator]

man no wonder tarantino stopped making good movies. he ran out of stuff to "homage"

[OjikesShadow]

@tubebellator His last film, Inglorious Basterds, was an homage to a film of the same name actually.

[goYankees19]

i'm not a great big Tarantino fan, but i know his style. Reservoir Dogs was him paying homage to Hong Kong.

[dariendude17]

Gee thanks for the spoiler RT! Asses,

[DamnQuilty]

They should made "K- PAX :Homage or Stealing? Rotten Tomatoes Show" (the other movie will be: "Man facing southeast"(1986) from Argentina)

[MEGAIRONMETALHEAD]

homage

[scenester64]

@SgtKaneGunlock - Lucas didn't take nearly as much from Hidden Fortress than Tarantino did to City Of Fire. He practically remade the movie. Just take a look at the similarities. And then goes on saying he never saw the film. There's a thin line between homage and stealing.

[scenester64]

Pulp Fiction was a "homage" to noir novels and films from the 50s and 60s.

Jackie Brown was a "homage" to blaxploitation films of the 70s. Kill Bill was a "homage" to martial arts movies. Inglourious Basterds was a "homage" to an Italian film of the same name. And now this. Jeez, it seems like Tarantino can't come up with anything original. Taking the plot from an old obscure movie doesn't make you a genius. Or maybe he doesn't know the difference.

[SgtKaneGunlock]

@scenester64 it's said that there are only 21 plots every created

did you know that Goegre lucas pretty much took the Akira Kurosawa Film "hidden fortress" taking all the plot points and turning them into some thing new so before you go around waving the self righteous stick you might want to go online a look shit up and maybe look up the book "a hero with a thousands faces"

[Carandini]

@scenester64 If you've seen the original 'Inglorious Bastards' then you'd know it's nothing like Tarantino's -it's actually action-packed and entertaining, not spending most of the movie talking about stuff the audience doesn't care about.

[Kurty451]

@scenester64 What!?!

[Kurty451]

@scenester64 fail, your lousy assesment of Q.T.'s films couldn't have failed more miserably on a professional level or humorus level. Bad enough that you either left out or forgot the one's he only wrote (TrueRomance+NBK's+FromDuskTil­lDawn) but you failed to mention DeathProof, which let me guess was just a "homage" to car chase films? Guess what doucher, when quotation marks are your weapon of choice in a battle of opinions, you not only sound ignorant, you sound like an asshole....

[chewbacca1010]

Oops.

Yeah, maybe steal less next time.

[edmondleeart]

STEALING!!!!

[Menuki]

Knowing Tarantino, It's Homage

[laichi16]

Stealing, because no one cares if we steal from the Chinese (that was sarcasm, people of Aisa).

[abvflux]

It's homage. It's not like all those plot points haven't been covered in various modes even before "City on Fire".

[diddymuck]

@abvflux but all in the same movie??? In COF and RD?  Rent-one Tear-A-Ton-Off!

[ShaneBeacham]

Homage of course.

[humbletim10]

stealing!

[manmanguy]

stealing

[adamthecg]

considering its the walking movie library tarantino we're talking about, its almost certainly homage.

[seiver1088]

stealing

[Beale64]

Like "The Departed," "Reservoir Dogs" was inspired by a Hong Kong crime-drama. That doesn't make it a bad film, but Quentin Tarantino should've given it a credit, in my opinion. All he needed to do was say, "based on" or "inspired by" during the opening.

[Airmakz123]

TARANTINO ONLY ''STEALS'' FROM THE BEST - AND YES IT IS AN HOMMAGE LIKE EVERY FILM HE MADE AND WILL MADE... IF YOU'RE AN CINEMATIC YOU WILL APPRECIATE THAT AND LOVE HIM FOR THAT !

[switchbuckle]

In the case of this film, it's stealing. For one reason, and one reason only. Tarantino has, at one point or another, claimed never to have seen City on Fire. Which to me says he saw it and ripped it off thinking nobody would ever make the connection and then panicked when he was asked about it.

[lexlinkroy]

I don't know?

[CGMannequin]

Stealing. It's not a homage if there is no credits to the original.

[WatchMyAwesomeVideos]

Both are good movies but Tarantino steals everything & makes it his own. That's how cool he is

[Jackalofdeath]

totally ripped, tarantino hasnt made an original piece of work since he started

[Linkcrc]

4 scenes from A FILM; fucking homage that is.

[missmoanypants]

@Linkcrc I understand your point but those 4 scenes were big plot points for his film.

[crazedmartinez]

@Linkcrc more like the plot. a cop who joins a group of thieves and gets shot. then be friends a crimanl just to say hes a cop......... yeah tahts stealing.

[Linkcrc]

@crazedmartinez but what about other keys scenes and THE DIALOG itself; Quentin never made a secret about him being influenced by the chinese cinema. truthfully i never seen the chinese one; but i think this movie stand on its own.

[crazedmartinez]

@Linkcrc he stole the most important dialog in the movie. "im a cop" he stole word for word. hey i think its cheating but resevoir is great he should just admit it that he he took some stuff from it. he denys it completly

[Nouse]

Tarantino never made a secret, that all his movies are heavily influenced by other movies, so obviously a homage

[metallicakixtotalass]

Dude. Have you seen anything by Taratino? Every film he has ever made is an homage to something - and judging by how well he knew Asian cinema from the Kill Bill movies, then I am not at all surprised that he made a film as direct an homage as Reservoir Dogs

[vonzingyouth]

Its a definite homage. I mean though it may almost be compared side by side i would pick Reservoir Dogs hands down.

[elusive73]

Stealing!

[TheFallen8v]

I say he made a american verion so Homage

[TheAtticus19]

Tarantino is one of those guys that pays homage to everything.

[Xenda]

Oh please! They happened to have left out all of the wonderful dialog that was peppered throughout the film. Epic fail! QT rocks.

[TheOuroboros84]

@Xenda you fail, it's an obvious RIP OFF , yes with capitals FU QT...I had my doubts you still had any talent after watching Inglorious Basterds, and now I happen upon this, jesus you didn't have any talent in the first place...

[corado21]

stealing

[TheDeadlyKind]

Knowing Tarantino's history and tastes, its probably homage.

[Kojak7snap]

@TheDeadlyKind Knowing Tarantino's gaping hole where most of us have a creativity-box, I'd say it's typical Tarantino plagarism.

[doctorclowny]

@TheDeadlyKind the truth hurts.. doesnt it... sounds like a case of plagerisum.. lol

[prayfortruejustice]

wow ... never knew

I wounder if there is a Hong Kong film version of the last room scene in 4 Rooms and if so were they drinking Cristal ;)

[awarenessis]

A Lot

[awarenessis]

@gorgeousaur Methinks that great minds think a lot alike.

[pablocuellarmolano]

Considering the extreme LACK OF CREATIVITY of the hollywood Industry in general....a miserable steal

[mrsquirrel0]

City on fire...I need to watch that again

[awarenessis]

Rap is to Music as Etch-a-Sketch is to Art.

[gorgeousaur]

@awarenessis I'd compare it to Photoshop. Lots and lots and lots of crappy work out there thanks to lazy copying and pasting and the use of filters, but some real creative works of art can be made too.

[mellowdalyricist]

its not stealing its "SAMPLING", rappers do it all the time

[AirplaneFoods]

@mellowdalyricist Hahaha "sampling". this comment made my week. i concur.

[zerokoolkw]

With Tarirntino it's so hard to tell though. No doubt he saw this other movie and borrowed heavily from it but I bet if you actually interviewed him and asked him what his influnces for Res. Dogs he'd probably say this other movie. He's never been one to hide where he takes stuff from. Is it stealing if you say I where you stole it from? He likes to shine bright lights on movies most people have never seen.

[JackCkiller]

Stealing

[Death929]

Tomato ref ftw

[Razyelgore]

stealing

[aloyziskee]

Chow yun FAT :D

Its pronounced fa-t

[Duderonimo]

stealing!

[jippzmcghee]

I still like that movie, but yea..obviously..

[IngridKnopf]

stealing!!!

[madaraluka93]

Chinese are the best at copying anything...

[PurepOis0n123]

@madaraluka93 i guess you didnt get that the chinese version was earlier than the other one...

[madaraluka93]

@PurepOis0n123 Ups.Anyway I was right about chinese.About the movie,Americans can also steal.Avatar is a good example

[xXAidenxGoesxrawRxX]

@madaraluka93 you do know that the Chinese movie came out first right???

[madaraluka93]

@xXAidenxGoesxrawRxX Yes.Didn't you see that from my answer?

[MechaTamago]

Stealing!

[LuisFelipeGD1978]

Stealing WTF!!!!!

[WestliFerZul]

stealing

[whassamatter]

HONG KONG FTW

[legendofzeldafreak93]

first