Kermode Uncut: The Tarantino Situation

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Film & Animation

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• Inglourious Basterds
• Mark Kermode
• Quintin Tarantino
• review

[Baktor]

Finally someone has put words to the nagging feeling I have had about Tarantino for years...

[TheConciseStatement]

@Rimbaud1531

Tarantino seems to work best when he's grounded by someone else's creative forces, e.g.; Roger Avary co-writing Pulp Fiction, or working from Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch for Jackie Brown. I suppose that makes Tarantino the Jim Carrey of directors - great in collaboration, but a bit annoying when it's all just him, him, him.

[frogtastic1000]

tarantino's films have always sucked

[zaroffhound]

Tarantino, vexed by his fear of failure. I recommend a psychiatrist...He can't truly be a crass, misogynistic, verbose movie-bottom-feeder with his eyes going 'ker-chingg' like some cartoon dollar sign? Or can he...dum dum dummmmm. Tune in next week for some more crackly cash-ins on the Tarantinos Radical Interminable Terror Experience..

[reptongeek]

@TheCSMman Although Reservoir Dogs' success at the box office in the UK can be attributed to the fact that it didn't come out on video for years, thus it stayed in cinemas for longer than it perhaps would

[SuperBob909]

Have been a big fan of Tarantino but relegating Drive to "Nice Try Award" in his end of year list is just another example of what really nags me about him. He worries more about his "cool" and his own ego.

[Transformers2themax]

@chanceie12 Besides, with the level of poor grammar that you have, I can't entirely take you seriously either.

[Transformers2themax]

@chanceie12 I have the username that I do not because I like Transformers in any way but as a method of determining whether or not someone's worth the time. Only a hater with nothing else to backup their argument or anything better to say would attack the other individual for their username....

[Transformers2themax]

@chanceie12 Or, perhaps, you're just too ignorant to understand anything I've said on here. Really, I'm not that big of a fan of Transformers. I thought the first two films were entertaining, wicked adaptations of a cheesy cartoon from the '80s--that's it. I do not believe there's much logic in reviewing them due to the fact that they're very preference-based films...

[chanceie12]

@Transformers2themax cant take you seriously when you have transformers name.

[imcaspa1995]

@machiaveliyoohoo is it not possible to be a tarantino fan and enjoy more mature cinema?

[Raymint]

LOL - the foot fetish shot. I mean that really puts it into perspective, doesn't it?