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By: jko

jko — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:19:08 +0000

“I also think Jackie Brown is really good and one of his rare attempts at making a real movie, not a bunch of homage scenes.”

Jackie Brown is one big homage to Pam Grier aka Foxy Brown

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By: Ken J

Ken J — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:30:54 +0000

It just sounded like you were defending those who would use RT as a means of countering his dislike of the Kill Bill movies.

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:09:36 +0000

@ Ken, you’re totally right dude, although I don’t know why your message was directed at me as well…Your reply is agreeing with mine, heh.

I’m a huge advocate of people having their own opinion as can be overly openly seen on the Dragonball threads, lol. So long as others understand everyone has everyone else has their own opinions too

By: Ken J

Ken J — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:00:21 +0000

@metallicat, I have to! I take that offense personally since T2 is my favorite movie of all time…

Notice my avatar is from T2 even though there have been much higher resolution and closer shots of the endoskeleton skull from T3, I refuse to use them. I’d rather take a crappy screen capture from T2 as my avatar than some super high resolution promotional pic from T3, lol.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:57:29 +0000

@jimmy

Yah, I get what you mean now, but you have to assume he’s stating it as his opinion. A lot of people state their opinion in a way that sounds like they are stating a fact. It’s just easier than having to say “I think” or “in my opinion” before and after everything you say. I try to do that as much as I can to avoid that situation where people don’t get that I’m simply stating my opinion. But sometimes I forget too.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:50:44 +0000

what? you must of misread some stuff ken. dnaiel said, no STATED it, liek fact and i made the point of it being opinion and then to emphasize that i said his opinion is in the minority.

By: Metallicat79

Metallicat79 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:42:34 +0000

@Ken J
I still like you!! I love the fact that you always manage to bring T3 and what a travesty it was that that film was made, Rock On Ken, Rock On!

By: Ken J

Ken J — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:36:09 +0000

@Rob and jimmy

Since when did having a majority opinion make an opinion a fact? In case you forgot, Terminator 3 got over 60% “fresh” in RT as well and that was a horribly written, acted, and scripted film. Just because a lot of people fall for the gimmicks doesn’t make it good. Heck, Rap is the most popular music right now, I still think it’s pure garbage. Does that make me wrong just because I disagree with the majority opinion?

There are plenty of hollywood gimmicks that tend to work for the majority. Getting some hot skinny chick to be the kick ass protagonist, making sure there are enough curse words to make it rated R, being raunchy, slow motion, over use of overly dramatic music, nude scenes, putting in a popular political message, excessive violence, long car chase scenes, putting in the hot actor/actress of the month, etc. etc. You’d be surprised how when used correctly, these gimmicks not only win over the audience, but many critics as well. I’m not saying you guys liked those films because you fell for the gimmicks, but you can’t use a majority opinion as your defense against someone with a dissenting opinion. You’re basically saying “your opinion is wrong because there’s more people with a different opinion.” See how ridiculous that sounded?

Well, anyway that doesn’t win me over, call me part of the unpopular opinion or whatever, I really can care less. So wow, it got a high percentage of RT, in light of that new information, I’ve come to the conclusion that those movies STILL suck…

And you know I disagree with Daniel F all the time, so I’m not just trying to defend him or anything, I just really do not like QT’s style of directing, so for me a good rule of thumb is to stay away from anything he has any direct involvement in making.

Those Chinese movies he tacked his name onto like Hero and the others are imported from China or Hong Kong and QT had NOTHING to do with their production other than having them imported to be shown on US theaters. Just so you guys know before you start attributing those films to his ability. Those films were made and already being shown in Asia long before QT ever got involved to get them shown here in the US.

By: steven the git

steven the git — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:41:53 +0000

Despised Death Proof.

Kill Bill would have loved but there was no need for it to be two movies. Cut it down, keep it tight, put stuff like the anime and those long dialogues that just get in the way (Bill’s one about Superman, that crap about the snake, etc) on the dvd as extras if you must.

I also think Jackie Brown is really good and one of his rare attempts at making a real movie, not a bunch of homage scenes.

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:06:17 +0000

I found the Kill Bill movies way over-the-top..if that’s what he had intended then fine but that type of movie making is big budget B-movie film making …Tarantino has let the great reviews he recieved early in his career for movies like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs inflate his ego to momunmental proportions whereby he thinks anything he now makes has to pay homage to a lot of the Pulp/B-movies he loved growing up..It doesn’t help he has surrounded himself with sycophants either..All Hail QT the great and powerful movie ham…It’s sad because his career was showing some great promise until he started churning out movies like Death Proof and Kill Bill..Time to move on Quentin and start showing the genius you teased us with early in your career and stop resting on your laurels I hope this movie is a return to form because when he is on the mark he is as good as any of the greats in Hollywood !!

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:49:34 +0000

@90caliber

You beat me to it! I freaking HATED Death Proof.

Hated. It.

Vic

By: 90caliber

90caliber — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:31:08 +0000

Deathproof hands down the worst QT movie ever made. But the ending with Kurt Russell whinning like a biatch is hilarious.

By: Metallicat79

Metallicat79 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:10:40 +0000

Kill Bill was not “the worst” thing that QT has done, granted its not his best either. Kill Bill would have been fine, had Vol 2 packed a little bit more punch and was more engaging. Vol 1 definetly kicked some Ass. If i were to pick his worst, it would have tobe Jackie Brown, I do not really enjoy that one as much as i had hoped.

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:57:48 +0000

I think the point witht he RT example was that most people do really like those 2 films.

You said
“The Kill Bill films were his worst films period”

Their points counter that. That’s fine if you didn’t like it though. But saying they are the worst films is subjective

By: Daniel F

Daniel F — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:16:58 +0000

I realize it’s opinion as is every thing on rotten tomatoes. Please don’t try to use RT as a source of some fact that a movie is good. If your argument is that my opinion is nothing more than an opinion don’t source out RT is proof that the movies is good and it’s a fact. RT its self is an opinion site.

You can also click the top critics link and have it drop to 78%.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:09:42 +0000

Daniel,

you should check out kill bills on rottentomatoes. both 85 percents with avgs near 8/10

opinion and fact aint the same

By: INK

INK — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:35:17 +0000

@ Daniel

I can tell you I didn’t use Kill Bill but that would be a lie. You have your opinion, I have mine. Call me Oscar … I must like garbage. ANd I didn’t miss your post containing the cheesy-action verbage, I chose to ignore it and still continue to have my own opinion. Sorry for the inconvenience.

By: Daniel F

Daniel F — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:43:19 +0000

Please tell me you didn’t just use Kill Bill as an example. Did you miss the Overly hyped cheesy action part of my post? The Kill Bill films were his worst films period. Both the kill bills were pure garbage. Death Proof firmly fits in to my post all cheesy action and cheesy gore. Pulp Fiction was entertaining, but there was some stuff in there that hurt it as well. Reservoir Dogs was a good movie. Reservoir Dogs had a good story the dialogue is nothing something I would praise as the great parts of the film. The only movie where the dialogue was really good was pulp fiction.

By: INK

INK — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:51:18 +0000

“Flame on!”

Get ‘em Ken. THe best defense is a good offense.
I also agree with your statement. Although I liked the Kill Bill movies … well the action anyway.