Directors

manofmystery wrote: Fox On The Rocks wrote: manofmystery wrote: Who's the jackass that voted for that joke tarantino?  He's just a chop shop artist that steals other peoples movies, strips out everything good about them (character development, story, etc.), and adds a bunch of over the top language and violence.  All style, absolutely zero substance.  He's never had an original idea in his damn life. Rez Dogs was great though.   That is the one movie of his that's alright BUT it's also a complete rip-off of Chung Yun-Fat's "City On Fire".

Wow man, you know your movies. I'm going to have to check that one out.

Didn't see it.  Refuse to see his garbage.  My guess would be that it was another idea he lifted from someone else, eliminated anything close to character development, added graphic violence and language for the sake of graphic violence and language, and just waited for hollywood lemmings and college dumbasses to come fellate him.  What a complete pile of sh*t, he is. 

manofmystery wrote: Didn't see it.  Refuse to see his garbage.  My guess would be that it was another idea he lifted from someone else, eliminated anything close to character development, added graphic violence and language for the sake of graphic violence and language, and just waited for hollywood lemmings and college dumbasses to come fellate him.  What a complete pile of sh*t, he is.  I always refer back to this old article anytime this complete tool comes up: Why I Hate Quentin Tarantino

He has a lot of valid points but I feel like saying "I've also left out ________________" when it clearly isn't left out of the argument is incredibly douchey.

manofmystery wrote: Didn't see it.  Refuse to see his garbage.  My guess would be that it was another idea he lifted from someone else, eliminated anything close to character development, added graphic violence and language for the sake of graphic violence and language, and just waited for hollywood lemmings and college dumbasses to come fellate him.  What a complete pile of sh*t, he is.  I always refer back to this old article anytime this complete tool comes up: Why I Hate Quentin Tarantino

Could you maybe repost that? It doesn't seem to open for me.

Fox On The Rocks wrote: manofmystery wrote: Didn't see it.  Refuse to see his garbage.  My guess would be that it was another idea he lifted from someone else, eliminated anything close to character development, added graphic violence and language for the sake of graphic violence and language, and just waited for hollywood lemmings and college dumbasses to come fellate him.  What a complete pile of sh*t, he is.  I always refer back to this old article anytime this complete tool comes up: Why I Hate Quentin Tarantino Could you maybe repost that? It doesn't seem to open for me.

The link gets changed by PA's censorship, just change the * into an i in the URL

This seems to show a problem with the site's censorship system as the word doesn't even appear within my post.

This list needs more Aronofsky.  I don't know if he's my absolute favorite or not, but he's on my shortlist.

Edited by Earendil - April 17 2013 at 23:40

^ Ugh

Fox On The Rocks wrote: manofmystery wrote: Didn't see it.  Refuse to see his garbage.  My guess would be that it was another idea he lifted from someone else, eliminated anything close to character development, added graphic violence and language for the sake of graphic violence and language, and just waited for hollywood lemmings and college dumbasses to come fellate him.  What a complete pile of sh*t, he is.  I always refer back to this old article anytime this complete tool comes up: Why I Hate Quentin Tarantino Could you maybe repost that? It doesn't seem to open for me.

You'll have to reswearify the link.

(and basically... reworking ideas from other things, modelling things self-consciously on previous works and styles of, in this case, film  is and has always been a legitimate and important part of producing art [cf. Vergil modelling stuff on Theocritus, Homer, Greek Tragedy, the epic cycle, Apollonius Rhodius and Callimachus... there's some really interesting odd stuff in late antiquity where people create new narratives wholly composed of slightly modified half-lines from previous works]... Tarantino obviously flags up his influences and doesn't make a big deal of pretending the core ideas are all his own)

Having seen both the Djangos (the spaghetti western long before Tarantino's film, which incidentally includes a cameo by Franco Nero and a really neat re-use of the style of the opening shots) - I've not seen the Corbucci sequel, though... the original is a great film (especially Carlo Simi's set design) with an appalling script and pretty terrible English voiceovers. The Tarantino film is the only standout western that's been made since, at least, Unforgiven (and it probably shows more ) and is, imho, both a film where Tarantino's sense of style, production values and ability to wrench great performances out of actors I have otherwise never been impressed by is combined with the film having a real heart. He really should've made his own cameo in it something that he, y'know, can do (and it should really have kept in a bit more dialogue to actually establish the point of that bit of the film) but other than that I think the film's incredible.

But yeah, of the ones I know here (most of), I'm only a big fan of Kubrick and Tarantino. Coen brothers have done some very good and watchable stuff but don't really engage me on a personal level.

The beautiful thing about The Room is that you can always see how hard Wiseau was trying.

As a matter of taste, my own list would be very different.


Edited by TGM: Orb - April 18 2013 at 08:26