Am I crazy for thinking this is Quentin's best flick?
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Robbmonster — 12 years ago(March 04, 2014 09:47 AM)
I'm starting to think it's his best, but I have no seen Django Unchained.
Jackie Brown is his only film so far with really human characters with human failings, as opposed to his usual parade of super-slick gangsters, stereotypes, and comic-book characters. Make no mistake, I generally like Tarantino's films, but I can't defend his characters as 3 dimensional and human.
Jackie Brown is also - by far - the most story-driven of his films to date. In fairness, Tarantino rarely bothers much about story at all, and it makes his films episodic in nature.
This one is, quite simply, a good story, well told. Highly underappreciated, and one day it's time will come.
Is it really better than Pulp Fiction? I don't know. But they are completely different and comparison is unfair (though inevitable).
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RobSac — 11 years ago(April 18, 2014 12:05 PM)
It's my favorite Tarantino movie. As far as which is the "best", do we mean by acting? Writing? Cinematography? All a matter of opinion, if you ask me. Pulp Fiction, which I love, is clearly Tarantino's most popular. Jackie Brown, however, just agrees with me. I love the music and setting. Most of all, I really like Max Cherry and Jackie, and, feel like I can relate to Max. Ordell is the classic charismatic gangster, like Pesci's characters in Scorsese's films. Melanie is stupid, funny, and attractive, and just manipulative enough to be useful to Ordell. Louis is trashy yet harmless, unless excessively provoked. These characters, despite being 1990s characters, all had a sense of reluctance that made them similar to so many of the 70s film and tv stars. Just an enjoyable movie for me. Don't know how else to explain it.
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Ralf1 — 11 years ago(April 23, 2014 02:46 AM)
Jackie Brown does feel like the most mature of Tarantino's films. Once you have seen enough of Tarantino's flicks, you first start to realize that most of them are filmed like a cinematic translation of some comic book. Second, once you have seen all those over the top unrealistic action effects in his movies, like the decapitations in Kill Bill, the killing of Hitler in Basterds, the gratuitous displays of gore in Django, etc, you start to wonder if those sequences were conceived in the head of a bored but very imaginative high school teenager who had read enough pirate novels, played too many video games, or watched too much grindhouse flicks in the past. When Tarantino filmed Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and similar, he was certainly appealing to the caged and subdued teenage part inside of adults. But in Jackie Brown, Tarantino throws away the anime/comic book filming style and actually films a movie for grown ups.
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smashsmack — 11 years ago(April 27, 2014 03:51 PM)
This is easily my favorite QT film, just everything about it seemed right on the mark and I've loved it since the very first time I rented on VHS from Blockbuster way back in 1998.
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WalterDenton — 11 years ago(April 30, 2014 08:49 PM)
This is Tarrantino's best film-because it is for one, more believable, two, it actually has some great performances from two much overlooked actors-Pam Grier and Robert Forster-both of whom steal the film from all others. The hard core Tarrantino folks find it boring, because it is truly the only film really made for mature audiences-oh, the violence of the others make them for adults only-but are not up to par with this gem. Before folks get angry-I love Pulp, Reservoir Dogs, even Kill Bill, but they are almost like watching a Marvel comic movie compared to this one-this was a film I could see Bogart or Steve McQueen doing, playing Max Cherry.
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