Am I crazy for thinking this is Quentin's best flick?
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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.
I don't know if I'd rate this one as the best Tarantino movie. When you ask what's better, Jackie Brown or Kill Bill or Pulp Fiction, is like comparing a fine red wine and a fine white wine, even though they aren't really comparable. -
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.
"It's the stuff that dreams are made of." -