Am I crazy for thinking this is Quentin's best flick?
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MissKateRabbit — 12 years ago(August 15, 2013 04:28 PM)
This film is so severely under appreciated.
It is my favourite QT film and my second favourite film ever! It is brilliantly paced, the writing is awesome and Pam Grier is a goddess.
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thereseuphemiaabernathy — 12 years ago(August 22, 2013 01:11 AM)
Not crazyjust probably not often agreed with.
But that's okay. (In fact, SOMETIMES that seems to indicate that you're smarter or have better taste than most. 
In this instance, I don't agree myself, as it's definitely not my favoritebut I certainly do like it quite well.
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m-oliver510 — 12 years ago(August 24, 2013 05:59 AM)
Not crazy at all Its my favourite QT film without a doubt, the music, characters and especially Pam Grier she could read the back of a serial box to me and Id happy listen for hours. Robert Forster and Sam Jackson are spot on and I liked De Niros reserved performance very much. And did I mention the music. Across 110th street by Bobby Womack is a stone cold classic, not to mention Street Life by Randy Crawford I expected some Curtis Mayfield buts thats probably why QT didnt go there to obvious.
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montrossboc-1 — 12 years ago(September 21, 2013 10:12 PM)
I haven't seen Django, but of QT's other films, I like Jackie Brown best. Just fewer flat spots.
But for the record, I like True Romance and Natural Born Killers better than Jackie Brown
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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).
Never defend crap with "It's just a movie"
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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.
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.
Because sponges never have bad days.