It's definitely his best film and my personal favourite.
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The_Dougster — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 08:54 PM)
You hear me talkin, hillbilly boy? I aint through with you by a
damn
sight. Im gonna get
medieval
on your ass.
I gotta watch that movie again. Just when I think I'm sick of seeing it over and over again, I start jonesin' for some of that kick-ass dialogue! -
dwellman21 — 9 years ago(August 10, 2016 09:43 PM)
Naw, you're not. It's the only film of his where I actually found myself giving a damn about the characters and what was going on with any of them.
And you've hit on something that keeps me from liking Tarantino with the sound bytes critique; so many of the long-winded speeches and monologues he keeps doing seem like he's just trying to recapture the lightning in a bottle that was Samuel L. Jackson's star-making performance in Pulp Fiction, but with these efforts come the sacrifice of genuine character development or a reason for more to care. It's like they come to screeching halts to go "Hey, hey, watch thisthis is the scene you're going to be quoting to your friends."
If anyone if familiar with a Youtuber called NerdWriter1, he did a video about Zack Snyder (in relation to Batman vs. Superman), and the gist of it was that Snyder's main problem is that he's more concerned with creating
"moments"
in his films more than he is about creating an altogether good movie, stringing a multitude of great scenes to compliment and build off one another and LEAD UP to those great movie moments that we all remember years and years later. To its credit even though I'm not much of a fan of it, Pulp Fiction actually did do that fairly well (again, hence why we all remember Sam Jackson's scene). Most his other films? Not so much, at least not for me.
Then there's Jackie Brown, which isn't a movie with that many "memorable quotes" that you could drop anywhere and people would get the reference, but I felt like this was a movie where his "small talk leading into more pertinent story information" style of dialogue writing really worked the best. It gave the movie a grounded sense of realness and reality and relatability that gave me a great picture of all the major characters in here. It wasn't focused on doing any kewl shots or dropping a bunch of references to make all the film geeks go "OOO I KNOW WHERE THAT'S FROM!", it just tells a nice, tight, interesting story.
It's a shame that people didn't respond to this movie as much as the others, because I feel like this was a film that really showed Tarantino maturing as a director, and if he kept on this path he could've been on David Mamet levels of must-see (must-read?) writing on display. Nowadays, I know what I'm going to get out of an (overlong) Tarantino film, so I don't really even bother with them anymore. -
Suriname86 — 9 years ago(August 23, 2016 06:27 PM)
No, it's not just you. People don't appreciate "Jackie Brown" because a) it's not as flashy as Tarantino's other movies and b) it may just be me but I remember the trailers being a bit dull and c)let's be honest: it got labeled a "black movie" when it came out which didn't attract a lot of viewers.
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