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I've not typically been a QT fan, but INGLORIOUS BASTARDS felt like one of the more thoughtful pieces of filmmaking I've seen from America in the last few years. Funny how different things work for different people.
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Mike Jenner
you are so right that I wished I'd written your post!!!
However, dont look for much support with that view in this day and age!
The world seems to have swallowed a Tarantino is cool pill.
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I think it would be a good idea to hire the composer of the original DJANGO, Luis Bacalov, who's still alive and (apparently) kicking.
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Why not? If they're going to pay the royalties for the original Django theme to use in the remake, why not hire the composer himself to reflect on his old material? Bacalov is no stranger to "hip"/"weird" styles either.
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Jun 2, 2012 - 1:14 AM
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Mike_J
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I have to say I think Tarantino is one of the most over-rated directors currently working.
He steals shots from movies on a wholesale basis and calls it "homage". He slaps tunes onto scenes to make them "cool". And he writes cookie-cutter dialogue which superficially impresses but adds little or nothing to the narrative or characters' motivations.
Resevoir Dogs isn't a bad movie (albeit it is nowhere near as original as people believe) but stuff like Inglorious Basterds is terrible and Death Proof is just a total mess, unwatchable but for the presence of the very cute Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
There is no doubting QT knows his movies though so I fully expect Django Unchained to be his usual hodge-potch of characters, scenes and camera movies stolen from other, better movies. Sorry, not stolen.... paid homage to. Actually, nope, I was right the first time.
One could make the same claim about James Cameron. The Terminator-Westworld/Halloween rip off.
The Abyss-Close Encounters rip off. True Lies-James Bond Rip off. Avatar-Big time Dances with Wolves rip off. Yet Cameron brings a unique vision to these stories. It's the same with Tarantino. And don't get me started on Cameron's dialogue!  QT blows him away in that regard.
I wasn't talking about the originality of stories (what is the old adage, there are only seven original stories?) but since you made the point your comparrisons are pretty tenuous. Terminator is a Westworld/ Halloween rip off? Oh yes, I remember the bit in the first Terminator where Arnie breaks out of a nut house, ends up at a holiday resort and he puts on a mask to go chasing after his sister Sarah Conner-Myers, only to be finally destroyed by Reece, as played by Donald Pleasance.
The Abyss / CE3K - that must have been the little-seen Special Aquatic edition of Spielberg's movie you are referring to, where Roy Neary's house is taken over by Navy Seals. But because Roy has taken up the floor boards to make his replica Devil's Tower, the house sinks beneath the surface of the Earth and is stuck there with the air running out. Fortunately the same ETs that have been sending messages about going to Wyoming have a nifty line in submarines so they come to rescue Roy, unaware that Francoise Truffaut has a nuclear bomb. Sorry, but apart from both movies having a common denominator of benign aliens, they are both very different films indeed.
True Lies, FYI, wasn't an original Cameron story but actually a remake of a French film called La Totale. But that aside I don't see it as a Bond ripoff any more than any other modern action movie is (the entire genre owes so much to 007 movies). Oh wait, Arnie wears a tux.... and so does Bond! Gee whiz, you got me!
I conceed the point about Dances With Wolves, although Costner's film itself is hardly original (see films like Little Big Man, Run of the Arrow etc).
Rant over, the point I was trying to make is that QT simply copies shots from movies he loves, wheras Cameron is an innovator and actually designs shots from scratch without constantly referencing other movies. Sure, Spiellberg will borrow shots from his favorite movies but not in the wholesale fashion that Tarantino does.
As regards dialogue, fair point that that isn't Cameron strength by any means, but at keast he doesn't constantly strive for "cool" over substance in his writing the way Tarantino does.
As with everything it comes doen to personal taste by I stand by my kwn view that QT is drasticallyiver-rated.
One last thing - at least Cameron has never made an unwatchable movie. QT's Death Proof is a hateful, lupen piece of garbage - hell, Even Pirana 2 is better than that!
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