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ChrystalFalchion said:
I can't stand Quentin Tarantino. As a director, he's an A grade but as a writer he's C-. The problem I think is that he surrounds himself with ass kissers and other yes men who say how high when he tells them to jump, and no one's got the balls to tell him when he's being an idiot. And it doesn't matter how smart you are, not every single idea you have is going to be a good one. Only film he's ever done that I genuinely like is Pulp Fiction.

Kill Bill is a film that perfectly sums up my problems with him.
She survives getting beaten half to death and shot through the head...somehow. That scene is shown in black and white for no reason (agree with above poster on that kind of stuff). Other flashback scenes are shown in colour, so not sure why that one had to be in black and white. Oh, and one is in a pseudo anime art style...why? She's in a coma for 4 years, yet has no scars, muscle wastage or brain damage and is left completely unguarded despite being a victim of attempted murder (and an extremely grisly one at that). One of her old assassin friends tries to finish the job, but then Bill has a last minute change of heart and she goes along with it, because otherwise we wouldn't have a movie. She gets woken up by some random guy who runs a side business where people rape unconscious people in the hospital trying to force himself on her (because you know, we needed more shock value).

And we basically meander along to Japan (or what an American who's never been to Japan thinks Japan is like). OK, seriously Quentin, in what universe does a man love a council of criminals "more than his own children." When I first heard that, I was like "damn you must really hate your children." And the bride triumphs just like we all knew she would, because we've already seen her killing name no.2 on her list. Why the fuck did they do that? I've got no problem with films showing events out of order (Memento does that brilliantly), but here all it does is take all the tension out of the fight scenes because I already know she's going to win.
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Man you actually put my feelings towards Tarantino very well into words

Additionally, it feels like Tarantino often has certain scenes he wants to get to but not how to arrive there naturally. Kill Bill 2 is a good example. He wanted Beatrix to escape being buried alive. The way he took to get there was unnatural and unfitting. Somehow we are meant to believe that this killing machine of a woman would without much thought break into a house, strike a pose with her sword and get shot (but obviously not with bullets but with salt, because again, we need her to get buried alive). That bothers me a lot and it always takes me out

Also, even when he's good, he's not that good. I can't critize anything about Pulp Fiction, but you can't tell me that this movie is some sacred piece of film. It's also so dumb with it's religious meaning. Oh wee the code to the case is 666, how smart
 
Local Dog said:
Man you actually put my feelings towards Tarantino very well into words

Additionally, it feels like Tarantino often has certain scenes he wants to get to but not how to arrive there naturally. Kill Bill 2 is a good example. He wanted Beatrix to escape being buried alive. The way he took to get there was unnatural and unfitting. Somehow we are meant to believe that this killing machine of a woman would without much thought break into a house, strike a pose with her sword and get shot (but obviously not with bullets but with salt, because again, we need her to get buried alive). That bothers me a lot and it always takes me out

Also, even when he's good, he's not that good. I can't critize anything about Pulp Fiction, but you can't tell me that this movie is some sacred piece of film. It's also so dumb with it's religious meaning. Oh wee the code to the case is 666, how smart
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Yeah you're right, he also always has to have a murder spree ending, whether or not it makes any sense in the narrative. Kill Bill and Hateful 8 it made sense, but why the fuck did Once Upon a Time in Hollywood need that? It wasn't built up to or anything, it came right the fuck out of nowhere and was completely unnecessary.

With you on Pulp Fiction, it is a good film and I enjoyed watching it, but I've never been tempted to buy it and I never find myself watching clips of it on YouTube or anything.
 
being italian and new yorker it feels sacrilege to say but ranch/italian dressing with cheap pizzas as a dipping sauce saves you from knowing "this is mid at best." lol.

real ones learned that in high school on pizza day lol
 
im going to stop this discussion by doing what i do best: derailing this thread with a god awful take
burger king chicken nuggets are the best chicken nuggets, and its not even close.
 
BIG ASHLEY said:
because it is a rabbit
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*She

And she's anthro, that don't count. And don't tell me you don't like to see this
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C'mon Ash don't lie to me. Even shadowpea agrees with me

Btw I was a single time in my entire life in BK. I was 12 and it was at an airport after my first flight. I've been in McDs, KFC and Subway rather frequently before I started eating healthy though. Subway was the absolute worst man
 
BestDatrix said:
Aren't you a dog?
Don't you eat meat?
Are you vegan? Please don't fucking tell me you're vegan.
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dogs can eat plants, they just usually dont do it. many animals you think are carnivores or herbivores are actually something called facultative carnivores/herbivores. this means they usually eat one thing, but occasionally eat the other, and can do so without much issue. an example of a facultative herbivore is virtually every single herbivore. deer, sheep, and basically every other herbivore you can think of is facultative, and has been documented eating meat. the only non facultative (obligate) herbivore i know off the top of my head is the koala. dogs are facultative carnivores, and will ocassionally eat vegitation, though it can be bad in large amounts depending on what it is. there is even a canine that is herbivorous, which is the maned wolf. cats however, are obligate carnivores, so do not feed them plants. so yes. dogs can eat plants. whether they can be vegan or not, i dont know.
to be clear, a facultative carnivore/herbivore is different from an omnivore because... i dont know, but they are, and i am not the scientist, so i will just agree with that.
 
Highkey have a mild grudge against Netflix One Piece. Prior to its release it truly felt like, at least to me, that we were seeing the tail-end of these god-awful live action remakes of animated properties. Disney's income stream off their renaissance movie remakes was drying up, PR around the concept continued to be in the gutter, it felt like the end was nigh and the corpos were just a few more flops away from finally giving up. Then Oda and co. managed to put together something competent and its reward was breaking all sorts of Netflix viewership records so now we're probably locked in for at least another half a decade of cinematic refuse because of moron execs not realizing the highly specific circumstances that made a sort of international "relaunch" for One Piece actually sensible
 
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