Quentin Tarantino is a terrible director

Fair enough. You are at least competent, so I owe you the decency of a legitimate debate. Reservoir Dogs was a great movie, and was a breath of fresh air when movies were becoming generic. Pulp Fiction took the style of Reservoir Dogs and made it into a more accessible movie with actors who were more popular with the younger generation and snappier dialogue. Jackie Brown was his underrated cult classic. It had a stellar cast and more cohesive story than his past movies. These three movies were the end of what was a potentially excellent director. But rather than mature as he had been, he devolved. His next big project was Kill Bill, which only succeeded in ruining the classic Chinese master/pupil story. While it has been done to death, it did not need to be butchered with Tarantino's now-generic obsession with swearing, gore and feet. It was exciting seeing Kill Bill's trailers when it was completely veiled in secrecy. I won't lie, I was one of the most enthusiastic people to see Tarantino's take on the traditional Chinese stories and stylish fight scenes. But what was released was not stylish but two hours of over-the-top blood gushing. The gore was ridiculous and boring. He found some way of making a twenty-minute fight scene boring. With this, I lost a lot of respect for him. Kill Bill Pt. 2 contained most of the scenes I was excited for in the trailer, and it was far more enjoyable between the two. But again, his unchanging style and 2-dimensional characters who know only how to kill, swear and make quotable remarks made it a difficult movie to enjoy. I get that his movies aren't to be taken seriously, but even then, they're too subtle and dry to be funny. But I'm ranting. I'm not here to dismiss his movies as garbage, but to prove his lack of talent in the director's chair. After Kill Bill, he once again teamed up with Robert Rodriguez to make Sin City and Grindhouse. The former he only directed a short scene in. His half of Grindhouse is most people's least favorite, and one many people could do without. Grindhouse was openly shallow and silly. But Death Proof was boring and lacked the variety of Planet Terror. Once again, a side-by-side comparison drawn between the two shows how a director with a similar style can be more creative. This time, it's irrefutable. Tarantino's last movie, Inglourious Basterds, was a poor attempt at stylizing the events of WWII. We're made to believe the movie is focused on the Basterds in the title. Instead, the focus is on everyone else. There was some genuinely good acting. But most of the movie was talking. The typical tongue-in-cheek style was absent for most scenes, save for inexplicable cutaways. It was all different, so it was looking like it would be a departure for sure. But it became so outlandish at times, it lost all distinction from his other movies. A friend of mine put it best when they said that his movies are slow, then go too far, comparing it to going to prom and having no one to dance with and then getting gang-raped. The moment Tarantino makes anything below an R-rating, I will show interest. But as it currently stands, he's only proving himself as a one-trick pony with each new movie.