Movie of the year!

Rating: 9/10 (18 January 2013)

I'm sick to death of highly anticipated movies failing to perfect their genre. Lincoln failed immensely in presenting the civil war/slavery debate, albeit Lewis's great performance. Silver Linings Playbook attempted to provide a genuine romantic comedy/drama, but instead ended up as an incredibly predictable and cliché typical Hollywood flick. The Master presented a poor second half, despite PTA's strong history of phenomenal film. Argo was very average, with two dimensional characters and an incredibly over dramatisation of a true story. Get my drift? I was not impressed at all this year.
Quentin Tarantino was my only hope to put something solid, something special into the list of films in the past year (although I have yet to watch Amour).
The only people who diss this movie will be those who think it is unnecessarily violent or pointless in dialogue. But the truth is, it has witty dialogue that keeps you entertained from start to finish and sudden and gruesome violence almost to the extent of comedy. It doesn't set out to be truthful, romantic, historical or anything like that. It sets out to be different and succeeds on all points. Tarantino has done an amazing job in coming up with something new, albeit similar despite his many past successes. After making movies like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Inglorious Basterds, Jackie Brown etc it's difficult to continue making the same quality of movie, but with a different plot, dialogue and characters. Dare I say it, Tarantino has impressed me with his continuing excellence (albeit some may call it carelessness, I call it carefully thought of and crafted MESSY art).
It's movie of the year in my eyes. It won't win Best Picture because it just jokes about slavery and the Academy wouldn't dare allow such a movie to win, I'm surprised to see it nominated. But forget the Oscars. This is the movie of the year. Waltz deserved his Oscar nom and Globe Win, Leo got thieved yet again, unlucky for him I guess.