the fourth dogpile from Q. Tarantino

Rating: Null/10 (26 March 2004)

It's really scary that this film is actually in the top 100 on imdb. It leads be to believe that most posters here are 15 year-old adolescent boys. I'll readily admit that I have never liked Tarantino. He is the ultimate plagiarist who takes credit for "innovations" that directors like Kurosawa, Godard, Peckinpah, and Leone were doing forty years earlier. I'm not a cinematic prude by a long shot but what is with all the deification of cruddy pop culture in his movies? I fail to see the cleverness in referencing a Trix commercial. While I don't begrudge others the right to like this movie, I must admit I get a little annoyed at hearing the word genius applied to a film that is as frivolous as this one. I thought Tarantino was suppose to be some kind of poster boy for the independent film movement but this film is as one dimensional as any flick starring Steven Segal. People really need to question themselves about the kinds of films they watch. Is Kill Bill really necessary? Like a Big Mac and Fries, I'm sure it feels good going down but in the long run it leaves you empty inside. At 40 years of age Tarantino has never bothered to grow up. He's nothing but an overgrown fanboy making some of the most expensive fan fiction of all time. If you were to list all the "references" to other films found in this cinematic junkpile it would probably equal the actual length of the script itself. This movie was not created, it was compiled. The script was probably written with a Xerox machine. This is nothing new, Spielberg and Lucas have indulged in this kind of filmmaking for years and the Coen brothers are guilty of it too- movies about other movies. They are the great regurgitators offering nothing new to the world of cinema except their knowledge of B-movie cliches. Wake up people. Demand more, from the movies you see. In the meantime, how about reserving the top 100 for films that truly deserve to be there like Renoir's Rules of the Game or Cassavetes' Woman Under the Influence.