Either you like it or you don't. I don't like it.

Rating: Null/10 (21 February 2004)

OK, I know Quentin Tarantino makes deliberately extreme movies. I know he wants his works to be trash, very hard. I know he wants to be miles and miles away from classic Hollywood products. But I don't understand why so many people consider him a genius.
Maybe I'm one of the few persons (!) who doesn't like his style, nevertheless I think his movies (and this one above all) are terrifying. I don't consider funny seeing flying heads and blood everywhere, every scene is extremely violent and disgusting. Many people say that the harder Tarantino pushes each detail, the more comical he is. For me most of the audience don't understand he delivers caricatures! The problem is that he gets instead the opposite effect, like a praise and an excitement for violence, really gratuitous. In this film the story -very weak- is overwhelmed by flashiness.
It's a difficult topic (on one side I don't want to sound like a moralist, on the other one I want to tell my opinion). Films like "Taxi driver" or "Clockwork orange" are very violent too, but they are strong tales with strong stories. I don't say violence in these movies is more acceptable, but it's functional to the plot.
Furthermore, why telling Tarantino is a master? He always quotes Bruce Lee, he quotes (or copy) ideas from John Woo and Sergio Leone, he recreates sets and situations already seen in B movies. He goes on paying tributes... Why doesn't he himself invent something?