Tiresome Tarantino

Rating: 7/10 (21 January 2016)

I finally understand why everyone talks about Tarantino. It's not that he's a great director, he's very good. It's that his experiments are more worth talking about than say, a great director's successes. You won't hear as zealous a talk over the Coen Brothers, who deserve it. You watch his movies, and as much as you think about the characters, you think about the direction. It's like a Kanye West song. Kanye West can't resist giving a shoutout to Kanye West. QT is the same. In doing this, it's hard to see his movies as actual stories, or get lost in them. That makes them shallow, and confuses what he's trying to say, if anything. There's also his need to make everything juvenile which is fine but it tends to throw off the tone, making it distracting. Also, it makes everything bloody to the point it's tiresome. Notice this is a review of the experience, not the movie. Notice you can't review a movie by him without saying Tarantino a lot. The movie has snow, a cabin, and guns. You get the picture.