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Rodney · 05-09-2004, 02:09 PM

Most Tarantino movies, and most definitely "Pulp Fiction." I couln't see a single thing special about that thing, but I've seen a lot of classic Hollywood and French film noir, which is where most of his ideas apparently came from. Quentin gets no points for taking some old plot ideas and hanging a little neon on them.

I did like his script for "From Dusk til Dawn," but that's nothing but a good times/no think action movie, and definitely not overrated.

Other overrated movies/directors:

Stanley Kubrick (except for Dr. Strangelove and his earlier work)

Steven Spielberg, who can't put real guts in anything, not even D-Day or the Holocaust. The original "Raiders" was great, but a lot of that came from Lawrence Kasdan, the scriptwriter, who worked hard to keep the movie from being too jokey. (He talked Spielberg and Lucas out of putting a ludicrous mining car sequence into "Raiders," the same one they later stuck in "Temple of Doom")

All Star Wars movies except the original. They're fun, they're not great. And in 20 years, you'll be able to do all those special effects yourself in your basement.

I think that does it for now.

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Rodney Observant Ruminant Location: Rich Wannabe Hippie Town	Most Tarantino movies, and most definitely "Pulp Fiction." I couln't see a single thing special about that thing, but I've seen a lot of classic Hollywood and French film noir, which is where most of his ideas apparently came from. Quentin gets no points for taking some old plot ideas and hanging a little neon on them. I did like his script for "From Dusk til Dawn," but that's nothing but a good times/no think action movie, and definitely not overrated. Other overrated movies/directors: Stanley Kubrick (except for Dr. Strangelove and his earlier work) Steven Spielberg, who can't put real guts in anything, not even D-Day or the Holocaust. The original "Raiders" was great, but a lot of that came from Lawrence Kasdan, the scriptwriter, who worked hard to keep the movie from being too jokey. (He talked Spielberg and Lucas out of putting a ludicrous mining car sequence into "Raiders," the same one they later stuck in "Temple of Doom") All Star Wars movies except the original. They're fun, they're not great. And in 20 years, you'll be able to do all those special effects yourself in your basement. I think that does it for now.