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oh man the grindhouse one was utter shit yeah. a pointless jerkoff. rodriguez blew him out of the water on that one.

and yes that’s exactly what i meant. when you said the this meets that i thought “he’s no scorsese and he’s no mamet.”

yeah pulp fiction is THE movie that defines him, and it’s the movie of a great video store clerk, a great pastiche of references and homages and quotations, a movie made of other movies, but it’s something else too, and yes it’s great, it was epoch-making and nothing was like it at a time. for sure.

but then the gimmick started wearing off for me. like he tries to be too clever and gets stuck there. there’s little or nothing behind his style and it doesn’t fly further. and then you realize it’s not the 90s anymore and you already woke up to all that and don’t need waking up again. yes the blood it’s all ketchup. movies are made of other movies.

the problem is that dream ultimately leads me nowhere. there’s a nihilistic core in it that leaves me cold. the excitement wears off and there’s nothing. maybe a cult of violence and machismo that no longer does it for me.

i liked jackie brown, but i think demonyo is the true fan of that one. wasn’t that one written by the guy he likes? whatsisname... it will come to me. the simple prose guy. [eta: elmore leonard]

anyway yeah it’s... for me pulp fiction is the one where his gimmick truly worked. but he never surpassed it, and now repeats himself. kill bill was already nausea territory for me—so cloying. and it makes 2 movies of it.

i did like django unchained though i’ve forgotten most of it now and inglorious basterds was okay, i didn’t hate it. it’s just... eh. the gimmick is all i see now. revenge/gimmick/revenge/gimmick yawn.

and guess what—i tried rewatching reservoir dogs the other day thinking “oh this was the first one, cool” and 20 minutes into it i just wanted the now-obvious characters to shut the fuck up.

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eta i have not seen hateful eight