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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pezagent" data-source="post: 1271609" data-attributes="member: 15568">Argh! Tarantino can't write his way out of a paper bag! His success can be attributed more to Hollywood's failure--as studios hone and polish the latest blockbuster mediocrity becomes king. Honestly, if you want good dialog, go see a good, contemporary play like House of Blue Leaves and you'll start to understand that Tarantino's hogwash isn't dialog--it's pretentious scene writing 101--revealing the subtext. There's still no conflict or drama in his movies. It's all sophomoric "what if" fantasy. Wouldn't it be cool if "this" actually happened like "this?" Characters in Tarantino's films aren't characters--they're puppets. No soul, no depth, no drama, just surface-level BS. John Hughes was writing this stuff long before Tarantino came along. Only he kept Sixteen Candles rated PG. Replace Ringwald with Thurman and you've got Sixteen Candles 2: Pulp Fiction.As no other Hollywood film knows how to enter this territory (everybody is writing for the cliché, for a buck) QT comes off as some sort of "genius" when the truth is he's borrowed every scene he's ever written/shot from some other movie. You know that scene in Pulp Fiction where Uma ODs and they revive her by plunging a needle in her heart? That was taken from the Martin Scorsese documentary American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince where Steven Prince is describing this event as it actually happened to him. (It's actually a very entertaining film.) Tarantino ripped it almost word for word. He's really just a cutNpaste boy. Just watching the previews for Kill Bill made me sick, as he borrows and steals blatantly from every movie ever made, including Cats and Dogs. Great dialog? Sense of character? Right. Especially with lines like: "Silly Rabbit?" I go to the movies to escape mediocrity and cliché, not to celebrate it.Perhaps he should be writing speeches for the new Governator of California. Then he could pulp him up./johnny <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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