Quentin’s Latest Film is Not Death Proof.

Published: October 7, 2007, 4:34 pm

I never thought that I would say this. I hate to say this, but Quentin Tarantino has finally made a bad film. Death Proof was not only awful it was out of date. Tarantino usually recycles the best of the best but in Death Proof he only took the worst. Worse yet, the quintessentially Tarantino dialogue seemed flat. I am really hoping that Tarantino does not fall into the Kevin Smith trap. Kevin Smith tried to be cool for cool's sake and he flopped four times before Clerks II. Tarantino is an interesting person who has a unique way of expressing himself and this is expressed in his characters. But if the conversations his characters don't talk about interesting subjects, they start to blur together. Kurt Russell sounded too much like Bill at times and I could hear Uma Thurman in several characters. I even heard a few Travoltas. The world and atmosphere of the film were good. I enjoyed the settings and pulp backdrop. The movie has grown on me in the hours since

[ Full article ]

Blog link

Rating: 0

Comments