Tarantino and the Last 17 years

I, like many others, will see any film that Tarantino directs. Many have said the man is a ripoff artist, but if you ever read the interviews the man falls just short of admitting it. He is the king of the homage. Kill Bill is scene after scene of the man showing us what he loves about kung fu movies and westerns. Incredibly shot and scripted.

This post is not about defending QT, no it's about QT's top 20 films from the last 17 years. Watch the above youtube clip and then come back to me.

You may not like this guys style and his picks but damn it if he didn't rewrite Unbreakable for me at the end there. I wrote that film off the second I walked out of the theater. M. Sham-a-lamb's follow up to Sixth Sense pissed me off when I first saw it. Unbreakable had the same character model (a father figure who has experienced a tragedy, a child who awkward and quiet, a mother who is all but closed off to the outside world, with the only difference being the Sammy Jackson), it had the same mission scene at the end where the main character finally becomes comfortable with his powers to save some random innocent, there is a gamechanging twist at the very end (I'll save this for you in case you haven't seen the film), and the shot selection and color scheme is very similar to the sixth sense as well.

Beyond all that pile of mediocrity QT pulls out the pitch that was never sold in the film and should have been the driving force behind the original write up the script. "What if Superman existed but didn't know he was Superman?" That's an awesome premise, too bad Sham-a-lamb threw 50 pounds of hot manure on that idea and came up with a story line and presentation that put everyone to sleep. Sham-a-lamb should call QT before he puts out another piece of garbage and have QT find the saving grace in his trash before he digs the corpse of his career another six feet into the Earth.