Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by halfnote (A) on November 30, 2005 at 20:53:21

In Reply to: I thought it was a cleverly crafted work of Art (nt) posted by grinagog on November 30, 2005 at 00:17:03:

As per my response to another of the film's defenders, tell me what makes this bit of comic book of a movie (and, yes, I acknowledge Tarrentino's own homage to the influence comics have on his sensibility in the movie with the line-art interlude) a work of art.

I admire some of QT's other work, but this one struck me as thin and predictable, more mired in the comic-book sensibility itself than distilling anything poetic or artistic from it.

Give me something to think about the next time I have a chance to see it. Maybe it'll change my view.

But what I saw the first time was a film that became preoccupied with the conventions of comic books and eastern martial arts films to the exclusion of almost every other cinematic concern. It seemed more like a film Beavis and Butthead would make, than one Tarrentino would make. I can almost hear them chuckling when the john is about to mount the pimped and comatose Uma Thurman.