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RE: Tarantino's "Death Proof"

Posted by RGA (R) on December 11, 2007 at 05:19:35

In Reply to: Tarantino's "Death Proof" posted by halfnote on November 25, 2007 at 22:45:04:

Well I understood it and I'm in your camp on this film. Of course it plays to the B-Movie camp while rising way above it - unlike the rodriguez film which is a schlock Zombie film. (Though I have a soft spot for schlock zombie films and liked it a fair bit more than you).

Still DeathProof was the much better film for many of the reasons you list but also on the exploitation film level. I think it's a rung down from Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill films.

I think it is possible to very much understand a film or novel and simply not "like it" and ultimately that is going to be the case with anything. I get Citizen Kane, the themes, the messages etc but it's not a film I particularly like in the sense that it moves me on an emotional level in any way whatsoever - except to boredom. But this is the "all time greatest film" in many camps.

Tarrantino has a style that you either like in your gut or you don't. Pulp Fiction is viewed by many as a brilliant achievement and as such he has a tough time getting out from under that film. People who loved that film compare his follow-ups probably too harshly and people who hated Pulp Fiction probably won't like anything else he does.

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