Favorite Quentin Tarantino film
 

It's been a few years since we did this (and I fucked up the last one by not including a poll). Now that most have seen Django Unchained, what's your favorite Tarantino?

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Pulp Fiction. It's my #2 favorite film of all time.

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Basterds

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I'm going to have to go with Basterds. Pulp Fiction at number deux.

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Jackie Brown

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Pulp

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Jackie Brown

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If PULP wasn't part of his filmography, it would be a much harder choice.

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Pulp Fiction, I was 16 when it came out and the movie blew me away unlike any other. The way people a few years older then me describe what it was like seeing Star Wars when it first came out is how I feel about Pulp Fiction. It mixed throughout my young adulthood. I will never see another movie that will have the dramatic effect on me that Pulp Fiction did.

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Surprised at the love for Inglorious Basterds. I just don't see it as a groundbreaking or particularly great movie. Compared to the constant creative vibe of his early work I don't think there's any comparison.

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I was 16 as well when it came out and while I can attest to the fact that it blew my (and everyone elses) mind somehow its power has diminished over the years. Meanwhile Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown grow stronger every time I watch them.

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Reservoir Dogs for me - saw it when it first hit home video. I liked Pulp Fiction but it did not have the impact on me that it did on many others.

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My favorite film is (and may well always be) Pulp Fiction. So yeah, that.

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Jackie Brown without any hesitation.

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Bring out the gimp
though results can change based on how I'm feeling on a particular day

ranking would probably be as follows

Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Inglourious Basterds
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Reservoir Dogs
Death Proof
Django Unchained

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I saw KILL BILL VOL. 1 four times on the big screen when it came out. I've seen it many times on DVD since, esp. after I got hold of the Japanese cut. I've seen the others maybe twice each, except for the last two, which I've yet to see more than once, although I certainly will. (I want to see DJANGO again on the big screen before it leaves theaters.) So KBV1 it remains. Rarely has a film connected so directly to my cultural DNA.

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surprised to see more Jackie Browns than Kill Bills

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Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time and literally changed my life, and view of movies in general, after my first viewing. I highly doubt any film will top it, let alone another Tarantino movie.

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Jackie Brown. Loved that movie.

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Strongly concur with these reactions. Though I'm sure Kill Bill (Especially vol-1) has had more repeat viewings from me, I still have to go with Pulp when all is said and done.

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Given that Pulp Fiction will win this one easily, a more interesting poll would ask "What is your 2nd Favorite Tarantino movie?"

(Now if Pulp Fiction won that poll too, that would be strange)

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Inglorious Basterds, with Jackie Brown nipping at its heels.

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IB has some brilliant moments, as well as some that get a little too jokey for my taste.

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honestly this is like picking my favorite child...but i went with PULP FICTION.

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I rewatched Pulp Fiction a few weeks ago for the first time in several years. I was incredibly impressed how well it held up now the all the dust has settled from the constant knock-offs, references, and spoofs it created in the 90s.

It's a VERY close call for me but Pulp Fiction still gets my top pick just above Jackie Brown.

I'd rank them as such:
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Django Unchained
Inglourious Basterds
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill vol. 1
Kill Bill vol. 2
Death Proof

Of course the order of my ranking could change at any given moment.

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See, I think IB is a more mature work. And how often is a movie that is 99% conversations so utterly thrilling?

Also, as someone raised Jewish, IB was incredibly cathartic. The entire time I was wondering how the big plot would fall apart, since we all know how the war turns out. And then to see the movie end the way it did, well, it really provided an emotional release. A film about the power of film that used the power of film. Absolutely brilliant.

Also the "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" sequence is the best thing Tarantino has ever shot.

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Reservoir Dogs

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Pulp, but the more I think about it, the more I want to say Inglourious Basterds, as that is just masterful.

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I agre Scott, it's a tossup between those two for me as well but I am leaning towards Basterds.

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The answer is Pulp Fiction.

But I'm voting Jackie Brown because it needs more love and is my favorite not named Pulp...

IB/DU/KBV2/RD are pretty much tied.

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DOGS gets a slight push over PULP.

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I have to hold off voting until I see Django.

As it sits for now, either Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill V1.

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I am always amazed at the love Jackie Brown gets. I do no understand it to be honest. I think it is easily his worst film, and cant even make it through additional viewings.

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Right now I'd vote for Jackie Brown, but I haven't seen Django yet so I'm holding off on my vote.

I love Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol 1, and Inglourious Basterds. I like Kill Bill Vol 2 and Pulp Fiction. I haven't seen Death Proof yet. (And, for what it's worth, I love True Romance - not a full blown Tarantino movie, but he did write it.)

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I love reading this thread... I can remember in the couple of years after Pulp Fiction, a lot of people were shaking their heads, calling Tarantino a one-hit wonder, who was focusing on acting (badly) in his friends movies, hosting Saturday Night Live (badly) and appearing on Broadway. I remember the producer of Natural Born Killers, Jane Hamsher, having harsh words for Tarantino in her book, basicly calling him a goofball.

And here we are fifteen years later, struggling to pick which one of his three or four outstanding movies is our favorite.

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JACKIE BROWN: Tarantino’s Quiet Masterpiece

Posted by Mark Bousquet on July 6, 2010

Jackie Brown (1997) – Directed by Quentin Tarantino – Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson,
Robert Forster, Michael Keaton, Bridget Fonda, Robert De Niro, and Chris Tucker.

JACKIE BROWN is cinematic bourbon, a seductively slow burn punctuated by hard shots of action. It is likely Tarantino’s least revered film
(with the possible exception of DEATH PROOF), perhaps because coming off the landmark PULP FICTION and RESERVOIR DOGS
(the director’s first film), JACKIE BROWN is stylized in a completely different manner. Where the first two films exuded cool because
Tarantino put his cinematic style front and center, JACKIE BROWN exudes cool because of Pam Grier and Robert Forster.
Unlike the new energy seen DOGS and PULP, Grier and Forster give BROWN a worn, experienced energy that stands in direct contrast to
Tarantino’s earlier films; where DOGS and PULP feel new, BROWN feels comfortable.

Because of this, it is the least “Tarantino” of all Tarantino films, but it is also one of his best. In no other film does Tarantino
get the subtlety of performances that he gets here from his remarkably small cast. Besides Grier and Forster, Samuel Jackson,
Robert DeNiro, and Michael Keaton are all excellent, and Bridget Fonda gives one of those performances that makes you realize
we’d all have been better off if she’d had Sandra Bullock’s popularity.

Think about this, too, when you’re watching JACKIE BROWN – it might very well go down as containing the last great movie
performances from Grier, Forster, Keaton, Fonda, and even the once-great Robert DeNiro, who has spent most of his time since
1997 making either predictable crime movies or parodying himself in comedies.

But here, together, with the strength of a Leonard story and Tarantino script as the foundation and the direction of Tarantino
putting them on the screen, all of them remind you how great they could all be when the stars aligned.

It’s shocking how much of DeNiro’s screen time is spent simply sitting there, looking slightly bored and completely unsure of himself
(befitting a man just out of prison), listening to either Jackson’s Ordell or Fonda’s Melanie. While that doesn’t give DeNiro
many opportunities to chew scenes, it’s a fantastic, understated performance.

Even Keaton, who plays the same role in the following year’s also-a-classic OUT OF SIGHT (1998, Steven Soderbergh)
as he does here is immeasurably better in BROWN. For as much as I love Soderbergh’s Leonard adaptation, he turns
Keaton’s Ray Nicolette into a chump, existing only to make us understand why Karen Sisco would risk her career
by laying down with a criminal.

What’s most impressive to me about JACKIE BROWN is not only the restraint that Tarantino shows but the professionalism
of understanding what it takes to get this source material onto the screen. When he changes Leonard’s novel (RUM PUNCH),
it’s done to respect Leonard’s approach and feel rather than to satisfy his own ego. As he’s quoted on the alternate sub-title track,
Tarantino moves the story to LA from Miami because he doesn’t know Leonard’s Miami as intimately as the novelist does,
but he does know LA as well as Leonard knows Miami, and that’s the only way he can keep the feel of the film authentic.

The real strength of the film is the performances of Grier and Forster, who’s characters are old enough to have seen everything,
cool enough to know how to handle themselves, and experienced enough to know when they’re up against it.
Grier imbues Jackie as a woman with cracks in that veneer; it might take a lot to get that facade to crack, but it can and does.
For as much as Jackie has seen and done, for as cool as that experience allows her to be, it’s all underscored with a palpable
fear of having to start her already broken life all over again.

The plot exists to spin character relationships into conflicting threesomes. Characters are continuously caught between
two options that have only one real outcome: Forster’s Max has Jackie’s plight and Ordell’s retribution, but you know he’s
going to side with Jackie. DeNiro’s Louis has Ordell and Melanie, but you know he’s going to side with Melanie. Jackie has
Nicolette and Ordell, but you know she’s going to side with Nicolette. Melanie tries to create a conflicted threesome with
Louis and Ordell, but you know she’s going to self-destruct. All of this makes the film less about choice as it does consequence,
but it’s not even the actual consequence that’s the focus as much as it is the focus on potential consequence.

Maybe it’s working with such strong and respected (to him) source material, but Tarantino is at his most relaxed as a director here.
When Tarantino is at his comparative worst (which is still pretty good), it’s when he falls in love with his ability to be flashy and
shades-wearing cool as opposed to the non-shades, Steve McQueen cool evidenced by Forster in BROWN. There are still plenty
of nods to his usual bag of tricks, but those nods are largely visual instead of verbal, and even then they’re understated.
On the whole, Tarantino is content to let the actors dominate this understated ride. The result is a confident, relaxed masterpiece.

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I picked Pulp Fiction. I remember when the advance press for it mentioned that John Travolta was going to star in it as a criminal. It had been years since he's been a major star and I thought "This will be interesting." But he was great in it as was Samuel L Jackson.

After Pulp Fiction, I pick Reservoir Dogs Kill Bill 1 and 2 and Inglorious Basterds.

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Inglourious Basterds - Just when you think you know what to expect from Tarantino, he goes and makes something like this. Usually when you think of a WWII movie, you get certain cliches of what kind of a movie it's going to be. But not here, you get the squad of Basterds but the primary thrust was about Shoshannah's revenge for her family's deaths at the hands of the Nazis's. And it's all tied together by film, and Tarantino's passion for movies is evident here.

But ranking Tarantino's movies seems futile. I've loved every single one of them, even Death Proof. His movies make you want to see more movies. Just a disclaimer, I haven't seen Four Rooms or Django Unchained.

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Death Proof
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill vol. 2
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill vol. 1
Jackie Brown
Django Unchained
Inglourious Basterds

I don't know that list would change any day you asked me. I really love Death Proof, I know most people don't like it that much, but its most likely my favorite. I need to watch Basterds and Django a few more times. Whatever QT movie is playing is the one I think is the best at the time.