Okay , one of guys bnrought up Tarantino in that other thread.

I got to do a bit of a disclosure here: In the late 1980s into the early 1990s I wrote a Movie Trivie column for the University of Cincinnati Film Society, I'm alsoi cursed with a somewhat erratic photographic memory. Anytyhing I see twice or more timnes just sticks in my memory - whether i want it to or not. (Including at times TV shows and movies that I don't like as well...)

That group hit the National News back in 1987, USA Today and everything ...I had to act as bodyguard to our group's president for a week or so because of a controversy and death threats that we got. (all because Jean-Luc Goddard was an unhappy Catholic)

So, I got unusual opinions at times on movie directors and filmmakers. Sometimes I also hate it when those same people get all pretentious about their movies.

 With movies its alright if sometimes a movie is just meant to be FUN.


- Ed C.

Quote from: KoltarWith movies its alright if sometimes a movie is just meant to be FUN.

Well, no shit.

The problem I have with these statements of yours like this are that you'll wade into a discussion -- where the very purpose is to discuss differing opinions, not just agree with one another -- and hand-wave everything away, commenting that everyone is taking things too seriously and should just make nicey-nicey.  Bullshit.  Very few of us are here to form a Mutual Admiration Society.

Similarly, I have a problem with you wading into discussions and making a bold proclamation like "That would be BAD," and lapsing into ominous silence without explaining why said thing would be bad.  To be frank, I suspect that you don't know why -- you just have an opinion that you can't really substantiate, and having made a bold declaration in all-caps, you sit back waiting for someone with a more informed opinion to weigh in on the topic, to which you can add an incisive comment like, "Exactly."  G'ah.  Bullshit.

This is why I keep calling you onto the carpet when you make assertions like these.  It isn't because I dislike you.  It's because I think you try to make erudite posts without understanding what you're saying.  It's because it's bullshit.

!i!

Ian, this thread is my fault. I have a feeling if John Kim started a thread "Why does everyone here like Post Modernism?" Koltar's responses would be very different. It's funny, I mentioned Tarantino because I thought Koltar would take me up on my offer to have a friendly brawl on the declining (IMO) quality of QT's particular take on genre films....but it would appear I was mistaken.

Regards,
David R

No...you are right his movies are declining in quality.

 Its similiar to when a novelist gets famous , and then  his publisher stops assigning an editor to him  going with the assumption that they can now do no wrong because they had a hit.


- Ed C.

Tarantino's crap, and Koltar's a pugnacious ignoramus. Thread solved.

I rather like most of Tarantino's movies.

Quote from: AosI rather like most of Tarantino's movies.

I don't think he or I said they were bad...just declining in quality.

Heck, even so-so Tarantino is better than the "best" some other directors can do


- Ed