"Heroes" Spared Quentin Tarantino

6:52 pm EST September 18th, 2007 | News | 6 Comments

hayden panettiere and ali larter I’m breathing a sigh of relief that Heroes, the best show currently on tv, won’t have an episode directed by Quentin Tarantino who is clearly a talent but at the phase in his career where he’s self indulgent and nobody will tell him when he needs to cut the excess fat from his projects (see Kill Bill, Death Proof).

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6 Responses to “"Heroes" Spared Quentin Tarantino”

  1. Mike B. says:
    September 18, 2007 at 7:57 pm

    Unless they were prepared to let his episode run long, “excess fat” would have in no way been a problem.

    And I suppose I’m in the minority, but I liked all four of those two movies (or, more pertinently, the three that he directed).

  2. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    September 18, 2007 at 11:42 pm

    The biggest fault in Death Proof was QT indulging in excesses. I like his style, but he needs an editor who will tell him when enough is enough.

  3. IMU says:
    September 19, 2007 at 9:28 am

    Kill Bill was excellent.

    Sorry dude. The criticism works fine in reference to Death Proof though.

  4. SpiderJ says:
    September 19, 2007 at 9:50 am

    I agree with IMU, but will say that I think Quentin’s an excellent director of actors, and wouldn’t have minded his presence behind the Heroes lens. He draws performances out of people that are startling at times, and not just from former B-listers like David Carradine and Robert Forster.

    Look at Robert DeNiro in Jackie Brown. Have you ever seen DeNiro, one of our smartest actors, play somebody so completely and frustratingly dim before? And if he had, would you have bought it?

    His problems of late have been all related to his writing. He’s become a parody of himself. Nobody says “hello” in a Tarantino script, they have to make two references to obscure 70s film and call each other “bitch.” It’s cringe-worthy.

  5. Oliver Willis says:
    September 19, 2007 at 10:09 am

    You mean the 4+hr Kill Bill wasn’t overly indulgent?

    REALLY?

  6. Jacob Singer says:
    September 19, 2007 at 10:34 am

    [i]Heroes[/i] is the best show on television? WTF?