Comments on: "Heroes" Spared Quentin Tarantino

By: Jacob Singer

Jacob Singer — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:34:45 +0000

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

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:09:38 +0000

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

REALLY?

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:50:12 +0000

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.

By: IMU

IMU — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:28:19 +0000

Kill Bill was excellent.

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

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:42:51 +0000

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.

By: Mike B.

Mike B. — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:57:49 +0000

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).