Movies

Everyone has a favorite movie or movies or favorite directors or actors. I have always really liek Quentin Tarantino movies. There is just something about them that really appeals to me. My four favorites from him, and no I couldn't narrow it down to one, are Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 and 2, and Grindhouse. Each one is different and I like each for its subtle differences. Pulp Fiction is probably the best though. It has the best acting and by far the best story. You can't beat having Travolta and Samuel L. before they are famous playing ridiculously convincing roles as hitmen. Then having Uma Thurman playing the perfect role as Ving Rhames' coked out wife. She is amazingly convincing. Tarantino's next two movies were the Kill Bill movies as he continued to use Thurman for the leading female, and leading role for that matter. She plays a former assasin who is betrayed and left for dead by her former assasin gang. Thurman discovers she is pregnant on one of her missions and moves to Texas to try to live a 'normal' life. Bill, the boss of the gang and her former lover, tracks her down and shoots her in the head while she attempts to tell him that she has a baby and its his. She awakes from a coma years later and begins to track the assasins who shot her down and eventually Bill. There are many fight scenes, but they are not ordinary fight scenes. Each is choreographerd beautifully and each is set before unique and stunning backdrops. My favorite scene is from Kill Bill Vol. 1 when Uma is fighting Lucy Liu outside in Japan and they are in a snow covered Japanese garden. It is night and there is snow gently falling to the ground and for awhile, all you hear is the rising and falling of this waterwheel type object in the garden. Grindhouse is just 2 and a half hourse of ridiculousness. I feel like Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez just decided to make a pair of the most over the top zombie/horror movies ever made. But its not like they are doing it in an arrogant way or campy serious way, but in a way that old grindhouse movies were supposed to be. A homage pretty much to the old cheap horror movies that promised over the top action and killing but never delivered because grindhouse movies were cheaply made and made for old drive in theatres and/or old seedy theatres on the wrong side of town. So they took that and made it what the original film makers promised it would be. Brilliant!