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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  Even though he made substantial changes to the source material and I love the nonlinear/circular narrative of Pulp Fiction, I think Jackie Brown is his most narratively coherent, engrossing, and mature work. I love the characters – particularly Max Cherry and Jackie Brown – more than any other Tarantino film.
Coincidentally, it's the only Tarantino film based on a novel and isn't a remake/reimagining of another film as Reservoir Dogs and Inglourious Basterds are. It doesn't seem to be as self-referential as most of his films even though he is adapting an Elmore Leonard novel with a love letter to blacksploitation cinema. Weirdly, I wasn't overly enamoured with it when I saw it at the cinema, but it completely gripped me on second viewing and I've loved it ever since. |
Inglourious Basterds is a remake in name only don't you think? It's nothing like the original which was a fun action packed popcorn flick whereas QT's was an overlong talk round a table that went downhill quickly following it's first fifteen minutes.