@Mrs.:
Have you seen Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs?
Tarantino is not overrated, he has heavy supporters and heavy opposers, but
Of course I have. Reservoir Dogs was a fantastic little debut that I really enjoyed. It's intelligent, sloppy and unrefined. It's better than Pulp Fiction, which I also really liked by the way. Wow, what an exciting director. Then he steps up the game with Jackie Brown, which was great, for the first time characters that were actual individuals, great stories and flow, his best movie, still.
But what happened? It tanked at the cinemas (and by that I don't mean failed, it simply didn't achieve the figures the hype following his first two big pictures suggested). So he goes back to his safety zone, and instead of seeing his evolution to a butterfly, he degenerates back into a slug. It's like the 20 year old who still hangs out outside high school, or the 30 year old frat boy. Infantile, collegehumor.net level amped to 11. What happened to all that promise, why is the guy flatlining? Don't get me started on Death Proof and Bastards and let's not pretend the likes of Four Rooms didn't happen.
you have to admit he does things nobody else does.
He doesnt' innovate, excuse me for being presumptuous and correct me if I'm wrong but I think you may be conflating that with his distinctive filmic presentation, which really amounts to a much of a muchness. Michael freaking Bay has his own style, so what? Style without substance is worthless.
Also, Kill Bill was great.
I love chop socky garbage cinema, it's my bread and butter. And on that level I enjoyed it. BUT, I cannot push to the back of my mind that the guy who directed this, what is essentially insubstantial filler, gave us Jackie Brown. I'm sorry but it completely deflates the movie. Well, that and the fact it was two movies long, had stupid needless references throughout and characters we were told we should care about but in reality couldn't give a flying fuck.