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>>187
Jackie Brown is his best film by far. The acting is really f'ing incredible. Robert Forster's Max Cherry is one of the absolute best performances of the last three decades IMO. Maybe he didn't have to try very hard and is just being himself, i don't know, but he was just superb and his "Max" alone makes the film extremely rewatchable. Add to that Pam Grier's almost equally outstanding performance, and the easy chemistry between them and you have a supremely COMFY couple hours of – i'm just gonna say it –
KINO

Michael Keaton's performance is also a sweet lil cherry on top. And Bob De Niro as a lil retarded fella was a beautiful touch.


besides Jackie, i think the only ones i would be able to withstand watching currently are Death Proof and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Death proof has cringe-inducing dialogue between the wymmens but an great aesthetic including
>HOTT cars and car scenes, great v8 sounds
>Mary Eliz Winstead's smoking hot ass
>rosario dawson's cubo'rican octoroon tiddies
>kurt russlel being fucking awesome, great character

OUATIH is not stellar but it's enjoyable. Everything else feels so dated and especially the 90s stuff is just trying so hard to be cool; watching them kinda gives me third-hand-embarrassment, kwim?

>>192
[samefagging]
thinking about it a few seconds more, it's probably not accurate to say that Pam Grier's performance is "almost equally outstanding" as Forster's because it's just not as good and not all that close. It's just not as natural when she is "emoting", but two things
>her role requires her to emote way more acutely than even-tempered Max, more than anyone else besides Sam Jackson (who just RAISES HIS VOICE HEY I'M SAM JACKSON AND I WILL LAY DOWN MY VENGEANCE UPON THEE AND WHAT DOES MARCELLUS WALLACE LOOK LIKE etc etc)
>i'm assuming QT wanted her performance to have a bit of cheese/pulp/blaxploitation jankiness to it

regardless, Pam's performance doesn't distract from the comfiness/immersiveness of the film at all and is still really damn great on it's own merits
but forster's is close to flawless

>>193
also, pam/jackie's emoting should be hinting at "inauthentic" in many scenes, because jackie is often lying and/or putting on an act to manipulate men within the context of the scene.

fuck sake i'm finna put jackie brown on the ol pannysonic for the 160th time

>>187
tarantino rips off other movies though

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>>195
Gud effortpost

>OUATIH is not stellar but it's enjoyable. Everything else feels so dated and especially the 90s stuff is just trying so hard to be cool; watching them kinda gives me third-hand-embarrassment, kwim?
He embodies that hipster "ironic cool" where if you point out how lame it is then you didn't get it because it was supposed to be lame. I like FDTD though. Foot stuff aside Tarantino holds back on a lot of his worst writing quirks.

>>227
snappin poosy

this scene always cracks me up

>>244
MEW is so hot, still a PUTA though