Jackie Brown (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) Reviews

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amyuhrich I'm gonna have to be the odd man out here and say I watched this recently with another Tarantino fan and we both found it pretty...average. Good, but nothing special, especially for Tarantino. Am I missing something?

fnoo That's the thing. It's just a solid movie, made in a relatively gentle pastiche -- whereas when you go to Tarantino, what you're usually looking for is some kind of virtuosic form-bending.

fnoo It's sort of like having a yen for a Coen Brothers movie then throwing in Miller's Crossing. You get a good movie. It's just not really doing all the things that you expect from the creative voices at hand.

chrismolnar @gkruis gotta see night of the hunter! it's so iconic you'll feel like you've seen it already. @amyuhrich i feel like jackie brown has the most replay value to me. i love inglourious basterds almost as much but the thrill of it lessens over time.

gkruis I'll hunt it down some night and give it a spin.

amyuhrich @fnoo Bingo. I couldn't have said it better. @chrismolnar I am a big fan of Inglorious Basterds; I see what you're saying, though I still like IB better, because I feel like the kind of material I get in Jackie Brown is more common - bags of money, guns, people who die for opening their mouths (then again, I only just watched The Sopranos this past year).