Agree his best work was the first movies. Still immature but the rest was creative. Instead of maturing he just went full style over substance with more and more absurd characters catering to societies stereotypes and bias.
I don't get the praise . It's now all cringe supercool characters like out of a comic book.
It is funny that he shits on comic book movies but nothing he makes has any more substance. I honestly think that he would be better suited either directing other people's scripts or having other people direct his scripts. True Romance was one of the more polished Tarantino movies made, which was directed by Scott.
The part that is depressing about Tarantino is that all of his movies are very formulaic.
Cool scene that mirrors a movie form the 70s or 80s but adds nothing to the plot
Super cool character that is super hip, cool or black
Witty dialogue that does nothing to make the audience relate to the characters but only to be clever
Women's feet
Criminals who live by a code of honor like Japanese Ronin stories
Characters the audience can't relate to or care about
Just a series of things happening without good motives
Thinking course dialogue or wild scenes are ground breaking when they are just usually avoided because they don't move the plot
No real plot aside from just a loosely connected series of cool scenes that have been stitched together because the director fails to understand character development
A complete inability to understand character development
An inability to cutdown ancillary scenes to keep the plot development tight
Movies center around showing the audience something unique rather than an actually story
For someone that clearly likes movies, he is unable to create much new and instead copies stuff left and right and claims it is an homage
That said I like his movies but honestly I watch them for a few scenes rather than a full tightly held together story. I think the problem with Tarantino is that people confuse him with being a good director when in actuality he is more a "brand". People go to and watch his movies to see a certain type of teenage shlock rather than a well put together movie. I think there are a lot of writers and directors that could make a Tarantino type movie but they don't have the brand recognition to make it work. Guy Ritchie I think is the british Tarantino in that you know you are getting a slick and shallow pulpy product but no one is confusing it as anything else but thin and sugary material. In a lot of ways, I think Guy Ritchie has grown more as a director while Tarantino has gotten more selfish and masturbatory to the detriment of his films. For example, the last thing time Tarantino has put anything together that was as tight as "The Gentleman" was maybe years ago with Pulp Fiction, but I think Pulp Fiction is a little sloppy when it comes to telling a complete story.