Quentin Tarantino vs Christopher Nolan

[Ehrmantraut]

Nope

 

[Iroh]

For me it's:

Pulp fiction
Inglorious bastards
Jackie Brown
From Dusk Till Dawn
Django

vs

Memento
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
The Prestige
Inception


Actually pretty good match up if I look at it like this. Meh. QT has better peeks, but Nolan seems more consistant seeing how there are tons of movies from QT that failed to make the list. I'll still go with QT, but not by much.

Though From Dusk Till Dawn doesn't touch anything on Nolan's list, so the quantity of Nolan is higher in quality movies.

 

[Project 2501]

Nope

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

tarantino, but hes getting further away from his prime, and Nolan is smack dab in the middle of his. I will be equally excited for their next movies.

 

[KOQ24]

Tarantino needs a producer to reign him in.Hes gone full retard (Tarantino) since Kill Bill,too much unnecessary dialogue,bad editing.


If you put all of their works together i take Nolan over Tarantino.

 

[tinobar]

i only kinda liked the prestige from nolan

 

[sh1tehawke]

Tarantino needs a producer to reign him in.Hes gone full retard (Tarantino) since Kill Bill,too much unnecessary dialogue,bad editing.

i would agree with this. i've not like any of his films since the first kill bill. but i don't think nolan has made a film as good as pulp fiction or jackie brown, though memento, inception and the dark knight run it very close.

i am going to refrain from voting for the minute coz i can't decide.

 

[lockon]

i like nolan's movies more.

 

[heavyarms21]

The Mayberry should be burnt to the ground if Tarantino doesn't win this.

 

[Aas Gutú Adéli]

From the top of my mind the opening scene of 'The Dark Knight' shows the unoriginality of the Inglorious Bastards opening blatantly as a glass of Merlot spilled on a white tuxedo.

Most pretentious thing I've read in 2013.

In the film The Dark Knight, dialogue is shown through a course of events which pushes the story forward right off the bat.

You nailed that pun!

 

[Thames]

Tarantino. His movies are up there with the GOAT's.
Nolan is a great director. I really enjoyed Memento and The Prestige. Inception and the two first Batman movies were awesome as well. But they are a far cry from the genius of Tarantino.

the scene where bruce willis is talking to his chick in the cab is pretty bad. pretty much any scene where he's talking to her is draggy man. I love the movie but it drags bad at certain parts. They just randomly start talking about sh*t that doesn't pay off or could be summed up.

In a lesser movie Bruce Willis dialogue with the taxi driver and girlfriend had been plot driven. But instead we get to explore a personality, a relationship, which makes for a far more engaging movie instead of "I just fucked up a deal I had with Marsellus, we have to get out of here!". A dialogue repeating the events the audience already know. Just the mere thought that someone would want to dumb down Pulp Fiction to mediocrity rustles my jimmies immensely.

 

[Hatredcopter]

I like Nolan, but he spends a lot of time trying to stun/amaze with imagery that on closer scrutinisation doesn't work. A major point of his films is a twist, hidden agenda or a subverted plot. This often requires multiple viewings to fully understand, however these plots become unstable with multiple viewings as no movie is without sin or as I used to say - no plot is without holes.

I have decided to enjoy his films as a journey and not spend too much time analysing them, as this is where they fall apart. I see him as a much, much better version of M. Night Shamalyan.

He does know how to manage tension and thrill, but sometimes I think he gets caught up in himself a bit. DKR was a perfect example of having great ideas, but letting them suffocate the essence of the film.

Tarrantino is my favourite director, after Hitchcock. He has fun making a film, doesn't take himself too seriously, however he takes film history seriously. He is a film geek's director. His anachronisms strengthen his films which all beautifully fall into a genre which should be called "gonzo tributesploitation" or even "pulp fliction".

I love the way Tarrantino directs from the character's POV, without the need for POV shots or breaking the 4th wall. He also includes timing errors and dialogue repeat errors, which to me serve as the inconsistencies of memory.
Example: "Everyone, this is a robbery..."


Tarrantino by a mile.
TDK and Memento were great and cemented Ledger and Pearce as great actors of their generation. Nolan gets good performances out of actors.

 

[Drake]

You couldn't have asked a harder question, god damn.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Tarantino is unoriginal.

 

[Aas Gutú Adéli]

The Prestige was the best magician film ever made. Crafty, and original.

Here's an article I wrote almost a year ago that would fit nicely in this thread. I'm sure the QT fanboys who buy all his hype, just as many of them did for Chuck Liddel right before he fought Quinton Rampage Jackon, will flame me.



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Someone told me that one of the best opening scenes in any film was the table scene in 'Inglorious Bastards'. Do you consider that a great opening scene? From the top of my mind the opening scene of 'The Dark Knight' shows the unoriginality of the Inglorious Bastards opening blatantly as a glass of Merlot spilled on a white tuxedo.

In the film The Dark Knight, dialogue is shown through a course of events which pushes the story forward right off the bat. In Tarintinos scene our characters sit at a table with people underneath them. What many non-writers fail to see is that the latter scene is constructed from a Hitchcock writing tactic which is best described as 'Putting the bomb under the table'. Its direct approach being timid will have many claim the dialogue is what allows the scene to classify itself as an exception to the rule when it comes to opening scene expectations. No, we already saw men sitting at a table not doing much in his earlier film Reservoir Dogs. That's right, could this be recycled at all? Tarintino wasn't even brave enough to be creative about it, he took the concept of this Hitchcock tactic for his film Inglorious Bastards word for word like a presidential election bumper sticker and managed to stretch it into the excitement of a Saturday's Noon-to-Six algebra lecture. Now let's compare the motionless opening from Inglorious Bastards to that of The Dark Knight.

The Dark Knight has the ball rolling instantly after some shots of skyscrapers establishing the city environment. Our plot begins to unfold through a series of events, an element of creativity is thrown in as the villains execute one after another to receive a larger portion of the money pool until we remain with the last man standing. Abracadabra, like a prestige trick from David Copperfield, Ta-Da! The mask comes off and the Joker is revealed. The audience is buckled in for the ride; captivated and instantly hooked.

What your general audience seldom knows about the opening scene in The Dark Knight is that this too is another Hitchcock tactic. Remember the plane scene in 'North by Northwest'? The difference is the technique used wasn't so blatantly obvious. The Dark Knight opening scene was creatively written with an abundance of conflict that tied together organically to construct the films opening scene. Near the end of the scene we realize the man we had been watching in the mask was the Joker, he resembled the plane in North by Northwest all along!

Now back to the boring table scene. Do you remember it? It was nothing but men sitting at a table with many people beneath them that were hiding and hoping for freedom. I sometimes wonder if that opening scene would best be credited as a metaphor regarding the current state of affairs on the entertainment industry. Shoving all of the creativity into small confined spaces only to reign down with hellfire once the evil man at the table extorts what it wants from the artists willing to sacrifice their integrity. What ensues is unoriginality manufactured as ready-to-be-shipped final products.

As for the rest of the opening scene from Inglorious Bastards by Tarantino, its outcome is highly predictable which shows once more that the long drawn out dialogue serves as nothing but a 'new-era' style painting to his audience. The mouth breathers stare upon such scenes and think it's mesmerizing but similar to those with the trained eye of an artist they can see what it truly is, a desperate cover-up to pass the work off as artistic talent, or in this case more specifically, writing talent.

After reading this entire thing I'm getting that exact same feeling I get when I watch Matt Riddle showing off his striking.

 

[Spoken]

I prefer Nolan. I like Tarantino, and some of my favorite films are his... but I find Nolan to be more of the artist, having less creativity in dialogue. His ideas, however, are often more intelligent the films have more layers.

 

[Project 2501]

Tarantino is unoriginal.

lol what. Nolan stole the entire idea of Inception from an anime movie and a Ducktales comic book. Nolan is repetitive and unoriginal.

The Mayberry should be burnt to the ground if Tarantino doesn't win this.

It'll just reinforce my point of most sherdoggers having crappy taste in films.

 

[The Clamburglar]

I love Christopher Nolan, but I don't think his resume compares with Tarantino's....yet. Make this poll again in 10 years or so.

 

[Aas Gutú Adéli]

lol what. Nolan stole the entire idea of Inception from an anime movie and a Ducktales comic book. Nolan is repetitive and unoriginal.

Well what about that trilogy where a guy lost his parents as a child and then trained to become an instrument of justice? Where else you see that?

Or Insomnia? How cool was out that he remade a film from another country and put it in English for us?

His Memento was superior to the Dana Carvey movie that predated it.

I guess there's Prestige. Can't think of earlier movies with rival magicians quite like it

 

[riitzni]

Mismatch from hell. QT is in GOAT contendership, Nolan is not. I mean shit, I'd hate to pull the Oscar card, but it seems to be a 2 to 1 last I checked. It's not the best measuring stick, but if you're making quality film it's going to be hard to deny the top honors long.

Checked it out, I thought he won the Oscar for Momento, lost it to Gosford Park (Goodfellas level snub). Then it's 2 to 0, 4 to 2 if we're going with Heath & Christoph.

The Prestige was the best magician film ever made. Crafty, and original.

Here's an article I wrote almost a year ago that would fit nicely in this thread. I'm sure the QT fanboys who buy all his hype, just as many of them did for Chuck Liddel right before he fought Quinton Rampage Jackon, will flame me.



People Praise Junk

loooool, I don't see people lining up to praise this. :icon_lol: