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Quentin Tarantino: The gezzer that made Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction & Jackie Brown.

His works:

don't forget the soundtracks - guaranteed to contain goodies circa '69, i'd have thought.

your right ,woodgnome

Errr.....
I don't think I'll bother.
There's an old Peter Greenaway on the telly.

Nah: still doesn't mean anything.
Is he famous?
And, if so, why?

a) For being a crap actor
b) For "outing" Top Gun as a gay metaphor movie.

Jackie Brown is excellent, if not quite as good as Pulp Fiction. Well worth watching, Magoo---and the soundtrack, as with all QT films, is sublime.

Of course I've heard of the vastly-overrated Mr T: as usual my sarcasm was a tad too subtle for some of our readers.
I found R Dogs amusing in parts, but the unnecessary, gratuitous violence suggests to me that Mr T has serious psychological problems, as does a large chunk of L.A.
Dressing up violence as art isn't clever, and it isn't art.
Had I been Rafferty, I'd have sued. Or at least refused copyright permission.

Gratuitous violence is and always has been a staple of the movies. A simple viewing of that early classic King Kong shows a train being derailed, and a woman removed from her bed and left to drop hundreds of feet to her death because she isn't Fay Wray.

Yes, I found the torture scene on Reservoir Dogs disatasteful (okay, I looked away), but that at least was one sick man torturing a real character. A planeload of passengers were offed in Die Hard II almost without a care, and the abyssmal Independence Day saw a road tunnel full of people being burned to death while we, the audience, are supposed to be cheering because a dog escaped the flames.

Screen violence is a fact, and death is a part of that. I'm fairly sure QT isn't the full shilling, but is his approach to violence any worse than most main stream directors.

Oh, and on a slightly different subject, I thought Titanic had a happy ending---Leo snuffed it.