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I'm the biggest Rodriguez fan! He actually wanted Miller credited as a co-director so much that he quit the DGA (Directors Guild of America) to get him it. They don't allow two directors to get credit for a single film.

Maybe a sanitised version of Reservoir Dogs, everything except the things that are done to the Policeman; and a version of Deathproof without that awful car crash scene, which I am sure took the rating from what would have been a 15 to an 18 all by itself, would be good.

I think RR may have given the co-directing thing to Miller because he shot it frame for frame from the books.

And regarding Death Proof, Max, I'd love to see the original US release of Grindhouse. I'm sure Death Proof, which had some brilliant stuff in it, will have benefited from being true B-movie length. Planet Terror was great even in the longer version and I bet the whole package with the fake trailers etc was a treat.

Easy, to achieve exactly what you are doing here - discussing it, thus creating even more hype for it so more people watch it.

Saw this at the flicks before it was famous..thought it was 5* then and still do.Total brilliance..films of its ilk come round rarely.

Max, I have to say I don't really understand your argument here.

You're saying that the famous 'ear-cutting' scene in Reservoir Dogs is too graphic, and compare it to Silence Of The Lambs where we don't necessarily see the murder but see the aftermath.

Yet, as other people here have pointed out, you never see the ear being cut off in Reservoir Dogs. The camera pans away and focuses on the wall, and then pans back to Michael Madsen and the cop character.

Personally, I love Tarantino - not because his films are 'gory', 'violent' and all that jazz. I think his dialogue is brilliantly written (or rather was - I found Death Proof to be a pale shadow of his previous work although Inglorious Basterds was very muc a return to form, if slightly ludicrous) and, back in the early 90s, his 'non-linear' structure of film making was very refreshing (albeit not particularly original - QT himself has admitted that he nicks from various other films. Reservoir Dogs is based on Kubrik's 'The Killing' and a Hong Kong film called City Of Fire).

For what it's worth, Tarantino's done a lot more violent films than Reservoir Dogs. Kill Bill, especially the infamous 'The Bride v The Crazy 88' scene, makes it look like Disney!