I actually feel that way about Reservoir Dogs, of all things. Yes, it's good - great performances, great dialogue - and I've seen it a few times, but it never really connected with me. Maybe because I saw it after Pulp Fiction, so it never impressed me that much compared to what he was doing post-RD.

When someone says something is "boring" or "dull" I tend to ignore their opinion until I've seen/read the thing myself. I would not call Kill Bill either one of those things. In the quiet moments it still feels very much alive (and tense).

I thought Death Proof worked gangbusters as part of the whole Grindhouse experience. I saw it opening weekend. It's a looong film, so by the time you get to a QT movie where people are just hanging out and talking, it's oddly a relief after Planet Terror. (Even though the dialogue is not exactly very good by QT…

I'm not digging this revisionism.

Yeah, seriously, what happened to the Whole Bloody Affair? He talked that up for years and years.

I'm so old.
*dissolves into the muddy earth*

I tried this last year and ran into similar problems. I could cut it down to just the most commercial songs, but then invariably I would lose the really interesting, eccentric, or "slight" songs that I actually have really come to think are essentially "White Album."

I met someone once who caught on that I liked 60's psych music, and he said that he bought a copy of this album called "Forever Changes" and he hung it on the wall because he thought it looked cool, and he wondered what it was like.

I was really disappointed in The Hateful Eight (and I saw it in 70mm as part of the roadshow presentation)…yet at the same time I had to admit it was full of great performances and some first-class filmmaking. I just much prefer the "slow" first half to the violent second half.

I agree that your suggestion would be a good move for QT at this point to return to a contemporary setting, but I think the "movie movie" approach of Inglourious Basterds was pretty brilliant. It commented on film being used as propaganda by making the film itself turn into propaganda (albeit anti-Nazi, instead of…

That's a challenge for writers in any medium. All I asked of The Shallows was that the ending remain tonally consistent with the raw, survivalist feel of the first three-quarters of the film.

"The movie’s third act takes an abrupt swerve in a less plausible, more
heightened direction, serving up the conventional heroics that acts one
and two had studiously avoided." This was the problem with The Shallows, for me. I enjoyed it quite a bit until the ridiculous CG action movie ending.

Bruce Willis turned into Steven Seagal so quickly I didn't notice.

When I was a teenager babysitting the neighbor kid, I showed him the first part of Aliens, thinking that since it was on TV, it wouldn't be that bad. He went to bed right after the aliens attacked and wiped out most of the marines. His mother told me the next day that she found him wandering around upstairs when she…

That reminds me of when I saw Inland Empire in the old Orpheum Theater in Madison back when it came out. At one point midway through that very long David Lynch movie, Laura Dern walks into a theater and down the aisle. The interior of the theater looked exactly like the Orpheum. We were in the front row of the…

Sadistic clarification needed for me, a new father: did you tell him it was based on a true story, or that these were the actual recordings of real people?

"Dylan suggested in his speech that there was more to this novel than a story of a man hunting a white whale. However, this observation was also made by Sparknotes."

It had its moments. I thought the "interview" scene was really well done. The problem with the idea of these spin-offs is they take one or two creepy scenes from the original film and try to stretch them out to 90 minutes.

Short version: I hate salespeople.

But these are all true stories!!!