I think the problem with DP is not that he lost his touch or that he wasn’t totally into making this, but it is in my opinion that the restrictions that you have when making a movie in the grindhouse genre has were in the way.
Often given as the most important critique on DP is the boring dialogue. I don’t see how QT could make the dialogue any more suited for a movie within this genre. If he made it less boring it wouldn’t be in the style of Grindhouse movies…it has to be corny and kinda weak. I think he did a BRILLIANT job finding a fine line between his own style and dialogue and finding that b-movie dialogue feel.
Same with the choice for the effects and budget, they made a fine blend between what they are capable of and giving enough grindhouse kick to the movies to be able to call it Grindhouse. Now this also gives him restrictions, because, as stated above, if you polish it up to much he would’ve written himself out of the genre he wanted to be in with this movie.
I think it is a great achievement and it is excellently executed in the way both QT and RR did this, but the price is lack of support for the movie because it gets less interesting to view an awful lot for most of the people…
I think a director should always follow his own heart and not do fatal adjustments, just to keep the public happy.
Having said this I dont think doing “Faster Pussy Cat! Kill! Kill!” would be a good choice, because he will restrict himself too much. Just let him do IB and mix it up with everything in his pop culture expertise, like he did with kill bill and reinvent and blend moviegenres into a real masterpiece without the restrictions that come with doing a movie in one genre only.
