[quote]Saying that Usual Suspects is a Pulp/Res rip-off is completely retarded.  They’re not even the same genre.  Let’s also not forget that Usual suspects came out in 95, so that means that the script and idea had to have come before Pulp Fiction was even released, so let’s not go off the deep end.  Just because the movie doesn’t really have any good guys (except the… wait for it… cops), doesn’t mean it’s a rip-off.
Second, X-Men II WAS something special.  These directors (including Nolan) are not ‘directors for hire’  Save that title for directors like Schumacher and Mann and Bruckhiemer and Spielburg.
Oh… and, again, let’s not go off the deep end.  Just because Memento was out of chronological order doesn’t mean that it was ripped off of Pulp Fiction and Res.  They weren’t the first movies to be done out of chron. order, let’s not forget that. .[/quote]
Dude, I’m NOT making this shit up. Im stating the FACTS here. Usual Suspects, Memento, Snatch and many other crime films that came out after Dogs and Pulp were influenced very much by them. Its a well known fact. You can deny it all you want. You seem to forget how much QTs films changed modern cinema, and crime cinema in particular. And all those films ARE in the crime genre.
All I’m saying is that Singer and Nolan arent really directors who have their own voices. They are still doing other peoples films, not their own.
QT is a writer/director and a cinema auteur. So in my opinion, those directors dont belong on his level right now. Maybe they will in the future, but I dont know.