I’ve never seen a Tarantino movie on the bigscreen, my aesthetic for Tarantino movies began when my brother rented Kill Bill Vol.1, I was just blown away by it, then I saw the Tarantino trailers on the special features menu. . .and here I am today. I can’t fucking wait for Grindhouse, I’m gonna watch it over and over agian, and then eventually buy the bootleg version.
One of my good friends went to film school at the University of Texas - that’s when he started being a fan of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino - that’s all he would talk about for a long time. He actually thought that Rodriguez would be a bigger success than Tarantino - wrong! - We used to watch From Dusk Til Dawn, Desperado, Reservoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction like they were going out of style. We even had a whole bunch of cartoons that were made by Rodriguez when he was a fledgeling film-maker. They were pretty stupid, but my friend really liked them. I never really got into Rodriguez, but like I have always said - Pulp Fiction is the greatest film ever made. Now my friend works for the Food network and edits Iron Chef America - I guess we can’t all be Robert Rodriguez!
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One of my good friends went to film school at the University of Texas - that’s when he started being a fan of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino - that’s all he would talk about for a long time. He actually thought that Rodriguez would be a bigger success than Tarantino - wrong! - We used to watch From Dusk Til Dawn, Desperado, Reservoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction like they were going out of style. We even had a whole bunch of cartoons that were made by Rodriguez when he was a fledgeling film-maker. They were pretty stupid, but my friend really liked them. I never really got into Rodriguez, but like I have always said - Pulp Fiction is the greatest film ever made. Now my friend works for the Food network and edits Iron Chef America - I guess we can’t all be Robert Rodriguez!
[/quote]It beats working in a hospital with a whole bunch of sick fucks.
sick fucks. that’s a nice way of puttin’ it. >:D
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If I were you, I’d quit it - you don’t want to get on my bad side -just ask Ify.
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Fuck you arsehole. I don’t think I suffered any consequences for getting on your bad side. Heck, do you even have a good side? 
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Fuck you arsehole. I don’t think I suffered any consequences for getting on your bad side. Heck, do you even have a good side?
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yeah. it’s the dark side…the moon…as I direct it towards you! get it…dark side of the moon? hehe.
I don’t get it
here’s mine; it started later than yours cuz I’m only 15:
when I was a little kid I had this french comic book about some cute boy, easy rider style and all, it was mostly about bikes and chicks
so one day this boys gets a present:it’s a BB-gun. he opens it and says "holy shit, just like Jackson and Travolta in Pulp Fiction…"
then he acts out the ezekiel quote, I really loved it.
a bunch of years later, when I was 13(June 2005), my brother came home with a DVD he had borrowed from a friend:PULP FICTION
so I watched it right away, it really kicked my ass to hear Misirlou, and so many lines I had no clues they were from this movie…
I got the soundtrack shortly after, and then the CE, it looks like a bible and there’s a little book about QT in it…
so I read this little book over and over, I learned a bit about the other movies. I bought JB and a fan-pack with ResDogs, NBK, True Romance and Killing Zoe. Then I got Kill Bill 1 and 2, both CE. My father didn’t let me watch ResDogs and True Romance cuz they were rated R (I know the others are as well, but not in France).
In august 2006, I went to America as an exchange student, for 5 months. I was in junior high, and I had this english teacher…he was quite a QT fan too! (if you know Mr.Reed at Marshall High School, Fairfax County, VA, say HI for me ok?)
so I did these reading assignments om PF, ResDogs and TR scripts, it was really cool. I also bought KB1 and 2soundtracks there.
then when I went back to France 2 months ago I watched ResDogs and TR…
and now I’m in Germany, I just got ResDogs soundtrack for 5€…
that’s about it!
I was about 18 (I’m 22 now) when I first heard of Quentin Tarantino. I was up late one night and saw Pulp Fiction on one of the movie channels and was instantly hooked on it. I really didn’t think to look up who wrote/directed the movie but about a year later I saw the trailer for Kill Bill Volume 1 and it said it was from the same person who made Pulp Fiction. I wanted to know what else he wrote/directed so I started looking him up online and rented Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown and From Dusk Till Dawn one weekend and ended up becoming a huge fan of his. I saw Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2 at the theatre, ended up buying all of his movies including True Romance and I’ve been a fan of his ever since. I first saw him on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno when he was promoting Kill Bill Volume 1 and was like “Wow, that’s Jimmie from Pulp Fiction.”
YEAH I FIRST HEARD OF TARANTINO FROM PULP FICTION BUT HIS FIRST MOVIE I SAW WAS KILL BILL VOLUME 1 I’VE SEEN MOST ALL OF HIS WORKS HE’S A FIVE STAR DIRECTOR IN MY OPINION REAL AMAZING
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YEAH I FIRST HEARD OF TARANTINO FROM PULP FICTION BUT HIS FIRST MOVIE I SAW WAS KILL BILL VOLUME 1 I’VE SEEN MOST ALL OF HIS WORKS HE’S A FIVE STAR DIRECTOR IN MY OPINION REAL AMAZING
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TNAFANBOY… are you a fan of TNA the wrestling promotion?
i was in the 5th or 6th grade, and Pulp had been on video for a little while…i remember hearing about Tarantino and the indie film movement of the early 90s…i dont how i got my hands on a VHS copy of it… i watched it…was a little confused…but i loved it and now ive seen it countless times. Saw all the Tarantino related stuff after that, from Dogs, to Four rooms, Rodriguez’ stuff, alllllllllllll the way to now. Inglorious Bastards 09’!!!
Hmm, I guess I’ll throw in a summary of my story too:
It must have been around the end of 2001 (I’d have been about 15/16) I watched From Dusk Till Dawn on TV and for some reason I sort of had an incline that that was the guy (that I must have heard of beforehand) Quentin Tarantino starring opposite George Clooney. I think I had heard about Pulp Fiction, but not seen it, I probably assumed this guy was an actor who had just directed a film or two.
Then, on TV one night I was checking previews and came across Reservoir Dogs which was described as a cult, violent film directed by (yer man) Quentin Tarantino. So I settled in and decided to give it a go and, as with most classics, I never recognized it as masterpiece on that initial viewing. But I remember going into school and chatting about it with a few people. Since, I think I had caught one of the stories in Pulp Fiction on TV also (I remembered the pawn shop scene). Soon after I bought Reservoir Dogs on DVD – the first DVD I ever bought as I just bought my first player which would have been around early 2002. I loved it, watched it everyday after school for months. When I would really become a Tarantino fanatic was when I decided to get the Pulp Fiction Collector’s Edition DVD that had just been released (with the JB one) in the winter of 2002 for Christmas. I still remember the first time I watched it on boxing night or whenever – I watched it countless times thereafter. As soon as I first heard about Kill Bill I bought every magazine, collected every bit of news, and recorded every interview / feature on it up until release. I downloaded the script and read it religiously. But it was really Dogs and Pulp that I was completely enthralled by… shortly in between I bought True Romance (which has since become one of my favourite movies of all time) and Jackie Brown of course, and got acquainted with everything and anything QT related while awaiting his Kill Bill opus. Recently, I fear that I have ‘fallen out of love’ with what The Man is doing, but I’m still undoubtedly grateful for that period of entertainment he provided me with during those teenage years when I needed more than the Hollywood movie or average horror flick, as well as being responsible for giving me with three of my favourite movies of all time. At present I’m anticipating and praying for one final bang-for-my-buck with Inglorious Bastards… here’s hoping!
Hate to bump old stuff up, but just reading through the archives and…
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Well, i may be a bit late in the game on this one, but i figured i might as well kick in anyway…
My Tarantino history…
Like many i was introduced to Tarantino through Pulp Fiction, but even after that i wasn’t sold. I mean, i loved Pulp but it just didn’t make a strong impression on me at the time. I don’t even think i was paying attention to who directors were back then. So, skip forward a few years, i get a computer and i get the internet. After wandering the vast wastelands of the web i finally found my place, among the film geeks. Eventually i found a message board on the net that i started frequenting. I found out about all kinds of films that i normally would have probably looked over. My eyes were opened to the true world of cinema. So, it didn’t take long to hear about a little film called Reservoir Dogs.
When I finally checked out Dogs i absolutely loved it. After that i was hooked, I checked out True Romance, Jackie Brown, FDTD and finally Pulp Fiction again. All the while i started reading up on Tarantino and i found out the guy had similar tastes in movies as me. Needless to say, my search for Tarantino eventually lead me here.
Now the genre stuff…
Spaghetti Westerns and Blaxploitation: I don’t have a huge knowledge of spaghetti westerns or blaxploitation. The only spaghetti westerns I’ve seen are the dollars trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West. Other than those four i don’t know. I only have three blaxploitation films, Willie Dynamite, The Bad Bunch, and Blackenstein. Willie Dynamite is probably the closest to a real “Blaxploitation” film, the other two are just bad movies that make me laugh.
Kung Fu Films: Well, I’ve been watching Kung Fu films since i was a little kid. My uncle who is a big fan of Bruce Lee introduced me to his films and from there things have just steadily progressed. I don’t have a big collection at the moment, i’ve mostly been renting films throughout the years, but here’s what i’ve got.
Enter the Dragon, The Big Boss, The Chinese Connection, Return of the Dragon, The Streetfighter, Return of the Chinese Boxer, Five Deadly Venoms, Shaolin Master Killer, Five Fingers of Death, Chinese Super Ninjas, Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow, Fist of Legend, Twin Warriors, Once Upon a Time in China 1,2,3, Iron Monkey, and… Ricky-Oh…
Samurai Films: I’ve really just been getting into samurai films this past year. So far I’ve only seen a few, but i have a great interest to see more. I was first introduced to the genre through Kurosawa’s films. Seven Samurai and Yojimbo being my first. My collection so far isn’t large, but it’s getting there…
Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Shogun Assassin, The Return of Masseur Ichi (The Tale of Zatoichi Continues), and Chusingura (the Loyal 47 Ronin, 1962)
That’s only a brief look at the different genre’s i’m into. I’ve got quite a huge horror collection and i’m also really into the “new wave” of Japan. I’ve got a fairly decent Italian Cannibal/Zombie collection too, most are terrible but i still dig them. Just a lot of fun 
[/quote]September 2002. Next month, that will be SIX. YEARS. AGO. :o
Wow, funny how time flies. Hundreds of movies later and here I am. I was such a n00b at the time ;D I haven’t watched Chusingura or Willie Dynamite in probably the entire six years since that original post. The search never continues though; I’m still trying to become more well versed in the Spaghetti Westerns genre and now the Italian crime genre.
I became intersted in Quentin’s movies about a year ago or so. I first saw Pulp Fiction as I heard it was reallygood. Then I think I saw Reservoir Dogs, later on Kill Bill to realize that Q.T had directed all of those movies, thinking he makes great movies. So then I looked out for his others: Jackie Brown and Death Proof. I have become a fan ever since.
I was in high school when Pulp Fiction came out. My friend and I went to see it at the theatre, had no idea what it was about we had just heard that it was good. The minute I left the theatre after watching it I was in love with the movie. We even went back 2 more times and watched it. That is how it all started. I worked at a video store at the time. I looked up his movies and loved them and read a book on him. I have been following his career ever since.
weeeeeell ,here we go
i know i may be a lot younger than everybidy here
i’m 15 (:
sooo my Tarantino-history is not that long
my father is a fan of Tarantino, so he started it all two years ago
I immediately liked “Pulp fiction” which was the first film i watched
and then there was Reservoir dogs, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill 1/2 and so on and so on
he’s just a freakin’ genius (:
Welcome to the forum Joker. Don’t worry, there’s a few young’ens round here.
I have a sad confession to make:
I just saw Jackie Brown for the very first time. Fucking Awesome! ;D
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I have a sad confession to make:
I just saw Jackie Brown for the very first time. Fucking Awesome! ;D
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What a coincidence, I put it on today whilst I was eating. I never tire of that film, it gets better better upon subsequent viewings. I always chuckel at a particular part in that opening scene with Ordell, Louis and Melanie. Ordell is going on and on about guns to Louis. He then leaves to talk on the phone, and the dialogue goes something like:
Melanie: It’s boring, isn’t it?
Louis: I can sit through it once.
Melanie: He thinks he’s Joe Gunn now.
Louis: I’m impressed. He knows a lot.
Melanie: He’s just repeating shit he overheard. He aint any more of a gun expert than I am.
It could be taken as a commentary on QT and his dialogue-heavy scenes from two different perspectives (being bored OR impressed). And as we know, quite a bit of his dialogue is lifted from shit he overheard. ;D