Grindhouse

The main concern is Quentin Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez continues to make movies that are so bad that they are beneath comment. It's sad that his best work was the first two Spy Kids movies. Quentin Tarantino has degrees of talent but almost no control in how to use it. Since the beginning he has told stories in a movie universe. Even the quasi realistic Resevoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are major bows to a genre or two. The difference in Pulp Fiction with comparision to his later films is that the Tarantino narrative thread was more prominent than were the genre references. I've seen numerous gangster films, but none structured and told in the manner of Pulp Fiction. The continous problem for Tarantino is that he stopped adapting the genres to his world but started adapting his world to the genres. Kill Bill has a lot of differences, but looks and feels like many other kung fu flicks of the same nature. Death Proof is almost a complete replica of the structure and story of how one of these exploitations revenge flicks would look. The fact that Tarantino has a few good moments with dialogue almost doesn't matter. I felt the stiffness and boredom of Death Proof that I felt with any exploitation flick like it. Tarantino is becoming a bigger proponent of "Z" cinema all the time and is getting closer to replicating their worst tendencies in his films.