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[Blindgreed1]

FDtD was uneven but had flashes of really great filmmaking, but the same can be said of some of his other stuff. I'm not a Clooney fan as a rule, he plays every role as sarcastic self-important prick IMO. And Grindhouse was really just Tarentino's "fuck you" movie that he made strictly for his own amusement. From a story standpoint he just imitated those shitty 70's moviea as an homage, but he did it a little too well. I try to look at it purely from a crafting standpoint. Was it an awesome story? Nah. Was it a finely crafted piece of filmmaking that accurately captured the essence of what it meant to? Yes. Personally, I'd have called Jackie Brown a better homage. But remember also the two movies you cite were a decade apart, and he filled that time with Kill Bill 1 and 2. Not a bad rebound.

That's why i'm getting a "shit the bed possibility vibe" on this one. Not sure if I told you this already, but a friend of mine set up the AV in his writing room. It's a room full of big flat screens with a round table in the center of the room. In the center of the round table sits a bowl full of high grade weed.

No, you never said that to me but it might be the most awesome thing I've ever heard. If I ever get that kind of fuck you money that's the room I will build and never leave. Maybe alternating flatscreens with a wall of books.

For me, it connected the dots with his writing style