Tarantino - is "Death proof" as powerful as the early works? (Don't think so)

Back in early nineties, Tarantino was the man, he made back to back two of the most praised indie features of the twentieth century "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction", and then everybody started to wonder what he would do next, well he first visited Blaxploitation with "Jackie Brown" then he made the masterful "Kill Bill" in which he managed to sew all the cinematic genres he admires with a very solid and credible storyline

Now that the audience had the chance to view his latest effort "Death proof" as a whole movie, out of the whole "Grindhouse" double feature experience, it is easy to draw comparaisons with his early two celebrated films, just because the mirroring is obvious, the bunch of badass guys is replaced with badass girls, the "edgy" dialogues are the same, and always as sharp, and the fun is here along with the humour, the sarcasm, the pop cultural references, movie references, it's a Tarantino Gourmet Dish


Still something seem to be missing, everybody can notice that Tarantino is still on top of his game, but it's nothing as punchy as PF, or RD, even the "girls breakfast scene" is far from being as powerful as the "Reservoir Dogs breakfast scene" with Madonna references, and tipping philosophying, but then again, maybe the problem is in the whole QT fanbase always expecting more


Death Proof, respects the code of grindhouse cinema, it's tough, it's off the hook, it's raw, and it's powerful, and the way Tarantino is keeping up on the slang and the internet culture, and what's hot and what's not, is really surprising, that's an auteur with an ear to his audience, if it was any other director, he would be hailed for it by now, but we always been taught to expect more from Tarantino, and he always was surpassing our expectations


At the end of the day, maybe what we need is another "pure tarantino masterpiece", and that will only raise expectations higher for his next "Mount Everest" as he loves to call it, "Inglorious Bastards" which he seems to have written a 600 pages script for, we are drawn to think that maybe it would be more fitting for Quentin to write about the subject where he fits
the most "tough guys",but still "death proof" still remains a solid
film which you need to own in any form whatsoever, but we are
still expecting more Quentin !


Jebbyness: 3.5/5