Tarantino Bashing

[MantaRay at aol.com]

My apologies to all Plisters. I sent this pointed remark to the wrong list.
It's not as annoying as "On this day..." though, is it?

Peace and fries,

MantaRay

>>give the man a break, he's only written and
>>directed TWO films
>
>Exactly. And the world has jumped, fullspeed, on his jock on the strength of
>those two silly, derivative exercises. I saw twice as much cinematic
>originality in Trainspotting than all the wannabe hard-boiled dialogue in
>Tarantino's films. The strength of the backlash is equal to the size of the
>hype. That's Isaac Newton, more or less. For Christ's sake, they've
>re-released the lame Switchblad Sisters with Tarantino's nerdy mug in the
>corner to hopefully dredge up some revenue. Give me a fucking break. For one
>of the more blatantly prejudiced directors (the only mainstream [he's not an
>indie] director to have ever realized a long-standing white American desire
>to fuck the blacks up the ass) to receive this much acclaim is as ludicrous
>and offensive as our so-called anti-bandwagoneering might be to you. 
>
>MantaRay
>
>P.S. Whoever corrected me on the dates of Lynch's NYC showing at AMMI was
>right. Blame it on jetlag.