Tarantino Bashing

[Craig Clark]

MantaRay apologises:

> 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
>
>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. 

Well, I enjoyed "On This Day"... but hey, anyone want to deflate 
Tarentino's overhyped balloon around here is welcome to do so as far 
as I'm concerned...

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"