Am I the only one who thinks some of his dialogue is incredibly pretentious and cringe?

his dialogue is like top 4 of all time. I could see that but I mean kill bill on the whole was an overly dramatic, overly delivered homage to old kung fu movies. it kind of fits in perfectly.

Its kinda like complaining that Arnold delivers cheesy one liners in 80s and 90s action movies... that's the point.

He sounds like a teenager and all of his characters sound like him... It's the same dynamic with Woody Allen or Aaron Sorkin movies, but with their respective styles (e.g. Allen is super neurotic and nerdy)...

Totally agree! I can not get into them at all! Loved reservoir dogs, like the bits of of pulp fiction with Trovolta and SLJ but in the middle is stupid! After that just seems to disappear up his own arse. Everything is sooo forced, trying far to hard to be cool and edgy!

I love his dialogue. I think it's one of the things that makes him among the best writer/directors. He writes about characters doing and talking about things that for the most part no one really had before. Julius and Vincent shooting the shit talking about Big Macs and Whoppers in Europe before they do a hit, for example. He can make moments like that entertaining.

Probably not, but I think it's great. He knows how to slip around between stylized "genre" dialogue and totally real sounding speech patterns. It makes for great stuff.

More importantly, he knows how to advance the plot, raise tension, and reveal character just through words. That's not easy to do. His best scene is, I think, the opener to Inglourious Basterds, and that whole thing plays out through a conversation, aided only by one all-important camera tilt and an brief climax of action. It's great stuff.

Kill Bill leans heavily into the Western and Kung Fu film genres - both revenge-heavy and stylized - so looking for realistic dialogue isn't entering into the spirit of the world.

Maybe it is pretentious or self-indulgent sometimes - I might even be inclined to agree on that point from time to time - but even with that detraction, it still sounds better, works better, and sings out more than 90% of dialogue in other films. He's got a unique voice and he uses that to its limit.

most of the time it's fantastic, sometimes it is a bit grating.

Mostly just some particular lines. I hate the trix are for kids line in Kill Bill for example, always sounds stupid to me and is made even worse by the editing.