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tarantino does it better

posted 13 years ago by genedata
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This film tries to copy the quirky conversations about the mundanes (e.g. the scene about cow's milk) like Tarantino films, but I think Guy Ritchie was trying too hard. The conversations feel forced. But I guess whenever you want to do a gangster film with black humour and quirky moments and things going awry, you'll always be compared to Tarantino. I'm just puzzled why people think this is brilliant. I enjoyed the movie, yes, but I'd expected this film to be a 7.5-ish.

[–] stephan-128 11 years ago

I agree with the OP.
I actually like Snatch, I'll admit. He takes the tiresome verbal tennis from Lock Stock &, and actually makes it entertaining with a plot, some suspense, some memorable characters, and just the bare possibility that this could all happen this way. But Richie seems like such a one trick pony, and the fact that this is his trick makes me wanna say "thanks for Snatch, it entertained me, I won't be coming around for any more of this". Tarantino films, by and large, have a heart. He sneaks in all sorts of meaningful stuff that makes you care about the characters beneath all the flash and fun. Richie seems completely uninterested in that, he just likes the flash and the coolness and the clever retorts, and thus he seems a rather extraordinarily soulless film maker.

[–] rsz-riz 11 years ago

I disagree. Guy Ritchie does it differently i like watching every dialogues and i never get bored.

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 11 years ago

Same here, I haven't seen all of Ritchie's films but of the ones that I've seen, I enjoyed them a lot. Ritchie, Tarantino & even Rodriguez have different styles, can't really compare them.

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[–] pancakeswine 11 years ago

definitely disagree. I think both have made great movies but I would never compare the two. Jackie Brown one of Tarantino's best? Really? Maybe I should watch it again. Remember it being terrible.

[–] alvarezabel 11 years ago

At Least Tarantino can live with the comfort that he wasn't the one who made the horrid Revolver, nor Sweept away Iol.

[–] TVippy 11 years ago

Agreed. This movie is pretty weak compared to Tarantino's.
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[–] jaynobody 11 years ago

If I was going to desert island and could take Rez dogs/pulp fiction or Lock stock/snatch I would choose the latter.

[–] TVippy 11 years ago

And I - the former. What's your point?

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[–] jupnose25 10 years ago

I agree that Tarantino is a superior director (he is compared to pretty much anyone working today), I also agree that this film deserves at most 7.5, I'd probably go a little lower but it's a fun film.

I don't think it should be compared to Tarantino's film though. It is much more lighthearted in nature and never asks to be taken seriously. I mean it doesn't switch between moments of comedy and moments of serious drama, it's just a fun farcical tale.

[–] detroit-velvet-smooth 10 years ago

An unprovoked comparison and the misguided assertion that gangster films with mundane conversation are owned by Tarantino as a style dooms OP's argument to the realm of hackfraud internet opinion.

There's no legitimate discussion here, only a bonfire lit for fanboys to war over.

[–] Naughty-God 9 years ago

I can see why it's easy to compare Guy Richie to QT, but I think that happens a lot due to their congruent rise as film makers (90s - 2000s).

Both film makers imho borrow heavily from Martin Scorsese and a lot of framing elements from the French New Wave genre so maybe that's why the two are compared to each other, but after re-watching movies from the both of them I think they're both actually very different.

[–] stijntje44 9 years ago

Only snatch and lock stock are better than all tarantino films with the (possible) exception of reservoir dogs and pulp fiction.