*cough cough* Tarantino *cough cough*

One thing to consider is the music...the music is a HUGE part in all of his movies...and to license all those songs for a pin would be $$$$$$$

Not going to happen to niche, expect a Big Lebowski around the same time you see a Django Unchained pinball. I could just imagine the call outs on that one.

Oh and show the man some respect and edit your title. One of the best writers on the planet.

Over Rated garbage to me. But if anyone is going to embrace something and actually get into the process of the pin being made it's probably him. But you know...he's got a lot of "energy."

I was thinking about joke-posting "Stern! Make a Django Unchained pin! C'mon!" about 10 min before I saw this thread

Never cared for Tarantino personally. He impresses me as a tough guy, outlaw wannabe who indulges this fantasy in his films. I guess art can be a venue for an alter ego, and he certainly has had the last laugh on everyone who picked on him in the past.

I haven't seen all his films but have seen several. I think his best was Jackie Brown. Not too much gratuitous nonsense.

I think if he ever decided to give up the fantasy street life routine, he would end up being a really important director/producer.

Dan

So I take it your not big on dialogue in film. I know his go over the head of some. Stick to action flicks maybe.

Pulp Fiction may be the best movie of my lifetime besides Goodfellas but hey just my opinion.

I agree a Tarantino would be epic!! One of the best if not the best Director of his generation bring it on!

ROTFL!!! I'm sure he'd be THRILLED to read that...oh, one day...if he keeps trying...LOL

End up!?!?! He already IS! Multiple Academy Awards (and other awards)...he writes/directs his own movies...he's written other highly acclaimed movies. Pulp Fiction was one of the most influential movies of a generation. His body of work speaks for itself. Not everything of his has personally connected with me...but the following are my favs:

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Inglorious Basterds
Django Unchained
Four Rooms
From Dusk Til Dawn

overrated. He's made a couple good films and lived off ripping off foreign films and his own movies since.

haha...yep right over my head. He invented dialog in film right? No one was doing it before him.
We all know difference of opinion on pinball machines isn't allowed so god forbid a difference in such a non-subjective thing as film. He's a much better writer than Director; he can't help himself.
Take out the 1/3 of pulp fiction with pointless Bruce Willis part and it would be a solid flick.

Not even.

Who is Terentino?

You can say what you want about Tarantino, but the man made Pulp Fiction.

Pulp Fiction

Tarantino is one of the rare big name, popular artists that is allowed to make a product that *HE* would want to watch and doesn't have to bend to a marketing department's whims. Pulp Fiction bought him a lifetime of that privilege. His curse is that Pulp Fiction is a tough film to top and being only his second film, everything afterwards is invariably compared to it.

What was wrong with the Bruce Willis part? I enjoy that story and dig how it ties into other characters' stories as well. Now that I'm going back to think about it...I love every second of Bruce's story....his cute French girlfriend, his father's watch, the taxi driver, the showdown with Marcellus, getting GIMPED, the weapon chosing scene, saving Marcellus with a samurai sword, and finally the truce (gonna get medieval on his ass!)....gah I wanna f*cking watch it again now.

No Kill Bill huh?

PF is in my top 3 films of all time.

Inglorious Basterds was superb. Still haven't seen Django. Wasn't surprised to see Tarantino winning the Oscar for screenplay even without seeing the film.

It's actually on my DVR because I want to watch KB 1&2 back to back one day. I haven't seen them since the theater. I really liked the 1st part, but hated the 2nd....but I know he shot it as one movie - so I figure the experience might be different if I just make a day out of it and watch both in one go.

Well to a point I agree but everyone in Hollyweird has to answer to the man. They made him cut Kill Bill into 2 pieces.

I just think it's overly drawn out for no reason. I get it lady...you wanna pot belly, i don;t need to hear aboot it for 10 minutes. Parts like the watch part are classic no doubt though.

He's got a ton of good ideas. And the ending of that movie is rightfully awesome, and i watch that part everytime I catch it on TV. Give me Resivoir Dogs every day over Pulp. Hell True Romance 3X over Pulp.

Let's not forget about True Romance. Even though it was directed by Tony Scott (may he RIP), it is very much a quintessential Tarantino film.

Pulp Fiction could be an epic pin.

Very true.

He is doing fine without my appreciation for sure. When I say end up, I mean not that he does not enjoy all you say now, but that his body of work I hope turns back to the kind of character depth he displayed in Jackie Brown, and which I have not seen in any of his stuff since, although I haven't seen it all. I'd like to see him apply his talents to similar efforts rather than the darker superficial stuff he does. I think it is easier to do outlandish razor edged characters in a Pulp Fiction than capture and portray the internal subtleties working within real people in realistic situations. Maybe he cannot relate. I doubt he can.

I just don't think regardless of his contemporay success that he has ever matured, and if he does, what he will produce will be more substantial that the comic book content embraced by the generation you mention, whatever that is.

He appeals to the masses, which isn't necessarily a good thing. Sad when ultra-violence has such a dedicated following. Then scratch your head at the next school shooting.

I go back to my original comment. Irrespective of his commercial "success," he is a wannabe living vicariously through his characters who contributes nothing useful through his "art." Just a sad commentary of our times that he would be so admired.

Dan

I just remember the line from The Blues Brothers; "Mrs Toronto? Tarantino".

Holy sh*t I get tired of people criticizing Tarantino for "ripping off foreign films". Nobody has given more credit to the films that inspired Tarantino than Tarantino himself. It is no secret, he is completely open about it. He talks about how those films had a huge influence on him all the time. He talks about how he got the idea for a certain scene in one of his films from a certain movie. So what. Truth is that the majority of films are derivative of others to one degree or another.

Die Hard

now hellraiser, there's a movie that would make a great pinball machine. Open the box toy and your balls grabbed by a magnet and dropped to a lower cenobite realm play field. Could make that into a classic horror pin

That was the first thing that came to my mind when I seen the title to this thread. I love the sound tracks to his movies.

I always thought so too. I think the box would make a great bash toy.

two words... salma hayek

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Simply not true.

http://vimeo.com/5409572

One thing I think we can thank him for is all these crappy re-makes Hollywood has been dishing out. I'm pretty sure he started the movement with Reservoir Dogs.

In my top ten movies, Christian Slaters best film by far. Amazing cameo by Brad Pitt and Christopher Walken, truly bad, bad guys.

Good call gweem. Really tough to try and sell someone on the fact that Tarantino is a movie god but after watching all the same crap we see lately seeing a movie like DJANGO everyone once in a while is truly a pleasure. I dont care what Tarantino makes next I will be there supporting his art.

Any guy who changes history in movies to kill Hitler in a gruesome way is OK in my book.

One of my favorites of Tarantino is a movie he wrote but didnt direct, True Romance. He just sold the script to fund one of his movies. Love the dialogue and love Dennis Hopper and Gary Oldman in it

I love some of his films, others it just feels like hes trying to hard.

The reality is The Big Lebowski would crush all pins ever made.

Arggg, you guys talk about Tarantino films but you are missing his very best work of all time:

DEATH PROOF

That would be like talking about Led Zeppelin and only discussing Coda and Presence.

Make sure you watch the real Death Proof, the 113 min version. THEN we can talk Tarantino.

I'm pretty sure that even Tarantino said he wasn't so proud of Death Proof.

That was the short version from Grindhouse.

The full length feature is his crowning glory. I guess it is the prequel to Kill Bill, because you even get Jasper selling the car.

He has an unbelievable knack for choosing the perfect music for the right moment in a film. For example, in Django he used Jim Croce's "I Got a Name" in one scene. I never in a million years would have picked that song for that movie, and yet it somehow fit perfectly.

There is a scene in the first Kill Bill where O-Ren and her henchmen are first entering the nightclub. The way the scene is shot in slow motion combined with that super cool music gives me goosebumps every time I watch it. Nobody is as good at stuff like that as Quentin. The guy is a fu**ing master at his craft.

Damn Gweem now I want to watch Kill Bill, and agree on the music choices in his film are so spot on.

So much for giving credit where credit is due.

I'd still like to see the "Passion" made

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You could get two pins for Kill Bill, both suck by themself, but you cut half the shit out put them together and get one decent pin. $14,000 for a decent not outstanding pin, who's in?

Game wouldn't earn well. The more you thought you achieved on the game, the more it challenged you. The more you fail, the quicker you come to "faith," afterwhich the ball would never drain.

Dan

I don't know if it would crush(TAF 20K units), but it would be on my must have list.

I'd be in all the way if they came out with...

The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
Road Warrior(s)
Alien(s)
Big Trouble in Little China
Resevour Dogs

Okay maybe not 20k units, but if they sold half that at todays pricing? I wouldn't hesitate to spend 10k on one.

Not sure if I would say it is his best, but it is surely wonderful and it has Kurt Russell.

I heard this was supposed to be in process and Mr. Jesus himself was going to do the call-outs, but he couldn't find the time as he was a little hung up.

If anyone does make a Big Lebowski game - hire Fred Tatasciore to do custom voices. He does Clu/Flynn in the Tron Uprising animated series...pretty much a perfect Jeff Bridges impersonation.

Long ball times. Way too long. Looooooong.