Quentin Tarantino is a true genius

[Spock]

Seacrest wrote:
Hitchcock, John Ford and Scorcese are masters, just to name a few.

Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Sergei Eisenstein and Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder, to name a few more.

[Speedy]

Coen brothers.

[Rick-o]

I pretty much like all of QT's work. Some of his films are stronger than others though. I don't go to the movies anymore, so I have to wait until new stuff is available to buy or rent. Friends were telling me for months how good Pulp Fiction was. I had to watch that one a 2nd time to understand what was going on. The way the story jumped around was hard to follow at first, and the way it ended in the same place it started was kind of cool. Who did he copy that technique from?

[mrbigstuff]

Seacrest wrote:
Hitchcock, John Ford and Scorcese are masters, just to name a few.
QT is a sponge and an excellent screenwriter and formalist filmmaker.
I think he is ultimately a great remixer: he's able to take disparate cinematic influences and piece together great new films, a fact which he doesn't hide at all, but actually celebrates.

That's pretty ironic, since Scorcese has admitted to more or less being a sponge and an appropriation artist in his own right (a damned good one, I might add) from the era of the first two filmmakers mentioned. He's just from a different time and wasn't a VHS video shop junkie like Tarantino.

[Jimmypoo]

I have always found everything from his directorial debut to current projects that will ultimately
be hailed as masterpieces of the genre to be excellent from both a story telling perspective as
well as the technical aspects of the camera work and cinematography as a whole.

Honestly - I just don't think you can find better than Ron Jeremy.