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Wish I could say the same. I was apparently waaay to loaded the first time around. When I saw it again recently, most of it was familiar to me, but I would never have been able to recall any of it spontaneously.

re: Pulp Fiction vs. Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, no contest. Not that I don't love RD, but to me, Pulp Fiction upped the ante. And for at least 5 years afterwards I felt like I hardly saw a movie that didn't have some fingerprint of PF in it.

Ditto that exactly, re RD v. PF and 1st time BV.

I'm afraid Reservoir Dogs annoyed me on first viewing. I just couldn't understand why all my (mostly guy) friends were so crazy for it. But then, Pulp Fiction rocked my world, so I went back and gave RD another try. I liked it a lot better the second time around. Since then, I've liked everything I've seen from Tarentino, with the recent (and strong) exception of Death Proof.

As much as I've appreciated what Quentin has brought to the cultural picnic table, I've found most of the imitators irritating, and have occasionally rued the influence QT has had on his peers.

Oh, and I loved Blue Velvet so much, I've been afraid to revisit it, lest it turn out not to hold up.

I like Tarantino, too. In the context of this discussion of great films, I wonder where Tarantino fits, though? Is he an innovator, a thief of greatness, or something in between?

There are a couple of interesting short films that show some of Tarantino's filmic inspirations. Who Do You Think You're Fooling? and You're Still Not Fooling Anybody. Worth checking out.

I'll defer to my more filmgeeky friends on this, but I figure Tarantino is a lot like Lucas in that regard. Lucas is a thief on many levels, but the innovation comes in putting the influences together in a new package that the current generation connects with. I have no problem calling both Tarantino and Lucas innovators. The film world would be far different without them.

I just found this site: They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?

Simply put, it's a list of the 1,000 greatest films "As voted by 1,320 critics, reviewers, scholars, filmmakers and other likely film types."

It was updated last December.

Get watching!

This is going to take some perusing. However, the "In" list alone has some things on it that I haven't seen.

So, I downloaded the list to Excel, added columns for Chris and myself, and now we're going through the list checking off what we've seen. This is my kind of list!

Woo hoo, my favorite film is number 4 on the list! (2001)
Jaws, however, is back at number 136 or so.

My man Stanley scores four titles in the top 100. (2001, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange) Lyndon's high ranking is a bit of a surprise to me, as I've always thought it an underappreciated film, but there it is.