I've often wondered that myself. I own a copy of THIS, yet I tend to find the heavy-handed attempts at PERPETUAL COOLNESS in Tarantino films' dialogue hard to stomach. I think this somehow got branded and pidgeon-holed into a "niche" film category (not really a SUB-GENRE, I don't think) with a handful of darkly comedic, sometimes dramatic, "edgy" films about the criminal underworld. I used to hear the same kind of stuff about "2 Days in the Valley," which, in my opinion, is FAR inferior to "Things to Do.." and also about "Suicide Kings," which maybe fits a little closer to the Tarantino mold at TIMES, but is also pretty @#&$ decent and worthy of much more than "RIPOFF" status. Another poster said something, too, about the fact that Tarantino's films are typically a pastiche of other films, anyway. It's not like the man INVENTED a BRAND NEW WORLD IN FILM. He just bombards you with so many cliches and unrealistic characters and presents them in such an over-the-top fashion that it's hard to even reflect on the fact that you've seen SOMETHING like this.. SOMEWHERE.. BEFORE.
Midnight Savings Time. Don't forget to set your clocks back to midnight...and BREAK THEM.
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