Wait, wait. No one move, I can still pull this off. Uh...

EDIT: What, no Teague?

So that's what the noise question was about...

Anyway, why wasn't Eddie on this commentary? He seems perfect for it.

I fucking love Quentin Tarantino. I even liked Death Proof. I think it's his weakest film, but I still liked it.

As for Kill Bill, I like both volumes pretty evenly. The second one is a lot more talky and slower, but what it lacks in energy and gore it more than makes up for with tension. There are three or four scenes in that movie that are spectacularly tense and unnerving. That more than anything is what I love about Tarantino's films. All of his flicks - even True Romance - has one or several of those intense scenes where it's just some people sitting and talking at a table, but he does it so well and keeps ramping up the tension that you're locked in a death-grip, unable to look away. No matter what movie he makes, I guarantee you one of the standout scenes in it is going to be a few people sitting at a table and talking. Most writers avoid that shit like the plague and try to keep their characters moving around and doing stuff during the talky bits, but Qt says "nope, they just sit down and have some coffee and stare into each other's souls".

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I was kinda hoping you guys would continue the talk about Tarantino's little universe when you started talking about the cop, but since you didn't bring it up, I guess I will - though maybe you bring it up in volume two, when Sam Jackson is actually talking:

There's a theory that would have you believe that Tarantino's films all exist in the same universe. They are all interconnected in some way. You have to exclude Jackie Brown from this, as that was based on a book and not set in his universe.

Do you guys put any stock into this theory? I mean, we know at least that Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction have to exist in the same universe, since there's a Vega brother in each film. I think it's safe to also assume that Kill Bill and Death Proof exist in the same universe, as the cop and his son show up in both. He uses the same brand names in his movies. Personally, I like the idea a lot, so until he comes out and says it's not so, or he does something that would definitely prevent that theory from working I'm gonna just go along with the notion that this is all one big universe and he's just showing us all how fucking awesome the universe in his head is.

The idea of unrelated movies existing in the same fictional universe is a fun one. I remember as a kid my older cousin gave me the novelizations of both Alien and Outland (both written by Alan Dean Foster). To me it seemed like they were related somehow, what with the evil corporations and similar space tech, and I loved the idea of more movies set in this same universe. Never happened, naturally.