How come " From dusk til dawn" isn't really discussed when it comes to Tarantino films overall.

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When i was a kid thinkn it was a crime movie...n half way thru it turns into fukkn vampire flick..i was caught off guard but like


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karim said:
The shift itself isn't the problem. The problem is that after the shift happens the movie doesn't really work anymore and becomes boring.

It is best examplified by that scene where the dad asks his kids to swear that they are going to kill him when he transforms or otherwise he is going to kill himself immediately. It's pointless, the dialogue is cheesy and it drags out for way too long without any sense of tension.
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turned a muthafukkas body into a geeee-tar and played him.

boring.

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Max. said:
When i was a kid thinkn it was a crime movie...n half way thru it turns into fukkn vampire flick..i was caught off guard but like


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I was shook. Me and my cousin snuck the tape outta his mama room cause his pops had just rented it. We went upstairs to watch the "adult" movie. The violence in the first half had us like :lupe:. Then they got to the club and we knew something was about to pop off :lupe::lupe::lupe::lupe:

We was not prepared. When that chick turned into that vampire I was like :ohhh::picard::damn::ufdup:
 
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maaaaaaaaaaan... I hate watching shows and then they get cancelled... Now I won't even watch. I'd rather wait to make sure it's gonna finish off than start a new show, get invested and watch it get cancelled
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It lasted 3 seasons and didn't end on a cliffhanger... Basically at the end everything was resolved so you weren't left wondering. I thought season 1 was the weakest and the show hit its stride in 2 & 3
 
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The first half is all Tarantino, but the second is all Rodriguez, it's a little jarring as an adult, but I still love that movie. As a kid, it had everything we thought was cool, vampires, gunmen, road trips, I guess we overlooked the sexual assault and teenage sexuality fascination.

The truth is until they walk into the Titty Twister, it feels 100% like a Tarantino movie to me, but the early Tarantino, the true crime, two guys and a crime plot, gangsters and guns, before all the post 2000's work.
 
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re'up said:
The first half is all Tarantino, but the second is all Rodriguez, it's a little jarring as an adult, but I still love that movie. As a kid, it had everything we thought was cool, vampires, gunmen, road trips, I guess we overlooked the sexual assault and teenage sexuality fascination.
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Yeah, that shyt felt extremely uncomfortable to me when I rewatched the movie. It was used as comic relief when it really wasn't funny because the guy just raped and murdered a hostage in cold blood. I know it was meant to be edgy, but it just felt creepy as fukk.
 
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karim said:
I've seen the film back then too and liked it, but I was a teenager at the time. Then I saw it again last week and realized that the second half of the movie is extremely weak. To be honest, the only really good scene in the movie is at the beginning, when the Sherrif enters the store and doesn't know that the brothers are in there. And if you look at the Wikipedia entry, even back then, the second half of the movie was criticised. This is from the 1996 review in the NYT:

"The latter part of From Dusk till Dawn is so relentless that it's as if a spigot has been turned on and then broken. Though some of the tricks are entertainingly staged, the film loses its clever edge when its action heats up so gruesomely and exploitatively that there's no time for talk"."

Another critique described the movie as a "long fuse, quite a bit of fizzle, and a rather minor blast"

From dusk till dawn is an entertaining movie, but it doesn't compare to Tarantinos body of work. Rodriguez just isn't on Tarantinos level as a director.
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Fam nobody actually in the 90's gave a fukk about NYT reviews of a movie like "Dusk Til Dawn". :mjlol:
If I told cats I was gonna go see it in 1996 and they quoted a NYT review....I have no hypothetical response to that, because it would never happen. :mjtf:

Besides, If we start pulling up 80's and 90's reviews of what are obviously certified classic movies....the reviews are rarely on point.

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Fam nobody actually in the 90's gave a fukk about NYT reviews of a movie like "Dusk Til Dawn". :mjlol:
If I told cats I was gonna go see it in 1996 and they quoted a NYT review....I have no hypothetical response to that, because it would never happen. :mjtf:

Besides, If we start pulling up 80's and 90's reviews of what are obviously certified classic movies....the reviews are rarely on point.

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The point is that you claimed nobody ever outside of this thread criticised the second half of the movie. You trying to ridicule a review from the NYT doesn't change the fact that you were talking out of your ass :yeshrug:
 
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