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...Tarantino time. The popularity of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction--the first independent film to earn more than $100 million at the U.S. box office--will midwife plenty of melodramas with Tarantino's signature plot: men in groups and on a heist, talking until the dark night of the soul gives way to a red dawn...
Like politicians, movie critics should have limited terms. Over time they become jaded, stupid and self-serving. Remember, film critics actually liked that piece of sewage Pulp Fiction. I saw the movie Waterworld [SHOW BUSINESS, July 31], and it was great fun! The hero was intelligent, the characters interesting and the special effects dazzling. There was no filthy language and no overt sex, and good triumphed over evil. To all intelligent people, I say ignore Siskel and Ebert and their ilk, including TIME's reviewers. If you like to leave a theater smiling, I can highly recommend seeing Waterworld. LANORE...
...making it difficult to monitor how we're being affected. More fundamentally, none of us are capable of fully escaping from our own subject position. In other words, we can't step outside of ourselves and say, "Ah ha! I see that I have been negatively affected by watching `Pulp Fiction.' I must now watch two hours of public television to reverse any negative effects." If only things were that simple. Not everyone can draw such a neat, clean line between what they watch on the movie screen and what takes place in their everyday life...
...about slicing women's throats does the world really need? But most other judgments of taste are more difficult calls. Both of the films that Dole deplored, Natural Born Killers and True Romance, happen to have been written by Quentin Tarantino. He's also the explosively gifted director of Pulp Fiction, the great cockeyed movie where that guy quotes from the Bible and the gun goes brrrr and some younger viewers think it's cool-lots of older viewers too. In the effort to achieve a kid-friendlier culture, do we want to end up with a sanitized one, free...
...Dole was unfairly singling out Time Warner for what is a culture-wide problem. For instance, he criticized two Warner movies -- Natural Born Killers (a box-office success) and True Romance (a flop), both based on stories by Quentin Tarantino -- but ignored Tarantino's critically acclaimed but equally violent Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, both released by Miramax, a division of Walt Disney Co. Disney also owns Hollywood Records, whose performers include such controversial rappers as Prince Akeem...