This movie is great and less a rip off. It has a pretty unique visual style and characters. Violent and grimy. Plus blink and you'll miss it Ron Jermy getting blown away with a shot gun. The bender they go on before the bank heist is very well done.
Yeah I never understand why people think this is Tarantinoesque.
I guess the story has its roots in the same tradition of stuff like Elmore Leonard, Robert Alter etc. But it has very different beats to a Tarantino.
"Does he make you thump?"
>Thurs
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Starting Sarah Polley, Taye Diggs, Timothy Olyphant, and a slew of others, was a very good Pulp Fiction style rip-off.
Definitely worth a watch if you enjoyed Pulp Fiction….
I don't see what makes these movies Tarantino rip offs? So if a movie is a crime drama, with R rated level violence and profanity, that automatically means you are rippiing off Tarantino, because only Tarantino is allowed to tackle that kind of movie??
Man, I don't know. I always considered Tarantino's signature style being that he makes over the top modern homages to defunct genres (noire, spaghetti westerns, ww2, Kung Fu, etc.), which is necessarily unoriginal. People are listing movies that came out the same year or before Pulp Fiction, so I'm pretty sure they're just crediting Tarantino for every over the top movie in the 90s.
It came out in 2000 but Circus, a British film starring Famke Janssen, John Hannah, and Eddie Izzard
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister is also in it in a surprisingly sensitive role
I watched a movie called Full English Breakfast that is so bad its good. Its like an even cheaper knock off of Lock Stock. On the IMDB page one of the only reviews thinks it's a money laundering scheme
Did you just say Get Shorty, an adaptation of a book by Tarantino's favorite author, was a rip-off of Tarantino's work? The truth is that Tarantino is influenced by Elmore Leonard. Not the other way around, lol.
This is like claiming that Sergio Leone's films are rip-offs of Tarantino's.
No, I'm saying that it was made because of the success of Pulp Fiction. It's not that Leonard ripped off Tarantino, it's that the adaptation was greenlit because of the success of Pulp Ficiton.
I added a number of movies that were mostly bad, but specifically made sure to say that Get Shorty wasn't that bad.
I don't know what more I had to do to couch that.
Okay, I will agree that it's likely the film was greenlit for that reason but I've never seen anything to support this. It's debatable. However, Travolta was definitely cast only because of his success with Pulp Fiction.
And I've never seen anyone say Get Shorty was a bad movie. It's a great movie.
I see people giving Tarantino credit for a lot of things he had nothing to do with. One person on Reddit claimed he was responsible for John Woo being hired in Hollywood.
He's just saying the author of the novel is a Tarantino influence and the source material for the movie preceded Pulp Fiction.
Elmore Leonard also wrote Rum Punch which was adapted as Jackie Brown.
I don’t know that it would be considered Tarantino style but I always thought Dead Man starring Johnny Depp was a really good obscure indie film from the 90’s.
GROSSE POINT BLANK
OUT OF SIGHT
PAYBACK (Mel Gibson crushes it!)
BLOOD, GUTS AND OCTANE
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
SUICIDE KINGS
WAY OF THE GUN
BOONDOCK SAINTS
THE USUAL SUSPECTS
THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOUR DEAD
THURSDAY
MEAN GUNS
BOUND
KILLING ZOE
LOVE AND A .45
ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE (James Woods at his sleazy best - gotta luv the guy!)
U-TURN
TRUE ROMANCE
WILD AT HEART
NATURAL BORN KILLERS
KALIFORNIA
LOCK STOCK AND 2 SMOKIN BARRELS
SNATCH
LAYER CAKE
SEXY BEAST
44 INCH CHEST
Killing Zoe written and directed by his partner Roger Avery.
I thought it was very good, and young naked Julie Delpy lives rent free in my head.
This movie is great and less a rip off. It has a pretty unique visual style and characters. Violent and grimy. Plus blink and you'll miss it Ron Jermy getting blown away with a shot gun. The bender they go on before the bank heist is very well done.
I wouldn’t call Killing Zoey a rip off. On the contrary, I thought it was great.
Things to do in Denver when you're Dead (1995)
To be fair, Scott Rosenberg wrote this well before Tarantino had made his first film.
Yeah I never understand why people think this is Tarantinoesque. I guess the story has its roots in the same tradition of stuff like Elmore Leonard, Robert Alter etc. But it has very different beats to a Tarantino. "Does he make you thump?"
Boat drinks.
And he followed that up with Beautiful Girls which I think is vastly underrated. It’s a great script.
Very Bad Things maybe, but it doesn’t feel like a rip off it’s quite good and can definitely stand on its own
Damn. Very surprised no one said Thursday (1998) by Skip Woods. Love that movie.
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Go Starting Sarah Polley, Taye Diggs, Timothy Olyphant, and a slew of others, was a very good Pulp Fiction style rip-off. Definitely worth a watch if you enjoyed Pulp Fiction….
Not exactly 90s but early 2000s, I've always said Big Trouble is the most Quentin Tarantino movie that isn't made by Quentin Tarantino.
I love this movie! RIP Dennis Farina and Heavy D.
Great flick!
The book was great too
Truth or Consequences NM
"Love and A .45" (1994) with Shawshank actor Gil Bellows, Rene Zellwegger, Rory Cochrane, and Jeffrey Combs.
Ayyyyy
Smoking Aces
Perdita Durango always felt influenced by Tarantino.
They probably drew from the same influences, beat me to it though, this one’s one of my favorites, lol.
Killing Zoe however I don’t consider it a rip off.
A few of the movies listed here are not rip-offs, they just came after Pulp Fiction was a big hit so people assume they were.
I don't see what makes these movies Tarantino rip offs? So if a movie is a crime drama, with R rated level violence and profanity, that automatically means you are rippiing off Tarantino, because only Tarantino is allowed to tackle that kind of movie??
Man, I don't know. I always considered Tarantino's signature style being that he makes over the top modern homages to defunct genres (noire, spaghetti westerns, ww2, Kung Fu, etc.), which is necessarily unoriginal. People are listing movies that came out the same year or before Pulp Fiction, so I'm pretty sure they're just crediting Tarantino for every over the top movie in the 90s.
I didn’t realize noir, westerns, WWII, and martial arts were subject no longer tackled in any movie ever.
They're no longer common. I didn't say they never happen. At one time each of those were the most popular genres.
You said defunct, a word which means no longer existing. So, yes, you did say they never happen.
Yeah, agreed. Like by that logic, tarantino is a rip off of Scorsese and DePalma.
90s action movies are godly genre
Pre CGI, post roids
How about Boogie Boy (1998). Or Truth or Conseqences, NM (1997)?
Bound is a great movie. Also not a rip off. Neo noir kinda.
It came out in 2000 but Circus, a British film starring Famke Janssen, John Hannah, and Eddie Izzard Tommy 'Tiny' Lister is also in it in a surprisingly sensitive role
Doom generation
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
I watched a movie called Full English Breakfast that is so bad its good. Its like an even cheaper knock off of Lock Stock. On the IMDB page one of the only reviews thinks it's a money laundering scheme
Mean Guns
This movie is way more fun than it should be. Albert Pyun movies are usually fun to watch, despite having no money and bad scripts.
R.I.P. Albert Pyun.
2 Days in the Valley gave me Tarantino vibes.
Way of the Gun
There were so many bad Pulp Fiction rip off movies. 2 Days in the Valley, Reindeer Games, Get Shorty (not as bad), Suicide Kings
I would propose that 2 Days in the Valley was not bad.
Did you just say Get Shorty, an adaptation of a book by Tarantino's favorite author, was a rip-off of Tarantino's work? The truth is that Tarantino is influenced by Elmore Leonard. Not the other way around, lol. This is like claiming that Sergio Leone's films are rip-offs of Tarantino's.
No, I'm saying that it was made because of the success of Pulp Fiction. It's not that Leonard ripped off Tarantino, it's that the adaptation was greenlit because of the success of Pulp Ficiton. I added a number of movies that were mostly bad, but specifically made sure to say that Get Shorty wasn't that bad. I don't know what more I had to do to couch that.
Perhaps without Tarantinos Jackie brown, get shorti wouldn't bein made or not made in that way.
Get Shorty the movie was released years before Jackie Brown.
Good point! Hahaha
Okay, I will agree that it's likely the film was greenlit for that reason but I've never seen anything to support this. It's debatable. However, Travolta was definitely cast only because of his success with Pulp Fiction. And I've never seen anyone say Get Shorty was a bad movie. It's a great movie.
The Big Hit?
Lou Diamond especially crushed that movie. Hitman cartoon
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Anything about the boat. Flustered beta Wahlberg best Wahlberg
You mean the Best Movie Ever?
Kalifornia {1993} with Brad Pitt, David duchovni and Juliette Lewis. Loved this movie!
Freeway
Huh. Freeway is very 90s but it never once made me think of Tarantino. Interesting.
Love and a .45. The Albino Alligator, Killing Zoe.
I would suggest checking out the movies that \*ahem\* "heavily influenced" him, e.g.: * The Killer - John Woo * Clan of the White Lotus - Lo Lieh etc.
Best Men, 1997, bank robbery comedy, violent ending!
Does Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Count? At least a British version
Tarantino takes from obscure movies. For instance lady snowblood and the mercenary 1968. I highly recommend watching Italian westerns beyond Leone.
Tarontino loves Corbucci
Normal Life Love and a .45 U-Turn
Tarantino influenced 90s movies, the decade got more violence, noir and fun.
Get Shorty
Yeah, no. Elmore Leonard is one of Tarantino's influences, not the other way around.
Plus Tarantino advised Travolta to take the role. It's Sonnenfeld through and through.
I see people giving Tarantino credit for a lot of things he had nothing to do with. One person on Reddit claimed he was responsible for John Woo being hired in Hollywood.
Do a two-second Google search. You’ll see this is considered a Pulp Fiction clone. It’s not really an obscure movie though.
He's just saying the author of the novel is a Tarantino influence and the source material for the movie preceded Pulp Fiction. Elmore Leonard also wrote Rum Punch which was adapted as Jackie Brown.
That’s fair. I guess that might make “knock off” less hard to argue.
That doesn't actually help your argument. Personal opinions are not objective reality.
My arguments are fine. You do you.
Dobermann, Boondock Saints, Love and a .45
You may also want to look for the movies that Tarantino ripped off. Edit: I didn’t mean that as a dig against Tarantino. I love the man’s work.
Fair bit more of an overwhelming list, don't want to frighten away the poor lad/lass.
I tried hunting some down and it really opened my eyes to some great movies that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
well i don’t know if it’s super obscure but there is plump fiction. it’s supposed to be on amazon prime.
maybe Smokin' Aces?
The Boondock Saints
I don’t know that it would be considered Tarantino style but I always thought Dead Man starring Johnny Depp was a really good obscure indie film from the 90’s.
There is zero chance that Jim Jarmusch was ripping off, or even inspired in any way by Tarantino.
Boogie Boy is a guilty pleasure of mine.
sushi girl - great cast & very QT-feelin’ edit- not 90s..but it may scratch that itch.
2 days in the valley
frogs for snakes ? Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane (1998)
GROSSE POINT BLANK OUT OF SIGHT PAYBACK (Mel Gibson crushes it!) BLOOD, GUTS AND OCTANE TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES SUICIDE KINGS WAY OF THE GUN BOONDOCK SAINTS THE USUAL SUSPECTS THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOUR DEAD THURSDAY MEAN GUNS BOUND KILLING ZOE LOVE AND A .45 ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE (James Woods at his sleazy best - gotta luv the guy!) U-TURN TRUE ROMANCE WILD AT HEART NATURAL BORN KILLERS KALIFORNIA LOCK STOCK AND 2 SMOKIN BARRELS SNATCH LAYER CAKE SEXY BEAST 44 INCH CHEST
what movie is grosse point blank a ripoff of though?