Originally posted by Great King Rat
Well, I'm certainly not a fan but I have very much enjoyed a lot of his movies (The faculty, From dusk till dawn, Desperado and certainly Sin City).
Mind you, I have no problems with violence in movies and I think Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs are brilliant - I could watch PF any day of the week and it would always blow me away - and Kill Bill was ...[text shortened]... or that, because he certainly has a lot of talent. The guy just needs to leave his comfort zone.
Like a good author, he writes about what he knows, or what he likes. His early experience with movies was this genre, the westerns, the gangster movies, even Bruce Lee films. I think this is the definition of success, to be doing something for a living that you truly enjoy.
Tarentino doing something decidedly non-Tarentino would be leaving his comfort zone, sure, but would it be any good? It's like asking Hitchcock to be not-Hitchcock. Psycho wouldn't have worked nearly as well as a romantic comedy, but you can't fault Hitchcock for that.
Have you seen Jackie Brown? I recently picked up the blu-ray of this from Target's discount bin. I'd never seen it before, but I enjoyed it for what it was, a prime example of Tarentino.