Incredible.

Wish Q had read the whole thing but superb nonetheless. The last chapter is fantastic.

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A Quint Take

I enjoyed this book and Quentin’s take on films, films he liked or loved and those he didn’t enjoy or disliked completely. I could listen to him speak about cinema and movies until the cows come home, he’s an absolute pleasure to listen to about his passion.

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Incredible!

What a book. Incredible. 9 hours of QT waxing lyrical about the movies that made him.

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A great book, wish it was read by the author!

Tarantino’s enthusiasm is there for all to hear, and a real love of film comes across. The narrator was good, Tarantino would have been better…

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A cinephile's dream

if you like someone talking with great insight about their movie influences then I can but hop you enjoy this book as much as as I am.

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Sheer bliss

If you're a film lover and you enjoy listening to someone who knows about the films AND love then, then you simply must buy this book.

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A pit stop tour of 70s Hollywood

Reading like a hybrid of memoir, review and film essay, this uses a dozen films as a lens to look at 70s Hollywood. It's very well written, easy to get through and certainly encouraged me to watch a bunch of films I hadn't seen before, but there are no major revelations. If this is a sign of what QT has planned for his retirement,I'd really rather he keeps making movies.

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Screen Time

Quentin Tarantino went to the cinema a lot when he was a primary school kid to see Dirty Harry and other violent movies. His mum took him - along with whoever she was dating at the time. Tarantino had a child psychologist at school - who was also a movie buff and talked about violent films with the young QT. So you can see perhaps where his love of films and later movie-making started (and his penchant for violence in his work). This is in some ways a book about going to the cinema in the 1970s and what the movies were like. It’s extreme geekery, as you’d expect, probing esoterica, much of it long-forgotten (and maybe rightly so). There’s also talk of more mainstream hits such as Jaws and Rocky (which QT loved). At times, my mind wandered - especially, for example, when we got into the weeds of an elaborate plot for a creaky 1970s thriller. The problem is the narration. QT narrates the first and last sections - and this works very well. The last section is probably the best bit. Ballerini does a serviceable job overall - though sounds a little sedated - but there’s no substitute for the passion of the man himself. Not having QT narrate the whole book was a mistake. That said, this mix of cinema reportage and memoir does work well and fans will love it. It’s at its strongest when QT takes a broad overview of the industry and its history, though some of the synopses of his favourite movies can be fun. If you’re a cinephile, you’ll find it interesting; if you’re a QT fan, you may have heard or read it already. Either way, it’s worth your time if you take movies seriously. But it’s hard to imagine anyone taking them more seriously than QT…

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Even better than I expected

Enjoyed every second of it. Excellently narrated by both men. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

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Brilliant.

A great insight into the mind of Tarantino and his reflection of Cinema in the 70’s. Only wished he’s narrated the whole book but the main narrator did a great job.

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