He spelled Inglourious incorrectly, too.
I love Kill Bill, both Volumes. I love stylized violence though. I love Tarantino movies, and in some ways I aspire to be like him as a writer. To take a genre (in my case, romance) that is generally regarded as trash and elevate it into the best example of itself and yet somehow keep all the magnificent, trashy tropes in tact. I mean it’s fucking brilliant. And he does the best scene work of any director I know. The opening scene in Inglourious Basterds is a masterpiece.
I haven’t seen all his films, but I’ve seen True Romance (writer, not director), Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vols I & II, Django Unchained, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Inglourious Basterds.
While Kill Bill is my favorite, I think Inglourious Basterds is his best.
If you like Tarantino, I would recommend a non-Tarantino film that is very good and has shades of Tarantino without being derivative, Bad Times at the El Royale.
It’s a very different tempo, pace, and altogether different genre. But Volume II is worth it for me for the trailer park battle with Elle Driver where Beatrix takes out her fucking eye.
Reservoir Dogs is my favorite.
Now that’s one I can’t watch, because I can’t deal with torture.
Nor I, but it’s brief and the camera shifts away. Michael Madsen really scares me though!
Similarly, I’ve seen Basterds 2 or 3 times but have never actually seen the scene where the Bear Jew dispatches the German with a baseball bat. Always close my eyes for a second.
The Terminator 1984 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn
It’s always a nice evening watching The Terminator.
During the police interrogation, Kyle Reece says He served with the 132nd under Perry, from 2021 to 2027.
We’re already in that timeline. The Model 101 is sent to kill Sarah in 2029. I’m not sure Arnold would make the same impression naked today. 
A lot of fans have forgotten Michael Biehn. I had to look up who played Kyle Reece. Kyle’s job is to impregnate Sarah and ensure John Connor’s future.
He was one of the best parts of Aliens.
Overshadowed by Carrie Henn in her one and only acting role.
“We’d better get back, 'cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night… mostly.”
I’ve always thought extreme heat should be The Terminator’s vulnerability. The microprocessor is vulnerable even today to heat. Also the power source wouldn’t like extreme heat.
But, roasting in the fire didn’t even make the Model 101 reboot in the movie.
There are 2 famous iconic lines from Aliens, and he gets one of them.
Only two?!
You mean the guy who played a SEAL officer in The Abyss (1989), the guy who played a SEAL officer in The Rock (1996), or the guy who played a SEAL officer in Navy SEALs (1990)? I’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that typecasting might have hurt his career.
“Somebody wake up Hicks.”
(I know it’s not Biehn’s line, but it’s one of my favorites.)
Hmmm…“It’s game over, man, game over!!!” is not him.
What line does he have?
“I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit”? repeating what Ripley’d just said, but iconic nevertheless.
That entire opening Act is perfect. Action with rich story development from minute one. Sgt. Apone knows his men and they are salty.
“Elevator to hell, going down.”
It really is a perfect sequence, isn’t it?
Hell, even the pilot’s countdown in that scene is cool: “Two… one… mark.” The actress had maybe 20 seconds of total screen time in the entire movie, and she nailed them.
I think James Cameron has a thing for women in aviator sunglasses. There’s one in Avatar, too.
BTWI happened to watch Aliens a month or so ago, for the first time in a long time, and I realized something interesting. You know how the character of Burke (Paul Reiser) is uniformly considered a “weasel”? That’s not entirely true. Burke is absolutely, irredeemably evil, but he’s also almost as brave, levelheaded and competent as Ripley. When everything starts falling apart, and much tougher guys than him start panicking, he remains calm and focused, despite theoretically being the person least qualified to be there. It’s interesting, and it makes him a better villain.