Aug 17, 2009  What went wrong, Quentin?  "I have sibling rivalry
with Orson Welles. I don't think he's that good...all right? I
have sibling rivalry with him and Stanley Kubrick" — Quentin
Tarantino on CBS Sunday Morning I have no desire to see the new
Quentin Tarantino movie. This fact amazes me. I used to love his
films. They felt so fresh and startling and original you felt
like you'd just laughed yourself awake. That's quite a come-
down, from 'as good as laughing yourself awake' to 'don't even
want to see them.'  So what happened?  Reading reviews you get
the impression that Tarantino has lost his edge, or gotten too
grandiose, or self-involved, or arrogant, or whatever (insert
relevant word here). I don't think that quite accounts for the
difference between films like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and
Jackie Brown, on the one hand, and the films he's been making
recently: Kill Bill, Grindhouse, Inglorious Basterds. It's not
just that the former are good and the latter are bad. The two
groups of films are