EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

edwinharbor QT's "first" film is a glimpse of what was to come from a very talented writer/director; rich banter with an entertaining and skewed look at life. Shot in black and white, on a very small budget, the film has many shortcomings compared to the director's other films. However, it is still part of Tarantino's body of work. In the mid 80's there were not many ways a filmmaker could get a film made - short of getting a film camera and making one with their buddies - and a quick look at the production credits for "My Best Friend's Birthday" suggest this to be the case.I heard this film was unwatchable, but it is actually quite instructional for all hard-core Tarantino fans. Many have stated that this film was QT's film school; so be it. Cream rises because it is less dense than the milk it is found within and eventually makes its way to the top.However, until someone takes a spoon and scoops the cream off the milk, it's stuck there. The Reservoir Dogs producer (Lawrence Bender) skimmed QT from the vat and we are the happy recipients of some rich delicious ice cream due to such.

Vincent Cadena This is an interesting short directed and written by Quentin Tarantino. As he's stated in interviews this movie was his film school. Some of the dialog, scenes and names he would reuse in True Romance. The soundtrack is great by the way and the look is not unlike other low budget films of the 80s, think Shes Gotta Have it. The acting is weak but it's to be expected from a film like this. I gave this film a ten because I think the rating is too low, it deserves a 6. My favorite line was "Your ass is grass and I'm the Lawnmower!". Anyways it's a fun little movie and if you're a Tarantino fan, you should get some enjoyment out of it.

DuDEwithAGuN Tarantino is the man! The movie is watchable (surprising for how old it is), obviously its lacking the polish (both script and video) of his later movies but who cares. This movie probably cost him the price of a six pack and it shows. Whats great about it, is that it shows this generations greatest director in his youth giving this whole "movie" thing a shot. In that respect this movie really succeeds. It's one of those things that you watch and then say "Hey I could do that... why arn't I doing that?". Really cool to know that this guy started with this... offbeat... film and then went on to direct the Pulpiest of Fiction (hands down, best film ever). The best part of this movie is not the script, directing or acting. The BEST part of this movie is that it has inspired me to get going on a film of my own.Thanks QT No time like the present.

twiggysmonkey Warning: spoilers just aheadi recently saw my best friends birthday, the unreleased, unfinished, unfinanced quentin tarantino film from 1987. i am a huge tarantino fan and i own all of his movies on pretty much all the video formats. i searched and searched for the film and i finally found it, when it arrived at my house i ran right up to my room slammed the door and put it in the VCR and when i was done i felt like the happiest man ever, it was so much like all of quentins other work but still unique. when i was half way through the 40 minutes of footage i said to myself this is true romance meets bachelor party meets pulp fiction. like all of quentins other movies it contains drugs and even a pretty cool fight scene. but it is most similar to true rommance alot of the dialouge from the film was dialouge that had been taken from true romance. **SPOILERS** the elvis speech from true romance the difference between a whore and a call girl dialouge and the whole thing about the pimp coming after the hooker even though most of the main ideas are derived from other quentin scripts it's still got it's own great parts 5/5 stars EXCELLENT!