War of Words Brewing Between Quentin Tarantino and It Follows Director?

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Quentin Tarantino’s recent criticism of acclaimed horror movie ‘It Follows’ have prompted a public response from the film’s writer-director, David Robert Mitchell.

Tarantino, never short of an opinion on the state of cinema and never shy to voice it, recently expressed his disappointment with Mitchell’s breakthrough hit in an interview with Vulture.

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First off, it’s important to emphasise Tarantino did not trash the film completely, saying, “I really liked ‘It Follows,’” and praising it for having “the best premise I’ve seen in a horror film in a long, long, long time.”

In case you haven’t seen it, ‘It Follows’ centres on a teenager (Maika Monroe) who, after having sex with her new boyfriend, unwittingly finds herself in the sights of an enigmatic supernatural entity out to kill her, which never looks the same way twice.

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Explaining his disappointment, Tarantino went on, “It’s one of those movies that’s so good that you start getting mad at it for not being great. The fact that he didn’t take it all the way makes me not just disappointed but almost a little angry.”

As for how what the problems were, Tarantino goes into some ‘It Follows’ spoilers:

“He [Mitchell] could have kept his mythology straight. He broke his mythology left, right, and center. We see how the bad guys are: They’re never casual. They’re never just hanging around. They’ve always got that one look, and they always just progressively move toward you.

“Yet in the movie theater, the guy thinks he sees the woman in the yellow dress, and the girl goes, “What woman?” Then he realizes that it’s the follower. So he doesn’t realize it’s the follower upon just looking at her? She’s just standing in the doorway of the theater, smiling at him, and he doesn’t immediately notice her? You would think that he, of anybody, would know how to spot those things as soon as possible. We spotted them among the extras.

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“The movie keeps on doing things like that, not holding on to the rules that it sets up. Like, okay, you can shoot the bad guys in the head, but that just works for ten seconds? Well, that doesn’t make any f***ing sense. What’s up with that?

“And then, all of a sudden, the things are aggressive and they’re picking up appliances and throwing them at people? Now they’re strategizing? That’s never been part of it before. I don’t buy that the thing is getting clever when they lower him into the pool. They’re not clever.

“Also, there’s the gorgeously handsome geeky boy — and everyone’s supposed to be ignoring that he’s gorgeous, because that’s what you do in movies — that kid obviously has no problem having sex with her and putting the thing on his trail. He’s completely down with that idea.

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“So wouldn’t it have been a good idea for her to f*** that guy before she went into the pool, so then at least two people could see the thing? It’s not like she’d have been tricking him into it. It’s what I would’ve done.”

Given how in-depth Tarantino gets, Mitchell’s response was surprisingly brief. Then again, it was made within the 140 character limits of Twitter:

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Fighting words, or a peace pipe offering? You be the judge.

‘It Follows’ is available now on home entertainment from Icon Entertainment, whilst Quentin Tarantino’s next, ‘The Hateful Eight,’ is in cinemas at Christmas.

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Picture Credit: Icon, WENN, Twitter/David Robert Mitchell