>i mean, Tarantino is up on this stuff. He reads subtextual
>film criticism. He even plotted Death Proof, his most
>blatantly 'depthless' film, in response to some analysis he'd
>read about slasher movie conventions (he aimed to undermine
>the conventions)

Great, so he responded to analysis that he read about
slasher movie conventions by making a shitty, horrible,
poorly written, poorly shot, poorly directed waste of
time and space?

That's brilliant.

I mean, even Tarantino's biggest fans say he
completely jumped the shark with that bullshit.

It sucked and it wasn't responding to anything.