Tarantino did Pulp fiction and Sin City - Kill Bill Reservoir Dogs etc
Well, after renting and watching King Kong I just have to concede that our tastes are really different.
We thought it had too many preposterous scenes. And it's LONG...3 hours. The lead actress was okay, but they pretty much gave her a johnny one-note emotional life. The writing was dumb and most of the actors couldn't rise above it. I know they cribbed a lot of lines from the original, but they didn't create the same world around those lines for them to remain classic fun.
And why the actress was at the top of the Empire State building in winter in a flimsy gown and wasn't BLUE, I'll never know.
I can't say I've ever really enjoyed Tarantino ...including Pulp Fiction, Sin City, Kill Bill... never seen reservoir dogs. A moment here or there doesn't make up for forcing me wade through all that dreariness and degeneracy.
As far as Westerns, I've screened dozens for the troops and the best modern ones I've found are Tombstone and Open Range. A couple old ones newly discovered that I found interesting and fun are Winchester73 with Jimmy Stewart and Rock Hudson and Cowboy with Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon.
While our taste in modern films is pretty different, our taste in Westerns may be similar.
I'm surprised that Memoirs of a Geshia was on the conservative best 10 list. I read the book and saw the film, but what was evident in the film that I don't remember so much from the book was that this tale (written by an American man) is basically a well-constructed smoke screen to hide a male wet dream about a pubescent girl desiring a old man.