Things to do in Denver when you're Dead (1995)

well i don’t know if it’s super obscure but there is plump fiction. it’s supposed to be on amazon prime.

Not exactly 90s but early 2000s, I've always said Big Trouble is the most Quentin Tarantino movie that isn't made by Quentin Tarantino.

You may also want to look for the movies that Tarantino ripped off.

Edit: I didn’t mean that as a dig against Tarantino. I love the man’s work.

How about Boogie Boy (1998). Or Truth or Conseqences, NM (1997)?

Fair bit more of an overwhelming list, don't want to frighten away the poor lad/lass.

I don’t know that it would be considered Tarantino style but I always thought Dead Man starring Johnny Depp was a really good obscure indie film from the 90’s.

Perdita Durango always felt influenced by Tarantino.

There were so many bad Pulp Fiction rip off movies. 2 Days in the Valley, Reindeer Games, Get Shorty (not as bad), Suicide Kings

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Killing Zoe written and directed by his partner Roger Avery.

Freeway

I love this movie! RIP Dennis Farina and Heavy D.

90s action movies are godly genre

Normal Life

Love and a .45

U-Turn

Dobermann, Boondock Saints, Love and a .45

Truth or Consequences NM

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Starting Sarah Polley, Taye Diggs, Timothy Olyphant, and a slew of others, was a very good Pulp Fiction style rip-off.

Definitely worth a watch if you enjoyed Pulp Fiction….

Very Bad Things maybe, but it doesn’t feel like a rip off it’s quite good and can definitely stand on its own

The Big Hit?

Boogie Boy is a guilty pleasure of mine.

They probably drew from the same influences, beat me to it though, this one’s one of my favorites, lol.

Mean Guns

Smoking Aces

Killing Zoe however I don’t consider it a rip off.

Tarantino takes from obscure movies. For instance lady snowblood and the mercenary 1968. I highly recommend watching Italian westerns beyond Leone.

Get Shorty

sushi girl - great cast & very QT-feelin’

edit- not 90s..but it may scratch that itch.

Great flick!

Love and a .45. The Albino Alligator, Killing Zoe.

I would propose that 2 Days in the Valley was not bad.

"Love and A .45" (1994) with Shawshank actor Gil Bellows, Rene Zellwegger, Rory Cochrane, and Jeffrey Combs.

To be fair, Scott Rosenberg wrote this well before Tarantino had made his first film.

The book was great too

Did you just say Get Shorty, an adaptation of a book by Tarantino's favorite author, was a rip-off of Tarantino's work? The truth is that Tarantino is influenced by Elmore Leonard. Not the other way around, lol.

This is like claiming that Sergio Leone's films are rip-offs of Tarantino's.

I don't see what makes these movies Tarantino rip offs? So if a movie is a crime drama, with R rated level violence and profanity, that automatically means you are rippiing off Tarantino, because only Tarantino is allowed to tackle that kind of movie??

This movie is way more fun than it should be. Albert Pyun movies are usually fun to watch, despite having no money and bad scripts.

A few of the movies listed here are not rip-offs, they just came after Pulp Fiction was a big hit so people assume they were.

There is zero chance that Jim Jarmusch was ripping off, or even inspired in any way by Tarantino.

Yeah, no. Elmore Leonard is one of Tarantino's influences, not the other way around.

Do a two-second Google search. You’ll see this is considered a Pulp Fiction clone. It’s not really an obscure movie though.

I tried hunting some down and it really opened my eyes to some great movies that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

No, I'm saying that it was made because of the success of Pulp Fiction. It's not that Leonard ripped off Tarantino, it's that the adaptation was greenlit because of the success of Pulp Ficiton.

I added a number of movies that were mostly bad, but specifically made sure to say that Get Shorty wasn't that bad.

I don't know what more I had to do to couch that.

Kalifornia {1993} with Brad Pitt, David duchovni and Juliette Lewis. Loved this movie!

Tarantino influenced 90s movies, the decade got more violence, noir and fun.

Perhaps without Tarantinos Jackie brown, get shorti wouldn't bein made or not made in that way.

Bound is a great movie. Also not a rip off. Neo noir kinda.

I would suggest checking out the movies that *ahem* "heavily influenced" him, e.g.:

• The Killer - John Woo
• Clan of the White Lotus - Lo Lieh

etc.

He's just saying the author of the novel is a Tarantino influence and the source material for the movie preceded Pulp Fiction.

Elmore Leonard also wrote Rum Punch which was adapted as Jackie Brown.

That’s fair. I guess that might make “knock off” less hard to argue.

That doesn't actually help your argument. Personal opinions are not objective reality.

Get Shorty the movie was released years before Jackie Brown.

Okay, I will agree that it's likely the film was greenlit for that reason but I've never seen anything to support this. It's debatable. However, Travolta was definitely cast only because of his success with Pulp Fiction.

And I've never seen anyone say Get Shorty was a bad movie. It's a great movie.

maybe Smokin' Aces?

My arguments are fine. You do you.

Good point! Hahaha

2 Days in the Valley gave me Tarantino vibes.

It came out in 2000 but Circus, a British film starring Famke Janssen, John Hannah, and Eddie Izzard

Tommy 'Tiny' Lister is also in it in a surprisingly sensitive role

Damn. Very surprised no one said Thursday (1998) by Skip Woods. Love that movie.

Yeah I never understand why people think this is Tarantinoesque.

I guess the story has its roots in the same tradition of stuff like Elmore Leonard, Robert Alter etc. But it has very different beats to a Tarantino.

"Does he make you thump?"

Boat drinks.

Lou Diamond especially crushed that movie. Hitman cartoon

Best Men, 1997, bank robbery comedy, violent ending!

Pre CGI, post roids

Huh. Freeway is very 90s but it never once made me think of Tarantino. Interesting.

You mean the Best Movie Ever?

I thought it was very good, and young naked Julie Delpy lives rent free in my head.

Man, I don't know. I always considered Tarantino's signature style being that he makes over the top modern homages to defunct genres (noire, spaghetti westerns, ww2, Kung Fu, etc.), which is necessarily unoriginal. People are listing movies that came out the same year or before Pulp Fiction, so I'm pretty sure they're just crediting Tarantino for every over the top movie in the 90s.

Doom generation

Way of the Gun

I didn’t realize noir, westerns, WWII, and martial arts were subject no longer tackled in any movie ever.

This movie is great and less a rip off. It has a pretty unique visual style and characters. Violent and grimy. Plus blink and you'll miss it Ron Jermy getting blown away with a shot gun. The bender they go on before the bank heist is very well done.

So many great quotes from that movie. Definitely worth a watch.

Bokeem Woodbine was fucking hilarious. The fucking hand exercises killed me.

They're no longer common. I didn't say they never happen. At one time each of those were the most popular genres.

Ayyyyy

I wouldn’t call Killing Zoey a rip off. On the contrary, I thought it was great.

R.I.P. Albert Pyun.

Tarontino loves Corbucci

You said defunct, a word which means no longer existing. So, yes, you did say they never happen.

Yeah, agreed. Like by that logic, tarantino is a rip off of Scorsese and DePalma.

And he followed that up with Beautiful Girls which I think is vastly underrated. It’s a great script.

>Thurs

100 percent this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday_(film)

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Maybe this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Night_at_McCool%27s

2 days in the valley

frogs for snakes ?

Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane (1998)

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Anything about the boat. Flustered beta Wahlberg best Wahlberg

Does Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Count? At least a British version

Plus Tarantino advised Travolta to take the role. It's Sonnenfeld through and through.

I watched a movie called Full English Breakfast that is so bad its good. Its like an even cheaper knock off of Lock Stock. On the IMDB page one of the only reviews thinks it's a money laundering scheme

The Boondock Saints

I see people giving Tarantino credit for a lot of things he had nothing to do with. One person on Reddit claimed he was responsible for John Woo being hired in Hollywood.