[Hendrikto]

> No, your favorite movie is not crap because the creators didn't grind their own lens.

But Pulp Fiction would not have been a masterpiece if Tarantino just typed “Write a gangster movie.” into a prompt field.

[heliumtera]

And if he did, why would I prefer using his prompt instead of mine?

"Write a gangster movie that I like", instead of "...a movie this other guy likes".

But because this is not the case, we appreciate Tarantino more than we appreciate gangster movies. It is about the process.

[dropofwill]

This is exactly the process happening in the music space with Suno. Go to their subreddit, they all talk about how they only listen to ‘their’ songs, for the exact reasons you list.

Its bleak out there.

[hearsathought]

> But because this is not the case, we appreciate Tarantino more than we appreciate gangster movies.

Do we? I don't think people appreciate tarantino more than gangster movies. Don't think people appreciate tarantino more than pulp fiction. Frankly, tarantino doesn't factor in at all.

> It is about the process.

I never considered the process when watching pulp fiction. It's the finished product, not the process, that matters.

Put it this way, we know who tarantino is because of pulp fiction. Not the other way around.

[adriand]

> But Pulp Fiction would not have been a masterpiece if Tarantino just typed “Write a gangster movie.” into a prompt field.

Doesn’t that prove the point? You could do that right now, and it would be absolute trash. Just like how right now we are nowhere close to being able to make great software with a single prompt.

I’ve been vibecoding a side project and it has been three months of ideating, iterating, refining and testing. It would have taken me immeasurably longer without these tools, but the end result is still 100% my vision, and it has been a tremendous amount of work.

[socalgal2]

Pulp Fiction, like many Tarantino movies, also gets much of its effect from using existing songs rather than using an all new soundtrack

[stronglikedan]

Songs he likely hand picked and for reasons that even you and I don't know about, instead of songs suggested by an AI with no personal taste.

[munificent]

More to your original point, Tarantino is actually well known for his deliberate uses of rare lenses. He doesn't grind them himself, but he did resurrect a dead lens format for The Hateful Eight:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Panavision_70