otherwise you don’t realise his movies are often in large part a collage of other movies.
Isn’t that the definition of filmmaking? All movies are just collages of influences, style, and form. All art is a remix on previous forms.
It’s okay to not like Tarantino, I don’t care much about that, but your argument doesn’t really hold up for me.
It didn’t go out of business in '97, I was 1000% there for a birthday party in 2000 or 2001. It seems the company went bankrupt in 1997, and the assets were sold multiple times over the years. Locations stayed open, and, according to Google at least, there seems to be at least a couple left in Ohio, and California?
Either way, this took me down a nice nostalgia hole, very nice.