One look at the multi-tinted poster art for Joe Carnahan’s “Smokin’ Aces,” (www.smokinaces.net) and you get the impression that it’s being marketed as yet another stylish U.S. crime film made in the decade-plus wake of “Pulp Fiction.” And maybe it deserves to be lumped in with its similarly postered films (see collage), although it’s not half as derivative as Carnahan’s first crime feature, the amateurish 1998 Tarantino clone “Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane.” But according to the “Aces” writer-director, the inspiration for his latest movie is, ahem, a “stately” 1987 comedy. In our interview, Carnahan discusses where he fits into the very referential world of current crime cinema.

So I thought you were the only competent actor in “Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane.”

(Cackles hysterically) That shows how woefully poor your taste is.

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