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Quentin Tarantino is the POS who is always critiquing other directors, actors, actresses, and genre of movies which are not that of his own or he's not affiliate with

According to him just about everything he's not associated with is garbage
 

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Quentin Tarantino is the POS who is always critiquing other directors, actors, actresses, and genre of movies which are not that of his own or he's not affiliate with

According to him just about everything he's not associated with is garbage
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“I fucking love ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’ I thought it was fantastic,” Tarantino said. “I saw it at the theaters. That and [Steven] Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ both provided a true cinematic spectacle, the kind that I’d almost thought that I wasn’t going to see anymore. It was fantastic.”

 

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The Quentin Tarantino film that the director admits is his "worst movie"​


Calum Russell

Fri 24th Feb 2023 15.41 GMT




Totally in love with the history of cinema, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has long made it his mission to pay tribute to the pioneers of the medium, doffing his cap to the likes of Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa and Martin Scorsese, among many others. Such is reflected in the director’s filmography, embracing luscious gore and violence in the context of multiple genres, from the wild west in The Hateful Eight to samurai action in Kill Bill.

Critical of his own films as well as the plethora of movies that come to the big screen each and every year, Tarantino is a self-confessed student of cinema, often borrowing from the history of the medium to elevate his own work. Having worked in a video store through his teenage years, the director was able to hone his knowledge and build an impressive foundation of cinematic techniques that would be invaluable to his later career.

Lovingly taking creative license from all around the history of film, Tarantino revealed in an interview with The Talks: “[My] head is a sponge. I listen to what everyone says”. Explaining how he absorbs cultural influences and injects such careful nuances into his films, he adds: “I watch little idiosyncratic behaviour, people tell me a joke and I remember it. People tell me an interesting story in their life and I remember it”.

As a result of such knowledge, Tarantino has gone on to make some of the most dynamic and visceral cinematic stories ever made, with each film adding to the increasingly intriguing character of the director himself. Though, whilst each of these releases has merit, there is one film in particular that even Tarantino himself admits to being his very “worst movie”.

This revelation came during an interview Tarantino carried out with The Hollywood Reporter as part of the annual round table chat that also included the likes of Ang Lee, Tom Hooper, and Gus Van Sant. Speaking about his eventual retirement, Tarantino declared “to me, it’s all about my filmography, and I want to go out with a terrific filmography,” before going on to state, “Death Proof has got to be the worst movie I ever made”.

Released as part of the 2007 double-feature film Grindhouse that he put together with Robert Rodriguez, Death Proof starring Kurt Russell and Rosario Dawson paled in comparison to Rodriguez’s pulp horror Planet Terror. Whilst Tarantino admits the faults of the project he also adds, “for a left-handed movie, that wasn’t so bad, all right? So if that’s the worst I ever get, I’m good. But I do think one of those out-of-touch, old, limp, flaccid-dick movies costs you three good movies as far as your rating is concerned”.

Having been panned by critics for years, we’d have to agree with Tarantino’s critical analysis, with the limp thriller offering little other than futile gore and a threadbare story. An ode to splatter exploitation movies, the film follows an unnamed stuntman (Russell) who murders young women with souped-up modified cars that he claims to be ‘death proof’. Though it has its moments, the film is largely a slow plod towards a whole lot of nothing.

As well as a exploitation movie that pays homage to the Grindhouse movies of the 1970s and 1980s, Tarantino also pays tribute to the career of his leading man, sprinkling a number of nods to the work of Kurt Russell throughout the film. One such moment comes when Russell’s stuntman is in Warren’s Texas Chili Parlor in Austin, Texas, and is approached by Pam (Rose McGowan), who asks him what kind of productions he’s worked on throughout his career.

In this conversation, he mentions a 1967 TV series called The High Chaparral, a real-life TV western that starred the actor in one of his earliest roles, appearing in season three, episode 18 of the show. If this wasn’t enough of an easter egg for Tarantino, the movie lover and filmmaker also pinned the tank-top worn by the actor in John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China on the wall of the Chili Parlor.

Still, easter eggs can’t save a movie, and the 2007 film remains considered the worst in Tarantino’s filmography for a reason. Remarkably, it was Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror that saved the Grindhouse double-bill from total disaster, with the bizarre zombie movie perfectly balancing absurdity and melodrama, largely thanks to its solid performances from the likes of Marley Shelton, Bruce Willis and Josh Brolin.
 

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