Tarantino's Top Twenty Films of the Century is absolute trash, rofl
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Duh, Tarantino has always been a hack. He strings together a bunch of scenes straight from TVtropes.com, puts it all behind some hip "urban" music that doesn't fit then sits there while everyone calls him a genius. He's been riding Pulp Fiction his whole career. Can't stand his garbage.
I disagree. Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds, The Hateful Eight, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood are all good movies, in my opinion.
Some of the films he did writing on were good as well, True Romance, From Dusk to Dawn, Natural Born Killers.
I respectfully disagree with the hack assessment
Looking for where I put Kill Bill in my list hmmmm don't see it.
Nothing you say matters to me. I don't believe you are white or American, so your view of who should live here is of no importance to me.
Because unlike you, English is my first language and I speak it properly. While you misspell everything and have weird grammar.
He wasn't always a hack. He became one when he was no longer challenged or faced complications.
Reservoir Dogs, they didn't flim the heist, although they planned to, but due to budget they couldn't. So he had to adapt and change the scope of the film. They had to fire Tierney because he was nuts.
When he's out there actually making films he's great. When he's out there with an unlimited budget and nothing but yes men be produces utter garbage. The rest of his movies have a few good scenes and funny dialog but they completely fail as movies. They're quotable but the stories and characters are just not memorable.
How do they fail as movies? You can like or dislike them, fair enough taste is subjective. But they are all tightly structured and follow their own internal logic.
I don't know if being memorable is a metric you can objectively measure, but if we go by memes, Tarantino movies have a few memes. As opposed to say the Avatar movies which made a billion dollars but has zero memes.
Which is simply navel gazing. They don't go anywhere or progress anything and leave a few number of plot holes behind. I also dislike the "rewriting history" angle. Django was the worst example of this. They're just funny setups for characters to act in with zero stakes from the outset. Hateful Eight was slightly more interesting than I expected but it has zero ties to the world in any regard. The things that happen there simply don't matter.
It's "Four Rooms" syndrome. Which can be great, but for fat head over here to praddle on about "film making," when he's a slightly higher rent Micheal Bay half the time is annoying to me.
A movie that goes nowhere can be enjoyable. It has to know that's what it's doing though. He doesn't really seem to.
I always enjoyed Pulp Fiction, but I think a big part of it is that the first time I saw it, it was dubbed in my language, and it's one of the two movies I'm aware of where the Czech dub is actually good. I mean shit, it's actually funnier than the original. "Slyšíš mě ty vidláku? Tvoje prdel pozná středověk!"
Fucking random list, some good movies in there, but idk about best of the century. Putting passion on there is based though
Actually really surprised to see Passion on there (did abbreviate it as PotC first, then realized there's also Pirates of the Caribbean which isn't admittedly bad either). Not complete trash for that inclusion alone.
Spielberg's last good film was Tintin, and after Jurassic Park it's been hit and miss, the more cocky he feels inserting his background into a picture, the worse the film.
Everything Eli Roth has ever put his name to has been shit. He's in that "proudly jewish" sector of Hollywood which is also occupied by the likes of Sarah Silverman in the sense they know they're immune as long as they stay in their gated little communes.
Looked up Moneyball, sounds gay. Chocolate sounds very gay, reading the description of the movie on jewgle.
Rob Zombie cannot direct to save his fucking life.
School of Rock should not be on anyone's Top 100 films of the century, let alone top 20. Kid flick with king of lolsorandom Jack Black.
Jackass? I was 11 once too.
ISRAELI FILM LMAOOOO
Battle Royale is such a basic bitch choice nowadays, now that everyone knows it inspired Hunger Games and all that other garbage. Trve patricians watch The Running Man (1987).
Anything by Woody Allen is always pretentious shit. Funny thing is, very few people know this, but he's actually a goy who's pretended to be a jew all his life to reap all the benefits from it. Miles Mathis has a paper on this if any of you are interested, but Konigsberg is not a typical triple parentheses surname and no jew would ever be caught dead speaking German as his first language.
Anything by Edgar Wright got tainted by Tumblr and Reddit in the 2010s. Shame, since I liked it as a kid.
Fury Road is the only Mad Max film without Mel Gibson. For that, it can sadly never be based. That's before we get into how emasculated his character became.
Tony Scott is a very based director choice, underrated in his time.
Zodiac is typical pretentious Fincher slop, whose best picture remains Seven. For some reason he thinks because his name sounds like David Lynch, he has to endlessly mimic him.
TWBB is a safe choice, but what Quentin says about Paul Dano is unhinged. Ditto Owen Wilson and Matthew Lillard. Sounds like he has a personal beef with them.
Dunkirk is typical revisionist crap that avoids depicting the Germans as merciful.
Lost in Translation was pretentious shit that just gave an excuse for an old, decrepit Bill Murray to gets handsy with a teenaged Scarlett Johansson (yes I know, no my dick didn't care).
Toy Story 3 is a kid's film that doesn't know it's a kid's film, worst sin one can commit.
Black Cock Down is typical Ridley Scott fare. Made three brilliant films at the start of his career and the world has glazed him for 40+ more than he's owed.
Also, Top 20 is one of the few types of lists where you can (and should) include a couple of your own, otherwise that's you admitting your work isn't that good.
I was probably one of the few anons who knew the Hateful Eight leaks were real from the second I saw them and laughed at those who thought "WARM BLACK DINGUS" was too blatant and childlike for Tarantino to shoehorn into his script. Loved (and hated) being proven right a year later.
Tarantino has always been consistent about Battle Royale. He was picking it in earlier interviews before Hunger Games ever came out.
But yes, I don't like Japan and Japanese culture, so I'm 100% with you on Running Man over Battle Royale. I tried Battle Royale and only made it about 10 minutes because of the japanesey-ness. Japan's culture is too weird, don't know how people can tolerate their media.
1970s Godzilla movies is as far as it goes for Japanese media for me, and even then, they get WEIRD....like those two women chanting some sort of worship song for Mothra...forget which one it was, but it was in that era of Godzilla films. It went on for like 6 minutes of them singing some Mothra song...it was bizarre.
I agree with basically everything else you said except I don't kow why you think Black Hawk Down is bad. I agree that Ridley Scott is one of the most overrated directors of all time, who's name should not carry the weight it does, but Black Hawk Down is pretty good if you're comparing it to the genre in my opinion. I'll put it this way...it's good enough that I didn't even associate it with Ridley Scott until you mentioned it. I associate it with Jerry Bruckheimer who makes a lot of entertaining films. Since his name is also attached to that film and the film is entertaining, he's the name I think of when I think of Black Hawk Down.
I didn't call it bad - people have been saying "Black Cock Down" about as long as the internet's been around. It's great, a bit military-porny (but everything made in that post-9/11 '02 - '04 bubble was to a degree), but has his name on it.
Even Coppola isn't worshipped as badly as Ridley is, and he at least lasted into the '90s before he shit the bed. Scott on the other hand built his entire legacy on Alien and Blade Runner. 90% of his films after that have been average.
His takes on Alien this century have been painful. Napoleon somehow missed the mark entirely. Gladiator 2 was an unnecessary DEI sequel. G.I. Jane is now known better as a punchline in Chris Rock's dig towards Will Smith than it is an actual film.
Fury Road is based because its one of the proud few films that fail so badly at their political message that they outright inspire the opposite. Joins Starship Troopers in that category.
Nobody who wasn't a grifter that moved on two weeks later cared about the movie except to yell "WITNESS" with the boys and do some hyper guy shit. And it reminds us that the cost of simping, is that you might get a crumb of affection if you literally kill yourself for some used goods woman who won't think twice about you after.
Yeah you've had this take over an over, and it convinces me of nothing but that you have terrible taste in movies.
Fury Road is about as close to a perfect movie as it gets.
Well if I'm wrong because I think the movie is great for its action and machismo culture in spite of its ideological bend trying to subvert and mock such, then you must think its great because you agree with its feminist messaging.
Sounds like you have terrible tastes, and opinions, my friend.
Woah youre dumb as fuck.
Tarantino named twenty films as the top films of the century.
rofl
Hot Fuzz > Shaun of the Dead.
For some reason I initially wanted to react strongly to this take but when reflecting on it, they are both tied in my mind.
Its always a shame that At World's End couldn't live up to its predecessors, because I think with a little bit of polish it would beat both of those.
There's some good movies on the list but Toy Story 3 would be the only one near my top twenty list
I bought Toy Story 2 the other day because I haven't seen it in a decade of longer maybe even since it came out lol I vaguely remember the plot of Toy Story 3 but remember it was basically a rehash of Toy Story 2 Stinky Pete villian but instead its Lotso the Teddy bear
No, Toy Story 3 is vastly different from 2. All 4 movies are about lost toys but other than that, nope not a rehash.
I know the plot is different in each film like Andy going to college in 3 but As villians they felt very samey to me.. Anyway I think Toy Story 1 and 2 were the best Imho
Oh, the 21st century! Lolz.
Some are good films: 18,
17, 9, 8, 7 & 3.Others are absolute garbage. 20, 15, 10
Oh well! Who cares what that washed-up has-been thinks? (Edit: wrong Chocolat!)
This list is fun because there are so many questionable choices.
But fucking Tony Scott’s Unstoppable? I'm not gonna do it but surely given an hour I can list 20 films better than that one.
Here's an easy layup, Dredd (2012).
edit: Snowpiercer, No Country for Old Men, Drive, Edge of Tomorrow, John Wick, The Dark Knight, at least three westerns made after 2000 I can't even think of their names.
He says he likes "aggressive film making."
He then lists "Lost in Translation." A movie that's not even confident in itself and has absolutely nothing to say about anything.
He's full of shit.
I thought that's the meta about the film
Unstoppable isn't even in Tony Scott's top 5.
Crimson Tide
Enemy of The State
The Last Boy Scout
Beverly Hills Cop 2
Days of Thunder
All better films IMHO. From this century, there's also Man on Fire.
I do like Unstoppable as a brainless slop treat.
But despite it starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine & Rosario Dawson (with cameos by TJ Miller & the fat guy from My Name is Earl), it really plays like a "Made for TV" movie.
I liked Unstoppable quite a bit, flawed but fun.
Snowpiercer (2013) was really good! IDK about the remake, but it is an interesting movie to say the least.
Inception (2010) was good too.
Yeah it's fun for sure, but not best of this century (2000 to present)
To be clear, I wasn't trying to list masterpieces, just fun movies that's a better viewing than Unstoppable.
Also he didn't put Master and Commander on the list, so basically, dude's hecking washed!
Cool to see passion of Christ on the list
Jeets, Prachya Pinkaew’s Chocolate (No. 17)
Yep
I had to look it up. Never heard of it.
I thought it was the Johnny Depp gayass one Chocolat (2000) about gypsies opening up a confectionery shop.
I think I saw that one, it's not bad if you are watching with your girlfriend, pretty tame.
I didn't completely hate it TBH.
But still full subversive themes if you pay attention. Gypsy single mother comes to town with daughter in tow. She uses her cooking witchcraft to turn all the townswomen more feminist against their husbands with tasty treats.
Fucks Depp who belongs to another rootless band of river gypsies.
Alfred Molina is portrayed as the evil Christian stick-up-his-ass mayor who rightly tries to defend his citizens against outsiders and their hedonistic corruption. Also has his wife run out on him despite being a God-fearing man.
The gypsy woman's chocolate & booze literally kill a noncomploant diabetic Judy Dench.
The men in the movie other than the Chad Depp are all portrayed as drunken louts or as joyless scolds.
Eh, I'm sure if I posted my top 20 movies of the 21st Century, people here would say I have bad taste too. The only thing I'm rolling my eyes at here is Spielberg's West Side Story. That wasn't a movie, that was a virtue-signaling propaganda piece made for the express purpose of excluding White Americans by ensuring they couldn't understand anything being said. Fuck that tinyhat and fuck Tarantino for giving it any level of praise.
I was not expecting to see Jackass on there for sure.
lol his list sucks.
I'm gonna play devil's advocate here.
Top twenty films of the 21st century would be really hard for me to do.
If I made a top 20 films of all time; I think only one single film from the 21st century would make the list; that would be K-Pax from 2001
I know people like the 2000s and I do too because it had amazing video games, but I thought the 2000s were junk when it came to movies and music.
We went from Alice in Chains and movies like Truman Show, to stuff like Colplay and Justin Timberlake, and the movies were hot garbage.
No, I don't even like Lord of the Rings.
That's not to say there aren't films from the 2000s that I like. There are. I enjoy the Transporter, as well as plenty of others, but making a top twenty films of the 20th century would be dang hard, as they're all pretty much mediocre compared to the 90s and earlier.
I won't even attempt my own top 20 list because it would all just be action movies that I thought weren't complete trash, like Punisher War Zone, or heck Punisher 2004 for that matter.
And you'd assume I have no film taste beyond that genre.
No, it's just the drama and acting of 2000s movies is so not to my tastes that the only things I like from that period is seeing some cool fight scenes, explosions, etc.
80s you had non action stuff that was amazing like Breakfast Club, 90s you had Home Alone (I truly believe it's a classic wonderful movie, not just a decent Christmas movie), and more.
The extended versions (with notes! Those help a lot) are so much better.
The Wood Elf scene (which was the very last scene they cut to make the time required, says the notes) is SO important to later events! For example.
Oh, that wasn't obvious to me, so I just shut the fuck up and enjoyed the movie. Which was, in every way, better than anything QT has worked on in the past decade.
Butthurt egomaniac.
Norm had him nailed immediately.
Well, I don't agree with most of his list. But it's opinionated and subjective. They're all worth a watch at least once.
I'll give him props that as far as I can tell, the newest movie he recommends was made in 2017. So even he's noticed the decline.
He's okay. He's a character actor. You're meant to hate him, because he plays such roles.
Rattling off ONLY movies better than any of the ones on this list: Cool Hand Luke No Country for Old Men Leon Dark Knight tGtBtU. Return of The King.
If we're going animated, Moana is a better movie than Toy Story 3.