Tarantino's Top Twenty Films of the Century is absolute trash, rofl
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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.
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!"