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