Quentin Tarantino did a really amazing interview with New York Magazine – go here to read the full piece. QT is doing some advanced promotion for The Hateful Eight, which has a limited release on Christmas Day (and will come out wide in January). Will The Hateful Eight be an awards contender? Perhaps. I wasn’t really expecting Django Unchained to be part of the awards conversation several years ago, but QT picked up his second screenwriting Oscar (and Christoph Waltz picked up his second Oscar as well). If anything, I think The Hateful Eight looks just as compelling, if not more so, than Django. As for this new QT interview… it’s really great. Quentin talks about Marvel, the evolving sophistications of audiences, his love of Westerns and how much he hates True Detective. Some highlights (but I would suggest reading the full piece!).
How everyone is talking about race: “I know. I’m very excited by that. Finally, the issue of white supremacy is being talked about and dealt with. And it’s what the movie’s about. It was already in the script. It was already in the footage we shot. It just happens to be timely right now. We’re not trying to make it timely. It is timely. I love the fact that people are talking and dealing with the institutional racism that has existed in this country and been ignored. I feel like it’s another ’60s moment, where the people themselves had to expose how ugly they were before things could change. I’m hopeful that that’s happening now.
His thoughts on Obama: “I think he’s fantastic. He’s my favorite president, hands down, of my lifetime. He’s been awesome this past year. Especially the rapid, one-after-another-after-another-after-another aspect of it. It’s almost like take no prisoners. His he-doesn’t-give-a-sh-t attitude has just been so cool. Everyone always talks about these lame-duck presidents. I’ve never seen anybody end with this kind of ending. All the people who supported him along the way that questioned this or that and the other? All of their questions are being answered now.
The annual Oscar-bait movies: “The movies that used to be treated as independent movies, like the Sundance movies of the ’90s — those are the movies that are up for Oscars now. Stuff like The Kids Are All Right and The Fighter. They’re the mid-budget movies now, they just have bigger stars and bigger budgets. They’re good, but I don’t know if they have the staying power that some of the movies of the ’90s and the ’70s did. I don’t know if we’re going to be talking about The Town or The Kids Are All Right or An Education 20 or 30 years from now. Notes on a Scandal is another one. Philomena. Half of these Cate Blanchett movies — they’re all just like these arty things. I’m not saying they’re bad movies, but I don’t think most of them have a shelf life. But The Fighter or American Hustle — those will be watched in 30 years.
The importance of casting: “The Fighter had impeccable casting. As an example, I really liked The Town, which also came out in 2010. It was a good crime film. However, next to The Fighter, it just couldn’t hold up, because everybody in The Town is beyond gorgeous. Ben Affleck is the one who gets away with it, because his Boston accent is so good. But the crook is absolutely gorgeous. The bank teller is absolutely gorgeous. The FBI guy is absolutely gorgeous. The town whore, Blake Lively, is absolutely gorgeous. Jeremy Renner is the least gorgeous guy, and he’s pretty f–king good-looking. Then, if you look at The Fighter, and you look at those sisters, they’re just so magnificent. When you see David O. Russell cast those sisters,5 and you see Ben Affleck cast Blake Lively,6 you can’t compare the two movies. One just shows how phony the other is.
He hates True Detective: “I tried to watch the first episode of season one, and I didn’t get into it at all. I thought it was really boring. And season two looks awful. Just the trailer — all these handsome actors trying to not be handsome and walking around looking like the weight of the world is on their shoulders. It’s so serious, and they’re so tortured, trying to look miserable with their mustaches and grungy clothes.”
He loved The Newsroom: “Now, the HBO show I loved was Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom. That was the only show that I literally watched three times. I would watch it at seven o’clock on Sunday, when the new one would come on. Then after it was over, I’d watch it all over again. Then I would usually end up watching it once during the week, just so I could listen to the dialogue one more time.
As I said, the whole thing’s worth a read. He talks a lot about actresses and writing parts for women and his career as a whole. He comes off as cocky at several points and comes very close to saying that he is without peer in the industry. It would have been eye-rolly from another writer-director, but I tend to think QT has earned his cockiness. Plus, he still seems so engaged with the filmmaking process, both as an active filmmaker and as a consumer. It’s hard to hate him, at least that’s the case for me. As for his hatred for True Detective – smart guy. Season 2 was THE WORST.
Here’s the trailer for The Hateful Eight:
Photos courtesy of WENN.
How does this guy gets called a good director when his career is based on recycling other director’s films?
This!! Imo he’s so overrated..
Scorsese and many others could sue him.
A tad bit off topic, but somewhat related: I read that Ennio Morricone, the conductor who came up with all of the songs from the old spaghetti westerns that have become synonymous with western movies was doing the score for his new film, and then when I saw the track listing for the soundtrack, I saw that there are only two new songs and the rest are recycled from old Clint Eastwood movies.
My point is that I agree with you, he takes other peoples ideas and fragments of other movies, splices them together and calls them his own.
If a female director did this the men would rip her apart, of course no female director would get more than one such project financed.
But when Tarantino does it, puts good old music to his scenes the dudebros are all raving how cool it is.
Ennio Morricone has done SOOOOOOO much more than western music!
…This entire thread is why we have a generation of people who don’t understand what plagiarism is or why it’s bad. QT is not recycling old films any more than Marcel Duchamp recycled a urinal for Fountain. QT can be an asshat, but he’s doing a lot more than just “copying” previous filmmakers.
I would also be curious to see where Daria saw a track listing for Hateful Eight’s score, as Ennio Morricone is still composing it.
Urgh, plagiarism seems to be so tricky for people to understand. It’s passing off other people’s work as your own – failing to cite it properly, not acknowledging that you got the idea from somewhere else. It’s NOT using other people’s work. I have to explain to university students that it is fine to quote from specialists in their essays, and to paraphrase others’ ideas as long as they acknowledge where the original idea came from. I don’t think QT has ever shied away from mentioning his influences but he hasn’t ever copied someone’s work, and therefore, I just don’t see the plagiarism.
It’s not often I find myself bringing my day job into Celebitchy posts but I wanted to agree with you Algernon !
Tarantino has always given credit for his influences and inspirations
Yeah and ironically Scorcese, Speilberg, and Lucas have done the same in their work and talked about it openly. Since they all have much more subdued personalities, and the films that influenced them are much older and more obscure no one except for film buffs knows that.
@Algernon – According to this, Ennio has only composed 2 new songs for the movie. The rest are old ones from Sergio Leone films.
Here is a link: http://www.designntrend.com/articles/10941/20140217/quentin-tarantino-hateful-eight-soundtrack-leaked-movie-rumored-in-works.htm
and another:
http://screencrush.com/quentin-tarantino-hateful-eight-soundtrack/
Similarly, I’m interested in where you read Ennio is still composing for the movie. I’m a huge fan!
@ Daria
Those links are from Feb 2014, a year before the movie was even in production. QT only announced Morricone was scoring the movie this July. When he talked about Morricone agreeing to compose a score, he talked about their rift over how QT used Morricone’s compositions for Django Unchained. QT talked about it at Comic Con. He said this time he would use Morricone’s composition as Morricone intends it, sequentially and without trimming tracks, functioning more like a cohesive piece of classical music designed to interact with the visuals (the best movie scores work this way).
I know he’s still composing because I know how movies get made. The score is the last thing in place, once it’s set the sound design is sealed and racked with the final master of the film print/digital recording. Sound effects and scoring are among the last departments active on a production.
@Algernon & Ponytail : Yes. Yes yes yes.
All great film directors are inspired by the work of others and they all acknowledge. It’s just that most younger people don’t know the great films and directors that inspired Spielberg, Scorsese, Tarantino, Malick, etc. and don’t care about the history of film or know anything about it.
@Algernon – My mistake on the links, I actually realized after I posted them that they’re wrong. That was some answer, though. ‘”Because I know how movies get made.” Thanks for the information, oh enlightened one.
So basically all directors are terrible because they borrow from other directors? To be honest I am a Quentin Tarantino fan girl and have loved his movies for two decades plus. To quote Isaac Newton “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Even Ben Franklin back in the 1700s said something like there are no original ideas. Quentin Tarantino himself has said in numerous interviews that he does borrow from his favorite films as do all other directors. This is not a bad thing; it’s how movies are made. If you don’t like Quentin that’s fine, I’m not trying to change your opinion on that but please understand that even the directors do you like borrow from other movies, they just aren’t as open about it. When Orson Welles directed Citizen Kane, his first movie, he borrowed everything he possibly could from the movies he loved.
Nothing to add but yes! to everything you and Algernon and Ponytail said.
Postmodernism!
Yeah as many have pointed out he dismisses a bunch of female led and female-directed films. Intentional?
Also I’m a massive Christian Bale fan but nobody is talking about American Hustle now, let alone in 30 years! Does he owe David O Russell money?
Right?! It had it’s moments but overall that film was mediocre at best.
Being a misogynist doesn’t mean his movies aren’t great.
Also a lot of people can’t write what they don’t know. He hasn’t had a successful relationship with a woman so his casting choices make sense.
You know Sam Johnson wants an Oscar in 2016.
American Hustle was barely watchable! I loved the move The Town! Of course, I’m a Boston girl! Tarantino always comes across as an arrogant jerk, who thinks only his ideas and opinions count!!! And wtf is he talking about having good looking people in movies…Inglorious Basterds, had a pretty great looking cast! I can’t stand him!
I have to agree with him to an extent that some of Cate Blanchett-like films will not have the same shelf life as other films – like The Fighter. But LOLOLOL at him trying to throw American Hustle into the mix. The film was good because of the performances – particularly Bale and Amy Adams. But it is not going to stand the test of time. It was a straight Scorsese knock off. I immensely liked The Fighter – again because of the performances. But I wasn’t a big fan of Silver Linings Playbook, and being the JLawloonie that I am – I still don’t think her performance was Oscar winner worthy. Blanchett has made some REALLY good films but also some pretty shitastic films. That being said, Blue Jasmine is one of my favorite Woody Allen films (even if I hate the guy) and that’s only because of Blanchett’s ASTONISHINGLY great central performance. One that people will talk about for years and years. No one is going to be talking about a David O’Russell film in that regard. Tarantino has taken up a permanent residence up O’Russell’s a-hole. Gross. And how dare he dismiss An Education? It’s a fabulous film! The Town is great too. Blake Lively gave arguably her only good performance in that film – marble mouth and all.
I will give him credit for watching Justified. Walton Goggins is the best. But LOL at his thinking The Newsroom is anything better than a decent pilot and an ok first season. That show is about as bad as all of True Detective S2.
I was underwhelmed by cate blanchette in blue jasmine. So much hype- she was ok but i thought Sally Hawkins in the same film was better. I like QT.
I respectfully disagree; I thought American Hustle was actually underrated (or rated for some transient reasons, while other structural aspects will register in the future)… and I suspect Tarantino is absolutely correct that it will be studied and recognized for what it is later, as well.
I agree with everything he said about current movies until he got to American Hustle. And it’s kinda funny he criticised The Town and True Detective S2 for having casts of gorgeous people while praising that film. Eh, dude, you have Jennifer Lawrence in lingerie portraying a woman that’s supposed to be a decade and a half older than her. Love her but come on, man.
YES!
1) He’s flat-out calling out Ben Affleck for casting a perspective side-piece in his movie and
2) Now I am not ashamed to admit that I fell asleep halfway through the first episode of True Detective (season 1) and NEVER LOOKED BACK!
Thank you QT!
I thought I was alone in not being able to get through a single episode of True Detective. It was awful and I had no idea what they were talking about.
QT is spot on about The Fighter and The Town. I like the The Town but everyone was too pretty.
It’s hardly a call out or ‘shade’, it’s a minor criticism, not everything it’s a celebrity feud. Holy hell.
Plus he just said for another way to suck up to David O Russell. What he said about The Town you could say about every hollywood movie.
Mark, I agree with everything you said!
I don’t know, Ben Affleck portraying his hometown in a way that doesn’t really ring true is kind of different than any old random Hollywood glamorization. The minute I heard Black Lively try to speak Bostonian like she had a mouth full of marbles I was like “Nah, this is b.s.” Quentin’s critique is pointed, there is a problem with authenticity in Affleck’s film. That said I do think O’Russell is overrated too and Tarantino turning “Cate Blanchett movies” into a catchphrase for crappy Oscar bait is pretty sh*tty. Why not go after Weinstein, why target a woman who is unquestionably a great artist, working in a field where she’s too young to get Meryl’s parts but “too old” by Hollywood standards to be considered for Jennifer Lawrence’s Oscar baity movies?
I am not into TD from day one.
I get why people loved it, but seriously I couldn’t make it.
Loved the trailer. Cannot wait for this film. Looks great.
I love what he has to say about Obama.
And I happen to agree with him. It’s been hilarious to watch, and to watch the do-nothing Congress lose its stagnant mind.
ITA. I’m living for Obama’s “give no f*cks” phase.
Same here. I love that he’s letting Luther out at last.
@ Alice: I love ‘letting his Luther out at last’ reference. This needs to become a phrase.
The shade thrown at Affleck and Lively! Lol.
Great interview, top-class burn for Affleck, and he also singled out Jennifer Lawrence for particular praise – good stuff!
I haven’t had time to read the entire interview, but I agree with almost all he said in the excerpts. I would say, however, that when he casts Christoph Waltz he’s casting rather beautiful himself. But that’s fine with me.
I don’t really understand his comment about the Town. Inglorious Basterds was a complete collection of gorgeous people, does that mean I shouldn’t take the movie serious? Or is he talking about realism (granted, IB was never meant to look realistic)?
Oh yeah, Inglorious Bastards had Brad Pitt in it, didn’t it?
Ugly people in general don’t exist in movies.
And Fassbender. And Melanie Laurent. And Daniel Bruhl. And a stunningly gorgeous Diane Kruger.
Spot on. And he especially loves beautiful women in all of his movies. He’s known for it.
One of the best parts of IB is how it looks like a Golden Age Hollywood movie where everyone is beyond gorgeous regardless of role. That movie really stands out in QT’s filmography because of the good-looking cast. (Next closest would be Kill Bill, stylized like the preternaturally pretty Hong Kong action movies, and Pulp Fiction, with heavy layer of LA glitz applied.)
The Town was a dark and tense drama/thriller that was aiming for some realism. When you see a bunch of gorgeous people being uglied up to look average and make their suffering look more real, it just looks dumb. Basterds wasn’t like that. Both the actors and the actresses were made up to look handsome and fashionable, and like every Tarantino film there was a very distinctive twisted, campy sense of humor to it.
But he did praise American Hustle, which was no different from The Town in that regard. So, well…
QT is so complicated for me. I normally am one of those people who cannot watch violent stuff, because of some crap I went through. The first time I saw Kill Bill it was on reg TV and heavily edited. It wasn’t my style at all, and I kept wondering why I was watching it. I finished it. since that first time, I have seen it approximately ten times. Inglorious Basterds also. There is something about the women in these films for me. Being a female with a brain, I am of course a feminist. Some people say he hates women, is exploitive etc. I can see that in some of his stuff. But I also see that these women are (insanely, literally) strong, brave BEYOND and smart. As I said, he is complicated. His characters are equally so. He’s never boring, and his remarks in this interview are spot-on. This latest film looks amazing.
His films are hit-or-miss for me but I’ve never found his movies to be exploitative or hateful towards women. Then again, people say the same thing about Von Trier and I’ve never seen it, so maybe I have a blind spot where that is concerned.
Well said, kri!
He trashes older actresses for their Oscar bait movies but praises the biggest Oscar bait director, the lunatic David O’Russell and his young blonde J.Law.
Of course Tarantino like the rest of the middle aged men in Hollywood love Jennifer that’s why she got that Oscar.
I’m glad you said something because I was wondering if I was the only one that detected the sexism in his comments about Blanchett. Also, Notes on a Scandal will forever remain more memorable to me than the tepid and forgettable American Hustle.
Well most films that are remember are because 1) It has a huge following within most critics or 2) Because it has made money beyond measure. Most of the films he has mention, have not been financially successes and have tepid critical reactions. So how can one say they will be remember, when in the last century you have many other Oscar bait films like Kitty Foyle or most of Greer Garson films that are mostly forgotten. Why? Because general audiences doesn’t care about revisiting obscure films (they see Gone with the Wind or All about Eve instead) and because most cinephile or cinema cultured people don’t find them worthy of seeing when they can see real masterpieces like The Searchers or Johnny Guitar.
Yeah you’re probably right and if he had articulated his views the way you did, I’d be inclined to agree.
Amen, Kitten. Notes on a Scandal was a psychological thriller/drama that never took the easy way out. It was very subtle and creepy as it went on. It was an excellent film.
It like Notes on a Scandal but subtle is not something I used when describing it. Creepy, sure but also a campy melodrama which is fine as the film did not pretend to be anything else.
@Pinky Rose: Douglas Sirk. Written on the Wind vs. Gone with. Sigh.
Plus he said American Hustle is going to be a classic? Are we going to ignore that.
He’s right about the big picture though. While I don’t necessarily agree that people won’t revisit and enjoy any of those movies (I loved An Education), he’s on the nose that a lot of those mid-level Oscar bait-y simply don’t end up aging well. How often do you re-watch the movies in Blanchett’s oevre? Tarantino’s movies definitely aren’t for everyone, but the guy is well known as a huge fan and student of cinema. Not all movies, even Oscar nominated or winning ones, become classics.
Yes, he lost me with this American Hustle remark. I wish he had explained what was so memorable about it, I found it extremely forgettable.
Hmmm…yes, maybe Tarantino is being a bit sexist, but isn’t claiming that J-Law only got her Oscar because older men fancy her completely sexist as well?
It’s not J.Law’s fault but that men in Hollywood only value actresses of a certain age and with certain looks.
@kay
Are old man also Cotillard, Fonda, McLaine,Redgrave,Streisand who raving about Lawrence? I’m sorry that you’re pressed but also women like Lawrence at Hollywood.
I loved The Town, mainly because it was filmed in Charlestown, but I think Tarantino is spot-on about his criticisms of everyone in that film being too good-looking. I felt the same way about Season 2 of TD, like “let’s give Rachel McAdams a bad dye job so she won’t look as pretty”. Yeah, no. Fail.
Quentin and his love of beautiful women in his movies is criticizing Ben putting two attractive women in the Town? The list is endless in Tarantino’s movies, endless. Don’t get me started. Rebecca Hall is an intelligent and talented actress and not flashy in the movie. Blake actually was great as a coked-out Townie. It is probably the best acting she’s ever done. I was never impressed with Blake before but thought she prepared well and absolutely nailed that character. And there were some great character actors in the Town, who were not handsome. Why leave them out? And Ben uses lots of locals as extras to film for realism. The movies wasn’t better than The Fighter, but he just glosses over certain things.
And guess what, Quentin? I have watched Notes on a Scandal three times and will watch it again some day. It’s an amazing movie, which will be remembered.
Rebecca Hall was great. But no coked out towny looks like Blake Lively, no matter how many press – on nails they put on her.
@Bridget- Agreed Hall was great. But I do think Lively looked the part, even if she sounded like she was going for a Boston accent and came out sounding like a mouth full of marbles. I thought the costume department did a great job of nailing her look. She had the smudgy makeup, the attire, etc. She looked the part. I don’t think druggies are isolated to non-attractive people – which I know isn’t what you’re saying. But my point is, Lively looked the part – they made her “ugly” enough to aesthetically come off as a town junkie.
@kennedy I swear I only just read your comment after posting mine! great minds! (mouth full of marbles indeed!: “Doof youf wfwanna gwo owt with me?”)
I guess the difference to me is that Tarantino’s films are meant to be stylistic/showy thrillers versus gritty dramas like The Town. I think he was specifically comparing The Fighter and The Town because both were going for realism.
I still think Renner’s Boston accent was the best I’ve ever heard though.
There were strong character actors in The Town. Chris Cooper and Pete Postelthwaite were both fantastic in it.
I don’t consider Jeremy Renner handsome at all and he’s an excellent actor and deserved the part. The rapper Slaine was really great and chubby and not handsome.
I guess I wasn’t watching The Town thinking all beautiful people.
The Fighter is grittier and a better film, but that doesn’t make The Town just a pretty person movie either, far from it. I didn’t find it that way.
Kitten, as a Bostonian, I agree, Renner’s accent was the best I’ve heard. And it’s a tough accent to get right! Jayna, I didn’t think everyone in The Town was great looking either, although I will say Ben’s body was rockin in the movie….
Ben’s body was amazing in that movie. He needs to get back to that lol.
Thanks for reminding me about Chris Cooper, Jayna. Does ever give a bad performance? Honestly, I loved The Town AND The Fighter.
2010 was a good year for movies IMO.
I am a Brit, so I am no expert on US accents, but every now and then articles about the best and worst Boston accents are published, often by organisations based in Boston. Renner is a always given as one of the best, whilst the relatively posh Boston boy Affleck isn’t highly rated. To his credit, it was Affleck who told the Californian Renner not to use an accent coach, but to hang out with Charlestown thugs and pick up the character and accent organically. I do think Affleck is a much better as a director of actors than as an actor himself.
@Kitten, Renner’s was the best male version of the accent, with points for getting the neighborhood and class level. The best was Amy Ryan in Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone. Affleck used the same technique with both – assigned them a person from the neighborhood to work with for a month before filming
I actually find it rather funny that QT points at the casting for the sisters in The Fighter for making it a better film. (One of them is Conan O’Brien’s sister) Several of those women were also in Gone Baby Gone AND The Town
@jorts. I’ve never seen Chris Cooper give a bad performance. And he was magnificent in Lone Star. (As was the wonderful Joe Morton)
Several of the women playing the Ward sisters in The Fighter had bit parts in The Town
@Alice: Amen to Chris Cooper’s brilliance, Lone Star is what turned me on to him too 🙂
IMO, there’s no way that people will be watching American Hustle in 30+ years time.
I’ve seen notes on a scandal many times yet you couldn’t pay me to watch American hustle…
Loving this interview. And his western love is all kinds of amazing.
Agreed with everything he says. Agreed. Well except anything that glorifies Jennifer Lawrence. She is the most overrated actress and shallow as hell. I feel that movies she’s in do well in spite of her.
I think he has a point about DOR films being more memorable than many well-crafted dramas – they certainly have an energy and impact that more conventionally polished films often lack.
Except that most people have forgotten what American Hustle is about. SLP the same.
Think QT was, is, and will be remembered as a kick a55 filmmaker. He homages all over the damn place! His love of film, it’s history, its traditions, is what makes his movies so watchable. There is a familiarity, a nostalgia, a reverence to whatever genre or style he’s borrowing from, and I feel real fortunate that I have been able to watch all of his films, even those that made me squirm a little in my seat. And I love the fact that if he’s going to borrow from a comic book, it’s manga…
He’s an idiot. He made two good films (Resevoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) and they’re both ripoffs of other movies. He’s such a sniveling nerd. With a known foot fetish.
Pulp Fiction is the only movie of his that I like.
You probably haven’t watched a good majority of his films. There’s no way you could have and make that statement.
Actually I have seen the majority. They’ve all got their moments, but sorry—just not a big Tarantino fan.
No arguments about taste, and all that.
The Ben Affleck shade is delicious and spot on. QT knows what he is talking about.
I think Ben casts gorgeous actresses in hopes of bedding them instead of seeking the best actresses for the part. Blake Lively is a horrible actress and another actress would have taken the character to a higher level. Yes, Blake did better in this film than in her other movies but she is still bad. The Ben Affleck casting couch is alive and really obvious in his films.
It’s not spot on. He said the men and women were gorgeous in the movie. It’s not accurate. i’ve stated my position higher up in two posts, starting from number 12, about the actors in the movie and even Rebecca Hall.
Jayna….you’ll never stop the insane Ben Affleck hatred. Even before “nannygate”…BA may not be a good husband, but I don’t see how anyone can say he isn’t a really good film maker!
Yep, the hate started WAY before Nannygate. People just love to hate that guy.
I think he’s right about The Fighter vs The Town and that’s about it. I love some of his films but some others are filled with some of the worst stereotypes so he really doesn’t need to be patting himself on the back. Oh and Notes on a Scandal, and An Education are both brilliant films and he needs to take a seat.
I don’t agree with everything he said but the man is a movie obsessed freak in the best way. He eats movies for breakfast lunch and dinner and will have a passionate discussion with pretty much anyone who shows even a tiny fraction of his enthusiasm.
I love love love him.
I absolutely ADORE that about his movies. When people complain about him “stealing” from other movies – that’s kind of the point. His movies are all very passionate homages to the films he likes. His passion and love for those films is just tangible when you watch his work. And you know what’s funny? For a guy who “steals” from other people, his movies look far more original and unique than 95% of what’s released nowadays.
Well he also shaded Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner and True Detective, so I guess QT must hate men too. Sexism! #internetlogic
QT has written more interesting female roles than many other directors, have strong female leads in his movies, but I guess all these don’t matter when people are going out of their way to look for things to be offended about.
And I say this as someone who is not a QT fan in particular and who HATES American Hustle.
He’s and oddball but he knows his stuff! I like him. Love to see people that are passionate about their work.
Soooo no comments on what he said about race and white supremacy??
Right? I for one loved what he had to say about that and about Obama.
It doesn’t surprise me that QT likes American Hustle. I think both directors are interesting and inspire fantastic performances from their actors, but they are so over indulgent. If only they had strong editors to work with I think their films would count among my favourites, as it is I mostly enjoy them, but I leave a bit frustrated. Given a choice I would watch QT over DOR because the Cooper/Lawrence comb does nothing for me, QTs casting choices are always very interesting.
I love how he shades artsy fartsy Cate Blanchett’s movies.
Lol and when you think he featured both Robin Hood and Blue Jasmine in his favorite films of each year list it’s even more funny. Maybe here he is shading the fact that Weinstein is favoring Carol instead of Hateful Eight. Award season is going to be interesting again after the snooze that it was last year.
Love QT, look forward to every new movie of his.
i also couldn’t get into true detective, mostly because I think MM is a crappy actor who whispers instead of speaking, all throughout his movies.
And who is MM. It would be nice to spell the name out at least once before abbreviating it. I’m finding the tendency to only use initials incredibly annoying!
Matthew McC
I love him.
Pulp Fiction is overrated. So is the rest of his overblown resume. He is a good talker though, enjoyable in small doses.
Damn, man. People have really grown ridiculously sensitive nowadays, eh? Why is everything a “slam” or a “shade”? He’s making valid criticism and cared to explain himself. You know, his comments are actually a lot tamer than what we usually write in this comment section.
QT movies are all so basic, to me; too much pose, too much actors being all actory (I know that’s not a word). Nothing naturalistic about them. It’s always like watching a movie about other movies, or, at best, a fairly impressive music video clip. Too much violence for the sake of looking cool. I’ve watched all his movies- can’t freaking stand Pulp Fiction, so infantile. Loved Kill Bill mostly for the girl power.
I agree to a strong extent, but for whatever reason I do think it gives them a uniquely re-watchable quality. It’s almost like watching a play that’s been filmed or something, it’s jarring, it doesn’t feel quite right, and you don’t memorize the performances quite like you would with another movie (might be just me). I often don’t enjoy them the first time around (not since Reservoir Dogs anyway), but if I see one on t.v. and watch a piece of it ,it still feels fresh if that makes any sense. I hated Kill Bill the first time around but if it’s ever on I must watch Uma bust out of that coffin, it’s compulsive somehow. I assume he makes them cartoonish on purpose, not sure if that is the reason why – I did think it really worked with Django, in particular, he can sucker punch you with horror but keep the slimmest distance from it, it’s effective when dealing with historically brutal subjects like slavery or the Holocaust.
I understand some of what he said. If you look at many of the Oscar BP winners over the years.. the vast majority of them are quite forgettable. Some of them don’t even air on TV at all. A great film is always going to be great. 5, 10, 20 years from now. I think that is why we keep talking about those older films.. they don’t make them like that anymore.
Everything about Ben Affleck is phony, so I agree with his shade. True Detective season 1 was great, but season 2 I had to stop watching because just like he said it was all these attractive people trying extra hard to look grungy and super serious and mopey. It rang false, so I couldn’t get into it.
Tarantino is the man. And as to his homages to old movies… I thank him for raising the awareness. He has helped me learn about other genres of film I would never have been exposed to!
I truly adore this man.
Every poster is entitled to their opinion. Some Ben fans are too sensitive and it is too much to say it’s insane to hate Ben. Please. He has earned some of the hate in my opinion.
I have seen several of his films and Ben is not a good actor and is always the weakest link acting wise in a movie. He is too wooden. I thought this before nannygate and I still do. He is a good director though and should concentrate on that though I do hate his use of the casting couch. As a human being he is despicable. Before nannygate I thought he was a jerk but now I think he is a lowlife, phony, scum of the earth, sorry excuse for a husband and father. When he cheated with the nanny and created this whole mess he hurt not only his wife but his kids too. I hope he changes for his kids sake but he will need to seriously commit to rehab to do that.