re: Your Current Top 5 People in Hollywood

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I can totally understand why people wouldn't like him for being him. He's extremely arrogant and smug

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That smugness is pretty detectable in his movies lately. I loved Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs but it's been downhill from there. I think he's not nearly as original as his critics blindly praise him to be. He even admits as much, he just borrows from pulp and exploitation cinema, yet he's feted as some genius when in fact he's still riding on good will from Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. The real strength of those movies was the dialogue which really did seem revolutionary at the time and was truly inspired. Since then, however, he's had absolutely nothing of interest to say in his movies. He could have Christoph Waltz read out of a phone book for 120 minutes and critics would be drooling over it.

Inglourious Basterds..I kept waiting for all this 'snappy' dialogue but to me it never delivered. I hated the screenplay. Main characters would come and go, disappearing for what felt like 30 minutes at a time. I liked Brad Pitt, but then he would disappear from the proceedings for a while. Entire set pieces were built around dialogue that went nowhere. You could tell that encounter with the Nazis in the basement bar was supposed to be tense, but to me it just groaned on and on, in part because Tarantino thinks he's so clever that he can have characters talk, and talk, and talk, and people will eat it up.

Django Unchained was sophomoric crap. It was an adolescent fantasy vanity piece. I felt like it was Tarantino trying to apologize for using the n word too much in Pulp Fiction. Were we supposed to stand up and cheer with he blew away the white lady in the end? Samuel L Jackson's character had to be one of the worst in modern cinematic history, and not in the sense Tarantino intended. Another movie of his where the screenplay was an excuse for dialogue Tarantino drummed up while high. The violence was so over the top that it became tedious and rendered the events of everything monotonous.

I won't even see the hateful 8, which is too bad, because Walton Goggins is one my favorite actors.