re: Quentin Tarantino and bad movies.

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For me it's jackie brown

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Jackie Brown was one of his best. Django and Hateful 8 sucked donkey balls.

Basterds is literally one of the greatest movies ever made.

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For me it's jackie brown, basterds, Hollywood and death proof

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You thought Inglorious Basterds was bad? Ayfkm?

I don't dislike any of his films but Hateful 8 is pretty bad.

Its the benefit of the doubt movie like Life Aquatic, we're supposed to like it because of previous experiences. So people laugh and applaud dumb shite. For a dialogue connoisseur I exXpect more from QT..considering the movie was just basically a play. There's just something off and disconcerting.

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Its the benefit of the doubt movie like Life Aquatic

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It’s interesting you bring up a Wes Anderson movie, because I think they are similar in a way. I define a “good director” as someone who can take the vision in their head and most closely reproduce it on the screen. Anderson and Tarantino may be the 2 best at this in the past 2 decades. They are both hyper-stylized, which may be a cheat, but you can watch about 5 minutes of any of their films and know who directed it (kinda like hearing 15 seconds of an Edge guitar riff and know it’s a U2 song).

So by that measure, all their movies are “good.” Or at least very well-directed. It’s the varying of the writing/story part of their films that people can legitimately debate on.

I’ll also say that both having low-budget hit indies in Reservoir Dogs and Bottle Rocket followed up by their respective critical hits in Rushmore and Pulp Fiction certainly gave them the budgets and creative carte blanche the rest of their careers that most directors never have to put those visions onscreen.

I'm a big fan who can't wait for another QT movie to come out but I didn't care for OUATIH at all. Very boring and then 1 "oh shite" scene. Movie over. Won't waste my time watching again.

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For me it's jackie brown, basterds, Hollywood and death proof. Death proof of course being the worst by far.

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Reservoir Dogs, GOAT. Everything else is flawed, but have great moments.

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See I don't just love Reservoir Dogs.

I own all the Tarantino movies...but gave away Hateful Eight and never bought Reservoir Dogs.

I probably wouldn't have Kill Bill either if they weren't discounted to nothing so often.

Basterds to me is a great achievement. He built so much tension in the opening scene and the bar room scene it was insane. Same with Pulp Fiction, which to me still has to be his best. I thought Jango was good as well. Those three have to be my favorites if I can pick only three.

I can appreciate DiCaprio's performance in Hollywood. Masterful.

Jackie Brown is a good watch.

Hateful Eight just seemed over the top--and that's saying a lot for a Tarantino movie. Actually bought that and gave it away after watching it once. And Reservoir Dogs seems like a student film compared to Pulp. You can see what's coming but on its own it's more like Hateful Eight, honestly, with most of it happening in that one room. Not something I wanna watch over and over, and it was similarly over the top with Hateful Eight.