re: Quentin Tarantino and bad movies.

Tarantino is one of the all-time great directors who has a distinctive style that is oft imitated, but never very well. Very few guys changed cinema, but he's one of them. In a way, he's partly responsible for the comic book movie explosion though he's never done one, as he did a lot of the early heavy lifting to legitimize trashy cinema and pop culture detritus. He has a clear affinity for stuff that respected voices called garbage (hence his love for Pam Grier, kung fu, 70s cartoons, and blaxploitation films).

None of his movies are bad, tough it's no like he has many movies period. I'd say his weakest film is KILL BILL VOL 2. There was really no need for that movie to go two movies, and all of the interesting parts were in part one.

But to answer the OP, I think in 20 years, INGLORIOUS BASTERDS and ONCE UPON A TIME will be widely viewed as his best two movies (PULP FICTION will always hold a special place due to its importance in overall cinema and JACKIE BROWN will always be the official choice of Tarantino films among Tarantino hipsters as his actual best film to show off their taste and bona fides... it's great and underrated, but they will be wrong)

DEATH PROOF is probably his slightest film, but if loving Rosario Dawson trying to murder Kurt Russell with a long sequence of Zoe Bell due near impossible stunts on the hood of a car is wrong... I don't want to be right. And in a way, it's the most Tarantino movie out there. Just a glorious B-movie with no pretension to anything else.