I hope it’s doesn’t propel him to big budget movies. This one is a prime example of my contention that a films quality is strongly negatively correlated with its budget.
It is a shame he lost money though. Sad great movies like this are so hard to get made.
Hmm, I’m thinking he’d like to make some money, probably a lot of it.
Canadian socialist imo.
;)
I don’t mean he’d direct Marvel movies. I just mean no one’s going to give him an 80m budget for his next movie because of what he did on 10m.
Villenueve is the model to copy but he decided to swing for the fences on this one. He may ultimately find it was worth it but it might be a while before he can come to that conclusion.
Oh my mistake. Ya that’s a good point.
I thought you were talking about the unfortunate marvel pipeline what swallows up great directors to waste a decade of their career making movies for teenage boys that will be forgotten in 2 years.
RIP Chloe Zao
I don’t get Nomadland, but she was clearly set up to do whatever project she wanted after Nomadland…and chose Eternals…wtf
Since then her IMDB director page has doing a short for Budweiser, and Diablo IV
IB is my favorite Tarantino film. Just amazing.
Yup. The opening scene alone is a masterpiece.
Do not sleep on the Giallo feature collection on Criterion Channel right now, there are some bangers
Elevation
Spoilers below but meh who cares?
5/10
A post apocalyptic Colorado where hibernating monsters have killed everyone but won’t go above 8,000 leaving settlements in the mountains
Meh, nothing of value. Only interesting things are that you find out the monsters are actually machines, but then they don’t explain where the came from or who made them which is one twist in this completely standard movie and Colorado would look beautiful post apocalypse.
That’s what I thought when I watched the trailer last night, so I skipped it. Appreciate your sacrifice.
The opening scene is legitimately one of the best in all of cinema. Again, I’m at a loss for why this movie didn’t just knock me out of my chair the first time (though I liked it). I called it a 4.5/5 out of my usual reluctance to give away five stars, but it might just be a perfect five-star movie.
The damn thing ends with Tarantino having a character functionally break the fourth wall to implicitly call it QT’s masterpiece. If Ryan Reynolds pulled that shit (and make no mistake, that’s a Reynolds move to the core), I would want to beat the shit out of something. Tarantino does it after a movie like that, and I’m left going, “you know what? He earned the victory lap. I’ll allow it.”
I had a similar experience to yours with IB. Watched it when it came out and thought it was fine but wasn’t blown away. I was probably dozing off throughout. Watched it again abput 10 years later and was absolutely floored. Brilliant film
It’s his best film for sure.
My ranking is
IB
Pulp Fiction
OUATIH
Reservoir Dogs
Jackie Brown
KB 1/2
DU
H8
Death proof.
It’s a comics Deadpool thing:
The Jericho Mile (1979)
^ watch about 10-15 seconds of the above and you’ll see how this is the most TV movie that ever TV movie’d. I don’t know what its budget was, but I’ll set the O/U at $250. It doesn’t really work - though it’s not altogether bad for a Sunday night movie of the week either - but since I watched it to look for an answer to whether Michael Mann has ever full-on missed, it feels kind of hollow to pin a “yes” on a movie like this that doesn’t even really seem like it exists in the same medium as his movies that were made for the big screen.
So basically I’m going to have to watch The Keep, and if it surprises me by working for me then I’m just going to have to painfully qualify my language about his catalog by saying that he hasn’t missed on a theatrical release. However…its rep suggests that I’m going to have an uphill battle with that one.
I’m 5 min in and this is excellent.
It has its admirers. It gets graded out pretty well on LB/IMDb.
I don’t know how any ranking of Tarantino films doesn’t have Hateful Eight dead last.
The gap between that and his second worst movie is larger than that of his best movie and his second worst.
I haven’t actually seen Death Proof, so I can’t comment on that, but I would be sorely disappointed if he made another film that was actually worse than The Hateful Eight. What an absolute slog of a movie.