![]() If expletives had to be bleeped out of Tarantino films, there would be insanely long bleeps through the film! The films also revel in the N-word, which provoked an angry reaction from director Spike Lee. Inglourious Basterds (2009) (not in order, because that would not be the way) we have come up with a list on what makes a Quentin Tarantino film, Tarantinoesque. The Hateful Eight (2015) with delicious stops in between for After binge watching Tarantino’s films from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is rather different from his other eight films. This is exactly what Quentin Tarantino would do when he stepped onto the scene with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and it's also why he's such a staunch supporter of the cinematic experience.Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, the marvellously mellow Through films like Jaws, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, and The Godfather, we saw a generation of directors taking movies they loved and reviving them through their own personal lenses. Spielberg and “cohorts” like George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and Francis Ford Copolla all latched onto genres that were pulpier entertainments in their childhood, only to make them into something new. And, you know, Michael Anderson, isn't putting that kind of work in Logan's Run. And he's going to make it, within an inch of his life, as effective as it possibly can be. This is exactly the kind of movies he was put on earth to make. As opposed to a Spielberg, who was like, ‘No, this is exactly the kind of movie he likes. That was how we were used to seeing comic book - that kind of movie experience. They were assignments given to journeyman directors who did their best with them. Now… most of them weren't directed that well. Gordon Douglas’s Them! He's going to run and go see. Henry Levin’s Journey to Center of the Earth, he's gonna run to go and see that. What I meant by that, to one degree or another, is that Spielberg and a lot of his cohorts grew up seeing those kinds of movies in the theater. Later on in the conversation, he explained how spectacles such as this are their own form of art, and how Steven Spielberg came to be someone who perfected it: ![]() Putting aside the “movies” versus “films” debate, Quentin Tarantino isn’t using that separation to be a snob. Strangely enough, Jaws is one of six horror movies to have Best Picture nominations, so the line could blur just a bit in that respect. Which means that “films” are presumably more of the independent/art house titles that have higher pedigrees, and usually end up on the lists of best picture nominees every year. Leave it to Quentin Tarantino to separate his tastes in movies into those two separate, important camps: “movies” and “films.” In this case, the designation of a movie almost sounds like it’s shorthand for the blockbuster opuses that Steven Spielberg made a name for himself with. And it shows how badly timed most movies made before Jaws were. But as far as a movie, there's no making it better than Jaws. And then there are other movies that can get in its rarefied air. ![]() I think Jaws is the greatest movie ever made. That distinction is important, as the Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood director made that perfectly clear through the following remarks: Promoting his new co-hosting gig on The Video Archives Podcast, Tarantino had yet another spirited discussion about cinema, which led to his pick of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws as the greatest “movie” ever made. In an upcoming interview with our in-house podcast ReelBlend, Quentin Tarantino made his fourth appearance to talk about all things movies the first since the big live show at the New Beverly Cinema. ![]()
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