angrod14
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Django and Hateful 8 are a complete borefest. The latter one has no sense of pacing whatsoever and it's gimmicky as hell with the whole "shot in 70mm Panavision and soundtrack by Ennio Moriconne" bs; we get it, but that does not make a movie good.
Then we have Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is more watchable than the last one, but it's still pretty boring. The movie has no plot whatsoever. He made a whole deal about the Charles Manson cult and whatever, and the guy barely came out in the movie. There isn't a single significant moment in the film with him. The only suspenseful scene in the movie (featuring the ranch) lead to absolutely nothing, no payoff. Just Bruce Dern sleeping in a rotten room. And the ending, while funny and all, is a little bit burned-out (no pun intended) at this point with the theme of rewriting history and avenging the victims QT has been doing for the latter part of his career.
When you bring up these points to fans they always respond things like "yeah, but it's supposed to a love letter to cinema and blah blah blah". Bro, EVERY SINGLE QT movie is a love letter to cinema. The difference is that movies like Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and IB freaking ROCK, in addition to being love letters to cinema. I wouldn't call Django or OUATIH bad movies per se, but they're just so dissappointing to watch if you know what the guy is capable of.
I think the thing that makes the difference is that in his old movies, Quentin was actually trying. He was actively trying to prove he was one of the greats, shooting action and doing suspense like no one else and showing how it's done. But now that he's a household name he is just doing whatever he wants without any sort of production restraints, and knowing everyone will just jerk him off anyways because he's who he is.
The last nail in the coffin is that his last movie will be about a "movie critic", so expect another pretentious borefest. I will forever treasure Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and IB. In fact, I've been thinking a lot and can't come up with any other movies that are quite at the same level to me as those, so in that regard he still is my "favorite" director. But the rest of his filmography is pretty forgettable, and it seems he's peaked a long time ago.
Then we have Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is more watchable than the last one, but it's still pretty boring. The movie has no plot whatsoever. He made a whole deal about the Charles Manson cult and whatever, and the guy barely came out in the movie. There isn't a single significant moment in the film with him. The only suspenseful scene in the movie (featuring the ranch) lead to absolutely nothing, no payoff. Just Bruce Dern sleeping in a rotten room. And the ending, while funny and all, is a little bit burned-out (no pun intended) at this point with the theme of rewriting history and avenging the victims QT has been doing for the latter part of his career.
When you bring up these points to fans they always respond things like "yeah, but it's supposed to a love letter to cinema and blah blah blah". Bro, EVERY SINGLE QT movie is a love letter to cinema. The difference is that movies like Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and IB freaking ROCK, in addition to being love letters to cinema. I wouldn't call Django or OUATIH bad movies per se, but they're just so dissappointing to watch if you know what the guy is capable of.
I think the thing that makes the difference is that in his old movies, Quentin was actually trying. He was actively trying to prove he was one of the greats, shooting action and doing suspense like no one else and showing how it's done. But now that he's a household name he is just doing whatever he wants without any sort of production restraints, and knowing everyone will just jerk him off anyways because he's who he is.
The last nail in the coffin is that his last movie will be about a "movie critic", so expect another pretentious borefest. I will forever treasure Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and IB. In fact, I've been thinking a lot and can't come up with any other movies that are quite at the same level to me as those, so in that regard he still is my "favorite" director. But the rest of his filmography is pretty forgettable, and it seems he's peaked a long time ago.
