# Is Quentin Tarantino Making His Last Film? \[The Movie Critic\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [March 15, 2023, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204 "2023-03-15T06:25:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/22 "2023-08-13T00:40:27Z")
I have not seen all of Scorsese’s movies, but Silence is the best thing I’ve seen that came from him. It was 2016 and I think he has been up and down his entire career, to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/23 "2023-08-13T23:15:20Z")
Isnt it a prison film? Dunno if he means prison or a POW camp. Lets think of acclaimed minor (Or not) older actors still alive and healthy enough to do a film he might include. Since I saw him in the Mary Poppins sequel, Dick Van Dyke still looks healthy enough to do a cameo. Warren Beatty whom he already tried to work with. Seems like everyone else whom he might have admired like a Robert Forster has passed. Unfortuantly Gene Hackman looks every second of his 92 years. You don’t want a crowd to get angry at a cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/24 "2023-08-14T00:26:39Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Isnt it a prison film? Dunno if he means prison or a POW camp. I thought it was to be about a film critic writing for a pornographic magazine. I imagine that would be set in the 1970s or thereabouts. And a female lead. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/25 "2023-08-14T02:01:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > I think if he has a story he really wants to tell he will do it. Perhaps if he does stop for a while, distract himself with something else, the best movie he could tell will come to him. And of course he’ll make it. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/26 "2024-04-18T00:04:14Z")
> **[Quentin Tarantino Drops ‘The Movie Critic’ As His Final Film](https://deadline.com/2024/04/quentin-tarantino-final-film-wont-be-the-movie-critic-scrapped-1235888577/)** > > Quentin Tarantino has changed his mind about making The Movie Critic, scrapping the film as his 10th and final project. How reliable is Deadline about this type rumor? ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/27 "2024-04-18T00:51:36Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > [Quentin Tarantino's Final Film Won't Be 'The Movie Critic'; Pic Scrapped](https://deadline.com/2024/04/quentin-tarantino-final-film-wont-be-the-movie-critic-scrapped-1235888577/) It has to be said I was a somewhat relieved by this. I get Tarantino is a massive film nerd, but his last film being about a movie critic? I was skeptical. He does crime movies, really really well. He’s kinda the best in the business at portraying hit men, heists and shoot outs. Hell he probably change how criminals are portrayed popular culture at least as much as Coppola or Scorsese. Maybe I’m wrong (and I guess we’ll never know) but I can’t imagine him pulling off a movie about a film critic, no matter how much he loves the subject matter ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/28 "2024-04-18T01:04:34Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > As much as I loved, _Once Upon a Time in Hollywood_, it really is just a movie about movies (or TV), I thought this when I first saw _Once Upon a Time in Hollywood_ as well; that it was a movie about making movies. But I had missed a key point until it was pointed out to me. All of Tarantino’s movies are homages to movie genres. And _Once Upon a Time in Hollywood_ is an homage as well. The genre it’s an homage to is Quentin Tarantino movies. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/29 "2024-04-18T01:29:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > All of Tarantino’s movies are homages to movie genres. And _Once Upon a Time in Hollywood_ is an homage as well. The genre it’s an homage to is Quentin Tarantino movies. …without Samuel L. Jackson? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/30 "2024-04-18T03:56:58Z")
Anyone want to see Tarantino do a musical? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/31 "2024-04-18T04:53:52Z")
It would be interesting to see him do a cop movie, like _Bullitt_ or _The French Connection_ or _Lethal Weapon_. He’s always tended to focus his stories on the criminals. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/32 "2024-04-18T13:10:51Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > he’s actually very, very good at directing actors. I think he’s got a very serious talent for making actors step out of their comfort zones and give great performances. Well said. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/33 "2024-04-18T15:09:50Z")
Id like to see him make a space opera adventure; “Once Upon A Time In Space”. That could be interesting, seeing him make a twist on 2001, Star Wars, Alien etc. A new frontier for him! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/34 "2024-04-18T23:36:49Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Tarantino already ‘made it’ some time ago and of course never has to work another day in his life. Taking in a large wad of cash and never needing to work again are two very different things. The average Hollywood star, I believe, is paying several alimonies, supporting several dozen secret children, and working check-to-check to pay off usurious payday loans to Deutsch Bank and Tom Barrack. Managing cash is a talent that doesn’t seem to correlate with having a lot of passion and imagination. Directors need to be able to extract the best picture out of their working budget that they can so there’s probably a better chance that they’re good with money. But I wouldn’t take it as a given. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/35 "2024-04-18T23:42:38Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > The average Hollywood star, I believe, is paying several alimonies, supporting several dozen secret children, and working check-to-check to pay off usurious payday loans to Deutsch Bank and Tom Barrack. What is the source of this belief? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/36 "2024-04-18T23:49:23Z")
I want him to do a rom com. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/37 "2024-04-19T00:23:19Z")
1. Most people who win the lottery end up developing an entourage, blowing through it all, and landing in debt. 2. LA is one of the few locations of the Wealth Management group of Deutsch Bank - famous as one of the few groups willing to loan money to Trump. Likewise, Tom Barrack appears in both Michael Jackson and Trump’s history as a lender. The only reason to lend money to people who are bad with money, is to be able to charge them high interest rates. It’s like the First Law of Thermodynamics for loans. 3. I know a person who was in regular attendance in AA in Hollywood and attests to the regular appearance of many stars. 4. Likewise, the only thing that ever seems to be accurate in film is how AA meetings operate. And that’s very consistent across all TV shows and films. 5. There’s a large quantity of film and TV characters in AA, compared to the norm. 6. It seems to be a “generally known fact” in the region that the leads on a film set always hook up and, I suspect, a lot of hooking up in general among everyone across the production given that you’re all trapped together for several weeks, bored, and will all go separate directions at the end of it - quite plausibly, never to see one another again. 7. There’s a strangely large number of surfers who don’t seem to need to do anything to make a living, spending their day from sun rise to sun set as a creature of the ocean, in the region. 8. It’s rare to see a Hollywood celebrity with fewer than 3 spouses, from what I’ve ever seen on Wikipedia. Given the rumors of lots of hooking up, that those spouses seem to be former co-leads, that tracks, so I find #6 to be likely true. 9. Entourages and Bottle Girls both seem to be things in LA. 10. While sex sells, alcohol and drug use don’t. TV and film characters are casually partaking a significant more than the average person, regardless of who they are and what their social status or background is. One often gets a sense that the writers aren’t aware that they’re describing a way of life that isn’t ordinary. 11. The reason that people join an entourage is to get access to wealth. 12. Likewise, young, good looking women who would rather not work for a living have a pretty strong motive to meet someone famous and get knocked up. It’s another First Law of Thermodynamics sort of deal. There’s a gravitational force there that’s going to succeed at a higher rate than is normal for the rest of all of us. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/38 "2024-04-19T00:30:32Z")
“We’ve got hearsay and speculation, your honor. Those are kinds of evidence!” ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/39 "2024-04-19T00:30:50Z")
Ergo “believe”. It wasn’t in that sentence for no reason. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/40 "2024-04-19T00:31:59Z")
Ok, man. None of your beliefs have any support and are kind of ridiculous, but you do you. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204/41 "2024-04-19T00:39:09Z")
Also, since this thread is specifically about Quentin Tarantino, he has one wife, no kids, and exhibits no signs of a drug or gambling problem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-quentin-tarantino-making-his-last-film-the-movie-critic/981204.md?page=3)