I am a big Tarantino fan. He has always indicated that we would only direct 10 feature films.
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill (Vol. 1 & 2)…and possible Vol. 3
Death Proof
Inglorious Bastards
Django Unchained
The Hateful Eight
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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He has completed the writing of what is believed to be his 10th feature film, The Movie Critic. It is supposedly intended to tie together the universe within which all of his other films are set. It supposedly centers around a female movie critic protagonist.
He is also planning a Vol. 3 to the Kill Bill saga. He has said that he is purposefully waiting for the actors to age.
Here’s how I would rank his current completed films.
The Hateful Eight
Pulp Fiction
The Inglorious Bastards
Reservoir Dogs
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Kill Bill
Django Unchained
Jackie Brown
Death Proof
I love everything he’s done, but I’d put Pulp Fiction number one, with a four way tie for number two (Hateful Eight, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill).
I haven’t seen any of his movies since Kill Bill v2, which I really really liked. Death Proof was awful. Pulp Fiction was a lot of fun. I saw Reservoir Dogs in the theater and it blew me away, but on second watching, I had to leave the room during the ear scene, and I never came back to the movie nor do I plan to. KBV1 was too bloody for my tastes–I know it was cartoonish, but it left me feeling gross.
So for me it’s KBV2, no question. But they’re bundled together in the voting, because Tarantino is a snooty auteur who thinks a single movie can be released in two parts. So I ain’t voting.
If this man had only one chance to make a mark on our culture, Pulp Fiction was it.
There isn’t another objective option. Now personal preference is totally different, and that’s what the OP asked for. Still, ‘Jackie Brown’ out of those 9? Maybe that’s the only one of the 9 he/she saw.
I like all his movies, and it’s pretty hard for me to choose one over and above all the others. If cornered into a decision, I guess I would pick Pulp Fiction.
I missed the film in the theaters, but I’ve seen clips on youtube.
Yes, I know - I was lacking context by not seeing the entire film. But, I gotta say, it’s a failure of the film when you start rooting for the bad guy. Those women in the Challenger were motherfucking annoying, motherfuckers!
Also, you could tell it was a QT film, because every third word was motherfucker, and you couldn’t understand the other two.
As for the OP, I voted for the poorly spelled Inglourious Basterds over Pulp Fiction, because I thought the tension of several scenes was through the roof, such as the opening scene and the card game in the ratcellar. PF is good, but it is marred by QT trying to act black. Cut that out and it improves immensely.
I saw Pulp Fiction four times on the big screen during its initial run. I wasn’t being an obsessive fan, I just kept going with friends who hadn’t seen it yet. By a year later, its magic had kind of worn off. I think it’s still a great film, but it reeeeaalllly drags in the middle section once you know where it’s going. And the casual racism stopped seeming so edgy and just began grating (the fact that he wrote himself a character who could use the phrase “dead [n-word] storage” never sat well with me). There’s brilliant stuff in it, but there are a plethora of reasons it’s low on my list.
Here’s the Rotten Tomatoes rankings. I’m surprised that Once Upon a Time only got 70% with viewers. Why didn’t people like it?
92/96 Pulp Fiction
90/94 Reservoir Dogs
87/92 Django Unchained
89/88 Inglourious Basterds
84/89 Kill Bill Vol. 2
87/85 Jackie Brown
85/81 Kill Bill Vol. 1
85/70 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
74/77 The Hateful Eight
66/71 Death Proof
I seem to have liked The Hateful Eight way more than average. I would probably put it 3rd. I agree with the top 2 and have little use for Django Unchained which was barely watchable to me.
I rate Jackie Brown highly due to the existance of Rum Punch, Elmore Leonard’s novel on which Jackie is based. It is one of Leonard’s best (and that’s really saying something). If Rum Punch did not exist, I’d rate Jackie lower.
I didn’t note. It simply isn’t possible for me to pick one. Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and Reservoir Dogs are all outstanding. I like Pulp Fiction, but not as much as the ones I just listed.
I guess if I have to pick, it goes to Inglourious Basterds. So I guess I’ll go vote. LOL
I’m not sure where the line is, or why, but to me there is a difference in revisionist history movies like Inglourious Basterds versus OUATIH. Maybe because Hitler was hated by everyone, and a long time ago, and we all would have been happy if he burned to death, but Jay Sebring is recent enough to be remembered, and it seems gratuitous to use him and Tate as props in a movie that serves…what purpose exactly? QT’s personal fetishes? Hollywood Oscar bait? Nope, not for me.
(I never saw Kill Bill, because I’m not a fan of the movies QT is homaging, but I don’t have any problem with it, it’s just nothing I care to see.)