I think Inglorious Basterds is his best movie. Django was good, though.
Of the 50+ films I saw in the theater in 2015 I only saw two that I really hated (meaning I was tempted to get up and leave the theater).
Here are my comic strip reviews of each:
• Terminator Genisys: http://www.theblabbingbaboon.com/?p=6526
• Jupiter Ascending: http://www.theblabbingbaboon.com/?m=20150209
I saw about 30 movies in the theater this year. I tend to only see things that I have to see from a cultural significance point of view and/or things that I expect to be good, so I haven’t seen any of that Rotten Tomatoes list of clunkers.
The only truly bad movie I saw this year was Jurassic World. Avengers: AoU, Spectre, and Star Wars: TFU were probably the next three “worst” movies I saw, and I’d put them all in the B-/C+ range (okay, Spectre is the worst of those and might be more of a C-).
To be honest, “Too long” is not a new problem with Tarantino. Basterds and Django could both have been a good 20 minutes shorter and been better movies for it.
That said, “worst movie I saw” is for most people not even going to be nearly the worst movie of the year because the really bad ones will usually be movies you don’t bother to go see. “Fantastic Four” was apparently awful, but like most people I could see it coming a mile away and elected not to see it, so I can’t say it was the “worst movie of 2015” even though it was probably worse than any movie I DID see. Maybe it was better than “Mortdecai.” I would not have driven to the theatre to see “Mortdecai” if the tickets were free and I got free popcorn in the deal. People actually paid to review movies who had to sit through it seem to have experienced something akin to physical pain and grief, so that was enough for me.
The worst movie I saw in 2015 is a three way race between:
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“Minions.” It wasn’t very good. Promising start but after 45 minutes they ran out of jokes and the story became pretty stupid. But it wasn’t bad, the kids were entertained, and it had a beginning, a middle, and and end, and was competently produced. So while it’s at the bottom of my list there were probably a hundred worse movies I avoided.
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“Spectre.” Kind of a stupid movie but I give it something of a pass because, except for Casino Royale, ALL James Bond movies are stupid. It followed the James Bond formula so, like a Big Mac, it’s not very good but at least it was what I was in the mood for so that was fine.
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“Black Mass.” Johnny Depp blah blah blah. The problem with Black Mass is that it’s like every other mob movie. They all look and sound the same. It’s competently done but I’ve seen this crap before, and the movie is weirdly devoid of arc - the death of Whitey Bulger’s son is said to be a turning point for his character but Bulger is just as evil a bastard before that as he is after. Competently done but largely boring.
Another vote for SPECTRE, though I generally try to avoid movies I suspect I’m not going to like.
Yeah, this and Jurassic World were movies I actually expected to be good, but were huge disappointments. I still pick Jurassic World as the worst movie I’ve seen this year.
Well…maybe Anomalisa, which I just saw this weekend and hated.
Possibly The Force Awakens, which, I hasten to add, is a perfectly fine movie. It’s just that I haven’t seen a lot of movies this year, and everything else has been better.
Life is too short to watch bad movies. That’s a critic’s job. So it’s rare that I see a bad movie in a theater; if I do, I know it’s going to be a good one.
In this age of book adaptations, remakes, comic book movies and sequels, it was a rare thing. It still wasn’t a very good movie, but at least it was original.
Yeah, that is why my worst movie is Jurassic World. Certainly there are far, far worse movies made this year, but this one I had expected to at least get a B- from me. It was pretty much a D grade and I was surprised.
By the way, this is winning rave reviews, but wow. I thought it was terrible. I loved the detail of the stop-motion, but the script was really bad. I just hated it.
This is the second or third time I’ve seen you link to your site. Please avoid doing this again, it’s starting to look like you’re spamming it.
You’ve been a member here for a bit and have made many posts that weren’t spam, so I know you’re not just here for that reason…but it’s starting to draw my attention.
If you want to set your site as your home page, in your profile, feel free…but if I see you link to it again, I’m going to start removing the links.
Sorry, no spam or annoyance intended. I just love seeing movies and love drawing comics about them and thought others who like films would enjoy the comics.
If I’m not mistaken, I did try making my signature/home page as a link, as I’ve done so on other comment sites, but found nothing at the profile page that would allow me to do so.
I agree. At the end of the year I sometimes find it difficult to have a list of really bad films because I’ll tend to easily skip the ones that look really bad. So usually my bad list is made of things I thought would be good, but let me down.
A fine example of that would be "The Walk, the Joseph Gordon-Levitt film.
Had I seen it at a normal theater or waited to watch it at home I would have thought it was bad or mediocre. BUT, because I saw it in 3D on an IMAX screen (I think Zemeckis filmed it for IMAX… WOW! It blew me away. There were many scenes where it felt as if I was actually up on those twin towers.
The film itself was still just so-so, but thanks to the format I saw it in, I’ll never forget it.
I disagree. This was made in 2015. A big sci-fi epic is no longer an original idea. And the Wachowskis didn’t do anything with the genre that hasn’t been done before.
I suppose it’s technically not a remake or sequel. But that alone doesn’t make it original if it’s just reusing old ideas. Look at Adam Sandler’s new movie, The Ridiculous 6. Technically, it’s an original story with original characters - but let’s face facts, it’s going to be pretty much the same as previous Adam Sandler movies.
I saw this overly broad comedy on Netflix. 40 minutes in and I didn’t even crack a fucking smile. Not one single joke landed.
The Green Inferno was easily the worst movie I saw all of last year. Immature diarrhea and masturbation scenes, exploitation, unlikable protagonists, this movie has it all. Eli Roth seems like a cool dude, but goddamn do his movies suck. I’ve never seen Cannibal Holocaust so I can’t compare them directly, so maybe there were supposed to be parody elements in this one, but it just doesn’t work. It’s not shocking, nor humorous, it was just boring and a pain to watch all the way through.
What did you expect? It’s an ADAM SANDLER MOVIE!
Not all made in 2015, but I saw them last year and was disappointed to one degree or another:
Klown
Gave up on this Danish comedy after 20 minutes or so. Had been recommended to me, but really not worth it.
Rope
I was really underwhelmed by this 1948 Hitchcock film. Technically interesting, in that it was filmed in just a few long takes, but the acting is really stilted (not Jimmy Stewart’s finest moment) and the plot just never clicked.
Nothing Lasts Forever
Unfunny, deservedly obscure B&W comedy about a bus trip to the Moon. Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd both appear (and probably wish they hadn’t).
Bowfinger
Having long heard good things about this Steve Martin/Eddie Murphy sendup of B-movies and talentless people on the Hollywood fringes, I was disappointed. It had its moments but not enough - not by a long shot.
Abraham Lincoln
D.W. Griffith’s 1930 biopic doesn’t hold up well, alas. The acting is melodramatic and the production values almost laughable by modern standards. Walter Huston was praised for his performance in the title role at the time, but just seemed oafish to me - totally lacking Lincoln’s wit and political shrewdness. The film also has the President give a short speech to the crowd at Ford’s Theatre before taking his seat, and that just didn’t happen.
Caddyshack
Believe it or not, I’d never seen this golf comedy in its entirety before. Had some laughs, some good lines, but it wasn’t all that great IMHO.
Greed
A 1924 Erich von Stroheim adaption of the Frank Norris novel McTeague, about a failed dentist in 1890s San Francisco whose wife wins the lottery. She turns pathologically miserly, they quarrel, and things go from bad to worse. Interesting camera work but not an especially gripping film.
Bad Day at Black Rock
A 1955 crime drama, with Spencer Tracy as a crusty, disabled World War II vet arriving in an isolated, boss-controlled desert town for reasons that are only gradually revealed. Very atmospheric but meh.
Now I KNOW you’re crazy 
The best parts of Inglorious Basterds where the opening scene, and the scene in the bar (ok there were maybe a couple of other great moments, but they pale in comparison to these two).
T.H.E was basically 2 hours (and some minutes of padding) of THOSE TWO SCENES. I was on the edge of my seat most of the time.