Quentin Tarantino's Dubious Taste In Movies

[Sheridan Passell]

Tarantino’s top 10 films of last year:

1. Midnight in Paris
2. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
3. Moneyball
4. The Skin I Live In
5. X-Men: First Class
6. Young Adult
7. Attack the Block
8. Red State
9. Warrior
10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)
11. The Three Musketeers

Honourable Mentions

50/50
Beginners
Hugo
The Iron Lady
Carnage
Green Hornet
Green Lantern
Captain America
The Descendants
My Week With Marilyn
Fast Five
The Tree of Life
The Hangover Part II
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
The Beaver
Contagion
The Sitter
War Horse

Nice Try Award
Drive

[Sheridan Passell]

Green Hornet, Green Lantern, The Hangover Part II - None of these deserve to be anywhere near a best of the year list. Hornet didn't work, Lantern was an almost complete misfire from what it should have been, Hangover II was a so-so comedy but definitely a cynical exercise that wasn't a patch on the first and had an uncomfortably mean tone for much of the time (I still have a problem with the son losing his fingers and no one giving a damn).

From what I've seen of The Sitter it looks like a horrible misfire too.

[dnwilliams]

WHAT

Where did you get this from? How do you make room for Apes, First Class and Three Musketeers but not DRIVE?!

[Sheridan Passell]

He publishes his top 10 every year, it was on all the usual film blogs yesterday. It's real.

I'm pretty sure 'Nice Try' kinda means a failed attempt. It's beneath Honourable Mentions anyway. So Drive is worse than Green Lantern, according to Quentin Tarantino.

[dalmatianjaws]

It makes sense, though. All his best films are better versions of crappy old movies he loved growing up. And his worst movies are the ones that are closest to those old b-movies he's emulating.

[ad4m22]

The Three Muskteers.
The Three Muskteers.
The Three Muskteers.
The Three Muskteers.
The Three Muskteers.
The Three Muskteers.
The Three Muskteers.

I knew I didn't like that man and now I finally have my reason.

[Sheridan Passell]

Spelt wrong 7 times.

Bet Quentin's looking forward to this year's Resident Evil.