the favorite director of people who know nothing about film yet want to feel like they do

Eh i like him well enough

Eh, some people like violence and references to better films and slick fight scenes! People like the damndest things.

Definitely not my favorite things, and IMHO Tarrantino is not a great director or a personal favorite and doesn't have the potential to become either. Still, he's like Tim Burton in that although his films aren't great there's usually something worth watching in them, and his films are definitely *his* and not generic. Blandness has become a plague on the movie industry, and while Tarantino's films aren't great, at least they're never bland. I give him that much credit.

The Birbs is an incredibly stupid movie

Sweet story bro. Would read again.

Of his last 3 big movies two were mediocre (Django & Inglorious) and the third was very poor and boring (Hateful 8)... Sure, he tried hard and had a few nice homage scenes and some cute moments, but the films themselves were pretty average...

There is a good Q&A online with Tarantino and Nolan at the director's guild youtube page about making Hatefull Eight. Nolan doen't do much talking as he's the interviewer, so it's mostly Tarantino and you see how out of his depth he is when comes to the craft of filmmaking. Yes, credit to him for trying reuse some classic lenses and 70mm format, but he didn't so much with it. The result is less than what you'd expect.

It's absurd when critics (really should be called cheerleaders) elevate these three Tarantino films...

Reservoir Dogs and Pulp fiction are his best and are actually pretty good genre movies, the others fall between these and the 3 bad ones as they usually have some novelty appeal for the first viewing...

I think it's unfair to compare him to Hitchcock, as Alfred was a true master filmmaker... Almodovar is a good comparison to Tarantino, for example the overrated All About My Mother especially now in a Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner world... But Volver was solid (his best?) and Talk to Her holds up as well... and even though it didn't blow me away, I still think Broken Embraces is above average, but that's primarily for the way the relationship between the rich guy and the Cruz's character is portrayed... I have not yet seen the Skin I live In, but have bought the blu ray... I suppose I still find Almodovar more interesting as I haven't looked forward to a Tarantino movie in a long time...

Rodriguez has basically made several versions of the same movie... Desperado was fun and Sin City was a good attempt at something interesting, but that's about it... The rest is remixing...

I think it's enlightening to compare them to Scoresese.... Who has made some genre defining movies, but whose style is always in service of story, character or a theme in the movie...

Totally agree with the OP (except that I've never been "mindblown" by Tarantino's movies......they were embarrassingly bad overrated garbage when initially released)

I blame the internet for this whole 'Chinese-Whisper' syndrome (or 'Keeping-Up-With-The-Throne's' as I like to call it) in that for the last 15-20 years or so, people are content to spew fifth-hand studio scripted hyperbole when discussing 'hacks' like Tarantino (as a poor substitute for an actual opinion) his movies are nothing but a 'Greatest Hits' package for people too lazy (or glued to their portable devices) to track down the source material. His defenders are an odd bunch too. Apparently, they defend such out-right theft with "Oh yes, but it's what QT does with such references" as the most piss-poor-shoot-me-now-cop-out of all time.

The internet is only useful to sell movies, it (and the 'computer' itself) have done little to enhance cinema (unless of course, you've the mindset of a 13 year old that lives for HD CGI FX, constant plot updates, spoilers (and little else)
Nowadays, people equate "Boring" as deep (and if you were bored, you didn't "Get It")
"Swearing" as humour.
"FX" as an 'end' (rather than a 'means')

And it's not just Tarantino either......a whole glut of talentless hacks (in front and behind the camera) are lauded and praised.....but you'd be hard pressed to get a legitimate answer from supporters, concerning what exactly is so great about Christopher Nolan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale......unless they're spouting studio hyperbole?

Most (so-called) movie fans don't have any genuine opinions on movies anymore (they don't have to....they have all the information that it takes genuine fans a lifetime to amass, at their fingertips) and quickly proclaim the last movie they watch (as the greatest movie ever made) and eagerly await to bestow *that* title onto the next movie.

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Tarantino has never pretended to be anything more than a fan. He's a known cinephile and is obsessed with films from all over the world. You're placing too high an expectation on a man that never once asked to be worshipped. The blame lies with his fanbase more than anything. The same kind of fanbase that makes Christopher Nolan out to be more than he is. And David Fincher for that matter. Fanboys have a tendency to ruin everything.