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Tarantino's Worst Films....

posted 8 years ago by crakatoot
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Now he is one of the most famous and revered Directors of our time but that doesn't mean he hasn't made some crap.

And to me, these are his three worst films.

The Hateful 8-
Good looking movies, lot of good performances. Like the music and so on. But my God this is one of the most pointless movies in history.
Almost three hours of characters spewing endless amounts of intimidating dialogue and getting in each other face. And that's it. A bunch of characters who hate each other, try to kill each other and die hating each other. A hallow, hallow experience. Lots of Tarantino's style and nothing else to back it. Nothing.

Jackie Brown -
Now i appreciate that Tarantino was trying to do something more adult but this movie is just boring.
Its about an hour of plot stretched out to two hours. Its filled with uninteresting characters and pointless side plots.
Pam Grier doesn't do a bad job but outside of being sassy there is not much to her.

Death Proof

Jesus Christ this movie is bad. Horrible, So Horrible.

A bunch of one dimensional hot chick characters spit sassy one liners back and forth.
They're all killed.
We get another set of one dimensional hot chick characters, who are even less interesting. More generic sassy one liners. They go up against the same guy who goes from a total bad to a total pussy. Some boring ass driving stunts and then at long last it ends.

Movies are suppose to engage the audience and get them invested in the characters. This movie has the opposite effect. The longer it's on, the less you care.

What about you?

What are the worst?

i told you not to stop, now lets go - Apocalypse Now

[–] bazt-93964 8 years ago

I'm currently 80 minutes in and waiting for it to get going. I guess it isn't going to. Pretty tedious.

[–] TheReturnofCountSuckula 8 years ago

I'm watching tH8, and I'm STUNNED by how sophomoric and puerile this latest entry of "[Tarantula] New Clothes" is. Easily his worst film, and that's saying something.

Mind you, I'm no Tarantino hater, but this is like a very bad, one note, Saturday Night Live skit that.just.goes.on, and on, and on...

No wonder it barely made a profit.

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[–] TheReturnofCountSuckula 8 years ago

$145,367,357 (Worldwide) (21 February 2016) and that is only a few months after it was released.

these stats from from IMDb.

I was talking about the 11million in U.S. profits, not worldwide--proof enough that the American audiences weren't very impressed with this turd.

And the fact that viewers in foreign countries were swayed by Tarantino's latest monstrosity doesn't impress me. Regardless, its still a terrible excuse for a film.

"Stick with me, baby, and you'll be fartin' thru silk."

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[–] boogles 8 years ago

I think that both of the Kill Bill films are misfires. Too overindulgent.

Yeah, I have to agree that The Hateful 8 is a poor film from him. I watched a few days ago(it's on Amazon Prime) - and was very disappointed by it. Okay, I liked some things : great cinematography, superb performance from Samuel L. Jackson(he really carries the film and it's one of his best roles), I like the idea of chapters and a few of plot twists are interesting and did surprise me. It's still very flawed film : why 70 mm for the inside of cabin for one thing, too long - could lose over half of its running time and a much tighter focus on its narrative would have been better.

[–] fender818 8 years ago

$145 million is still not much in profit for that movie. People forget that the budget of the movie is not the only cost. The budget of hateful eight was $44 million, and I read that advertising was $35 million. So that's $79million before the movie was released. Then you got theatre leasing fees to put the movie in theatres, the cost to make prints of the movies (which actually is alot), and then the profit sharing with movies theatres which takes on average 25% of ticket sales. Then on the studio side, they must pay back investors whether it's interest in debt financing or return on equity financing, unless they raised funds from government grants. So after all that, this movie probably barely broke even. No wonder Quentin is over filmmaking. The industry is impossible to make money unless you're Disney.

[–] babuandbabu 8 years ago

I can say that I did not like Deathproof.

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[–] BilboTheDefiler 8 years ago

so Jackie Brown is ok and Death Proof is ok too. Some people who are a little stupid keep hating on those movies. Probably the same people who keep praising H8, which is the actual worst shít movie he's ever done, obviously, by far and it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain

[–] crakatoot 8 years ago

Are you saying that people who don't like Death Proof, are stupid?
i told you not to stop, now lets go - Apocalypse Now

[–] BilboTheDefiler 8 years ago

it's more obvious with Jackie Brown

[–] WhySoSerious488 8 years ago

The Hateful Eight for me is his worst film. I found the plot generally uninteresting and some of his directorial flair (the chapters, the narrator, etc.) was just a huge fail. The film was just a gigantic mess for me.

I don't hate any of his other movies, but recognize that Jackie Brown and Kill Bill Part 2 were really average. For some reason I love Death Proof. The dialogue is pure gold, particularly EVERY line by Kurt Russell. A few of the scenes with the women talking amongst themselves drag, but the scenes with Russell are so brilliant it does not matter.

[–] kevin-bergin 8 years ago

... after Reseviour Dogs and Pulp Fiction I see a tremendous lack of quality.
Sad really and this is pretty much the bottom.

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[–] yesanything 8 years ago

Hateful Eight is HORRIBLE

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[–] vincent-27 8 years ago

I would replace Jackie Brown with Inglorious Basterds, which is similar to Hateful 8 in that it is not true to the era, and has very long boring scenes that go nowhere.

Jackie Brown I would consider on par with PF, it required multiple viewings for me to get all the plot twists, it is very well put together and has much less of the shock value that characterised his other films.

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