Top 10 Best Movies Directed By Quentin Tarantino
Best movie of all time! A true cinema masterpiece.
Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio give standout performances, but it's Christoph Waltz's performance that keeps me coming back, time and time again.
That, combined with great action and a meaningful storyline, makes it my favorite Tarantino film.
Pulp Fiction is probably Quentin's masterpiece, but this one consecrated him as one of the best directors ever. He was already there, but now he's in the Olympus!
This is Quentin's best movie.
Don't ever compare a Tarantino movie to another Tarantino movie!
The reason this movie is so underrated is because it hardly has anything comic in it. There are a few running gags and one or two comic relief moments, but for a Tarantino movie, it is unusually dark. The characters are filled with rage, the violence is neither over-the-top nor in any way funny as in his other movies, and the overall story is exhausting, but that's the point.
I prefer it over Django Unchained. Both movies are neo-westerns that center around racism, but Django appeared too Hollywood-like to me. Everything is tidy, the plot is straightforward and driven by a love story, and the costumes look like something they wore in American western movies of the '50s. Tarantino movies were never that conventional. Sure, the characters, dialogue, performances, and overall message are great, and it is a great movie. Really great.
But now look at The Hateful Eight: gritty, untidy, set in a cottage, rough, with non-linear storytelling, and overall with many '70s aesthetics. Tarantino has that certain visual style usually associated with Asian or European movies of the '70s, hardly ever those of Hollywood, which don't really fit his screenplays. The Hateful Eight is all that, while also having more serious topics, and the Tarantino-typical dialogue, characters, and other trademarks.
Although Tarantino only directed about five minutes of the film, this is Robert Rodriguez's best movie. Full of great dialogue, amazing effects, good performances (most notably Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, and Benicio Del Toro), and signature noir grit and gore, this movie is a blast ripped straight from the pages of Frank Miller's (who co-directed) graphic novel. Definitely worth a watch, but not for the squeamish.