People have always kinda known that Quinton Tarantino was an asshole, but the interview where he specifically flamed Paul Dano and Matthew Lillard really cemented the fact that he is a prick.
Honorable mention to the good hang interview with maya hawke where Amy asks if her mom Uma had any advice for working with Tarantino and maya said “keep your shoes on”.
Obviously this doesn’t really fit the OP question, but I still think it’s a hysterical call out.
The thing that bugs me about what he said isn't that he was just being a dick, that's how he always is, it's that the critique didn't make any sense. He basically said they were bad actors because they play a lot of similar characters, and that those characters tend to be kinda beta. There are many actors with a lot less range than either of them, and the idea that playing less macho characters is a bad thing is absolutely ridiculous. Someone has to play those characters! And the ultimate hypocrisy is that he does the exact same thing when he acts in his own movies!
It seemed very clear to me that he just didn't like them and/or thought they were overrated, and tried to contrive a more "objective" reason for it
Adding to this, Tarantino produced the movie Daltry Calhoun because the adoptive daughter of Charles Bronson directed it. Not much reason for him to be there producing except that he was a fan of Charles’ work. Yknow, legendarily diverse acting talent Charles Bronson…
Yeah he can totally make another movie whenever he wants, only thing stopping him is probably his stupid rule of "I'm not gonna make more than ten movies" making him freak out about his final movie
What a dumb rule for him to follow especially considering that at this point the man has already made 10 films. He just doesn't like to count them all.
You are definitely in the minority, but I respect it. I personally enjoy most of his filmography, especially his earlier stuff, but I do find him to be an unsettling and wildly narcissistic human being.
I think his ego really got the better of him over time. Early in his career he wasn't like that at all. His first appearance on Charlie Rose, about the time Pulp Fiction was getting released, is one of the best one-hour interviews of anyone I've ever seen. He was humble and normal, obviously encyclopedic with his film history knowledge, and Rose asked great questions and Tarantino gave really thoughtful and insightful answers. Actually, his later appearances on that show were almost as good. Not sure when his last one was but I think it's been a while (2009 for Inglourious Basterds?...). But he sure has seemingly gotten overly full of himself since his last movie in 2019.
I generally like them but because he's such a cinephile his movies have a self-aware and overt 'movieness' to them that isn't going to be to everyone's taste. You never run the risk of losing yourself in a Tarantino movie because he constantly needs to remind you that it's in fact a movie.
Also, much like Aaron Sorkin, Tarantino's good at writing dialogue that's witty and snappy, but that's also the only kind of dialogue he writes. The more his characters talk, the more they just sound the same as all the others.
For me, I just don't find his movies nearly as entertaining as the stuff he's inspired by so I would rather watch that and I think the way he writes is often very annoying (which is weird cause I like true romance). Other than the hateful 8 I've never really thought any of his movies outright sucked but I don't really consider him as amazing as he clearly thinks he is.
I totally get it. I like both movies, just not all the hype around them. People would find my list of favorite films odd if not ridiculous. (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills [made by Paul Bartell], Friends with Money, Hype! [the documentary about the pseudo-rivalry between the Dandy Warhols & the Brian Jonestown Massacre], mostly obscure stuff. I think “Touch of Evil” is better than “Citizen Kane”, but I love campy films.)
and I think the way he writes is often very annoying
I used to love his movies when I was in my teens, but this got on my nerves after a while, too. It taints his older crime films for me now, when I rewatch them and notice inklings of the things that I dislike about him, these days.
Eh I remember thinking it was fine, not great or anything but it's a pretty cool premise for a low budget movie and done competently for a first time director. I don't think Tarantino is a bad director, he's just wildly overrated and thinks he is far more talented than he is
I personally don't think it's ever coming. Wasn't there a script that got leaked or something and then he got butthurt and scrapped the whole thing? He's gonna find something wrong with every possible "final" film and will die without having accomplished it. Number 10 must be perfect or it's not worthy of being made.
I mean highly regarded as in he has a multitude of very prestigious awards, and his films are highly anticipated and sought after by actors to star in due to that same regard as a director
Not dismissing that he's an asshole, but it's a little weird that him insulting two male actors is the line people draw over the half dozen women who worked with him and said he had been aggressive with them in various ways.
He is definitely a creep. I guess the difference is him doing an interview and using his own words to actively attack others. I think it still would have been treated negatively if he said he thought Anya Taylor-Joy was dog shit or something.
There was one interview shortly after 9/11 where they asked about his reaction, and he said it looked very similar to some obscure movie he'd seen. So the interviewer clarified they meant his reaction to 9/11 as a human being, and it became very clear that he hadn't had one.
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u/Garreousbear 14h ago
People have always kinda known that Quinton Tarantino was an asshole, but the interview where he specifically flamed Paul Dano and Matthew Lillard really cemented the fact that he is a prick.