Quentin Tarantino Officially Retiring

....and this explains why my review thread was a Fail

I know you're half joking but your thread wasn't a fail. The individual review threads never generate as much traffic as we want.

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I actually watched The Hateful Eight again a couple of weekends ago, with a friend who hadn't seen it. Makes it five times I've seen it overall, sorry Tongo

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Its cool, and Im being critical. I feel Tarantino is like one of those great authors that needs an editor, but the publishing house dares not omit anything.

Growing up, I was always the actor's, or movie star's, follower and fan. I watched the movie because of its star. It wasn't until I saw Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction that I became, for the first time, a director's follower and fan. That director, of course, was Tarantino.


Every movie he has made since Pulp Fiction was not treated as just another ordinary movie for me. It was a major event.


I sure hope that he goes back on his word and keeps directing movies past the tenth. I would love to see his take on the horror/suspense genre. And how about another gangster/crime movie? Hell, I'd even love to see his take on the dreaded romantic comedy genre.


My top 3 Tarantino films are: Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, and Inglourious Basterds (in that order).

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I'll concede that misunderstanding. Hollywood as an abstract concept does mean a lot of different things, after all.

I'm still not sure exactly what makes the ending of Basterds a cop-out or a sign that he's not going to evolve as a filmmaker, though. If anything, I'd be more likely to level those particular criticisms at Django (which did effectively limp to a close in comparison to Basterds' comparatively unpredictable conclusion). Underneath the usual displays of excessive bloodshed and ugly racism, Django might just be the most fundamentally conventional film that Tarantino ever did, which would explain why it managed to win more Oscars than any other film he's done (even if it is only two compared to Pulp, Basterds, and Eight having one apiece). To me, it seemed like something of a backwards step compared to Basterds (though Basterds had the good luck of having had to follow up Death Proof, which is my pick for his weakest film).

You do make a good point that he may be losing a little control, though - there's been a bit of a narrative building up that suggests that his films haven't been quite as good since Sally Menke died, which effectively suggests that her collaborating with Tarantino was what kept his aptitude for self-indulgence in check. In any case, the random spot of narration in Hateful Eight is definitely unnecessary, but negligible compared to the rest of the film.

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Truthfully his movies are fun, but I can see he could be more. Yes I liked Basterds more than Django too, and hated both endings.

With Basterds ending...


Django ended even less creatively.

The only thing left I care to see from Quentin Tarantino is his third Kill Bill movie.

Let's see how he makes a sequel -- 'cause Kill Bill: Volume 2 isn't a sequel.

I really want to see the next Kill Bill as well, there's so many options he could develop upon for that, and I'd love to see which one he takes.

That being said, Kill Bill 3 has been on hiatus for quite a while now

I can see him retiring in film, but working in other areas. He wants to write a novel and a stage play. Other venues instead of film.

Yeah right, he's been saying it for years, what makes you think you know him better, it's not because his last films hasn't done as well, it's because he want's to do other things and have a "perfect string of films", I know he will stop, I don't doubt it, I've heard him talk about it at length.

I think I just got smacked in the face by Tarantino's ego. At least he is stopping soon... sooner the better. boom.

oh he's making an Australian film, I wonder what brilliant actor will be in that...

Not sure why you're posting a picture of a New Zealander, though.

I am, it's normal for New Zealanders to be prominent in the Australian film industry and vise versa, I couldn't be bothered to make the distinction and I was aware of it... and I have no doubt if he's making a movie in Oz, Zoe Bell will be in on it.

It's fine with me. He's a very unique film-maker, and even though I really like what he's done, it's better to quit while you're on top than becoming a cash-grabbing hack.

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain".

Sure, there are lots of directors that has been great for many decades, but Tarantino has always taken his due time instead of pumping out films every 1 or 2 years.