You just did it again. Back to the movies.
I'm on an 80's action movie kick for whatever reason. Die Hard, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terminator, Mad Max and I guess tonight it's gonna be They Live just for shits and giggles.
I've been rewatching the Tarantino movies and I'm convinced he's easily one of the top three directors of the last thirty years.
Scorsese is fine but his dialogue can be boring and he revisits the same tropes over and over. I'm torn between thinking the Irishman was good and saying, "It should've never existed". Pesci was the only decent part in that movie.
Spielberg, he's alright. He definitely has some heavy hitters, but he's also got some waste too. In general I think his movies are overrated.
Woody Allen has basically made the same movie twenty times. They're about some tweedy guy in an existential crisis attached to a familiar love story. Boring.
But Tarantino, he's the man. All of his films have been a different type of story. His characters are refreshing in the bland Hollywood scene he competes. And every film has some seriously good "You didn't see that coming" moments. Plus, the worlds he creates are real and nuanced in a way that imitates real life. People have dialogues in the background, music stops playing mid-conversation, and the non-players in the film realistically react to the world around them. It's too tough to pick a favorite Tarantino flick, they're all just so damn good. If anything, Jackie Brown is my least favorite....but that's the last one due for the current rewatch.
His use of Harvey Keitel is a good choice. A great movie with Harvey Keitel( not a Tarantino flick) is
The Bad Lieutenant.