Quentin Tarantino is not holding back his thoughts on the current state of Hollywood.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Pulp Fiction recently shared a brutally honest assessment of modern movies with Sight & Sound magazine, via Variety.
Quentin argued that many recent releases fail to capture the magic that first made him fall in love with cinema. He said he finds it increasingly difficult to enjoy contemporary films without becoming distracted by what he sees as major flaws.
“Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers or just plain stupid s— usually torpedoes every new movie coming out of the flavorless sausage factory that used to call itself Hollywood,” the director said. “These days, the entire concept of what is a movie is more inclined to inspire contempt in me than generosity.”
The director compared today’s film landscape to a decade he had previously criticized.
“By comparison the movies of the last six years make the ’80s seem like the ’30s,” he said.
He did point out a few recent projects he enjoyed, such as Steven Spielberg‘s 2021 adaptation of West Side Story and Kevin Costner‘s Horizon: An American Saga.
Quentin added that he hasn’t seen many films that have “really held me in its grip” that he used to feel so often and that “these days I’d rather read a book.”
He also reserved special praise for one recent movie: Joe Carnahan‘s Netflix crime thriller The Rip, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
Calling it “a suspenseful new movie,” Quentin said it “did grab me and held me for its entire duration.”
“The film is an exciting cop thriller with a novel premise that manages to deliver the goods in really clever ways. The whole package worked for me: Carnahan‘s direction, the splendid cast, the look of the film (courtesy of cinematographer Juan Miguel Azpiroz),” he said.
In case you missed it, Quentin fired back at Rosanna Arquette earlier this year after she called him out for his frequent usage of a racial slur in his scripts.
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