Quentin Tarantino Career Retrospective Wrap Up

Welcome back to Cinema Geeks as we finish up

our Quentin Tarantino retrospective. Today we

will be rounding up our review of Quentin Tarantino's

career. Joining me here today, as always, is

Kevin Optimus Solo. How's it going, man? It's

going great, man. It seems like just yesterday

we started this retrospective and we're already

done with it. I don't know. It kind of flew by.

Yeah, it did. It felt like at the end. We did,

you know, mostly because of me. We had a little

bit of bigger breaks in here and there. But luckily,

we are finally finishing up. And we were just

giving people time to vote. That's how you say

it. Exactly. Speaking of which, at the end, we'll

be announcing who won the voting competition.

We'll be doing the next. retrospective from what

in truth and letting you know what director will

be doing for the next retrospective but today

yeah we're going to be kind of going over our

favorites our favorite scenes our favorite performances

ranking quentin tarantino's movies and At the

end, just kind of giving a brief summary of what

we think of Quentin Tarantino as a director,

where we think he stands amongst his peers, amongst

all time, all that great stuff. But I guess before

we get over to the favorites and our awards or

what have you, overall, how did you enjoy the

retrospective? I think it was a lot of fun. I

guess I'll talk about it on two different levels.

First of all, it was fun because it forced me

to finally catch up with some films that were

blind spots for me. As we've talked about numerous

times, I had not seen Jackie Brown, had not seen

Kill Bill Volume 1 or 2, and I had not seen Death

Proof. So I was able to catch up on four films,

so that's always a plus. And it was fun just

because... Watching the films in order like we

did, especially with not a lot of time passing

in between them, really highlights the Tarantino

iconic things. The different things that he goes

to over and over again. You're able to also see

the progression of him throughout time as budgets

changed, as times changed, as genres changed,

etc. So it was a lot of fun doing it the way

we did it and kind of getting to see them almost

back to back in order to highlight some of that.

some of those things. The other reason it was

really fun was because, honestly, the feedback

we were getting from all of these episodes was

super positive, and people were engaging with

us, people were commenting on the stuff, and

saying some nice things to us. They were obviously

drunk and crazy. Or just have low standards,

just one of the two. Yeah, they apparently have

low standards. But that made it even more fun

that people were joining us for the journey.

A number of people even commenting that they

were also... watching some of the films for either

the first time or the first time since they had

seen them in theater. So it was fun kind of going

along that journey with them as well. So it was

fun on two different levels for me. How about

you? Yeah, definitely. watched all the Tarantino

movies before this, but there were a lot that

I was glad to catch up on. The Death Proof was,

again, one I didn't see since it was originally

there. And I always enjoy watching directors'

films in order. I wish I could do it more often.

And it is kind of a journey. I like seeing that

progression, and you end up seeing so much more

with their directorial style and the little bits

of touches here and there that you may not have

noticed before, and kind of the continuation

of motifs that I didn't even realize. And even

being a Tarantino fan, there was so much... which

I missed out of, and even beyond that, because

part of this, too, is I ended up going through

a lot of interviews and learning more about Tarantino

himself. So that was also fun of it, kind of

just learning more about who he is and kind of

what made Tarantino Tarantino. And like you said,

the feedback has been fantastic, which has kind

of prolonged us to try to continue it as we look

forward to the next one. Yeah, because when we

started, we had no idea if this was going to

work, if we were going to get through it, if

we were going to do, I mean, obviously we had

ideas to do more, but we didn't know if people

were going to be receptive or not. So that was

obviously a big bonus as well. But like you said,

too, I also watched some of the interviews, some

of the bonus features on the DVDs, some that

you can find via YouTube with different interviews

with the cast or different stuff like that. So

it was also fun to kind of get to see a little

bit of that, even like what you were doing in

watching some of the reviews from back when these

movies came out. to kind of compare the reaction

right away to our reaction all these years later

was kind of fun as well. Yeah, it got me on a

little kick as I was watching old look at the

movie's reviews. It's kind of cool watching a

review from that time, just seeing the reaction,

seeing people trying to quantify what Pulp Fiction

was at that time. It's such iconic. It's interesting

seeing it like when it was. before it became

huge and well -known. There could probably be

a whole podcast just reacting to original reviews.

The podcast reviewing reviews, exactly. I bet

it's out there someplace. It's probably out there.

So what we're going to do today, we've kind of

broken this up into sections. The first section,

we're going to be talking about our favorites,

our favorite scenes, and we've broken it up into

different things and different areas. Starting

with, we talked a great deal about when we went

over each movie. Tarantino is known for is his

dialogue. There's tons of it. And it seems fitting

to start with that in itself and going over what

our favorite quotes are. And it's hard to determine.

There's a lot to choose from. There's mountains

of posters just with Tarantino quotes. But were

you able to narrow it down to pick out your favorite

quote from all the Tarantino films? Man, that's

hard. To pick one is hard, and it's going to

get even harder when we kind of go to the more

longer pieces of dialogue, etc. When I was doing

my quote, I was just looking for something that

was... I kind of tried to limit it to one -liners

almost, to just a real quick quote. I mean, if

we're going to be honest, the most famous quote

is probably the Pulp Fiction one. Samuel L. Jackson,

I stayed away from that. That's an obvious choice.

Not against you if you picked that one. That's

a great quote. But I kind of, since there's so

many good ones, I had to go with just which one

from a personal standpoint just for some reason

struck a chord with me. I mentioned it when we

did the episode on Reservoir Dogs, but I guess

if I have to pick a favorite quote, for me personally,

I still go back to that one that said, if you

shoot me in your dreams, you better wake up and

apologize. Just because if I knew that quote

when I was growing up, I would have been annoyed

with how often I would have used that as a kid,

as a teenager. But, I mean, it's a quote that

I could really never use because no one's going

to threaten to shoot me, or I hope, or do anything

like that. But, man, just the way that that quote

was delivered really hit a chord with me, and

I enjoyed it. In all honesty, I could have picked

probably about 25 other quotes as well. Yeah,

there's a lot to choose from. And that was actually,

I had that written down. I remember talking about

it. That was the first quote that came to mind,

honestly, because that was the first episode

we did. And it was one of the first ones we mentioned.

And it is good, especially when it comes out

of Harvey Cattell's mouth. He's got a lot of

great ones, especially in that and even in Pulp

Fiction. I actually went with a more recent film,

mostly because it's one that... I tend to use

a lot, maybe too much. And it's from Django Unchained.

And you can probably assume what it is, but it's,

you know, gentlemen, you had my curiosity, but

now you have my intention. Yeah, I love that

one. It's such a great line that's delivered

really well. And it, in honesty, means absolutely

nothing because curiosity and intention are not

that much different from one another. But, you

know, it's just exactly that character of Calvin

Candy who tries to sound a lot smarter than he

really is. But you win because yours is much

more usable in everyday life. Well, depending

on what you do. I guess. I guess if I ran around

in different circles, maybe I could use mine

somewhere. Yours is a little bit more intimidating.

There we go. You could use that on good use for

smack talk. I don't necessarily. I think we have

to do this for every category, but for this one,

was there any others that were real close to

your list that you considered? I actually did

consider the one that you chose, but I stayed

away because I figured you would have it. You

know me too well. Another great one is the wolf

in Pulp Fiction when he gets called and he says,

I'm 30 minutes away. I'll be there in 10. The

wolf being badass, which I always am a big fan

of. It's not as famous, but I do like that line.

Another one that comes to mind, too, is the wiggle

your big toe. That line from Kill Bill. That's

another one. Again, it's just quick and easy,

but if I hear toe or wiggle your big toe, I immediately

think of Quentin Tarantino. Yeah, I had a couple,

too. Another one from Reservoir Dogs. It's probably

just as intimidating. The whole, if you keep

talking like a bitch, I'm going to slap you like

a bitch. Again, I don't think I'm going to use

that ever, but I like the pizzazz of it. And

then from Inglourious Bastards, I'm American,

honey. Our names don't mean shit. I just think

that's funny. And then, of course, the one that

I probably heard most growing up after this movie

was released was from Pulp Fiction when he says,

I'm going to get medieval on your ass. Yeah,

that's a guess. But there's a lot from Pulp Fiction.

If you even break down the one, you know, the

say what one more time, I dare you, et cetera,

et cetera, and English, motherfucker, and you

speak it, it's hard to get away from those as

well. Exactly. And that kind of brings us to

the next part, which would be the favorite use

of dialogue. And there's, again, a lot to choose

from. And maybe I'll go first on this one. And

I went with an obvious. Then it'll be one less

that I have to choose. Yeah. I went with an obvious

one, but it's just. it's one of the best Quentin

Tarantino movies one of the best moments in one

of the best Quentin Tarantino movies near the

end. And there's Samuel L. Jackson in that movie.

It's just like you can go, it's entire, every

word he says is pretty much dynamite. But the

Righteous Man conversation at the end, I think

it's great. A, there's a lot of tension there

because you have him gun to gun with Tim Roth's

character. But I think within that conversation,

you really get to the heart of what that character

of Jules is. And that's when I think he really

becomes more than just like your... comic relief

or just this type of generic hitman, you really

get into see the facade behind all of what he's

saying when he gets into basically the reasoning

behind the righteous man. But I really didn't

find that great, especially knowing that the

entire biblical reference that he's using is

made up, yet it doesn't sound made up. So I really

enjoy that bit of dialogue. Yeah, and you can

take that whole... and take like four quotes

from it or five quotes from it. Break it down.

That is a great one. That's one of the ones I

had written down as well. If I have to go with

one, first of all, that's a terrible thing to

make someone do. And second of all, I guess just

by default, I will go again with the Reservoir

Dogs choice only because I can't pick between

these. So I'm going to default to the first.

extended dialogue scene that we get from Tarantino

at least in my mind that really kind of was like

this is one of the things I'm going to do that

you're going to like and it's something that

in every movie you were waiting for a scene like

that so I have to go with the tipping scene in

the diner from Reservoir Dogs because it just

kind of sets the stage for something that eventually

Tarantino is going to be known for so I'll go

with the original in a way very nice but man

it is It's so hard. I have to give a shout -out

to the rat versus squirrel conversation from

Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Bastards, and

as well to probably the best dialogue in either

volume, Kill Bill Volume 2, and that's the whole

Superman discussion when he's comparing him to

Spider -Man and Batman in Kill Bill Volume 2.

So those would be two that I would have to...

put up their real high too. Another piece of

dialogue I really like from Resort Dogs is the,

you know, the conversation with Tim Roth is telling

the story of the, the, him going into the bathroom

and, uh, that, that scene that was basically

obviously made up, but that, that's also a great

bit of dialogue just because of the layers of

it, you know, realizing he's making it up, but

seeing it and that's a, that's a great moment

too. So. Oh, and we can't forget Brad Pitt's

opening speech in Glorious Bastards. Of course,

of course. So much good dialogue, though. I mean,

it's one of the things we like about Tarantino

the most. So we could have a whole episode talking

about our favorite quotes and dialogue bits from

Tarantino films. Oh, definitely. As we kind of

go over the dialogue, we're going to transition

into scenes here. And if you're going to transition

into scenes, it's good to start with, well, exactly

that, the opening scenes. And Tarantino has a

bunch of great opening sequences, and some say

some of the best of all time, arguably, depending

on the film. So a lot to choose from when it

comes to opening sequences. What one did you

end up going with? Well, I went with Reservoir

Dogs for both my quote and my dialogue, so I

will switch movies and go with a different film

for favorite opening scene. Again, a super hard

choice. If I have to pick one, I'm going to pick

one that combines a bunch of elements as I'm

thinking about other things. It included one

of my choices for dialogue. It also includes

probably one of my choices for best use of music

and a combination of tension. and a couple different

elements, and that's the opening for Inglourious

Bastards as we get introduced to Christoph Waltz's

character. And just that whole sequence is just,

for me, amazing. I don't know. I guess out of

all of them, that one's my favorite opening because

from the very first scene, I was hooked into

that film 100%. And how dare you choose that

because that is also my choice. I'd try to do

something different just to... be different,

and I do have one that I did also consider, but

ultimately, I do think this is his best opening

sequence. It's one of my all -time favorites.

It's me just announced to the world, yeah, this

is going to be Tarantino's best movie coming

up. Well, not to give anything away, but again,

the performance of Walt, it's all around. All

it was saying, just the slow build -up, like

you said, the use of music, it gets into the

theatrics of what that movie is about, and it's

kind of jarring because it wasn't at all what

you were expecting going into Kill Bill, or sorry,

going into Inglourious Basterds because, you

know, we just went from Kill Bill, now we're

going into this World War II epic, and I think

it's high action, but no, you get to this movie,

this sequence that's very simple and very slow

-paced and just... basic conversation that gets

into some really interesting, goes in some really

interesting directions. So, yeah. And also, you

know, coming off of the films that he had done

before this, not saying there's anything wrong

with those films, but the opening of this immediately

takes you back to Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction,

and that type of a film. And again, not saying

anything bad against Kill Bill or what he was

doing in between, but as far as tone of the movie

and style, it takes you back more to those earlier

ones. So it was like right from the beginning,

you're like, I feel those films, but then we're

in a different time period and there's a different

genre going on. So it was like, I don't know,

it was just an interesting setup that kind of,

at least... at the bare minimum, should intrigue

anybody as to what is going to happen then going

forward. Yeah, and also announce to the world

that Christoph Waltz is one of today's best actors,

because before that moment, no one knew who he

was. After that moment, everyone knew who he

was. If you can become a star in 20 minutes,

I think Christoph Waltz proved that. One thing

that people may not realize is that... Tarantino

has a lot of comedy within his films. And I think

even he has mentioned that he's made comedies.

He's used them almost as comedies first in some

ways. So there are a great deal of comedic moments.

What did you choose as your favorite comedic

moment out of all Tarantino's movies? Man, you

know, that's tough because there is some subtle

comedy. There's some comedy you don't expect.

There's some comedy that's, you know, laced with.

action or gore or this that and the other but

i think one of the ones that just really got

to me the most was the entire kkk scene with

the masks and the whole dilemma about the eye

holes in the mask just because it was completely

unexpected out of nowhere and every part of it

like It's a joke that goes on for a good number

of minutes, yet it doesn't feel like it's dragging

on because you continue to laugh. Very good escalation

of that issue, yeah. Yeah, so I mean, I guess

if I have to pick one, I'm going to go with that

one. But, man, there's a lot of moments in Inglourious

Basterds that I could pick as well. Yeah, and

actually that's where I'm going with Inglourious

Basterds, and specifically it's near the finale,

and it's a very small scene. It's only like a

few minutes long, but it's the director's name

sequence where Brad Pitt and his other World

War II soldiers are being quizzed by Christoph

Waltz's character, and they're giving their Italian

names, but in the most blatant American accents

possible. is great is that they deal at once,

but then... Doing it the second time, I don't

know why. It just makes it so much funnier that

way. The conviction, especially with Brad Pitt,

of him trying to act Italian in the most Cajun

accent or whatever accent he had. I just found

it super funny. What's great about Tarantino

in a lot of ways is when he puts comedy in a

spot you don't really expect it. I think in that

moment, there's so much going on to have a little

bit of a reprieve with a smart... comedic moment

like that is uh it makes it really stand out

to me if i read what i have written down for

my second choice for a comedic scene it says

brad pitt's foreign language skill so i was right

there with you on that very nice very nice we

were talking about tarantino I think one of the

first things you're going to people say, well,

he's a violent director. There's a lot of violence

in his films. And we can maybe touch upon that

if that's really true or not in a little bit.

But there's no doubt that there are violent scenes.

And do you have what was your favorite use of

violence in all Tarantino movies? Man, again,

every one of these is a very tough decision because

there's always a bunch that are up there. I thought

I had one basically narrowed down. as my favorite

and it was also going to give me my chance to

talk about this film because i don't have it

picked for a lot of the other categories but

then i remembered another scene from inglorious

bastards and how can you not pick your favorite

use of violence as being the killing of hitler

so i mean from a comedic standpoint and from

just a let's just rewrite things in history standpoint

just the whole way that they They do away with

Hitler. That was a pretty fantastic use of violence,

I think. Yeah, definitely, definitely. And I'll

talk about a movie I haven't talked about yet,

and that's Kill Bill for mine. And my favorite

use of violence was where Tarantino actually

went into a completely new genre in the anime

sequence in Kill Bill, Volume 1. Nice. Just,

you know, it's hard to cross genres in a movie

like that. Sometimes it can work, sometimes it

doesn't. I think Tarantino allows it to work.

It fits really within what he's doing, especially

when you have a movie that's so mismatched with

genres to begin with. And if you were to do the

sequence, that sequence live action, I don't

think it would be nearly as effective, but to

do it in such a stylistic manner, I think it

made it stand out and allow some of that violence

to be over the top, but still not feel too grotesque.

So I thought that was a really good use of violence

as well. Did you have any other ones that were

close to making your favorite? Yeah, my other

choice is actually also going to be the Kill

Bill series, but Volume 2, and that would be

the final fight between Beatrix and Bill. I just

thought as far as kind of a climactic use of

violence and just kind of the way that that fight

ended up, I appreciated that. And then there's

a number of violent scenes that you could probably...

choose from Django as well that I had high on

my list. There's a few violent moments in Django.

The other one, since we're only doing action

sequences, though maybe we should have, another

use of, to me, one of his all -time... just two

scenes, this might be within my top five for

Tarantino, and that's the chase sequence in Death

Proof, the final chase sequence. It's like an

extended use of violence, for sure, but I just

think it's, you know, excellently choreographed,

the stunt work is phenomenal, you know, and it's

just, it's brutal, and especially the way it

ends, it just kind of goes off, it's not necessarily

as grotesque as the original, or sorry, as the...

The car crash in the beginning, but I think it's

better used and overall more effective. Yeah,

I can get that. That's probably one of the highlights

of that film for me. All right. I wanted to talk

about at least one since I don't have anything.

There you go. Again, when you're talking about

Tarantino, we talked about violence, comedy.

Another thing that you mostly get to is his use

of music. You know, him along with Scorsese and

other directors are really known for using music

in inventive ways that really highlights scenes

and really almost makes, you know, it's part

of the style of the film. It's just as much of

the film as the dialogue, the characters. Again,

really hard to choose from because there's a

lot of great uses of music. But what did you

end up going with as your favorite? Um, actually,

you know, and I wouldn't have expected to choose

so many things from this film. Not that I mean,

I obviously love the film, but I didn't expect

this to show up as many times with the likes

of, you know, Pulp Fiction and Glorious Bastards,

Jago Unchained, etc. But I'm going to go back

to Reservoir Dogs for this one. And that would

be the stuck in the middle song playing during

the whole torturing scene, just because it was

the perfect blend of just like comedy. But, I

don't know, it just worked for that scene so

well. And, again, it was an early sign of this

is the type of thing that you can expect from

me, to just have the right song for the right

moment. So I just really liked the stuck -in

-the -middle song during that torture scene.

Yeah, I remember stuck -in -the -middle when

I first thought of... Quentin Tarantino, that's

one of the first scenes that came to mind. I'm

like, oh, that's the guy who made that movie

where the ear got cut off. And of course, when

you hear that song, which was a happy and cheery

song, is now associated with gruesome violence.

So that's the power of Tarantino. And White also

kind of goes in with violence. And again, it's

a more recent film. I wish I had a very elegant

way of saying why I like this, but honestly,

it's just for some reason, I just, A, really

like the song, and it just, the... When it hits,

the energy of the movie is at a high peak, and

it just continues from there. And it's Django

Unchained. And it's right after Tarantino himself

gets blown to pieces by Django. And this song

hits, and it's John Legend's song, Who Did That

To You? And it just gets on this level of energy

of that movie that I'm just on board. I'm just,

like, ready to go. It's only a brief moment in

time, but to me, it really brings up that climax.

Just such a perfect timing of it, I think that

really gets me, and I don't know. There are probably

better uses, more artful uses in his other films,

especially Pulp Fiction, but when I just think

of uses of music, that's the first one that comes

to my mind. Yeah, I had Django down a couple

times for that as well as for the actual title

or, I guess, title song of Django. It's using

Django in the song. And I also had to write down

the ability to get the pan flute and kill Bill

Volume 1 worked in there. Appreciate some pan

flute. Yeah, why not? I love pan flute. All righty.

All right. So we've been talking about the good.

I think it's maybe... time as we finish off our

favorite scenes as we talk about the bad, and

we talk about our least favorite scene. This

was a little hard to choose from for me because

I didn't have as many to choose, but I ended

up going with my least favorite sequence was

in Death Proof, and it was within the conversation

in the car in the beginning between the original

girls as they're going through and they're seeing

these different billboards, and the reason why

to me it's my least favorite scene is because

of the opportunity there for it to be such a

great scene because Tarantino is great at using

random locations and great dialogue to make memorable

moments, and in that it was just bland and uninteresting,

and especially when you compare it to other sequences

in Cars when you come to Tarantino. So it's the

epitome of what stops Death Proof from being

one of Tarantino's best. So for me, and because

of that, it's my least favorite scene in all

of Tarantino's movies. That's a great choice,

because that is definitely a letdown. It's like,

you have someone that's really good at doing

the dialogue, you have a scene that lends itself

perfectly for great dialogue, and somehow that

marriage didn't happen in that scene. So it's

definitely a letdown, I think, for a lot of diehard

Tarantino fans of an opportunity lost, possibly.

Yeah, for sure. Any guesses on what mine might

be? I'm going to go with Kill Bill, am I right?

Yeah. Yeah, I know everybody loves it, but for

me it just doesn't work because of my own personal

lack of, I guess, appreciation for it. But I'll

go with the crazy 88 scene from Kill Bill Volume

1. Like I said, I understand that a lot of people

love it. It just doesn't work for me personally.

Not a fan of the martial arts. Not a fan of the

martial arts. I guess not. But a close second

would be the whole Mandingo fighting in Django

Unchained just for the level of... brutality

that was involved in that. That was hard to witness,

for sure. Yeah. Alrighty. Alright, so we kind

of went into our favorite sequences. Now let's

get into our favorite performances, and we kind

of simplified this pretty easily. It's our favorite

leading, favorite supporting, and then, again,

our least favorite performance. So by simplifying

it, unfortunately we have to make it a lot harder

because there's so many to choose from. But for

your favorite leading performance, who did you

go with? Again, it's like choosing your favorite

child. I will go with Christoph Waltz from, actually

from Django Unchained. Because I think if you

take that character out of that film, it hurts

that film so much. And he's the reason why I

was hooked into that film from the beginning.

His ability to get out of any situation, his

witty dialogue, him setting himself up for just...

crazy things, and you're like, why is he doing

this? This is a suicide mission. And he always

had the intelligence to get out of it, obviously,

until the end. Spoiler alert. But, yeah, I mean,

he's great in Glorious Bastards as well. I just

felt like he was possibly a little bit more of

a leading role in Jango, and he was my favorite

character in that film, and I just didn't want

to go with the easy pick and pick... Samuel L.

Jackson from Pulp Fiction, so I'm trying to be

different. Well, I will go with Easy Pick and

go with Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction.

Again, I try to go someplace else, but I'd be

lying to myself if I didn't go with Samuel L.

Jackson in Pulp Fiction. It set Tarantino to

me into another level because of that performance.

I think get Tarantino today without Samuel L.

Jackson and the character of Jules. The line

delivery, it was made Samuel L. Jackson, Samuel

L. Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson's been basically

doing that character since he first did it in

1994, but it doesn't at all take away from the

brilliance that he had. Weirdly that he was,

I think, somehow when the Oscars came around,

he was... nominated for supporting actor, but

similar to Christoph Waltz in J .K. One Chain,

if you take him out of that movie, it does not

work. He is a linchpin that ties that all together.

He has a lot of big moments in that, for sure,

but there are those silent, quieter moments,

too, that he also shines in. Yeah. I mean, that's

the best pick. I was just trying to be different.

Otherwise, I do have Samuel L. Jackson written

above Christoph Waltz on my paper. Do you have

any other ones that come to mind? Probably the

biggest other one that I was considering would

be Brad Pitt from Inglourious Bastards. I just

think he brings so much to that film, especially

in the comedic realm, and just as a counterpoint

to Christoph Fawcett's character and just so

American that I... I really like Brad Pitt and

the Glorious Bastards. Those were the only three

I had written down. The other one I had was Pam

Grier and Jackie Brown. There's not many, I think,

straight leading performances when it comes to

Tarantino films. It's often an ensemble, but

I think she is that lead. It's not as bombastic

as... Tamela Jackson, but I do think she does

fit that role really well. And it's a type of

performance you don't see very often from a type

of role that is not made very often. So I think

that was a very close honorable mention for me

as well. All right. So we go with leading. What

about supporting? What did you go with for your

favorite supporting performance? So many people

could be considered supporting. It's like every

character in all these films, like you're just

saying. So it's so hard. I have so many names

written down. But I guess since I haven't used

it in most of my other categories, I will go

with a Pulp Fiction choice here, and that would

be Ving Rhames as Marcellus Wallace. I just think

him playing that character adds a lot to the

aesthetic of Pulp Fiction, to the kind of setting

of the tone and the atmosphere of what's going

on, and I don't think a lot of people could have

pulled that off in the way that Ving Rhames does,

just partially. by physical presence, but also

by his performance there, and his delivery of

the line. So I'll go with Ving Rhames, because

I haven't chose Pulp Fiction enough in all these

other categories. Yeah, he also has one of my

favorite quotes, too, with the hillbilly boy

line near the end. And just the way he says it,

you're just like, that guy is going to get so...

F'd up. It's not going to be funny. Yeah. It's

yeah. The Gramps is a tough dude. At least he

presents himself that way. Uh, similar to you

when it came to supporting, I think the obvious

choice is obviously Christoph Waltz. And. in

glorious bastards but since i already you know

the opening sequence i've already awarded that

i feel like that's already you know been recognized

so i did want to go with what i think is in some

ways an underrated performance and kind of gets

overshadowed because of christoph waltz and again

the same movie nothing glorious bastards and

it's uh melanie laurent's performance i think

you know she is the heart of that film she's

the emotional center and without it and i think

that movie works so i i think she's brilliant

in her role from the you know from the beginning,

seeing her deal with that tragedy to what she

becomes. So I think it's a really understated

performance that makes The Glorious Bastards

that much better. And I think the bulk of the

film is really resting on her shoulders and she

makes it work. I didn't think about that one,

but that's a good choice. I'm going to, of course,

have Christoph Waltz also written down from The

Glorious Bastards. And then two very, I guess,

maybe even more minor roles from the same film.

I actually like Sylvester Groff as Goebbels.

I thought he pulled off that pretty well. And

Michael Fassbender as Hickox. I mean, if Michael

Fassbender's involved somewhere, we've got to

mention him at some point, right? I know, right?

So I'll throw him out there. So I think, yeah,

there was a ton of supporting cast from Inglourious

Basterds. I also very highly considered... both

the combination of Michael Madsen and David Carradine

from the Kill Bill series. Yeah, I like Michael

Madsen in that as well. Tim Roth in Reservoir

Dogs and in Pulp Fiction, John Travolta, Uma

Thurman. I should have mentioned this for leading,

but Uma Thurman for leading in Kill Bill I should

have mentioned, but I think she deserves it.

She was an honor for me as well. Excellent. All

right. So favorite performances, and now let's

get to the least favorite performances. I think

there are some bad ones in there for sure. What

one did you end up going with? Do you want my

serious pick or my non -serious pick? Go with

either. Go with your serious and then go with

your non -serious. I guess for my serious, I

mean, it's not a serious role, but it was a serious

actor. I don't even know if you can say that.

It's a legit actor in the role, and that would

be Mike Myers from The Glorious Bastards. I just

think that didn't work. as well as it should

have. So Mike Myers as General Ed Finish, I think

was his name. But if we want to be honest, the

worst performance is Tarantino. every single

film so pick your poison it could be any film

it's quentin tarantino because he's an awful

actor yeah yeah he he's okay in uh in birds for

dogs he's often too much that's big reason why

but yeah i specifically actually my worst performance

was him in uh django unchained mainly giving

himself an Australian accent. He just wants to

make it that much worse, I guess. I don't know.

Another honorable mention, Mike Myers was there

for me, too. It was such a brief... It was only

a line or two, so I didn't put it there as BJ

Novak in Inglourious Basterds. It's not a bad

performance, per se. It's just... It feels like

BJ Novak being BJ Novak, and it doesn't fit that

movie for me. I don't know. I don't know if that's

more of a me thing, because I keep thinking of

his character from The Office. It may not be

a fair comparison. It works. All right. It's

much harder to come up with the worst, though.

It is. It is. It's like, oh, that's a supporting

character, and I could write 50 of them down

there. Yeah. It's like, worst, I don't even know

if I could come up with five, especially if I

eliminate Tarantino himself. Hopefully that'll

be the case in all future films. We talked about,

too, Tarantino has a lot of different traits,

a lot of different motifs. what different things

he does from the cigarettes to the classic shot

of looking up from the trunk of a car. But one

thing he also does, too, is long takes, which

has become kind of notable in all films. I feel

like now every big movie has to have one long

take sequence. Tarantino has its own. Looking

at all the different long sequences, what was

your favorite? See, I'm glad we included this

category because it was my one way, basically,

to get a Jackie Brown mention in there. And I'm

going to go with... The character of Beaumont's

final scene, Chris Tucker's final scene, and

just the way that it goes, especially from the

aerial view, where you get to see him put in

the car in the trunk, and he just drives all

the way out, but he's not really going that far.

I found it funny, but it was also a long take,

which was impressive. It also had the aerial

view, which I liked. It was just kind of from

an atmosphere standpoint of setting up that scene

was... good for the film as well, so I guess

Chris Tucker's final scene was one of my favorite

long takes. It actually is my choice as well,

and one thing that was kind of cool about it,

it's just unexpected, because the camera's pulling

back, pulling away, and you almost feel like,

okay, we're transitioning into the next sequence,

and then slowly you see the car that you just

saw drive away coming back around, and then it's

just like, wait, what's going on here? And it

continues on it. I just the unexpected nature

of it, the subtlety of how it for a guy who is

so known for violence to do such a violent act,

but do it in a way where you don't really see

anything, I think it's an interesting choice

as well. So it's so easy just to show someone

kills somebody, but to do it in that way, I think

it also just... The fact that he just has to

drive around the block a little bit, it just

tells you so much about that character as well.

So I think it was a long take that... There are

a lot of long takes that the choreography and

stuff are impressive and things like that, but

I thought that was one that... told you a lot,

too, about what was going on. It was more than

just a stylistic choice. It had something to

it to let you know, this character's kind of

crazy. His methods are pretty violent. If you

would have told me coming into this record that

one of our crossover selections would be a favorite

Quentin Tarantino long take, I would not have

guessed that. Jack Brown also has a really good

opening sequence itself. is a pretty good one

too. I almost went with that, but yeah, I did

not expect that. I did not. I would, uh, I mean,

I could have seen best leading character or some

other things, but Hey, I guess we're in line.

Yeah. All right. Well now it kind of gets to

the moment of truth where we've been talking

about a lot of Tarantino films and I feel we

kind of, you know, maybe showed our hand a little

bit regarding ranking his films from, I guess

we can start from the bottom and work our way

up. So I don't know if you want to go first,

how you want to do this, or if you want to, I

guess, make sense if one goes and the other.

So do you want to kind of just start with your

least favorite Tarantino film and what you ended

up going with your favorite? But, Dan, this is

the part where I'm going to get hate mail. It

doesn't matter how much we said in the other

stuff that people agree with me. It's all going

to be negated by my ranking, and then people

are going to get pitchforks and come after me.

As long as you don't rank, I don't know. Well,

I can't think. Unfortunately, there's not that

many movies to choose from, but Necroborn Killer

is number one. I don't know. That'd be weird.

If I'm going with my number eight pick, I will

go with Death Proof as my bottom of the list.

I still gave it a passing grade, folks, so don't

get on me about that, but I will agree that that

is probably at the bottom of his filmography.

Yeah, actually, I'll go right there with you.

My number eight was Death Proof as well. Again,

I still really like that film. It had my least

favorite moment or sequence in it, but the second

half really saves it for me, the first half.

I'm not the biggest fan of it, but the second

half is so good that I'm able to forgive anything

I dislike in the first. I have a feeling that's

where we're going to stop being in line with

each other. For my number seven pick... I will

actually go, and I know I'm probably alone in

this and in the minority, but I'll go with the

first volume from Kill Bill as my number seven.

Funny you say that, because it actually is my

number seven as well as Kill Bill. Again, I really

liked that movie, but as I was doing it, I mean,

as a Tarantino fan, I love a lot of his films,

and I really liked Kill Bill, but re -watching

some of the other ones, I ended up liking them

a little bit more, and I didn't like that one

less, but I just thought it wasn't as... It was,

you know, it's entertaining if you're in, if

I'm in for that, like, you know, straight action,

it's like, it's great. But if I wanted something

a little bit more, I didn't have it as much.

So I put it as number seven. I feel like we're

on one of those like relationship shows where

the answers to the questions are written on the

cards and then they ask you like the same question

that like whoever you're there with and you have

to try to match answers. Like what type of fish

are you? And, like, you already both have the

answers on your card, and you have to, like,

flip them at the same time to see if you match.

Anyway, that was a terrible reference, but for

some reason that's the thought that was going

in my head. For my number six, I will actually

go, even though I like this film a lot more than

I expected I would, especially based on what

I had heard everybody say about it, I don't think

it's one of his worst, I don't think he really

has worst films, but for my number six I'll go

with Jackie Brown. Well, this is going to get

kind of repetitive because I have it as six as

well, so. Wow. All right. I'll go with my number

five because the way it's going, it'll probably

match as well. For number five for me, I'd Kill

Bill Volume 2. Ditto. Nice. So our eight, seven,

six, and five are all the same. What is your

number four? This is where, for me, it got the

most tough because I have two films that are

battling for that four and that three spot. Probably,

if you ask me at different times, I'll probably

give you different answers. It probably depends

on which one I've seen most recently, which one

I've thought about the most. I'm even debating

switching it in my head right now. But, man.

I will go with Django Unchained. Oh, we have

something different, finally. We'll get stuck

to number four, but yeah, for number four, I

have a similar... I'm wondering if our three

and fours are flip -flop, but for number four,

I have Reservoir Dogs. Yeah, they are, because

I just switched that in my head. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. I'm surprised it was number four. I thought

it'd be a lot harder for me. Again, it's a movie

I love. I would probably give it a nine, but

I just... Jango just seems to, I like that movie

more and more every time I see it, and so that's

why I'm up with number three for me, just, again,

I love the use of music, the performances, I

don't know, maybe because Reservoir Dogs, I think

Tarantino does the most with less. Like, he does

a lot with very little resources, and it's impressive

in that end, and you can see him becoming who

he is, but if I was going to look at everything

kind of objectively and just overall, I think,

to me, Jango... Unchained offers me a little

bit more that makes me edge it out just the slightest

to Reservoir Dogs. For the record, Reservoir

Dogs is listed as my number four film on my sheet

of paper, and for some reason I flipped it right

as you asked me to say it. Well, there you go.

But yeah, I have Reservoir Dogs and Django Unchained,

and they're almost interchangeable for me. Yeah,

so... Now it kind of gets to the moment of truth.

You're number two. Which will also reveal you're

number one. yeah, this is when everybody can

get their pitchforks out because I'm going to

put Pulp Fiction at two and Inglourious Bastards

at one. Yeah, they can get two pitchforks because

I'm the same way. That's ridiculous that we had

the exact same order on paper. Yeah, that is

kind of crazy. I did not expect that at all.

Jeepers. I kind of knew that going in that Inglourious

Bastards I thought was his best film. Pulp Fiction

is probably my personal favorite if I was going

to rank that down just because it made me...

fall in love with movies in a lot of ways, in

new ways, but I think Glorious Bastards is his

masterpiece. It takes everything that Tarantino

does, dialogue, use of music, performances, and

it takes it to the next level. And I think it's

his uses of his ability to create tension within

scenes. I mean, the bar scene has some of his

best scenes and some of his best characters.

And I guess you could say that with Pulp Fiction

too, but I don't know, something about... Maybe

it's just the backdrop of World War II or Christoph

Waltz's performance. I don't know. But to me,

it has everything I look for in a Tarantino movie.

And if I were going to check those boxes, they

are all 10. So that's why it's my favorite Tarantino

movie or what I feel is the best Tarantino movie.

And first of all, it doesn't matter what any

of us say anymore because everybody already shut

us off. I think there are a lot of people...

that wouldn't disagree with that. I think it's

more highly contested, I think, than you might

think. I think when you break it down and you

look at it from an analytic standpoint or from,

like you said, checking all the boxes, I think

most people wouldn't be able to argue with us.

But I think since Pulp Fiction is just... came

so much earlier, people are just so used to hearing

Pulp Fiction as, you know, it's on so many top

five or top ten or top three of all time lists

for people. It's a lot of people's favorite,

one of their favorite films of all time, and

I'm not saying it's not for me as well, but if

I'm comparing one film versus the other in his

filmography, like you said, I just think Inglourious

Basterds is the better overall film. But that

does not take anything away from Pulp Fiction.

To me, I gave them both 10s. I feel very strongly

about giving them both 10s. And I wouldn't throw

the masterpiece. symbol out for both of them

you know so i think that you know that says a

lot and i think that the lowest grade that i

would give a tarantino movie was death boob which

was probably you know six or seven everything

else eight uh you know django unchained retro

dogs nine nine and a half so it's an embarrassment

of riches i think when looking in ranking the

movies so it's it's yeah ranking one higher than

the other is necessarily a indication that that

movie's bad it's just that you know you have

great and you have really great i guess I definitely

could not have predicted a lot of how this record

went with you, Dan. I did not expect to be in

line with you in as much as a lot of these things.

But, man, picking some of these things is hard.

Like I said, you could do a whole episode on

each category that we did probably, and it just

speaks to Tarantino as a director as a whole,

which I think lends into kind of what we were

planning on closing out the show, which is just

kind of how his career has stacked up. and I

think you had some questions that you wanted

to pose about him as a director in general. Yeah,

I mean, I guess maybe we've been talking about

the positive, but there are a lot of criticisms

when it comes to Tarantino, and I think there

are some good questions to kind of go over. And

mostly one of the things that I hear a lot with

Tarantino is that he kind of hides behind genre,

in the sense that he hasn't made his Schindler's

List, per se, or a movie that is not... reaped

in different genre tropes that uses those to

kind of bring in audiences to have that entertainment

factor. Do you think that holds him back from

being one of the best directors, knowing that

he is such a director that his films are so genre

-heavy? Or do you think it definitely doesn't

matter because it's a quality of the film, not

the type of film that he's making? I think you

could make a couple different arguments here.

First of all, I don't think it matters because

I think it is the quality of the film that counts.

I don't care what type of film you're doing,

what genre you're doing, or what style you're

doing. It ultimately comes down to whether you

executed it in a good way or a bad way and how

well you're able to execute it as a complete

package and as a film. So I think that's the

most important part. And when we're talking about

Tarantino, he's executed that almost... unanimously

in a positive way. As far as his style and if

he's hiding behind genre or if he hasn't done

this or he hasn't done that, man, you could say

that about so many directors. Especially the

really good ones because the really good ones

do have their bag of tricks. They do have...

what they do well. They know what they do well,

and they know how to incorporate it. And if Tarantino

did something that wasn't his style, so many

people would have an issue with it. You know

what I mean? Some people would come at him for

that. There's the level of expectation. But I

guess you could say, even looking at... Because

when you think of people who maybe came before

him, but someone like Scorsese or Spielberg,

both of those two well -known for their style.

Scorsese very much within the crime genre. Spielberg

has big into the blockbusters, those type of

crowd -pleaser films. But they did go and try

something that was out of their norm. I mean,

some of it worked, some of it didn't. Scorsese

tried to get into musicals to more just serious

dramas. Spielberg had The Color Purple, he had

Empire of the Sun, and although those had some

of the tropes that you would know those directors

for, it did seem like they tried to kind of brave

new ground. Does it take anything away, knowing

that it is Tarantino? If he had a filmography

that was 20 films long and we were having this

conversation, then maybe. But he doesn't do a

film every year. He doesn't do a film every other

year. Not necessarily. I mean, if you go all

the way back, 1994 is his first film and we're

talking about eight films. So I think maybe...

If he continued to be a filmmaker and you had

another eight films or five or six films added

to it and you're still having this conversation,

then maybe, maybe you can start having that criticism

for him. But when you're only looking at eight

films, I just don't think it's fair to say that.

And I would also counter that by saying I think

he did make a movie that is not very reaped in

genre that is kind of his adult. per se film

and and that's jackie brown like i think jackie

brown yeah it has certain tropes but it it really

is nothing like any other tarantino movies i

think that's why a lot of people don't like it

as much because it is no more silly pace it's

more subtle the structure of it's a little different

yeah it's more it's not you know you don't have

the non -linear storytelling um so i think you

know i think even tarantino said it was the movie

he wouldn't make when he was 50 years old. So

I think people tend to forget that. And I think

that, you know, Jackie Brown, yeah, sure that

you can indicate, yeah, there are crime elements

that you would see and there are certain elements

of black transportation in it, but not nearly

to the level that you have other movies. And

I think he did show in that, that he's capable

of doing it. He just chooses not to, which I

think is fine. I think that a lot of people have

a problem with it because unlike Tarantino, they

tend to not view genre films as equal. to other

films. There's you know, they think they're lesser

than, and for Tarantino, I think he doesn't.

I think he, you know, he likes those grindhouse

movies, and he would rank a great grindhouse

movie next to, you know, a great movie from the

French New Wave, and he just thinks that they're

great within themselves, where I think a lot

of, you know, movie critics and different movie

historians don't do that, and I feel like there's...

Yeah, it has to be a drama, or it has to be this.

Yeah, like, by being within a genre, it makes

it achievement. I don't feel that, and I feel

he's... a movie lover, and that it shows, and

I think that's okay. If anything, it adds so

much more to the rewatchability, the ability

to get something you've never got before, and

the next time you view it, it gives you more

layers, it gives you more little nuances to look

for, because of his knowledge of all movies,

and I think that's a trait that's better than

just being able to do another genre in a way

that we appreciate. I think we want more of what

we're getting. That's another critique I see

a lot too with Quintino when it comes to that

movie lover aspect of him that he kind of just

takes bits and pieces from everyone else and

just puts it together and makes his own movie.

I don't know how you feel about that. That he

just borrows too much or he modifies too much.

Does that ever bother you that you think maybe

you're not actually watching the original product,

you're just kind of watching the... Kind of a

retake of classic films from when Tina Martino

was becoming a movie fan. I mean, that would

be like asking him to somehow remove parts of

his brain. Like, that is who he is based on his

experiences, based on his knowledge of, you know,

whether it was stuff he watched as a child or

his upbringing or whatever. stuff he was interested

in, and that's what has shaped him as a person,

and it's because of all the things that he's

able to work it all together in a way that a

lot of other people, if not almost every other

person, would not be able to do. I mean, he's

almost on a savant level, and it's not like you

could ask him to somehow not bring those experiences

and that knowledge into what he's doing. I mean,

you can't harness someone that is thinking that

in that... quickly and that i mean he's got a

billion thoughts going through his head i think

with every single thing that he's writing with

every single scene that he's shooting and it

would be impossible to ask him not to do that

yeah and and too i think it's that movie knowledge

i mean people will say like well that's a reference

to this he's just referencing all these films

but the thing is like i think you can be unaware

of all lot of those references, and some of them

I plainly am. There's a lot of things he talks

about, a lot of things he's taking from that.

I have no idea what that is, so it's not like

I need to know. Right, it doesn't take away from

the film. Yeah, it's not like I need to know

the reference to understand it like you see with

other people where they just, you know, you have

the dialogue that references other movies, the

pop culture references that you have to understand

what they're going after. It's not like that

group setting where somebody tells an inside

joke and you're all just like... Exactly, exactly.

Don't get it. And two, I think... people, like,

obviously it's more than just taking what other

people are doing and doing it yourself, because

we've seen a lot of people try to be Quentin

Tarantino, and all of them have pretty much failed.

There's more to it than just that, and I think

there is a craftsmanship to what he does, and

his ability to build character, and I think just

to downplay it because he lets his fanboy fly

I think is unfair, and too, it just... Like you

said, Tarantino being Tarantino, and to tell

him not to do that, I think that's, or to downplay

it or say that he's a lesser director because

of it, I think it's just people being a little

bit ridiculous, I guess. They're just trying

to find something to criticize. Oh, yeah. I mean,

I get if you don't like his style, you don't

like what he does, but I think sometimes it's

just that if you don't like him, then let's get

the teeth out and figure out, try to lessen his

accomplishments. It's not enough for someone

just not to like it on their own. They have to

find reasons why you should also not like it.

Exactly. So I think we've definitely let be known

that we are fans of Sam. We've enjoyed his films.

So the question I think then becomes, where does

he lie within being a director? Is he one of

the best of his time? Is he one of the best of

all time? What do you think he ranks as a director?

I've got to ask you one question before I answer

that. Sure. I want you to answer almost the same

question, but I want you to take out his most

recent films of Django Unchained and Inglourious

Bastards. Had he finished before making those

two films, if he was done after that and he retired,

and all you had were the other six, would you

answer that question differently than... When

you add in what was your number one choice and

your number three choice in his films, is it

his most recent work? Does that propel him to

a different level than he would have been without

those two films? I would say without Django Unchained,

not necessarily. But I think without Inglourious

Basterds, yes, it does. Because I think Inglourious

Basterds showed that... Pulp Fiction wasn't a

fluke or that he could he can get to that level

once again because before that I don't think

he ever did get to the Pulp Fiction level so

I think I would still think he was one of the

great a great director but I think what you just

said is almost perfect whether you corrected

yourself or not I think both those two films

and Glorious Bastards and Django Unchained for

me elevate him from a great director to one of

the greatest directors because it shows that

it wasn't just, boom, I'm on the scene with two

really good movies in the beginning with Reservoir

Dogs and then obviously capitalizing on Pulp

Fiction as that second film. And then some people

could say, well, then you had Jackie Brown, which

maybe we don't like. You had Kill Bill, which

is a little bit of a different take on it. You

have Death Proof, and you could say, you know,

he was real good, and then he fizzled out, I

guess. Some people might make that argument.

And for him to come kind of around then and to

add Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained

at the back end, really elevates him to just

a great director of our time, to one of the greatest

directors of our time. Yeah, I think it truly

does. I think there are other people that you

can say that are arguably around the same lines

that Coen Brothers come to mind, but I think

ultimately when you look at the past, from the

90s until today, there aren't many directors

that even... There are many directors that have

more movies than him, and many directors who

have been around the... similar time period,

but I don't think anyone, maybe besides the Coen

brothers, could argue that they're the most consistent,

or when I hear... When there's a Tarantino movie,

it's an event for me, or for a lot of people,

because they don't come around all that often,

so there's an excitement level there that really

I don't have with any other director, even Scorsese,

because I know that I'll probably get a Scorsese

film in maybe a year or two again, but with a

Quentin Tarantino movie, it could be five years.

What was the difference between Pulp Fiction

and Jackie Brown? It was a rather long piece.

Six years. Six years, so you know that... I think

that says something, too, like, you know, quality

over quantity. That has made him propel himself

to, you know, one of the top two directors of

today. And regardless of what you say about the

ones that we rank in, the, you know, Jackie Brown,

Kill Bill Vol. 1, Death Proof, whichever ones

you have towards your bottom of the Tarantino

retrospective, like you said, your ranking for

those films is still on the positive. It's a

difference when you're up to eight films and

you have yet to put one out that most people

would give a below average score to. Yeah, I

think he is a perfect filmography. There's not

a bad movie in the bunch. And a lot of people

can't say that once they're up to eight films.

They've either had a couple in the beginning

that faltered before they kind of found their

groove, or they have just stumbled here. you

know, they've chosen the wrong project or done

this or that. And what separates him is because

every single project he takes on is a product

of passion, is something that he devotes himself

to. It's not just a paycheck. It's not just a

putting out a film to put out a film and have

your name still in the headlines or in the conversation.

He takes on a film because he wants to make a

great film out of it and he puts everything into

it. And I think that's really what separates

him from a lot of directors out there who are

willing to just take, a flyer on this or a paycheck

for that. Especially when you consider what he

did for independent films to begin with. Him

not being in the studio system and giving him

that freedom. He really opened that door and

allowed an avalanche of independent filmmakers

to really take charge during the 90s because

of his success. I think he has influences outside

of just making films. I think he's actually impacted

the industry in that way. And obviously we've

seen many people try to copy Tarantino from even

his friends like Robert Rodriguez, who just can't

quite get there. So not asking all time, because

I think you have to throw in a whole bunch of

other people in the conversation and it becomes

a lot harder. But if you're talking about just

our generation, for directors that started after

1990, is he number one? After 90, yeah, I would

say so. The only other people, I mean, the Coen

brothers started in the 80s. They were the only

ones I would think would rival him, I would say.

I can't really think of anyone else. I mean,

David O. Russell, David Fincher, all those, I

don't think they... I know people are starting

to get on bandwagons for Paul Thomas Anderson,

Wes Anderson. And, you know, obviously people

like Christopher Nolan and J .J. Abrams, but

I think all those don't have enough to maybe

compare to what Tarantino's done so far. I agree.

Yeah, and I would say... Not that they might

not, eventually. Yeah, and I mean, Terrence Malick

and stuff, I think they've all had at least...

I would say hits and misses, I would say. You

know, it wasn't Inherent Vice was not a fan of.

Fincher had The Game or something. They've all

had legitimately movies I would give a failing

rating to, unlike Tarantino. But it's a good

conversation. I would also say some of those

directors, it would be interesting if we went

through their filmographies and said something

different, because maybe we would see something

that we aren't seeing now. Sure. A year from

now, we might be having a different conversation.

All right. And looking forward to I think it's

I guess maybe we can kind of go over who we'll

be doing next, who people voted on for the next

retrospective. You have the reading. I do. And

it looks like we received about 60 votes in this.

So apparently we have 60 listeners. Wow. That's

about five more than I anticipated. That's definitely

55 more than I anticipated, and that would include

Amanda, myself, and you as three of the five.

So, yeah, we had almost 60 votes. I guess one

of my choices came in dead last. Only five people

voted for Denis Villeneuve, which maybe that

would have changed had we had this open up closer

to the release of Sicario. I don't know. A lot

of people are on that. on that boat right now.

So, he only received 9 % of the vote, so we will

not be doing Denis Villeneuve. I don't know how

to say his name. Villeneuve, I believe. I heard

a big film spotting had a big to -do about how

to say it. It's like Villeneuve. Oh, really?

So, anyway. He's Denis V. Dennis V. So we will

not be doing him. He only got 9%. I know a lot

of people will be upset, but coming in third

place, also about to come out with a film with

13 votes, or 22 % of the vote, is Gizmo del Toro.

Oh, wow. I'm surprised he didn't do better. Yeah,

I was too. I know Amanda's going to be upset,

but he only gets 22 % of the vote. And then we

had a six -vote separation between our first

and our second. Our second place got 17 votes.

Our first place got 23 votes. So maybe we'll

have to come back and visit some of these guys

that did get double -digit votes. But coming

in with 29 % and 17 votes in second place is

Robert Zemeckis. And that leaves with 23 votes

and 40%. I'm not sure how many times J .D. and

Brendan from In Session Come voted on this poll.

but Hayao Miyazaki with 40%. Interesting, interesting.

He has his fandom for sure. I didn't realize

that our fandom was as much of a fandom, our

fans of him as well. So I guess we'll continue

the trend of introducing me to films I've never

seen before. Have you seen any of his films coming

into this? I don't believe I have. Okay, I've

seen... I think most of them, honestly, I was

going through, and I didn't realize I watched

as many as I did, mostly because of, uh, back

in the day when we did our top 180 animated movies,

I ended up watching them. So, though I've never

re -watched, I've only re -watched Mrs. McEnook,

uh, Minoke. It's only one I've seen more than

once, so, again, it'd be nice to go back and

re -watch them. Well, luckily for me, um, our

friend, uh, Mr. Fridley sent Matt Fridley, uh,

has told me that he owns all of them. So I have

access to all of them very easily. I think my

local library has all of them, so I'll be obtaining

them because I am old. You're going to libraries

and I'm going to video stores. We're both pretty

old. We're living in the era of Tarantino back

when he was in the 90s. Right, right. But still

good turnouts for Gizmo and Zemeckis, so we might

have to revisit them or throw them in the next

poll again. We'll see. Because I'd definitely

be interested in looking at both of them eventually

as well. For sure, for sure. All right, anything

else before we bring this to a close? No, I'm

interested to see where this heads next. We're

definitely switching gears as we go into this

next one. Yeah, I think it's a good choice because

it does not, it allows us not to have to compare

it to Tarantino. It'll be a completely, you know,

change of pace. Your good change of pace to learn

down back or your curveball or slowball reliever,

you know. Right, right. So if you're upset that

your vote is not the person that we're doing,

I apologize, but please continue to listen as

we go through the Miyazaki filmography, and you

never know when the next one's going to start,

so we might have a chance to get back to whatever

you voted for at a later date. Awesome. Yeah,

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of great conversations, so make sure to go there.

But that'll be it for this week as we finish

our Quentin Tarantino retrospective. But no worries,

we're looking forward as we get into the Heyo

Matsuzaki retrospective coming shortly. So thanks

for listening. No telling how.