It's Quentin Tarantino Hot Take Time Again

Following the Paul Dano debacle, Quentin Tarantino has mostly kept to the shadows after Hollywood rushed to rally around Dano and poor Matthew Lillard who also caught a stray. Well, quiet time is over.

With a new play to promote in London, Tarantino is back with a scorching hot take on the town that couldn’t wait to call him an a-hole. Writing in the new issue of Sight & Sound, Tarantino takes aim at Hollywood’s post-COVID output, and he pretty much hates all of it except for a set of projects that you will never see coming.

Via THR:

“Since the pandemic, for me anyway, it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don’t pick to death. Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers or just plain stupid sh*t usually torpedoes every new movie coming out of the flavorless sausage factory that used to call itself Hollywood,” he wrote. “These days, the entire concept of what is a movie is more inclined to inspire contempt in me than generosity. Which is fair enough, because by comparison the movies of the last six years make the 80s seem like the 30s.”

What wasn’t flavorless? The straight-to-streaming Ben Affleck and Matt Damon movie The Rip. You cannot make this up.

“The film is an exciting cop thriller with a novel premise that manages to deliver the goods in really clever ways,” Tarantino wrote. “The whole package worked for me: Carnahan’s direction, the splendid cast, the look of the film (courtesy of cinematographer Juan Miguel Azpiroz) — but the real powerhouse component of this splendid collection is the sensational screenplay by Carnahan and Michael McGrale.”

What else did Quentin like, but not nearly as much as the Netflix original The Rip? How about Horizon, the Kevin Costner vanity project that blew a hole in Yellowstone and anyone stupid enough to help Costner finance it.

I’ll go ahead and ask: How many bare feet were in these movies? Because, right now, I’m guessing all of them. All of the feet. Was the ranch in Horizon just one big giant foot? You can tell me. I’m not worried about spoilers.

In fairness, Tarantino did have at least one good thought: “These days I’d rather read a book.” Me too, buddy, me too. Wanna talk about The Gray Man? I’m on the sixth one. They’re pretty neat, but I’m guessing you preferred the movie, you streaming rascal you…