Comments on: Quentin Tarantino Gives ‘Drive,’ ‘Rampart’ & ‘Meek’s Cutoff’ Slots On His Worst & “Nice Try” 2011 Film Lists

By: Cheyton

Cheyton — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

How did "Drive" make the "Nice Try" list? That was easily one of the more visually appealing and all-around more badass films in recent memory.

By: Bakunin

Bakunin — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

Would be interesting to know why he placed "Miral" on the Worst Of The Year list. Nobody saw the movie, and it wasn't a masterpiece, but it was at least a brave attempt to bring the Palestine issue to a mainstream, Hollywood audience.

By: dav

dav — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

He shouldn't have included a Worst Films list. He's just asking for shit.

By: Nick H

Nick H — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

Death Proof. Nice try Quentin. Red State, Our Idiot Brother, Midnight in Paris, casting Jamie Foxx as your lead instead of Michael K. Williams. Try harder.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

I have a lot of problems with QTs list, but I would nt go as far as to compare him to Armond White! That's a bit of a jump play list.

By: hg

hg — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

also playlist did you know people have different opinions and tastes

plenty of films you claim to be masterpieces and 9/10 i personally thoguht were garbage

does'nt make me or anyone else wrong for thinknig so

By: Ray H

Ray H — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

At least he's a Woody Allen fan. He put Anything Else on his best of the last two decades list.

By: hg

hg — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

thank god i agree with QT i think drive is completely overrated it did'nt make my top 10 or even top 20 list

i gave it a 7/10 at most

By: A dude.

A dude. — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

O__o Quentin.. W-wut? Drive gets a "Nice Try" award? What's that supposed to mean?!?

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

Not a great top 10…. Drive and Tree of life missing….get real Quentin!

By: dg

dg — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

what. a. joke.

By: bobmorton

bobmorton — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

drive clearly falls into a "nice try" category. it could have been really special. it could have been a real contender in the annals of great cinema. there are a lot of people championing this film, but i personally feel it failed to live up to its potential. history will not be kind to it.

not necessarily a bad film. just underwhelming considering what could have been. it was cool & well directed but lacked any real substance for it to be labeled a great movie. there were a ton of great elements and iconic moments, but there was no gripping or memorable thread holding it all together to make it a classic.

but hey… it's called drive, so maybe i'm supposed to just go along for the ride. at least that's how i rationalize it.

By: [A]

[A] — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

Like I mentioned to someone on twitter, the part of his brain that liked "The Three Musketeers" was probably the same part that cast Eli Roth, Mike Myers, Samm Levine and The Temp for Inglorious Basterds… VERY odd

By: Juice

Juice — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:56 +0000

Kevin, keep your comments about Tarantino to a minimum. Did you watch drive? The CGI special effects were laughable when they were not meant to be. I hate those kind. Hence, nice try. Tarantino reconstructs each genre he decides to do every single time! Every always has to add their two cents about Tarantino's movies. He will not get his proper respect until he is dead. No one, I mean no one, takes a blank sheet of paper and creates a movie start to finish better than the Master!

By: Abe

Abe — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

Young adult wasn't an original screenplay. It was a boom before the movie came out

By: Kiernan

Kiernan — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

At least he realized the greatness and intelligence of Young Adult and Attack the Block. Nice to see him give a shout out to Reitman and Cody too. Two of the best films of the year, no doubt!

By: Gary Busey's Taint

Gary Busey's Taint — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

Are you buffoons really dogging on QT for having his own opinions? Who cares if he likes or dislikes a movie that you wish you could sleep with or slit it's throat in their sleep? I noticed too many morons going "well, if he's going to put so and so on his worst/best list, then I'm just going to diss his movies because it makes me feel smarter and more important in the world and in my parents eyes."Not everyone has to like, say, Drive (my favorite film of the year), and not everyone has to hate Three Musketeers (Paul Weasel Shit Anderson is a hack; there's only room for one Paul Anderson). I respect QT's opinions, even if I do think some of his choices are in their places simply because he's friends with the talent involved in them, whether it is a director or actor(s). Just because you like a film and think it is the best of the year, doesn't mean everyone else has to feel the same. It just truly shows your lack of intellect and maturity when you guys (most of you who seem to be grammatically impotent) mention how much a joke his list is, as if your prestigious list is somehow in any way more honorary and meaningful just because you include most of the "critically acclaimed" releases. Get real, people.

By: Cory Everett

Cory Everett — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

I'll agree that the "Nice Try" for "Drive" is particularly ironic considering that it succeeds in all the ways that "Death Proof" failed to make a retro-cool badass driving movie without devolving into self-referential parody.

By: Jeff Carroll

Jeff Carroll — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

I was initially struck by how mundane his list was. Not even 13 Assassins?

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

You're absolutely right. Dude seems as if he might feel more than a little threatened by Drive. I sort of thought the same thing about Edgar Wright when he insinuated that Drive was basically a Le Samourai rip-off in his Criterion favorites list.

By: hank

hank — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

Hello. "Drive" was stale, hackneyed, under thought and way too in love with itself. All style, no substance. glad not everyone fell for it.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

Nice to see Red State in his Top 10 and its screenplay in his Best Original Screenplay category 🙂

By: Christopher Bell

Christopher Bell — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

I'm not surprised. There's some video floating around that I caught a few years ago where he gives his top movies of all time, and instead of including anything surprising it was just a very general list of obvious movies. Not that that's bad, you like what you like, but given his reputation I think we all assume he's going to suggest us a dozen or so movies we've never heard of.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

Yes! Drive sucked! I love Quentin's fearlessness in admitting that he didn't care for it. But Meek's Cutoff is a bad film? Nahhhhh. I'll let it slide because, for the most part, his list is pretty awesome. The Skin I Live In, The Tree of Life, The Beaver, War Horse, Midnight in Paris, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol – all great.

By: Joakin

Joakin — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:36:55 +0000

(though maybe he was intimidated by a movie that took many of the same influences he shares and created something fresh, rather than a winking homage) Kevin Jagernauth you butthurt…fucking cunt lol