Director Quentin Tarantino has just made harsh comments about the reality of cinema in the 2020s. The veteran director bluntly compared the current Hollywood to a "flavorless sausage factory".
Talking to Sight & Sound magazine, the prodigy of the movie "Pulp Fiction" affirmed that he can hardly enjoy a new work without scrutinizing and picking up flaws to the end.
Script loopholes, absurdity, flattering thinking towards the audience, choosing the wrong actors or simply silly details..., all are sinking all works out of the flavorless sausage factory that once called itself Hollywood," Tarantino said disappointedly.
The filmmaker emphasized that the quality of cinema in the 2020s was so bad that the 1980s - the era he hated the most - suddenly became valuable: "If we put it on the scale, movies in the past 6 years have turned the 80s into a golden age".
The director of "Jackie Brown" listed a few works he "accepted" from 2020, including a remake of "West Side Story" by veteran director Steven Spielberg and the epic series "Horizon: An American Saga" by director Kevin Costner.
Despite those rare compliments, Tarantino said he has not yet regained the feeling of "really being swept away to the magical land of enjoyment". He added: "In this day and age, I would rather read a book.
However, the director somewhat lowered his voice when he praised "The Rip", a new crime thriller by director Joe Carnahan on Netflix, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
Tarantino commented: "The film is a dramatic crime work with a novel, effective and intelligent premise. I am completely convinced by Carnahan's direction, the excellent cast and impressive images. But the most powerful weapon of this work is the script of Carnahan and Michael McGrale".
Recently, the director of "Django Unchained" has continuously become the focus of attention when publicly criticizing the abilities of some actors such as Paul Dano, Matthew Lillard and Owen Wilson.
Quentin Tarantino's next project is "The Adventures of Cliff Booth" - the spin-off of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". He will take on the role of screenwriter and producer, while the director's seat is assigned to David Fincher. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on November 25 before being released on Netflix on December 23.
