The movie Quentin Tarantino called “terrible, boring and pointless”
Quentin Tarantino has never been one to mince his words. Regarding other movies, the writer and director can be a savage critic. However, one of his most cutting reviews went a step further, with Tarantino deeming a classic 1970s movie “terrible, boring, and pointless”.
It seems that nothing and no one is free from Tarantino’s scrutiny. There are lists and lists of films he hates. His judgement knows no limit, including Groundhog Day, Jules and Jim, Natural Born Killers, and more. Even iconic directors like David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick have been on the receiving end of a Tarantino rant, once dubbing Kubrick a “hypocrite” and naming A Clockwork Orange as a film he despises.
But it’s not just movies in Tarantino’s firing line; actors get a lashing, too. The director once went on an impassioned rant about Ben Affleck, taking issue with the amount of actors who are “beyond gorgeous”.
Even films from his childhood are judged harshly. One 1970s effort sticks in his memory as an early cinema experience. Talking to Cinema Speculation, Tarantino recalled seeing a double feature with his parents, uncle, and babysitter who were on a double date.
Despite being connected to a family memory, the two Robert Altman movies Tarantino witnessed get slammed. “The evening was not a success,” the director said. “Not only did they not like the two movies, my stepfather and uncle proceeded to bitch about them for days after.”
Of the films themselves, Tarantino said, “Brewster McCloud is one of the worst movies to ever carry a studio logo, and that’s fully acknowledging Altman also made Quintet for a studio as well.”
Quintet, the 1979 post-apocalyptic flick, gets the harshest judgement. Taking place in a new ice age after the end of the world, the movie sees a civilisation fighting to survive. As a science fiction film set in an ominous landscape, it’s supposed to be gripping. But to Tarantino, it felt flat, stating, “Quintet is just terrible, boring, and pointless.”
An incredibly harsh review from the master of savage critique, Tarantino fans won’t be rushing to watch it any time soon.
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