Quentin Tarantino rips modern movies from Hollywood’s ‘flavorless sausage factory,’ would ‘rather read a book’

Key points

• Quentin Tarantino said Hollywood has become a “flavorless sausage factory” in the 2020s.

• The filmmaker said that “the entire concept of what is a movie is more inclined to inspire contempt in me than generosity.”

• Tarantino named a few exceptional movies that he generally enjoyed from the past six years.

Quentin Tarantino isn’t impressed with contemporary movies.

The Pulp Fiction auteur claimed that “it’s almost impossible” to enjoy a new movie without nitpicking it “to death,” while discussing his general distaste for modern Hollywood productions, during an interview with with Sight & Sound (via Variety).

“Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers or just plain stupid s— usually torpedoes every new movie coming out of the flavorless sausage factory that used to call itself Hollywood,” Tarantino said. “These days, the entire concept of what is a movie is more inclined to inspire contempt in me than generosity.”

The filmmaker also said that the 2020s make his previous least-favorite era of Hollywood output, the 1980s, look good.

“By comparison the movies of the last six years make the ’80s seem like the ’30s,” Tarantino opined.

The Jackie Brown director listed a handful of movies that he has “liked” since entering the 2020s: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga films (the second of which never got a proper theatrical release outside of festivals).

Despite his appreciation for those movies, the filmmaker said that he hasn’t seen anything that “really held me in its grip and swept me away to the magical land of enjoyment that I [used] to visit regularly and was the reason I loved movies above all other art forms.”

He added, “These days I’d rather read a book.”

The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director slightly backtracked to give an extended shoutout to “a suspenseful new movie” that “did grab me and held me for its entire duration”: Joe Carnahan’s Netflix crime thriller The Rip, which stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

“The film is an exciting cop thriller with a novel premise that manages to deliver the goods in really clever ways. The whole package worked for me: Carnahan’s direction, the splendid cast, the look of the film (courtesy of cinematographer Juan Miguel Azpiroz).”

Tarantino also noted his single favorite element of the movie: “The real powerhouse component of this splendid collection is the sensational screenplay by Carnahan and Michael McGrale.”

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The Django Unchained director recently stoked controversy with his disparaging remarks toward actors he dislikes, including Paul Dano, Matthew Lillard, and Owen Wilson. His comments sparked a wave of public support for the actors, which Dano called “really nice” and Lillard likened to “living through your own wake.”

Tarantino’s next project will come in the form of The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The filmmaker serves as the screenwriter and producer for the film, but David Fincher is directing. The movie is set to release in theaters on Nov. 25, before hitting Netflix on Dec. 23.

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