Every Quentin Tarantino Movie ranked!

Every Quentin Tarantino Movie ranked!

Hello, Everybody! I'm Santiago Brion and today I did a ranking of all of the movies that Quentin Tarantino directed. He is my absolute favorite filmmaker of all time and I thought that I should share with you guys my ranking of his filmography. From Dusk Til Dawn is excluded because technically he produced it. 

9. Jackie Brown

To me, I thought Jackie Brown was really boring. I couldn't follow the story at all and I thought that it would never end. It was about a flight attendant who is busted for smuggling money for her boss, Ordell Robbie(played by frequent collaborator, Samuel L. Jackson), agent Ray Nicolette and Det. Mark Dargus want her help to bring down Robbie. Facing jail time for her silence or death for her cooperation, Brown double-crosses them both and makes off with the money with the help of her bondsman. It's not the best Tarantino movie but I can respect it for what it was, the only great thing that I will say about this movie is the climax. Fun fact, in Out of Sight directed by Steven Soderbergh, Ray Nicolette made a surprise cameo.

8. The Hateful Eight

 

Naturally, I put this in the eighth spot. A follow-up to Django Unchained and taking place after the Civil War, it's about 8 people who live in a cabin in sub-zero temperatures. I kinda did enjoy this movie even it was nearly 3 hours long. It had a great cast including Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth and Walton Goggins and a great score by Ennio Morricone which won him a well-deserved Oscar. While it's not one of my favorite Tarantino movies, it definitely was a bloody good time. 

7. Death Proof

This was Tarantino's most violent movie yet, part of Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse trilogy, Kurt Russell played a stuntman who kills innocent women with his "death-proof" car. While I never got to watch Death Proof and hopefully I will, I think that it's very exploitative in terms of graphic violence, while Tarantino's movies are known for its violent content, this one I might like but if I did watch it, I would just rank it higher.

6. Reservoir Dogs

Not only is this Tarantino's debut feature, it also opened a flood gate of nonlinear storytelling in movies and showed off his trademark style. This the best movie about a heist gone wrong. Why I ranked it at #6? Well... it was pretty short, I kinda wished that the diamond heist was shown and that I'd get to know these. characters more. I really loved the scene of Michael Madsen dancing to Here I Am by The Beatles and it even started the careers of many of its stars including Steve Buscemi and Tim Roth.  

5. Django Unchained

This movie was fantastic! This is definitely Top 5 for a reason. It reintroduced spaghetti westerns for a modern audience and it was also a blaxpoitation movie. Jamie Foxx became one of Tarantino's greatest creations and one of the best movie protagonists in modern memory. This movie is mostly famous for Leonardo DiCaprio's role as Calvin Candie, a plantation owner in the southern area of pre-Civil War. I loved the scene where Candie finds out abut Django and Schultz's plan, it was an Oscar-worthy performance that took my breath away.

4. Kill Bill

Obviously I put both Vol.1 and Vol. 2 in one pick. It has the most bad-ass fight scenes ever put to film, it's one of the best revenge thrillers ever made and it made Uma Thurman a household name. If I had to pick which Volume was better, I'd pick Vol. 1 because it sets up the story quite nicely, while Vol. 2 had The Bride's origin story, there wasn't really much action. Vol. 1 had arguably it's greatest choreographed fight ever and it was even shot in Black and White! There's also that one animated sequence that I loved. It's so rare that 3 sub genres, spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation and martial arts can be mixed into one movie. Whether or not Kill Bill 3 is up for debate, but it would be great to see Uma Thurman pick up the signature katana again.

3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

GOD! I loved this movie!! Hollywood. 1969. A time where New Hollywood was on the horizon. Rick Dalton is a washed up TV actor who's struggling to find work where he doesn't recognize the landscape anymore. He spends most of his time drinking and hanging out his and MY stunt double, Cliff Booth. He also happens to live next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate and their futures will be changed forever by The Manson Family. The production designers did a great job bringing 1960s Hollywood to life! Just.. the authenticity in this movie, you can tell that this was inspired by the title, Once Upon a Time in the West due to the fact that Quentin's influenced by Sergio Leone. The party at the Playboy mansion was actually shot at the mansion, Quentin Tarantino used archival footage of The Wrecking Crew for the "Sharon Tate at the movie theater" sequence, the real footage of The Great Escape had Leo in place of Steve McQueen and archival footage of "The FBI" episode with Rick had Leo's scene inserted in the actual episode. Talk about movie magic. The movies and tv shows that I really love are movies and tv shows that take place in Hollywood, this is why this is only at #3 because of how it impacted me as a movie lover. Speaking of Steve McQueen, Damian Lewis only appeared as Steve McQueen for only 5 minutes and was soo good. While the ending was divisive, it did get people talking. Rick having a meltdown in his trailer is my favorite scene in the entire movie and it was even improvised and I loved the fact that Leo intended to break character on camera so that Rick can break character to say his lines correctly.  I also loved when Cliff went to Spahn ranch,  I was so scared that he was probably going to die, think about it, if Tex hadn't arrived on time, Cliff would've been killed. Oh! And... two words. Brad Pitt. Shirtless. Not only is this one of my favorite movies from Quentin Tarantino, but also one of my favorite movies ever. 

2. Inglorious Basterds

Yes, that's how the word "Bastard" is spelled in this title. Tarantino's first collab with Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz, who later appeared in Django Unchained. This is a war movie with two different storylines about two assassination plots to end the Nazi leadership. One planned by a French cinema proprietor, the other by a team of Jewish American soldiers. The opening scene shook me to my very core. It established its villain, Hans Landa right off the bat, earning Christoph Waltz his well-deserved Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and I loved the scene with the Nazi soldiers sitting in the table and then it got tense and they started shooting each other. It's one of the best Alternate History movies you'll ever see and one of the best war movies in the past decade.

1. Pulp Fiction

It's pretty obvious why I picked Pulp Fiction for the number one spot. It's soo perfect. It started a brand new way of making movies in non-chronological order, it's one of the best movies to ever come out of the 1990s and it's one of the most influential movies of all time! Non-linear storytelling has never been done before quite not like Reservoir Dogs. It was also a big comeback vehicle for John Travolta, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. While Reservoir Dogs was Quentin Tarantino's first movie, Pulp Fiction made him one of the biggest directors in Hollywood maybe even the entire world. Everything about this movie is iconic, from Samuel L. Jackson's iconic monologue to the robbery at the diner to Vincent accidentally killing someone in Jules' car, Bruce Willis slicing a guy with a sword, Uma Thurman snorting cocaine and dancing with Vincent to Quentin Tarantino's cameo. It also had one of the biggest movie fan theories that is still being debated to this day! What's in the brief case?! Is it Marsellus' soul? is it gold? was it the cure for AIDS or cancer? We will never know.

Alright, guys. Thanks for reading and don't forget to comment below what your favorite Quentin Tarantino movie is.