Top 20 Films Since 1992
According to Quentin Tarantino:
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This is an interesting list — most of his picks (that I’ve seen) are fairly kinetic and/or atmospheric movies that seem to be reflective of a man whose own movies don’t flinch from much. And it is an interesting mix of both film geeky and populist picks. What I think I like most about this list (even as I don’t like some of the movies on it) is that it is quite utterly his list — he doesn’t seem to care about categories of “art” vs. “popular” films and proceeds to tell us exactly what moves him. Nicely done.
1992 is the year that Tarantino became a director himself.
So what about you? Maybe you don’t have a Top 20 over the last 20 years, but what would be some of your favorites from that period?
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He should have put “Inglorious Basterds” on that list. I just watched it and it was probably the first or second best movies I’v ever seen.
On his list… “Dazed and Confused” was great as were “Boogie Nights” and “Fight Club”
Lost in Translation, Speed? Team America? WHA…?
The Matrix was great but really hurt by Matrix II and III
J, help me out. My almost 16 year old son is begging me to let him see Inglorious Bastards. I love Tarantino, but haven’t seen the movie… but since you have – and I trust your judgment 🙂 – what ya think? Can we watch the movie together, or do I have to watch it first. Didya follow that?
I love the Matrix. I just pretend Matrix II and III didn’t happen.
16. You can watch it together without previewing it. It is a Tarantino film to be sure but so much more than that. What I guess I mean is that he uses all of the same tricks, but he is less flippant about it and less showy. Which is good, because from the first scene there is a level of seriousness to the content.
I was blown away.
Thanks, J. Guess we’ll check it out tomorrow night! My son will be thrilled!
BTW, Fight Club is one of my all time favorites. (Love The Usual Suspects, too!)
What’s the first rule of Fight Club? 😉
He’s right that Dogville was great. Nicole Kidman deserved an Oscar for the last 5 minutes.
Also, Shawshank Redemption should be on the list.
“Heat” from Micheal Mann
And I’ll buy the notion that the sequels hurt The Matrix
And I’m on board with Speed.
Black Hawk Down.
Showed how planning and organization can sometimes offset an opponent with more fire power.
Mohammad Adid may not have been a nice man,but he was a smart man.
Thanks to great writer, Mark Bowden,( a Philadelphia Inquirer alumnus) for telling the story.
I didn’t like ‘Inglourious Basterds’. It seemed to me to be a comedic attempt at anti-German propaganda…except we won that war more than six decades ago, so the film arrived a bit late. The second half was entertaining, but the scene in the first half in which a German soldier was beaten to death with a bat, to the cheers and jeers of of the Basterds, bothered me.
It was intended to bother you.
We just finished watching Inglorious Basterds. I really love Tarantino. BTW, Chris, Tarantino is supposed to bother you. It’s kinda his point.
No chris. a Nazi was beaten to death with a baseball bat. NOT a German. also, a theater full of NAZIS were burned alive. it is NEVER too late to make an anti nazi film. CLEARLY you missed the point.
Chris is a Nazi sympathizer
C’mon, a.price — you can not like the film without being a Nazi sympathizer.
Very mature, a.price. I mention that I dislike a movie, and for that I’m a Nazi sympathizer? I’d expect to hear something like that from one of my uber-Republican friends. I enjoyed the ending, with the theater full of high-ranking Nazi Party officials being burned. Kind of similar to ‘The Dirty Dozen’ from years ago.