Everyone has an opinion of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, mostly in order from best to worst. Some love them, others can’t stand them. The truth is that he has a peculiar ability to retake the styles of yesteryear, appropriate them and «rebrand them» under its own brand. This has made him one of the filmmakers who have given the most talk in the last 20 years.
One to conclude his much-heralded retirement after filming his tenth film, it is a good time to revive his filmography.
All Quentin Tarantino movies and put them in order once and for all.
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Tarantino’s movies in order – 9. Jackie Brown (1997)
Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard rum punch, Jackie Brown it is the only Tarantino film that is not an original story by him. Maybe that’s one of the reasons why Jackie Brown is an exciting tale of deception and scams worth revisiting. The film, by the way, was photographed by the Mexican Guillermo Navarro – it is one of the least remembered. The film is a tribute to the subgenre known as blaxpoitation» and in particular to the tapes coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), starring Pam Grier. Later Quentin Tarantino films left this one at the bottom of the order, but, as Roger Ebert would say in his review at the time: “This film shows that Tarantino is more than the ‘wonder boy of only two movies’.”
8. The Hateful 8 (2015)
Shot entirely on 65mm (the first to do so since a distant horizon by Ron Howard in 1992) and with a score Original by Ennio Morricone, the film was almost not made, as the script was released to the public before going into production. Although it has never been given for certain, only three people could have been: Tim Roth, Michael Madsen or Bruce Dern). However, Tarantino reworked it and filmed it. His quasi-theatrical play about a bounty hunter seeking shelter from a storm in a cabin in the woods. A few years after the release, the director released the movie-turned-miniseries on Netflix. Although the events in this version are the same, narratively it works better as it has time to develop in a more organic way.
Quentin Tarantino’s movies, in order from worst to best
7. Death Proof (2007)
Released (in some markets and territories) as part of a whole campaign emulating 1970s B-movies and exploitation movies (including trailers false and intermediate), the experiment of Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (who directed the other film that forms the diptych, Planet Terror) worked for very few people. On the one hand, it was difficult for many theaters to be willing to put aside the nearly four hours required to screen both films, and on the other, modern audiences were left confused as to exactly what both filmmakers were referencing. However, seen on its own, it has its place within this order. Death ProofWell, it is one of Quentin Tarantino’s most exciting films and an excellent chase and revenge film that is worth seeing again.
6. Once upon a time… in Hollywood (2019)
Putting Quentin Tarantino’s films in order “from worst to best” starts to get complicated after number six. The titles that make up each of the blocks (the three “bottom” and the rest) are somewhat interchangeable. This section will surely cause more “controversy” among Tarantino fans. Still… you have to do it then. Once upon a time… in Hollywood it was Tarantino’s return to modern Los Angeles: his birthplace and the city that shaped him.
The film portrays many real events, but written from the point of view of someone who did not experience them, but admired them. It’s a thrilling experience for anyone who grew up loving movies. And while the plot isn’t exactly fast-paced, the whole purpose of the film is to relive a time that never really existed.
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Tarantino’s movies in order – #5 Django Unchained (2012)
This western revisionist, revenge fantasy works by virtually one single element: Christoph Waltz. Although Waltz’s “discovery” occurred a few years ago with Inglorious Bastards it is in this film where he really has a chance to shine (Waltz took an Oscar for both Bastards… as for this one and Tarantino took one for the script). Jaime Foxx stars as a freed slave who accompanies Waltz’s bounty hunter, who will eventually help him rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from the deliciously evil hands.”monsieur» Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio). With exciting action sequences, precise dialogue, and truly hilarious sequences, one thing is clear: no one has more fun making movies than Tarantino.
4. Reserve Dogs (1992)
It’s not very often that a director’s first film is one of his most beloved. However, the explosiveness of his first film (told almost as a play and with some of the most memorable sequences of his entire filmography) have made it work even for audiences that weren’t even born when it was released. It is a tape gangsters, deceit and hidden intentions told with the emotion of someone talented who has waited his whole life to make a movie. And that is not easy to forget.
3. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
With the assurance and poise of a director who not only loves what he does but knows exactly what he’s doing, Inglorious Bastards is a narrative puzzler that grips you from the start and never lets go until its explosive ending. It’s a revenge fantasy (like so many other Quentin Tarantino movies) that borrows from just about every style of filmmaking he loves to tell his own version of the “men on a mission” trope.
2. Violent Times (1994)
Yeah reserve dogs put “your name on the map” Violent times (his second film) was the film that confirmed him as a talent to keep track of in the future. Beyond having revived the career of John Travolta, pulp fiction is a master classes in narrative construction, dialogues and editing that time has overshadowed very little. Not for nothing is it the only one of his films for which he has won the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes.
Tarantino’s movies in order – #1 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Quentin Tarantino himself considers these two films as one and here we will do the same. kill billagain, is a revenge fantasy set in the world of gangsters and Asian martial arts. The story is exciting, hilarious and, like no other, it managed to shine Tarantino’s talents for action and musical selection. Of course, in this one he perhaps “borrows” from other films like in none of his other films, but his personal filter somehow makes him deliver a couple of chapters that feel original even though he doesn’t. are. No one has fun like Tarantino making a movie and in no other has he had as much fun as in this one. Let’s wait and see if the third party rumors are true.
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Tarantino’s other movies in order.
As a climax, it would be worth mentioning the other films in which Quentin Tarantino has had an important role.
no city
The film is officially Robert Rodriguez’s, but Tarantino was “guest director” for the scene where Clive Owen is driving Benicio del Toro.
four rooms
The short “The Man From Hollywood” within the anthology film four rooms It is an adaptation of the story Man From the South by Roald Dalh, which had already been adapted by Hitchcock twice (both for his show Alfred Hitchcock Presents). In this segment, the bellboy played by Tim Roth must help the eccentric producer who is staying at the hotel to carry out a bet.
True Romance
If you’ve ever wondered what a romantic comedy made by Tarantino would look like, True Romance is the answer. Although he did not direct it (this responsibility was given to Tony Scott, after Tarantino sold the script after finishing reserve dogs), the script is his own and, for the most part, respects the essence of Tarantino. This includes a scene in which the protagonists go to the cinema to see a martial arts movie.
Murderers by nature
Although Tarantino received “story by” credit, the actual script he wrote and sold is (by his own account) very different from the film Oliver Stone ended up making. Tarantino has distanced himself from this film and here we only mention it to imagine what it could have been.
J. Ivan Morales Writer, film director and editorial director at his friendly neighbor film publication, Cine PREMIERE. He will never give up hope for a second season of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Firefly.