Quentin Tarantino is sticking to his retirement plan as a filmmaker despite fans’ passionate pleas. Pointing to the influx of movies available to stream and the diminishing culture of movie-going audiences, he has no doubts about his decision to leave. While presenting a secret screening of ‘Rolling Thunder,’ Tarantino talked about what makes him mad about the contemporary movie culture, calling out Ryan Reynolds in his rant.
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival 2023, Quentin Tarantino expresses his dissatisfaction with endless movies that most people never see, citing Ryan Reynolds’ million-dollar paycheck movies with Netflix. Irrespective of Netflix’s analytics, Taranitno wonders if anyone is watching these movies.
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Quentin Tarantino Dismisses Ryan Reynolds’ Netflix Blockbusters
Quentin Tarantino is taking his stand on the declining business of theatrical film releases. He won’t give in to the pressure and will most likely make ‘The Movie Critic’ with Sony Pictures for their commitment to the “theatrical experience.” Given the massive content on streaming services, he’s convinced that a big budget doesn’t get much attention.
In an interview with Deadline, the ‘Pulp Fiction’ filmmaker doubled down on his feelings about being lost in the sea of endless content. Stating Ryan Reynolds as an example, he called out his partnership with Netflix for making utterly unforgettable movies. He told the outlet, “I don’t know what any of those movies are. I’ve never seen them.”
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Quentin Tarantino Recalls Cannes Reaction To ‘Pulp Fiction’
In many ways, Cannes Film Festival launched Quentin Tarantino into a life of upper Hollywood echelons. He won the Palme d’Or for ‘Pulp Fiction’ in 1994. He previously came to the festival with ‘Reservoir Dogs’ in 1992. Both films received a warning due to the nature of the violence in them. However, the festival seems to have gone past that rule.
Quentin Tarantino told the Deadline, “They invented something for our screening that they’d never done before, they put an orange sticker in the ticket that said: This movie may be too violent for you to watch. And they’d never done that before and they ended up putting the same sticker on ‘Pulp Fiction’ when it played here in 1994. And then at some point with Lars von Trier they stopped putting the sticker on.”
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