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Monday, January 16, 2012

Film I Don't Know What Quentin Tarantino Is Smoking...

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:15 PM

...but his Top Eleven of 2011 list features some truly weird choices (Midnight in Paris at number one? Red State, Our Idiot Brother, and The Three Musketeers in a year-end best-of list, when Drive and Hanna wind up in the honorable mention list? Green Hornet and—ugh—Green Lantern on the "Others He Liked" list?)

Weirder than that, Tarantino Info originally posted a Worst-Of list that was apparently taken down. Nerd Reactor saved it before it was deleted, though:

Worst Films

Sucker Punch
Potiche (Trophy Wife)
Miral
Insidious
Rampart
Straw Dogs
Paranormal Activity 3
Meek’s Cutoff

There, Tarantino and I are in complete agreement. Sucker Punch was the absolute worst movie to come out last year. (I would put I Melt with You and Green Lantern in second place as a tie.)

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I liked Green Hornet and Green Lantern toon Just because they weren't good movies doesn't mean they weren't the mindless entertainment I was looking for.

Posted by NateMan on January 16, 2012 at 12:23 PM

Sure, but QT vs. PC? Who are you going to listen to?

Posted by seatackled on January 16, 2012 at 12:38 PM

Girl With a Dragon Tattoo was the worst movie of the year. However I have not seen Sucker Punch, so I will move it up in my queue to make a proper assessment.

Posted by sisyphusgal on January 16, 2012 at 12:46 PM

Drive is an overrated piece of garbage. Doesn't belong on any Best-Of lists.

Posted by Chali2Na on January 16, 2012 at 12:46 PM

I liked all the movies on his list and hated all the ones on his worst list. I do wish I hadn't seen his other lists, though I'm sure he's just trying to be unpredictable.

Posted by Michael of the Green on January 16, 2012 at 1:09 PM

Midnight in Paris had such a beautiful opening bit, but I couldn't stay to the end - too much of a muchness.

Posted by gloomy gus on January 16, 2012 at 1:24 PM

Tarantino can make some bizarre choices, but them follow them up with really compelling arguments. That's part of whats fun about him. The only film I have a problem with there though is Red State. Total piece of shit. NOT scary, NOT well written. It really came off as like a crappy student film.

Posted by bleepinbleep on January 16, 2012 at 1:42 PM

It's a surprise that QT put out a subversive list? This is the dude who named Speed one of the top 20 films of the last 17 years. I actually agree with him about Midnight in Paris. I don't know if it was technically "the best" film of the year, but it was my personal favourite. Then again, I didn't think The Descendants was anything that special. It was fine, but I wasn't blown away by it.

Posted by Amanda on January 16, 2012 at 1:52 PM

Sad to hear that he hated Meek’s Cutoff.

Posted by stinkbug on January 16, 2012 at 2:26 PM

I love his Nice Try awards.

And, of course QT would hate Drive. Drive is a Euro-art-trash version of all the movies he glorifies. He wanted it to be another pure grindhouse picture...as with every movie on his "Nice Try" list. Which is also why Red State is on there. Red State was trying (and kind of succeeded despite how much I hated it) to be a grindhouse horror. Purity.

Posted by TheMisanthrope on January 16, 2012 at 5:06 PM

Once Midnight in Paris spills its gimmick-wad (cute, it got me, too) the film is over. So cardboard & mailed-in. And Owen Wilson as a yearning intellectual? Oh, yeah.

Bring back Scarlett Johanssen, Woody.

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