How do you rank Tarantino films?

[Poisonshady313]

The Hateful Eight is a film title that doesn't just reference the number of characters that are in that particular situation... it's also references the fact that it's Quentin Tarantino's eighth film.
Chronologically, here's the eight:

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill
Death Proof
Inglourious Basterds
Django Unchained
The Hateful Eight

Both Kill Bill movies are regarded as one, and excluded from this list are three movies that were written but not directed by Tarantino:

True Romance
Natural Born Killers
From Dusk Till Dawn


In what order to do prefer these 11 films? If you wish to elaborate/explain, feel free. If you just wish to list, that's cool too.


Here's my list:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. From Dusk Till Dawn
4. Django Unchained
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Kill Bill
7. The Hateful Eight
8. Death Proof
9. True Romance
10. Jackie Brown
11. Natural Born Killers

 

[Sunstone]

Apart from Pulp Fiction, I haven't found his films all that entertaining.

 

[Revoltingest]

1 Kill Bill
2 Pulp Fiction
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 Reservoir Dogs
5 Jackie Brown
6 Django Unchained

After repeated viewings, Kill Bill is the one which stands out as just wonderful,
other worldly, comedic, cruel, outrageous, stylish, gritty, subtle & gory.
Clearly, it's one of the greatest movies ever made....for me.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Here comes the heretic!
I've only seen three all the way through; parts of several others, trailers and reviews for the rest (well, all of them)...while all appear to be technically very well-made, and there are moments that are worthy of cinematic honor or at least recognition, I just don't see greatness in his films. The three I've seen all the way through, and the ones partway--none of them left me with the thought: "Wow! I can't WAIT until he makes another movie!" or "I've JUST GOT to see the rest of this movie!"

 

[Poisonshady313]

1 Kill Bill
2 Pulp Fiction
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 Reservoir Dogs
5 Jackie Brown
6 Django Unchained

After repeated viewings, Kill Bill is the one which stands out as just wonderful,
other worldly, comedic, cruel, outrageous, stylish, gritty, subtle & gory.
Clearly, it's one of the greatest movies ever made....for me.

I'm surprised to see Jackie Brown ranked above Django. I could watch Django over and over again. Jackie Brown I just straight up didn't like the first time around. The second time, I developed an appreciation for it, but if I happened upon it while channel surfing, I don't think i'd continue to watch.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm surprised to see Jackie Brown ranked above Django. I could watch Django over and over again. Jackie Brown I just straight up didn't like the first time around. The second time, I developed an appreciation for it, but if I happened upon it while channel surfing, I don't think i'd continue to watch.

You have a sharp eye there!
I thought about that one, & wasn't so certain.
Jackie Brown just strikes me as the better made movie, but not necessarily more enjoyable.
And I agree that Django is more repeatworthy...for me because of Christoph Waltz's role.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I'd place Natural Born Killers and Pulp Fiction as the two best movies of the list.

True Romance, From Dusk Til Dawn, Basterds, and Django would be in the next bunch.

The rest are all decent but not as enjoyable to me.

 

[metis]

I dislike them, but then I dislike almost all gratuitously violent films.

 

[vaguelyhumanoid]

Kill Bill is probably my favorite. Volume 1 in particular is this hyperreal world of pure visual style, not to mention one of the coolest soundtracks I've heard. Second would be maybe Pulp Fiction? idk, I'd have to rewatch a lot of his movies to know for sure.

 

[Poisonshady313]

You have a sharp eye there!
I thought about that one, & wasn't so certain.
Jackie Brown just strikes me as the better made movie, but not necessarily more enjoyable.
And I agree that Django is more repeatworthy...for me because of Christoph Waltz's role.

I agree about Christoph Waltz. And Don Johnson. He wasn't on screen for long, but he made the most of it.

 

[Poisonshady313]

Here's something I've been thinking about since re-watching Kill Bill.

Tarantino admits that all his movies take place in one universe, and that there are two worlds within that universe: The realer than real, and the movie movie. i.e. if the characters from Pulp Fiction went out to the movies, they'd probably go out to see Kill Bill. (In fact, there's also a theory that the Deadly Assasination Viper Squad is essentially a re-imagined vision of the characters from Mia Wallace's failed pilot Fox Force Five.)

In volume 2, the grave Beatrix Kiddo is buried in has "Paula Shultz" on the headstone. I have read about a theory that Paula was the wife of Django's King Shultz.
Even though it seems reasonable (especially if you read about the theory in more detail), there's something I can't reconcile about this.

Django would have to be a part of the realer than real world of Tarantino, seeing as how the wanted Crazy Craig Koons is an ancestor of Pulp Fiction's Captain Koons (the man who gives Butch the gold watch).

Kill Bill is directly spoken of as being a part of the movie movie world.

Thoughts?

 

[Buttercup]

My two favorites are: Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.

I can do without any of the others. *runs and hides*

 

[Revoltingest]

I can do without any of the others. *runs and hides*

We forgive you.
But it was difficult.

 

[Poisonshady313]

My two favorites are: Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.

I can do without any of the others. *runs and hides*

That's totally cool.

I think they're both on Netflix right now. In the past several weeks I think I've rewatched both of them at least twice.

 

[freethinker44]

My list:
Natural Born Killers
Django Unchained
Reservoir Dogs
From Dusk Till Dawn
Pulp Fiction
Death Proof
Kill Bill

Haven't seen:
Inglourious Basterds
The Hateful Eight
True Romance
Jackie Brown

 

[Poisonshady313]

My list:
Natural Born Killers
Django Unchained
Reservoir Dogs
From Dusk Till Dawn
Pulp Fiction
Death Proof
Kill Bill

Haven't seen:
Inglourious Basterds
The Hateful Eight
True Romance
Jackie Brown

That's interesting. Didn't expect Kill Bill to be on the bottom of anyone's list.

As for your haven't seen list.... If I had to choose one to recommend that you sit down and watch as soon as possible, it would have to be Inglourious Basterds. The others can wait. Especially given the fact that Django and Reservoir Dogs are so high up on your list. As long as you're ok with subtitles (only about 30% of the movie's dialouge is English)

Also,

It's Tarantino's most Oscar nominated film. (8 nominations)

It's Tarantino's first film to win an Oscar for acting.