With Inglourious Basterds hitting theaters Friday, Josh Wolk and I got to thinking: What’s the best Quentin Tarantino movie ever? Reservoir Dogs? Pulp Fiction? Kill Bill? Well, the answer one of us came up with might surprise you. And when I say “one of us” I’m referring to the smart one. The brave one. The one whose name does not rhyme with Posh Folk. Watch the latest Must List Live! video below to see if you agree with my pick for the ultimate in QT quality time, or if you feel the shameful need to hide your predictability and incorrectness behind a beard like my man Wolk. And then let us know your choice for the ultimate Quentin Tarantino film. Warning: This debate may get a little bloody. And when you’re done with that, see how well you do on our Quentin Tarantino quiz.
Pulp Fiction fa sho, but Jackie Brown was always really underrated to me and you can barely find it in stores anymore. Booooooo. Boooo Ben Kenop
I hate to say it, but I agree with Dalton. JB shows that while QT is a great director, he should leave story development for the trained professionals. (FYI – I think Elmore Leonard is in the Top 25 authors of the 20th Century – so I’m biased and amazed at how QT got the book’s vibe perfectly on film).
Great, then his movies will feel like every other movie written by trained professionals.
Jackie Brown is over two hours long and it feels like 45 minutes. I don’t want it to end. It’s better the third or fourth time around!
I hate all Tarantino’s overrated junk. Everytime I see him on TV, I want to punch him in the jaw so I don’t have to listen to his annoying voice ever again.
Wow, dude. That’s a really informed crit you left there.
Definitely “Jackie Brown”!
Can we count movies he only scripted? Because then I’d have to go with True Romance.
“Jackie Brown” has characters that we can believe in, care about, and generally feels like his most “mature” film. Pam Grier and Robert Forster give wonderful performances. It’s not as flashy, it doesn’t try to kick as much ass, but “Jackie Brown” definitely occupies a special spot on QT’s ouvre.
I just loved Grindhouse!
I’d say Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill Vol. 1.
I’d have to give PF a slight edge over JB, but JB has the best dialog exchange QT ever wrote:
Samuel Jackson to pot smoking Bridget Fonda:
SJ: Don’t you know smoking that s**t will rob you of your ambition?
BF: Not if your ambition is to get high and watch tv.
Best: Reservoir Dogs
Worst: Grindhouse (tried to duplicate the great diner scene in RD but this time with females, failed miserably)
Pulp Fiction is without question Tarantino’s best movie, but Jackie Brown is the only other film he ever made that came anywhere near PF’s quality, for precisely the reasons you articulate. The rest are garbage. So good on you, Dalton, for not being predictable.
I’ve gotta go with PF since it made such a huge impact on pop culture. It’s a solid script and was like nothing else we’d seen in popular cinema. But I’m a fan of all QT’s stuff – although some I like more than others. I’m surprised no one is speaking up for Reservoir Dogs – also a CLASSIC.
Sorry Shamrock, I missed your post…
Tarantino is the guy who makes movies that ignorant people watch so they can feel like they’re watching something deep, indie, or edgy. In the end its no better than a romantic comedy or juvenile comedy, its the same garbage. Yes, he is also the most pretentious and annoying man in Hollywood as well, and you have to be quite the jackA to gain that title.
And you are the most pretentious and annoying commenter on EW…what’s your point? Oh wait, that’s right, you don’t have one. You just click on an article about someone you supposedly hate to make ridiculous comments to try to rile people up. Bully for you.
You don’t even make sense. Read a book.
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction, hands down!!!
True Romance