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Quentin Tarantino doesn’t have much good to say about today’s Hollywood.
In a new interview with Sight & Sound, the director of “Pulp Fiction” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” described modern films as the products of a “sausage factory” and said he now finds it difficult to watch a new film without immediately finding fault with it.
Tarantino argued that imperfections, improbabilities, pandering to the audience, bad casting or simply “stupid” choices ruin, in his opinion, most new films coming out of Hollywood today. He even added that the very concept of film today inspires him more contempt than generosity.
The director went even further, saying that the films of the last six years make the ’80s, a decade he himself had often criticized, look like the ’30s. “These days I would rather read a book,” he said.
Despite his harsh criticism, Tarantino cited some recent films he liked, including Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” and Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga.” However, he noted that none of them truly moved him in the way that, he says, once made him love cinema more than any other art form.
The big exception, according to him, is “The Rip,” Joe Carnahan’s Netflix crime thriller starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Tarantino said the film kept him engaged from start to finish, praising the direction, the cast, the cinematography and, most importantly, the script.
His new statements come shortly after the public debate that his comments about actors such as Paul Dano, Matthew Lillard and Owen Wilson caused. His next film project is “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” a sequel to “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” directed by David Fincher, with Tarantino as screenwriter and producer.