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This page was originally part of a Tarantino, M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan movie page. Part of that original page was this little skit I wrote that looked at all three of their movie careers. I figured even though I was giving each director his own page on my new website that I would still include the skit.
Christopher, Quentin and M.Night are at a bar drinking Shiner Bock beers, smoking Red Apple cigarettes and arguing about who will be the next Spielberg.
Quentin: It has to be me, I have been directing movies for over 20 years, my Pulp Fiction is a classic, people love my Kill Bill movies, Reservoir Dogs put independent movies on the map while Inglourious Basterds was a box office hit and picked up 8 Oscar® nominations. And my latest movie, Django Unchained, was my biggest box office hit of my career.
M. Night: You’ve been around the longest but you have only made 9 movies in 20 years and Four Rooms, Jackie Brown and Death Proof died at the box office, while The Hateful Eight has to go down as disappointing…that is not a good percentage.
Christopher: You got no room to talk M., you have not had a box office success since The Village, and most people have hated every movie you have made since Signs….talk about some movies with horrible reviews….you got The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening , The Last Airbender and After Earth all lined up in a row.
M. Night: Well Mr. Nolan, at least Quentin and I have an Oscar® nomination for Best Director in our resume. And I know you remember how I was considered to be the next Spielberg after the success of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs. I think you are forgetting The Last Airbender earned over $300 million in worldwide box office and was the 21st biggest hit of the year…plus After Earth did pretty well overseas. And you have to admit many people were impressive The Visit.
Quentin: I actually have two Best Director Oscar® nominations…but who is counting. Sorry to have to tell you M. Night, but I do not think anybody has compared you to Spielberg in a very longtime….and as for The Last Airbender, true it made some money but I think it was the worst reviewed movie in the last 20 years….and I think the less said about After Earth the better.
Christopher: Speaking of box office hits…do you know my last four movies have a worldwide box office over 3 billion dollars? That includes The Dark Knight that crossed a billion at the box office, Inception which earned over $800 million and The Dark Knight Rises which also crossed the one billion mark. My latest blockbuster, Interstellar, picked up $672 million. And oh by the way……now I am considered the next Spielberg….sorry I took that title away from you M. Night.
M. Night: Maybe the last ten years have been a little rough for my movies, but I can and will bounce back. My next movie is going to…..
Quentin: Sorry to interrupt you M.Night, but I do not think The Visit is going to save your reputation. As for you Chris, I loved Memento, The Prestige, and Insomnia but I think the Batman movies are overrated and I still do not understand your dream inside a dream inside a dream movie. And don’t even get me started on the ending of Interstellar….
Christopher: Hey I am sorry if you are not smart enough to figure out Inception, but I will try and explain it for you and don’t worry I will go real slow so maybe you will finally understand.
Quentin: (Reaches into his bag and slams two Oscars® down on the table) I am smart enough to know that this proves I am the best director in this group!
Christopher: You got those Oscars® for the screenplays for Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained, not for directing it. I’ll show you an award for directing…here is my COFCA (Central Ohio Film Critics Association) award for Best Director for Inception.
M. Night: I did not know we were supposed to bring our directing awards tonight.
Quentin: Yeah you could have brought either one of your Razzie awards as worst director for either The Happening or The Last Airbender.
At this point M.Night swipes the Oscar® and the COFCA off the table and a huge fight breaks out among the three directors. While the fight continues an older gentlemen who had been listening to the conversation grabs his stuff, pays his bill and starts to leave the bar.
Older gentleman to bartender: (Shaking his head in dismay) I just do not understand these younger directors…they have so much more to learn.
Bartender: I agree with you 100%….have a great night Mr. Spielberg….oh by the way….loved Bridge of Spies.
Quentin Tarantino’s IMDb page shows 19 directing credits since 1983. This page will rank 15 Quentin Tarantino movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. His television shows, shorts and straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings.
Quentin Tarantino Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Quentin Tarantino Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Quentin Tarantino movies co-stars of his movies.
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- Sort Quentin Tarantino movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Quentin Tarantino movie received.
- Sort Quentin Tarantino movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
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Took me years to see Pulp Fiction and I appreciated elements about it, just don’t like the shock value of the violence. I love the skit very funny and very educational.
Hey ytsenoh…..thanks for stopping by. I loved Pulp Fiction right away….but I am glad you came around too. Glad you liked my skit….I had fun writing it and updating it over the years.
Great play with them so in love with themselves they don’t know their idol is in the bar. Funny skit.
Tarentino – Oh, yes a list of films I mean to see when I get to the point where I feel I’m ready. I have yet to see any of Q.T.’s films. I certainly wasn’t ready when the films were released. I do want to see Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill Vol. 1 for sure. Reservoir Dogs is another possibility for me. I was very interested in how Inglorious Bastards did because of the setting and storyline. The other films do not interest me.
Hey Flora…I am glad you enjoyed my little play….I was actually out on a run when this idea popped into my head…and then when I realized that none of the directors has a huge amount of movies I figured I would put them all together.
As for Quentin, being a film buff, you have to see Pulp Fiction at some time…it’s status only gets better with each passing year….I did not like the Kill Bill movies…so I am not looking forward to Kill Bill 3 which will be coming out in 2013 or 2014. Another favorite is Reservoir Dogs…his first and some say best movie. Inglorious Basterds was better than I thought it was going to be….thanks for checking out all these pretty recent movies.
My vote is going to have to be Christopher Nolan for the best director in this bunch. M Night Shyamalan lost his appeal long ago. In my opinion, his hasn’t had a good movie since The Sixth Sense… oh wait, that was his only good movie. As far as Quentin Tarantino goes, I used to love him, but lost interest in him. He is too full of himself and his movies are pretty much hit or miss.
Hey Jeannieinabottle….I think we have the same exact thought process…I was a huge M.Night fan and then came The Village. And I was a huge Quentin fan…talk about a great start to a career….Reservoir Dogs and then Pulp Fiction. He lost me with Kill Bill….I remember taking a first date to that movie…and I had to apologize many times when the movie was over….and there was no second date. Thanks for stopping by
Like Jennifer, I too thought the opening was pretty funny to read. Although I never really heard of anyone comparing those guys to become the next Steven Spielberg, as that’s fairly new to me. However, that’s fairly interesting.
I honestly don’t think you can compare these directors though, as each one seems to have their style of film making that’s drastically different from Spielberg’s style.
However, it’s interesting to say the least. To be honest, I don’t think there ever will be another spielberg; just like there will never be another Alfred Hitchcock or another Martin Scorsese. I think in the end all these film makers have their own unique style.
Anyway, great job putting this together, as it was definitely interesting to read. 🙂
Hey Stevennix2001….glad you that you thought it was fun to read as well. I remember that Shyamalan used to get compared to Spielberg all the time….but around Lady in the Water that talked stopped. Nolan gets mentioned with Spielberg due to the fact that the Academy has ignored him like they did Spielberg early in his career. I do not think I have heard anybody compare Tarantino to Spielberg. You are 100% correct there will never be another Spielberg, Scorsese or a Hitchcock…but it is fun to compare them. Thanks for checking out my latest movie page.
I loved the first part of this page, what a funny scene that would be and especially enjoyed Speilberg showing up at the end. Very very funny. As for the directors, give me Nolan everyday of the week. Taratino is too violent for my tastes and Shymalan seems to get worse every time he has a new movie. Although the new Will Smith movie sounds like it might be good. Voted up and very funny. Thanks for making me laugh.
Hey Jennifer1974….I am so glad you have come from ChimeIn to comment on this page. I am really glad that you enjoyed my little “play”…it was really fun to write and something totally different than my normal hubs. I agree with you about Nolan…he seems to be following Spielberg’s footsteps very closely. But as M. Night can attest…it is easy to fail off that path….thanks for the votes up and the comments.