{"id":28767,"date":"2012-01-23T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=28767"},"modified":"2014-11-26T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T20:08:45","slug":"quentin-tarantino-top-10-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/quentin-tarantino-top-10-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino Needs to See More Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s obviously no denying that Quentin Tarantino is a die-hard movie nerd. His encyclopedic knowledge of obscure films can put most experts and historians to shame, and he’s made a career out of fashioning his own movies from bits and pieces of others. Nonetheless, every man has his limits. Judging by his recently-posted Official Top Eleven of 2011 list, Tarantino must not have gotten out to the movies much last year.
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As posted on the Quentin Tarantino Archives<\/a> fan site, the director’s eleven (really twelve) favorite films of last year were:<\/p>\n

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  1. ‘Midnight in Paris’<\/li>\n
  2. ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’<\/li>\n
  3. ‘Moneyball’<\/li>\n
  4. ‘The Skin I Live In’<\/li>\n
  5. ‘X-Men: First Class’<\/li>\n
  6. ‘Young Adult’<\/li>\n
  7. ‘Attack the Block’<\/li>\n
  8. ‘Red State’<\/li>\n
  9. ‘Warrior’<\/li>\n
  10. Tie: ‘The Artist’ \/ ‘Our Idiot Brother’<\/li>\n
  11. ‘The Three Musketeers’<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I certainly can’t argue with ‘Midnight in Paris’ or ‘The Artist’. Those were my favorites of the year as well (though I’m a little surprised at Tarantino’s enthusiasm for them). I’ve also heard very good things about ‘Moneyball’ and ‘Warrior’. <\/p>\n

    ‘Attack the Block’ and ‘The Skin I Live In’ (and perhaps ‘Red State’) seem like movies that would be right up Tarantino’s alley, so no surprises there. <\/p>\n

    But ‘X-Men: First Class’ and ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, really? Even if he considered them to be excellent blockbusters (I’d argue against the latest ‘X-Men’ in that regard, personally), does he honestly think that these were among the best films of the year? Yet he calls ‘Mission: Impossible \u2013 Ghost Protocol’ (which outclasses either of these two by light years) just an honorable mention? Huh. <\/p>\n

    I also feel that lumping ‘The Artist’ and ‘Our Idiot Brother’ together as a tie (for “indie comedy,” I suppose) is a disservice to the former. <\/p>\n

    Tarantino’s inclusion of Paul W.S. Anderson’s goofy re-envisioning of ‘The Three Musketeers’ as a 3D Steampunk action extravaganza feels like a deliberately perverse pick, designed specifically to generate controversy. While I haven’t seen this one yet, I also have a guilty-pleasure soft spot for most of Anderson’s other movies \u2013 but I’d never be crazy enough to put one on a best-of list.<\/p>\n

    The director’s list of honorable mentions span the range from critical favorites (‘The Tree of Life’, ‘The Descendants’) to populist fare (‘Captain America’, ‘M:I-4’) to outright crap (‘Green Lantern’, ‘The Hangover: Part II’). <\/p>\n

    Beneath this is a “Nice Try Award” category that includes ‘Drive’, ‘Hanna’, ‘Drive Angry’ and ‘Real Steel’. I’m not sure whether that heading is meant to be sarcastic or not.<\/p>\n

    In Tarantino’s defense, the guy is currently in the middle of making a new movie of his own. Trekking out to the theater may not have been a priority for him last year. And even with that said, he saw more movies than I did. <\/p>\n

    Read the full article<\/a> for the rest of Tarantino’s honorable mentions, as well as his picks for the best directors and best screenplays of the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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