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Quentin Tarantino recently released his eleven favorite films of 2011, and thanks to cocaine, he was able to watch all eleven of them in just under 40 minutes. Probably the biggest surprise is that Paul WS Anderson’s Three Musketeers made his top eleven. I still haven’t seen it, but I know it involves pirate ships carried by zeppelins shooting cannons at each other, and I’m a big proponent of the idea that at a certain level, “stupid” becomes “brilliant.”
The other suprise is that he has Drive listed among the “nice try” movies, which… I guess… means… he thought it could’ve been better? I don’t know, but he mentions it alongside Drive Angry, Hanna, and Real Steel, which aren’t exactly flattering company.
Quentin Tarantino’s official Top 11 of 2011
1. Midnight in Paris
2. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
3. Moneyball
4. The Skin I Live In
5. X-Men: First Class
6. Young Adult
7. Attack the Block
8. Red State
9. Warrior
10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)
11. The Three Musketeers
I too thought Our Idiot Brother was better than it got credit for, but that’s what happens when you have a lame premise. 50/50 and Cedar Rapids were much better.
Others considered in no particular order
50/50
Beginners
Hugo
The Iron Lady
Carnage
Green Hornet
Green Lantern
Captain America
The Descendants
My Week With Marilyn
Fast Five
The Tree of Life
The Hangover Part II
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
The Beaver
Contagion
The Sitter
War Horse
Does this just mean that he saw them? Interpret that as you will. Of all the movies that came out this year, if he’s actually considering The Iron Lady and Green Lantern for his best-of-the-year list, he’s even higher than I thought. Why, it’d almost be like seeing a hot naked lady and wanting to jack off to her feet.
Nice Try Award
Drive
Hanna
Drive Angry
Real SteelBest Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Bennett Miller
Woody Allen
Jason Reitman
Michel HazanaviciusBest Original Screenplay
Midnight in Paris
Young Adult
Red State
Attack the Block
Our Idiot Brother
BeginnersBest Adapted Screenplay
Moneyball
The Skin I live In
Carnage
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Hugo
X-Men: First ClassWorst Films
Sucker Punch
Potiche (Trophy Wife)
Miral
Insidious
Rampart
Straw Dogs
Paranormal Activity 3
Meek’s Cutoff[via Tarantino.info]
Ha, even the guy who liked Three Musketeers and Green Lantern thought Sucker Punch sucked. He probably just didn’t understand it because he’s never been molested. You can’t relate to a girl whose vagina hypnotizes people with techno music in a 50s period piece unless you’ve been molested, or so I hear.
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Sharglash ‘vo morghular! The great and powerful Coke Wizard is disgusted by this discussion of your “50 periods piece”.
It’s obvious to me that Quentin Tarantino heavily influences the Hollywood foreign press’ style of nominating and voting.
“You know what they call The King’s Speech in Europe? Royal with cheese.”
Ha!
Outstanding.
He didn’t like Sucker Punch? Probably not enough slow motion shots of bare feet.
“Please, any hack can toss off a year-end list while jacking off to a hot lady’s feet. If he had written this after pounding the pimp pump to some pretend asian chick’s feet with one hand and scarfing down room-temperature craft services shrimp with the other, well, then I might be impressed. BOOM! OWN THAT!”
*Brett Ratner drops hairbrush, walks away from bathroom mirror*
How is The Muppets not on here? How did he not get a cameo in the Muppets for god’s sake?
He’s mad because Muppets Wizard of Oz was so very, very terrible.
Coke wizards can engage in turgid discussions about categorical imperatives for hours on end.
Midnight in Paris seems like an odd choice for him, because I imagine any of his films would frighten and confuse Woody Allen.
Not that Midnight in Paris isn’t good, because it’s actually pretty great.
As for Cedar Rapids, it is HORRIBLY underrated.
I suddenly have this image of people strapping Woody Allen to one of those behavior modification chairs from a Clockwork Orange and forcing him to watch Jackie Brown.
It is glorious.
Cedar Rapids was awful.
Tarantino has a thing for shitty Woody Allen movies. I remember he put the horrible one with Jason Biggs in his top 10 of the decade list.
I love Woody Allen, but “Midnight in Paris” was really mediocre. I guess mediocre is better than the shit he’s been putting out in the past 10 years, though (he’s made probably just two films worth seeing in the past 10 years, everything else has been pretty awful).
Moneyball sucked hard. It was so goddamn boring.
Let’s combine baseball with accounting and add in some acoustic guitar songs for flavour. How could that not end up being the most exciting movie of the year?
It was a big hit in Japan.
The Help was so boring QT calls it Dead Nigger Snorage.
TARANTINO (After summoning COKE WIZARD on his cellphone): So you’re “The Coke Wizard?”
COKE WIZARD: A dealer. A damned good dealer. Finding cocaine is my specialty so naturally I work for the foot fetishists finding it, and yes some of it was magically conjured in my basement. But “Coke Wizard”… it’s just a name that stuck…
TARANTINO: But you have to admit (snorts line)…..AAAAAH!…. It is catchy. Wanna watch the barefoot kick scenes from “Warrior” in slo-mo?
Turns out, “Like A Virgin” is about F. Assbender’s dick.
/Thank you. Tip your fucking waitress.
Red State was a bunch of good ideas sunk by awful execution. Otherwise, his list is pretty interesting. Although while I love Tarantino as a director, even his recommendation probably isn’t enough to get me to see “Three Musketeers.”
Exactly. RED STATE belong in the ‘Nice Try’ category.
I’m sure by posting this I’ll make Kevin Smith cry, and I don’t want the visual in my head of his heaving man-tits wobbling with his sobs.
I never really liked or disliked Tarantino but when he used some of the same music and narrative devices in Basterds as he did in his other movies… Sorry, just lost my train of thought, I live in western PA and the Gary Busy KIA commercial just came on… Yeah…
Holy shit, I was starting to think I hallucinated that commercial.
Is it strange I haven’t seen a single one of QT’s “best of” movies?
His inclusion of Red State makes perfect sense. Tarantino is the Kevin Smith of Action Movies: Overdone, too-clever-by-half dialogue, heaping dollops of self-indulgent winking at the audience, and overly-predictable, super-easy scapegoating of whoever is going to be the bad guy. How do you make a homosexual evil? Make him Southern! You know who we can dehumanize so that you don’t mind us performing aggravated murder and war crimes? Racists! Nazis! Racist Nazis!!! Why does this character have a blood lust we can get behind? Child murder! Child rape! Dey killed my fadder!!
God forbid we write a character with some depth and less than overwrought motivation.
I want to see a fist fight go down between him and Gosling. DO IT!