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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Given the likely range of possibilities, I can see him doing something in the sci-fi/action vein, along the lines of say Escape From New York. Whatever my problems with him in recent years, he's a natural fit for that kind of movie.
But even given all that, I'd say Robert Rodriguez does post-JB Tarantino better than Tarantino. I get the feeling that a pastiche of EFNY by Rodriguez would be great fun, whereas a Tarantino one would just become really irritating.
Ranking Tarantino i'd go
Jackie Brown
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill 2
Kill Bill 1
Hateful Eight (if you think of it as Carpenters The Thing remade as a Comedy-Western)
Django (minus the last half hour)
Inglorious Bastards
Death Proof
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Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill (1 and 2 — seems silly to separate them)
Jackie Brown
Django Unchained
Inglorious Basterds
Hateful 8
Reservoir Dogs *
(Still haven't seen Death Proof)
* Maybe I've just seen this one too much, and it's lost its luster. Maybe it's been blown to oblivion by pop culture references and critical praise and posters in every college kid's dorm room. Or maybe it just simply isn't quite as good as it's made out to be. Or I'm dumb and wrong. All equally likely.
Honestly, I'm leaning toward the third option... just not as great as it's made out to be.
It's kind of a spiritual cousin to GoodFellas — another movie that's been hammered at by critics and praised in film culture for decades, albeit not to such a grotesque degree. But GoodFellas has only grown stronger with repeated viewings. I am still just captivated every time I see it. It has lost nothing, and time has only made it more obviously the crown jewel of Scorsese's career.
But Reservoir Dogs... I actually think the opposite is true in its case. For a few years it was my favorite Tarantino movie. But last time I saw it, I couldn't help but think of it as a warm-up for Pulp Fiction, in both screenwriting and narrative style. It's like listening to Rubber Soul after Revolver. It's solid, and unquestionably good, influential as all hell, but everything that made it original and fresh and great was dialed up to 11 two years later. Also, this was early on in Tarantino's maturation. His use of language in this film could have used a more deft hand. In retrospect, it seems almost arrogantly inflammatory, and that, to me, means that it simply can't be a truly great screenplay. Pulp Fiction truly eclipses it in this sense, as it manages to still push against taboos of language without inducing cringes.
I dunno though. Been a while since I've seen any of these at this point, except for Pulp Fiction (which I rewatched not long ago, and talked about in this thread) and of course Hateful 8.