QUENTIN TARANTINO CALLS DEATH PROOF HIS WORST FILM

Iconic film director Quentin Tarantino just released a DVD box set of all of his seven films, celebrating 20 years as a film director. He also has a brand new movie coming out next month called Django Unchained which I am also excited about.

Recently he sat down for a roundtable director discussion presented by The Hollywood Reporter, and the director shocked everyone by calling Death Proof, his half of the Grindhouse homage that he and his good friend Robert Rodriguez worked on together as his worst movie. The film starred Kurt Russell as a former stunt car driver who stalked women and killed them with his muscle car.

Says Tarantino:

"I’m really well versed on a lot of directors’ careers, you know, and when you look at those last five films when they were past it, when they were too old, and they’re really out of touch with the times..."

Tarantino continued, "To me, it’s all about my filmography, and I want to go out with a terrific filmography. Death Proof has got to be the worst movie I ever make. And for a left-handed movie, that wasn’t so bad, all right? -- so if that’s the worst I ever get, I’m good. But I do think one of those out-of-touch, old, limp, flaccid-dick movies costs you three good movies as far as your rating is concerned."

I actually liked Death Proof (the 20-minute highway car chase, the scene where he used his car to mutilate the first batch of ladies, the final scene where Kurt Russell's character finally gets what's coming to him) but I don't feel it was his weakest film. In film school I actually did a report in front of my class on the stunts in the movie, so clearly I'm not a hater of the film. I don't love it, and I don't hate it, but I do wish he would have poured on the gore a bit like Robert Rodriguez did with Planet Terror and spent a little less time with so much dialogue between the ladies.

As a side note in the following interview he talks about he wants to leave the business because he hates that films are going more digital. I'm thinking maybe that's why he had the 20-minute old school car chase in Death Proof because I remember in a interview he did a long time ago that he hated the car chase in The Matrix Reloaded because it had so many special effects and camera trickery. As long as we get Kill Bill 3 before you retire from the movie biz you can do whatever you want.

The first clip is QT talking about leaving the movie business due to the rise of digital projectors in theaters instead of old-fashioned projectors, and the second video features the entire interview with Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained), David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) , Ben Affleck (Argo), Ang Lee (Life of Pi), Tom Hooper (Les Miserables) and Gus Van Sant (Promised Land).