Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood Film Business Has Been Dead for Years: 2019 Was the ‘Last F**king Year of Movies’

[Kidd Dibiase]

“Well, what the fukk is a movie now? What — something that plays in theaters for a token release for four fukking weeks?” Tarantino said. “All right, and by the second week you can watch it on television. I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns. I mean, it was bad enough in ’97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last fukking year of movies. That was a shyt deal, as far as I was concerned, the fact that it’s gotten drastically worse? And it’s a show-pony exercise. Now the theatrical release, you know, and then like yeah, in two weeks, you can watch it on this [streamer] and that one. OK. Theater? You can’t do that. It’s the final frontier.”

Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood Film Business Has Been Dead for Years: 2019 Was the ‘Last F**king Year of Movies’

Quentin Tarantino explained why Hollywood has been dead for years.

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[I love Latina women]

I was just talking to my brother in law about this last night


COVID ruined that shyt

 

[Lootpack]

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Stfu and make another film already.

 

[Standing on business]

This is mainly about his and Hollywoods pockets

 

[Art Barr]

Shut cho racist disney adaptation face ass up.

Ol pulp fiction is the adult take on black cauldron face ass.

Shut up.



Art Barr

 

[Lootpack]

His argument in the theater experience diminishing due to streaming is fair, then we had COVID that followed. Not sure I agree with that equating to “movies are dead” though. A lot of bangers dropped in 2023. Strikes halted production last year and a few gems still managed to trickle through.

 

[BBG]

His argument in the theater experience diminishing due to streaming is fair, then we had COVID that followed. Not sure I agree with that equating to “movies are dead” though. A lot of bangers dropped in 2023.

This, he's just bytching because movies aren't as "magical" anymore. He probably yearns for the days he could drop something like Django which had pop culture in a chokehold for many years and is still somewhat relevant today, with Samuel Jackson's character taking over for Uncle Ruckus.

Even comic book movies like Infinity War and End Game used to feel like huge moments whereas yeah, movies haven't really had that same effect in a long time, except maybe that whole Barbenhammer ordeal (never saw either movie)


It was a natural evolution of things since TV started to take off. TV series have had so much of the juice (Power, GoT, Squid Games, Snowfall, TWD, etc) that we realized TV didn't have to be a cheap version of a theatrical experience, it could literally just be a longer more fleshed out format. That empowers the optics of television while weakening film naturally, but it doesn't actually diminish the quality of product itself.



If only video games could have this same sort of rival within it's own medium, it desperately needs this sort of healthy balance (maybe PC vs console?)

 

[Harry B]

They need a new Weinstein, without all the extra shyt

People that gamble 100ms on ideas with some risk attached to it

 

[Damnshow]

Last Tarantino film that I actually replayed a few times was Jackie Brown. After that most of his next movies were all the same about movie hero seeking revenge like Kill Bill series, Inglorious Basterds, Django. He got repetitive.

A movie director like Alejandro Inarritu did better at the same topics as Tarantino attempted in his films

A washed up movie star struggling in his life? Birdman >>> Once upon a time in Hollywood

A movie about racist history of white America and a movie protagonist seeking revenge? The Revenant >>>>> Django

 

[InGodWeTrust]

So Harvey is done and there’s no Miramax to kiss his ass.

Dammit now he definitely is gonna retire

 

[Diunx]

the movie theater experience fukking sucks, now we have 4k tvs, great sound systems and at home we can pause the fukking 2:30 hours movie (they are all over 2 fukking hours now), eat what we want etc.

I pretty much only go to movies I know I'm gonna get spoiled if I don't go first week.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Quentin needs to give us that last one and hang it up, or maybe don't - and just hang it up

He doesn't seem like he's enjoying the art anymore. Yes distribution and audience habits are bullshyt now, but great cinema is still being made and always will

Amplify the folks putting in work instead of saying it's dead because you can't adapt...

 

[DaRealness]

I kinda agree with Quentin "Dead n-word Storage" Tarantino.

Obviously his best years of movie making are long behind him, but I've noticed the cinemas are just dead nowadays. It just hasn't been the same since COVID. A few years ago, places would be filled to capacity during a movie premier and you couldn't book a spot to save your life, now you can just sit anywhere you want pretty much. The last IMAX showing I went to that was full was Equalizer 3 and even at that point, it felt like an anomaly. Avengers IW/Endgame were the last time when it felt like an adventure and queues were out the door and you had to arrive at least an hour before.

Not to mention, it's overpriced especially confectionery and people would find it cheaper to just watch flicks on their 85 inch TVs and order some food since movies get released to TV real quick anyway.

It will never be the same but this year looks like we're gonna have a few bangers, so we'll see.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

Streaming real cinema