By Jonathan Klotz
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Quentin Tarantino never hesitates to share his opinions on anything, but when it comes to movies and the craft of movie-making, he’s the type of guy to launch into an hour-long diatribe on how a single frame from Black Hawk Down redefined action movies for generations. Over the course of the last week, Tarantino shared his opinions on actors, with Paul Dano, Matthew Lillard, and Owen Wilson drawing most of his ire.
Then the man who thinks movies should be viewed in movie theaters decided to release a new Kill Bill chapter exclusively within Fortnite. It was a one-two punch of hypocrisy that has undone his reputation as an auteur director, which he spent decades building.
Quentin Tarantino Took Aim At Fan Favorites
Paul Dano In The Batman
Everything started to take a turn for the worse when Tarantino was a guest on “The Bret Easton Ellis” podcast and shared his favorite movies of the 21st century, which included There Will Be Blood, prompting him to say that Paul Dano was “the weakest actor in SAG.” A claim that is not only subjectively untrue, but can only be made because Tarantino is not a part of SAG himself. The worst performance in Django Unchained was from Tarantino, and his From Dusk Til Dawn appearance only came about because he wanted to be near Selma Hayek’s feet. Insulting Dano, one of the best performers of his generation, shows how Tarantino is far removed from his cinephile roots.
Matthew Lillard As Shaggy
Then it got worse for Tarantino, because he decided to also perform a verbal drive-by on Matthew Lillard, one of social media’s favorite stars, thanks to his iconic performance as Shaggy, and a little-known horror movie called Scream. Both films made more than Deathproof and have remained relevant for far longer than Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, but more importantly, Lillard has a legion of fans of not only his work, but his love for Dungeons & Dragons, the support he shows fans at conventions, and how he’s right up there with Keanu Reeves and Adam Sandler as one of the nicest guys in Hollywood.
Lillard, who appears in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, a film that at the time of this writing has pulled in over five times its budget at the box office, fired back when asked about Tarantino singling him out as a weak actor alongside Dano, saying: “And you wouldn’t say that to Tom Cruise. You wouldn’t say that to somebody who’s a top-line actor in Hollywood.” Unlike Tarantino, Lillard was telling the truth.
The Hypocrisy Of Quentin Tarantino
Kill Bill Yuki’s Revenge Is Technically Tarantino’s 10th Movie
Even before he went after fan favorite stars, Quentin Tarantino was being savaged online over his decision to release Yuki’s Revenge, a new chapter in the Kill Bill series that was created entirely within the Unreal 5 engine. Tarantino has spent decades putting down streaming, watching movies on phones, and even the use of CGI, so developing a short film with no camera and no film goes against everything he’s been using to bash other directors. The short film has also been inserted into the recently released Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, which is destined to lose at the box office to Matthew Lillard’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.
Quentin Tarantino went against his whole mythical ethos as a filmmaker and ran up against the social media love for beloved stars. Even Owen Wilson, a star on a different level compared to Dano and Lillard, has had significant amounts of defenders come out to support him, after all, he voiced Lightning McQueen, one of the most iconic characters of the 21st century. Faced with a younger crowd than the one he made his first few films for, Tarantino’s status has fallen further than anyone ever would have expected, even James Gunn, who worked with Lillard on Scooby-Doo, threw shade at the man with the most famous foot fetish in Hollywood.
Interest in Quentin Tarantino’s tenth and final film, by his own admission, is at an all-time low after he announced it was no longer going to be The Movie Critic. No one knows what it’s going to be, and at this point, few people even care. Tarantino has never met a microphone he won’t use to further the mythology of Quentin Tarantino.
He’s going to learn quickly that the only thing more terrifying than Jules Winnfield in The Diner, is 30 years of Matthew Lillard fans who grew up with him as one of the best parts of every single movie he’s in.
