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    Quentin Tarantino Reveals the Three Beloved 2024 Releases He Refuses To See

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    Quentin Tarantino Reveals the Three Beloved 2024 Releases He Refuses To See

    It’s hard to imagine anyone enjoying Joker: Folie à Deux more than Denis Villeneuve’s epic Dune movies (2021 and 2024), but that’s how Quentin Tarantino feels. The Oscar-winning filmmaker (Best Original Screenplay for Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained) recently appeared on The Bret Easton Ellis podcast and declared his adoration for Joker 2. However, the writer/director also revealed that he doesn’t want to watch the must-see dramas Ripley or Shōgun either. Tarantino said during his interview with Ellis (per World of Reel):



    “I saw [David Lynch’s] Dune a couple of times. I don’t need to see that story again. I don’t need to see spice worms. I don’t need to see a movie that says the word ‘Spice’ so dramatically. It’s one after another of this remake, and that remake. People ask, ‘Have you seen Dune?'”

    During the podcast hosted by the renowned author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho, Tarantino also divulged that Netflix’s Ripley series and FX’s new Shōgun saga won’t ever show up on his list of must-sees either. Tarantino told Ellis:

    “’Have you seen Ripley? Have you seen Shōgun?’ And I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no.’ There’s six or seven Ripley books, if you do one again, why are you doing the same one that they’ve done twice already? I’ve seen that story twice before, and I didn’t really like it in either version, so I’m not really interested in seeing it a third time.

    If you did another story, that would be interesting enough to give it a shot anyway. I saw Shōgun

    in the ‘80s. I watched all 13 hours. I’m good. I don’t need to see that story again. I don’t care how they do it. I don’t care if they take me and put me in ancient Japan in a time machine. I don’t care, I’ve seen the story.”



    Quentin Tarantino ‘Really Liked’ Joker 2, ‘Tremendously’

    Quentin Tarantino’s movies are some of the best ever made. However, while the acclaimed filmmaker hasn’t had any desire to visit the world of Arrakis in director Denis Villeneuve’s must-see Dune movies — Tarantino’s loss — the mind behind Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill is surprisingly pro Joker: Folie à Deux. “I really, really liked it, really,” Tarantino told Bret Easton Ellis. “A lot, like, tremendously.” Tarantino went on to even compare Joker 2’s director to the infamous Batman villain during the same podcast via a separate story posted by the World of Reel:


    “Todd Phillips is the Joker. The Joker directed the movie. The entire concept, even him spending the studio’s money — he’s spending it like the Joker would spend it, all right? And then his big surprise gift — haha! — the jack-in-the-box, when he offers you his hand for a handshake, and you get a buzzer with 10,000 volts shooting you — is the comic book geeks.”

    Tarantino continued by saying:

    “He’s [Phillips] saying f— you to all of them. He’s saying f— you to the movie audience. He’s saying f— you to Hollywood. He’s saying f— you to anybody who owns any stock at DC and Warner Brothers […] And Todd Phillips is the Joker. Un film de Joker, all right, is what it is. He is the Joker.”

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    Joker: Folie à Deux is now available on VOD platforms, including YouTube, despite starting its theatrical run less than a month ago (October 4). Fans can rent ($19.99) Todd Phillips’ disappointing collaboration with Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, or own it for $24.99 — although it’s hard to imagine anyone paying that much for it other than Tarantino. But the DC debacle is still playing in theaters for those purists who love watching movies on the big screen.

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