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Binge Movie Aftertaste – Quentin Tarantino Retrospective w/ Alyx Ancira and Jack Falvey: The Written Works of Quentin Tarantino

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He is one of the most influential filmmakers of our generation. If Steven Spielberg ruled the 80s, it is safe to say Quentin Tarantino owned the 90s. His story is almost as famous as his observations of the ways of European McDonalds. A video store clerk who used a few big breaks to his full advantage. But as myself, Jack, and Alyx go through his resume in this retrospective, we will observe whether that still stands true today. We will also review his brand new film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and answer whether it is as good as its trailers look.

So who was Quentin Tarantino in 1991? Well, he was a struggling actor who had gotten his SAG card by appearing in an episode of Golden Girls as an Elvis impersonator. However, he also had a few scripts roaming around which were eventually taken on by new sets of eyes behind the camera.

In 1995, Robert Rodriguez took on the task of directing Tarantino’s follow-up script to the one which won him an Oscar in 1994 (Pulp Fiction). Also in 1994, Oscar winning director Oliver Stone, looking for a project which would rebound his career that had started hitting the skids in the early 90s, took on half of the script which would be ‘married’ to True Romance called Natural Born Killers. And in 1993, slick 80s actioner Tony Scott was looking for a break from getting bossed around by people like Joel Silver by directing 1993’s aforementioned True Romance.

So how do these movies work without Tarantino guiding their journey? Which movie takes a thrashing which the Binge Aftertaste has never seen before? And why the hell did we do them in this order? Listen below to find out!

Big thanks to both the listeners and my co-hosts for going down the journey of Quentin Tarantino’s resume, and join us again for when he decides to let his vision hit the screens again.

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

Natural Born Killers (1994) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

True Romance (1993) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – Quentin Tarantino Retrospective w/ Alyx Ancira and Jack Falvey: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)

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He is one of the most influential filmmakers of our generation. If Steven Spielberg ruled the 80s, it is safe to say Quentin Tarantino owned the 90s. His story is almost as famous as his observations of the ways of European McDonalds. A video store clerk who used a few big breaks to his full advantage. But as myself, Jack, and Alyx go through his resume in this retrospective, we will observe whether that still stands true today. We will also review his brand new film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and answer whether it is as good as its trailers look.

By 2019, Quentin Tarantino was at a crossroads. He was no longer the young hot shot who reinvented the film industry with each subsequent picture. He was married. And, more prudent to his career, his boss over at the Weinstein Company Harvey Weinstein went from being one of the most powerful men in Hollywood to a shamed man accused of sexual abuse. Tarantino now had to take his projects to a different studio and redub his brand with a script that was unlike any other he has ever written.

Enter Sony Pictures. Given $100 million and free reign to do what he pleased, Tarantino nabbed past collaborators Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, not to mention past DiCaprio co-star Margot Robbie, to star in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, a vision unlike any other Tarantino has ever done in the past. But not less controversial.

Join myself, Jack, and Alyx as we finally discuss Tarantino’s latest directorial vision, as well as talk about the controversies which permeate the entire production. After the build-up, what will we rate it?

Listen below to find out, and be sure to stick around for one more podcast, as the boys discuss written works not made by Tarantino himself.

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – Quentin Tarantino Retrospective w/ Alyx Ancira and Jack Falvey: The Hateful Eight (2015)

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He is one of the most influential filmmakers of our generation. If Steven Spielberg ruled the 80s, it is safe to say Quentin Tarantino owned the 90s. His story is almost as famous as his observations of the ways of European McDonalds. A video store clerk who used a few big breaks to his full advantage. But as myself, Jack, and Alyx go through his resume in this retrospective, we will observe whether that still stands true today. We will also review his brand new film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and answer whether it is as good as its trailers look.

In 2015, Tarantino was three years removed from his biggest hit. Yet, once again stumbling blocks were thrown in front of him which prevented his next vision to be realized onscreen. In January 2014, the script for a project he had been working on for years called The Hateful Eight leaked online through circumstances that Alyx in the podcast calls ‘the best old man internet mistake of all time’. As a result, Tarantino was not going to make it, stating he had “at least ten more projects to choose from”.

Yet, the fire was relit following a live script read through, and the pressure was on Tarantino to make it for the screen. After a rollout which included a 70 mm road show, and the director snapping at Disney for keeping his movie off the screen while Star Wars The Force Awakens keeps the screens he wanted, Christmas 2015 we finally got The Hateful Eight.

Join Jack, Alyx, and myself as we get ever closer to closing the book on what will probably be the longest retrospective of all time. Wait, we still have Bond next year.

The Hateful Eight (2015) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – Quentin Tarantino Retrospective w/ Alyx Ancira and Jack Falvey: Django Unchained (2012)

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He is one of the most influential filmmakers of our generation. If Steven Spielberg ruled the 80s, it is safe to say Quentin Tarantino owned the 90s. His story is almost as famous as his observations of the ways of European McDonalds. A video store clerk who used a few big breaks to his full advantage. But as myself, Jack, and Alyx go through his resume in this retrospective, we will observe whether that still stands true today. We will also review his brand new film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and answer whether it is as good as its trailers look.

After Inglourious Basterds put a stamp on his career resurgence, Quentin Tarantino felt the time was finally right to do a film in his favorite film genre: a western. Or did he? According to him, Django Unchained is his first ‘southern’. Nonetheless, call it what you will, Django Unchained was released in the winter of 2012 and became the first of his films to cross the $400 million mark at the box office. Though not without controversy, as everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Spike Lee (of course) came out against Tarantino’s view of their ancestors as how it relates to slavery.

Join myself, Jack, and Alyx as we explore that controversy, as well as the film’s quality, and we continue our journey through Quentin Tarantino’s resume, eventually leading up to a review of his brand new film Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.

Django Unchained (2012) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – Quentin Tarantino Retrospective w/ Jack Falvey and Alyx Ancira: Inglourious Basterds (2009)

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He is one of the most influential filmmakers of our generation. If Steven Spielberg ruled the 80s, it is safe to say Quentin Tarantino owned the 90s. His story is almost as famous as his observations of the ways of European McDonalds. A video store clerk who used a few big breaks to his full advantage. But as myself, Jack, and Alyx go through his resume in this retrospective, we will observe whether that still stands true today. We will also review his brand new film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and answer whether it is as good as its trailers look.

2007’s Grindhouse did not set the box office on fire, so it would seem that Quentin Tarantino was more in need of a hit than ever. Cue work on a script he had dubbed his masterpiece, bad spelling and all, a World War II epic that he called Inglourious Basterds. The film was released to rave reviews, a near $350 million intake at the box office, and for the first time an Oscar in the hands of one of his actors.

Listen in as myself, Alyx, and Jack dissect the 2009 epic starring Brad Pitt and a then unknown Christoph Waltz, and decide whether the comeback Tarantino enjoyed was done with the correct film.

Note: As a companion piece, check out the episode of Movie Homework from a few months back when Alyx and Jack reviewed the film.

Inglourious Basterds (2009) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – Quentin Tarantino Retrospective: The Grindhouse Experience (2007)

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He is one of the most influential filmmakers of our generation. If Steven Spielberg ruled the 80s, it is safe to say Quentin Tarantino owned the 90s. His story is almost as famous as his observations of the ways of European McDonalds. A video store clerk who used a few big breaks to his full advantage. But as myself, Jack, and Alyx go through his resume in this retrospective, we will observe whether that still stands true today. We will also review his brand new film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and answer whether it is as good as its trailers look.

Kill Bill was released to monumental success, so now, once again, Quentin Tarantino had the clout to do what he liked. While his movies have always had a retro feel, he had never done a 70s style Grindhouse film that he grew up loving so much. But with the script to Death Proof and friend Robert Rodriguez fully onboard with his own film Planet Terror, the time had arrived to finally fulfill his wish. But how’d they do?

Listen to this different approach to the retrospective formula, as I begin the podcast with a full film commentary of Robert Rodriguez’s entry Planet Terror with my normal podcast host Matthew Goudreau, who gives his thoughts on the films of Tarantino, and how he feels Once Upon A Time In Hollywood looks.

Immediately following that commentary, I bring Alyx and Jack back to review Tarantino’s entry Death Proof. Does his affinity for these types of films translate to an entertaining film? Listen to find out!

Planet Terror (2007) (?/10, ?/10)

Death Proof (2007) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – Quentin Tarantino Retrospective w/ Alyx Ancira and Jack Falvey: Jackie Brown (1997)

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He is one of the most influential filmmakers of our generation. If Steven Spielberg ruled the 80s, it is safe to say Quentin Tarantino owned the 90s. His story is almost as famous as his observations of the ways of European McDonalds. A video store clerk who used a few big breaks to his full advantage. But as myself, Jack, and Alyx go through his resume in this retrospective, we will observe whether that still stands true today. We will also review his brand new film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and answer whether it is as good as its trailers look.

After the huge critical and box office success of Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino felt it would suit his interests best if he took a little time off. Risking overexposure, he would go on to work on features such as From Dusk Till Dawn, Four Rooms, among others, he finally lay low and didn’t direct another film for three years.

But when he finally emerged Christmas Day 1997, it was with not another original story about cool gangsters doing another crime caper. It was with an adaptation of Rum Punch, a novel written by one of the most influential authors of Tarantino’s life, Elmore Leonard. That movie is Jackie Brown. What was the general consensus at the time of its release, and how do we feel about it now?

Join Alyx, Jack, and myself to find out the answers to these questions and more, as the release of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood keeps inching toward us.

Jackie Brown (1997) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – Quentin Tarantino Retrospective w/ Alyx Ancira and Jack Falvey: Reservoir Dogs (1992)

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He is one of the most influential filmmakers of our generation. If Steven Spielberg ruled the 80s, it is safe to say Quentin Tarantino owned the 90s. His story is almost as famous as his observations of the ways of European McDonalds. A video store clerk who used a few big breaks to his full advantage. But as myself, Jack, and Alyx go through his resume in this retrospective, we will observe whether that still stands true today. We will also review his brand new film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and answer whether it is as good as its trailers look.

But first, it’s time to start in the beginning. In 1992, Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs made a huge splash at Sundance and stamped his ticket to Hollywood stardom. With a push from Harvey Keitel and an imposing Michael Madsen as Mr Blonde, the movie made his intentions and film style known right from the get go. Highly stylized violence mixed with contemptable guys whose dialogue makes them endearing. But how has it aged, and is it really as good as its reputation?

Join Jack, Alyx, and myself as we answer these questions, and begin our journey through Quentin Tarantino’s resume of films.

Reservoir Dogs (1992) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Monday Morning Moreno – The Hateful Eight w/Supka and Freak

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After Supka watched Tarantino’s latest 4 times in one day (I still don’t understand how that works), he demanded that we jump on air and talk about it.  He had some feelings that strayed from the Binge staff and had to talk about it.  Between Christmas and New Year’s, we finally found time to sit down, crack a few beers and record.
This is a SPOILER filled discussion, so no crying if you haven’t watched The Hateful 88s and listen to this.
When you’re done listening, rank your QT films in the comments section!  Here’s mine:
  1. Jackie Brown
  2. Pulp Fiction
  3. Reservoir Dogs
  4. Kill Bill 2
  5. The Hateful 88s
  6. Inglourious Basterds
  7. Kill Bill 1
  8. Death Proof
  9. Django Unchained
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