Tarantino's top 20 movies since 1992

Spunge

Battle Royale
Anything Else
Audition
Tsui Hark's The Blade
Boogie Nights
Dazed & Confused
Dogville
Fight Club
Fridays
The Host
The Insider
Joint Security Area
Lost In Translation
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Supercop (Police Story 3)
Shaun of the Dead
Speed
Team America: World Police
Unbreakable

Interesting choices. Wouldnt agree with them all but some movies there i really like. Glad to see he liked battle royale so much.

indough

he did cast one of the stars of it in kill bill

i agree with some of them but others not so much

Karl Hungus

Honestly, I like his picks a lot. Memories of Murder really is a staggeringly good film, I would quite possibly one of the greatest serial killer films ever made. I've always thought Unbreakable was Shyamalan's best film by far, and was severely underrated. I'm quite suprised he didn't pick Oldboy, considering how much he raved about it before. Otherwise, a fairly solid list.

seanybiker

team america and shaun of the dead are suprising.

Ciaran B

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Honestly, I like his picks a lot. Memories of Murder really is a staggeringly good film, I would quite possibly one of the greatest serial killer films ever made.

Yeah, Memories of Murder is incredible. Easily one of my favourite Korean films.

nix

seanybiker wrote: »

team america and shaun of the dead are suprising.

Why? They are hilarious

Ice_Box

Two Keanu Reeves movies!?!?! But they are good ones I suppose.

silvervixen84

M Night Shyamalangadingdong - Hilarious

Never heard of it before but really want to see Memories of Murder now.

teamB_macro

yeah interesting mix. Battle Royale and Memories of Murder would be easy favorites for him. a keanu reeves fan huh?

Galvasean

Glad he went for Unbreakable over say The Sixth Sense. Despite popular opinion, Ive always preferred Unbreakabe.
I was expecting Ichi the Killer to be on the list, but I can see why he went for Audition.

robby^5

The Insider... Tarantino respect ++

Cactus Col

Surprised at how highly people rate Memories of Murder, I thought it was a distinctly average film. Not bad by any means, but nothing great.

johnny_ultimate

Anything Else? The Woody Allen one?! What a bizzare choice.

Neo#

There are a lot of films on that list I havent seen which surprises me. I must watch a few of them.

nyarlothothep

Battle Royale was very meh compared to the manga, I saw some of it but switched, but at least he picked Fight Club and The Matrix. I would have thought he'd have liked American Psycho. SoD and TA were great films, although the latter kinda sags in the middle but the concept was innovative in the way they used it.

Corkfeen

I like the mans taste in movies Remember watching unbreakable when I was younger and not understanding why so few watch it. Shyamalangadingdong hasn't actually made a movie nearly as good since then.A sequel is in the making according to imdb.
Will have to get around to seeing audition too.

missingtime

Spunge wrote: »

Battle Royale
Anything Else
Audition
Tsui Hark's The Blade
Boogie Nights
Dazed & Confused
Dogville
Fight Club
Fridays
The Host
The Insider
Joint Security Area
Lost In Translation
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Supercop (Police Story 3)
Shaun of the Dead
Speed
Team America: World Police
Unbreakable

Interesting choices. Wouldnt agree with them all but some movies there i really like. Glad to see he liked battle royale so much.

Memories of Murder, straight on the watch list.

mylove

Unbreakable over the sixth sense??

What's most interesting about this list is tht it doesn't include movies that he has been 'influenced' by...

Where's Lung Fu Fong Wan??

Futurism

Good list. I've never heard of Memories of Murder though so I'll have to give it a watch some time. I was surprised to see Shaun of the Dead and Fridays on the list. I love both films personally but would have never expected them on Tarantino's top 20 list. I have to agree that Unbreakable is a fantastic film and I've never quite understood why it was so forgotten amongst M.Nights other lesser films.

djkeogh

I quite like the list. No snobbery in it. Just some great entertaining films. He's right about Speed as well. It's more or less forgotten how impactful that film was at the time. I do truly love Unbrekable. The acting, the music, the atmosphere. All excellent. Battle Royale is an overlooked favourite too.

I'll certainly take heed of some of the titles I'm not familiar with from the list.

lodgepole

I like that Friday is in there, it remains a really great comedy even after all these years. It makes more sense now that he cast two of its cast members in Jackie Brown. Shame about the sequels though.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Anything Else? The Woody Allen one?! What a bizzare choice.

Not if you've seen it. It's a really good film, one of Woody Allen's best. I'm amazed it doesn't get more praise.

johnny_ultimate

aidanpower wrote: »

Not if you've seen it. It's a really good film, one of Woody Allen's best. I'm amazed it doesn't get more praise.

I saw it when it was released and enjoyed it, but even as one of the first Woody Allen films I watched it was trying a little too hard to emulate his classics. Decent film and all, but it wouldn't stand out to me as a highlight of the last two decades! I'd have to watch it again though, I wasn't anywhere near as familiar with his stuff as I am now.

lodgepole

I stand corrected... Do go back and watch it sometime though. I watched it only recently while watching a bunch of Woody Allen films that had slipped through the cracks and, as I said, loved it.