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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-03T16:50:03.000Z",
  "site": "https://nofilmschool.com",
  "tags": [
    "2020s",
    "Cinema",
    "Movies",
    "Quentin tarantino",
    "Original ideas",
    "Sight and Sound,",
    "Obsession and Backrooms are rewriting all the rules!"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nQuentin Tarantino has always been cinema's loudest cheerleader and the guy you go to for obscure titles and recommendations. He has so many fun quotes about Hollywood, and he's certainly made his mark on its story.\n\nSo when he stands up and says he’s actively losing interest in modern cinema, that feels like big news.\n\nIn a recent guest essay for Sight and Sound, the _Pulp Fiction_ director dropped a bomb on the current decade of filmmaking.\n\nLet's dive in.\n\n* * *\n\n## The Ultimate Cinephile Is Checked Out\n\nTarantino's critique is tough to swallow because his entire identity is built on watching everything in sight and taking it all in. This is a guy who redefined independent cinema in the 90s and then became one of the most interesting auteurs in the early 2000s.\n\nBut Tarantino didn't hold back in his assessment of the 2020s:\n\n> I loved going to the movies. These days, however, the concept of what is a movie is more inclined to inspire contempt in me than generosity. Which is fair enough, because by comparison the movies of the last six years make the ‘80s seem like the ‘30s. I’ve seen movies I’ve liked since then — “West Side Story (2021); “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 & 2,” a few others, but nothing that really held me in its grip, and swept me away fo to the magical land of enjoyment that I used to visit and was the reason why I loved movies above all artforms. These days I’d rather read a book. However, a new movie has now come out that did grab me and held me for its entire duration: Joe Carnahan’s “The RIP,” starring the dynamic duo of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.\n\n## The Only 2020s Movies Tarantino Actually Likes\n\nTarantino going off on the state of cinema was sort of expected. It feels like this has been bubbling up over time, and in a post-pandemic world, it feels like movies have taken like five years to really figure themselves out.\n\nWe have had so many waves of change in the last 20 years since the turn of the century; we're really entering a new landscape where everyone is trying to figure out how cinema works now. Especially with streamers and theatrical coming back, living in a world that had movies taken away thanks to COVID.\n\nIt was a repressive time like the 80s, but our repressions were like societal safeguards and not moods. We need studios to wake up and search for original storytellers once again, which I think is happening right now.\n\nIt's funny to see the movies Tarantino did, like _The Rip,_ which was just on Netflix. While it had star power and I enjoyed it, I did wish it had had a theatrical run.\n\nAlso, I am dying to see the second part of _Horizon_ , and we have no end in sight there due to the need for distribution funding.\n\nI have been Spielberg's biggest fan for a while, and I think not enough people took in _West Side Story_ on the big screen or really understood the complex choreography he employed.\n\nThese were all underappreciated titles.\n\n## Summing It All Up\n\nIt is incredibly easy to brush this off as a legacy filmmaker longing for the past, but I understand his frustrations. I do think we're seeing a turn now and that studios are embracing different voices as they find their way post-pandemic and consolidation.\n\nLook at how Obsession and Backrooms are rewriting all the rules!\n\nThe industry is starving for actual movies. Go make one.\n\nOr let me know what you think in the comments.",
  "title": "Quentin Tarantino Thinks the 2020s Are a Cinematic Wasteland (Except for These Movies)"
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