Quentin Tarantino has launched a fresh attack on post-Covid Hollywood, describing the filmmaking industry as a “flavourless sausage factory” rife with “miscast performers”, “audience pandering” and “just plain stupid s***”.
In an article for Sight and Sound magazine, the Pulp Fiction director said it had become “almost impossible” for him to watch new films without feeling the need to “pick to death”. “Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers, or just plain stupid s*** usually torpedoes every new movie coming out of the flavourless sausage factory that used to call itself Hollywood,” he wrote.
Despite his criticism, Tarantino praised Steven Spielberg’s 2021 adaptation of West Side Story, Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, and The Rip, a Netflix crime thriller directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. He described The Rip as “a suspenseful new movie that did grab me and held me for its entire duration”.
Tarantino’s next project is The Popinjay Cavalier, a play set to open in London’s West End in 2027. His next major screen project is The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a sequel to 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood directed by David Fincher, slated for a two-week theatrical run from 25 November before arriving on Netflix on 23 December.
