Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Quentin Tarantino Refuses to Watch ‘Toy Story 4’ Because ‘Toy Story 3’ Is ‘One of the Best Movies I’ve Ever Seen’ and the ‘Perfect’ Trilogy Ender: ‘I’m Done’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Quentin Tarantino thinks “Toy Story 3” is one of the greatest movies ever, which is why he refuses to watch 2019’s “Toy Story 4.” During an interview on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, the Oscar winner suggested that “Toy Story” could’ve been one of the great film trilogies had the animated franchise not continued with a fourth film.
A fifth “Toy Story” is now on the way. “I don’t watch all the animated movies and stuff, but I’m a big fan of the ‘Toy Story’ trilogy,” Tarantino said. “I think there’s only one trilogy that completely and utterly works to the Nth degree and that’s ‘A Fistful of Dollars,’ ‘For a Few Dollars More’ and ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.'” “It does what no other trilogy has ever been quite able to do,” he continued. “The first movie is terrific, but the second movie is so great and takes the whole idea to such a bigger canvas that it obliterates the first one.
And then the third one does the same thing to the second one, and that’s kind of what never happens. You’ll see this big jump from the first to the second and they don’t really land the third one.” Tarantino noted how the original “Mad Max” trilogy failed to land the ending as “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” was seen by critics as a step backward after “The Road Warrior.” “In the case of ‘Toy Story,’ the third one is just magnificent,” Tarantino said. “It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
And if you’ve seen the other two, it’s just devastating. But the thing is, then three years later or something, they did a fourth.
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