If anyone's qualified to judge which movies serve as the best the 21st century has to offer, it's Quentin Tarantino.
The iconic filmmaker behind such legendary hits as Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill and Django Unchained, the 62-year-old Tarantino has long expressed an undying love for all things cinema.
With that in mind, it's no great surprise that the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director has once again entered the public spotlight with his list for the best films of the 21st century.
Appearing on a recent episode of The Bret Easton Ellis podcast, Tarantino finished off his ongoing countdown to the best movies of the current century, topping off the list with Ridley Scott's 2001 war film, Black Hawk Down.
Based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name, Black Hawk Down focuses on the real-life military operations pitting a United States military task force against Somali insurgents in 1993 Mogadishu.
Led by an expansive ensemble cast that includes the likes of Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Jason Isaacs, Tom Hardy, Orlando Bloom, Sam Shepard, Tom Sizemore and Eric Bana, Black Hawk Down earned a number of positive reviews upon its initial release, although it failed to gain serious traction at the 74th Academy Awards.
Over 20 years since the movie's theatrical debut, however, Tarantino is heaping praise on Ridley Scott's war film, calling it "beyond extraordinary."
“I liked it when I first saw it, but I actually think it was so intense that it stopped working for me, and I didn’t carry it with me the way that I should’ve,” Tarantino said of the film. “Since then, I’ve seen it a couple of times, not a bunch of times, but I think it’s a masterwork, and one of the things I love so much about it is […] this is the only movie that actually goes completely for an Apocalypse Now sense of purpose and visual effect and feeling, and I think it achieves it."
"It keeps up the intensity for 2 hours 45 minutes, or whatever it is, and I watched it again recently, my heart was going through the entire runtime of the movie," the director continued. "It had me and never let me go, and I hadn’t seen it in a while. The feat of direction is beyond extraordinary.”
Tarantino's other picks for the top 10 films of the century included:
Black Hawk DownToy Story 3Lost in TranslationDunkirkThere Will Be BloodZodiacUnstoppableMad Max: Fury RoadShaun of the DeadMidnight in ParisHence then, the article about quentin tarantino reveals his top 10 picks for best movies of the 21st century was published today ( ) and is available on Parade ( Saudi Arabia ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
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