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Quentin Tarantino claims 2019 was "the last fucking year of movies"


https://variety.com/2025/film/news/quentin-tarantino-direct-final-movie-no-hurry-1236288002/

Well, what the fuck is a movie now? What — something that plays in theaters for a token release for four fucking weeks? All right, and by the second week you can watch it on television. I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns. I mean, it was bad enough in ’97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last fucking year of movies. That was a shit deal, as far as I was concerned, the fact that it’s gotten drastically worse? And that it’s just it’s a show pony exercise. Now the theatrical release, you know, and then like yeah, in two weeks, you can watch it on this [streamer] and that one. Okay. Theater? You can’t do that. It’s the final frontier.”

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I better be able to stream Captain America: Brave New World next week!

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I guess his rant only applies if you're some kind of dinosaur who thinks a cinema is the only way to see a movie.

(or make money from a movie)

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He's correct.

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What’s his point? You can still see movies in the theater. He always went to showings on opening day, so it isn’t like shorter runs would have altered his experiences.

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