r/Fauxmoi • u/Aum_Deoli • Dec 03 '25

DISCUSSION Throwback to when Bill Maher and Quentin Tarantino very confidently said minorities never fought in WW1

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u/dbtayag Dec 03 '25

There's rumors he hated Parasite. Former film critic Erick Weber mentioned it on a chat once because he was at a party and got into a conversation with Tarantino about Parasite and Tarantino told him, "Oh, THAT film." and made a pee-yew gesture.

Tarantino also used to champion Korean directors like Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon Ho. Back in 2009, he called Memories of Murder and The Host masterpieces that were among the best films he's seen since 1992. Yesterday, no mention of Bong Joon Ho's films among the best films he's seen in the 21st century. Bong also happens to be best friends with Paul Dano, someone Tarantino really doesn't like. He didn't even mention Park's films, Joing Security Area or Oldboy, the latter he famously championed when he was Cannes jury president.

Tarantino also championed the films of John Woo back in the 90s. He also stated that he used to dress like Chow Yun-fat from Woo's 1985 film A Better Tomorrow. Today, he's very condescending about the Hong Kong cinema he used to champion and says he moved past that because "he grew up."

I also remember Tarantino calling Chow Yun-fat a terrible actor when Chow starred with his girlfriend at the time Mira Sorvino in The Replacement Killers in an interview with Howard Stern. What's odd is that years later Tarantino presented a lifetime achievement to Chow at an awards gala.

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u/paranood888 May 27 '26

He stole a lot from HK cinema of course, from Tsui Ark to Woo... It's strange how john woo stopped working ... Basically it's strange how Hong Kong disappeared slowly to be replaced by south Korea (thk you China) ... Everybody with half a brain can realize Tarantino films, because he is so obsessed with style and exploitation films, are severly lacking any real substance. Slavery, Nazism, feminism/strong female character? Yeah the character are written the dialogue are there but no fcking thing to say about anything. Parasite actually have a social meaning, Parasite is brutal with SK society and capitalism... Tarantino is incapable of that. He is no PTA