Quentin Tarantino's Top Eleven (Well, Twelve) Of 2011

[Brendon Connelly]

As I supposed it might, it seems that the slight delay in shooting Django Unchained has given Quentin Tarantino time to file his Films of the Year list. He's gone for a top 11, but thanks to a tie, there's actually12.

He's also gone ahead and added some "nice try" and "worst film" selections as well as suggestions for best director and screenplay. From my point of view there's only one big surprise - you'll probably know it the second you see it.

Top 11 of 2011

1. Midnight In Paris
2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
3. Moneyball
4. The Skin I Live In
5. X-Men: First Class
6. Young Adult
7. Attack The Block
8. Red State
9. Warrior
10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)
11. The Three Musketeers

Nice Try Award

Drive Hannah Drive Angry Real Steel

Best Director

Pedro Almodovar Bennett Miller Woody Allen Jason Reitman Michel Hazanavicius

Best Original Screenplay

Midnight In Paris Young Adult Red State Attack The Block Our Idiot Brother Beginners

Best Adapted Screenplay

Moneyball The Skin I live In Carnage Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes Hugo X-Men: First Class

Worst Films

Sucker Punch Potiche (Trophy Wife) Miral Insidious Rampart Straw Dogs Paranormal Activity 3 Meek?s Cutoff

And there was me thinking - genuinely - that he'd have been on Team Sucker Punch.

I can fully understand why the rest of his "worst list" has shaken out how it has: despite there being some utterly, loopy fun bits in Insidious, there's a lot of rubbish too, and the other films really are bad.

All of these lists were submitted by Tarantino to the fansite Tarantino Archives, through whom he has published a few lists in the past.

Perhaps allowing for Tarantino to name and fame a few more Weinstein pictures, there's also a list of other films he "considered":

50/50 Beginners Hugo The Iron Lady Carnage Green Hornet Green Lantern Captain America The Descendants My Week With Marilyn Fast Five Tree Of Life The Hangover Part II Mission Impossible 4 The Beaver Contagion The Sitter War Horse

I don't think the implication is necessarily that Tarantino considers these "runners up" - surely that's what Nice Try was about - but that he wants to name them as other films he chewed over, for whatever reason.

One of those reasons being that a couple are Oscar contenders for his chums Bob and Harvey, right? The Iron Lady and My Week With Marilyn certainly do seem conspicuous.

[Euselsess]

And... Who cares? The last good movie he made was Jackie Brown.

[Mad_Man_Moon]

Loved his top two, and he couldn't be more right about Sucker Punch.

[Joe Kalicki]

Three Musketeers, really?

Also I've heard nothing but good things about Meek's Cutoff.

EDIT: Okay, I get it now, his buddy Christoph Waltz is in Three Musketeers.

[AztecLos]

I am surprise he not give Transformers 3 the worst. I loved Transformers 3, but I figured he would have said something about it.

[Victorian Squid]

There was a Three Musketeers movie?

[TGC]

Yes, by the Paul Anderson that gave us Resident Evil, not the other one. It was not great.

[Russell Fox]

X-Men? Ugh... most overrated, maybe.

Super was the superhero flick of the year easily.

[Birmy]

I'll stand up for Meek's Cutoff as a pretty good movie. Assuming you trust my taste over that of noted filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

[notthathard]

And... Who cares? The last good movie he made was Jackie Brown.

Jackie Brown is probably his worst movie. His most recent (Kill Bill, Deathproof) are his best.