As you might imagine, there are way more dramas than comedies on Quentin Tarantino’s list of the best movies of the 21st century. Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down ranks as the century’s best, Tarantino revealed on the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, per Variety.
“I think it’s a masterwork,” Tarantino said. “ I watched it again recently, my heart was going through the entire runtime of the movie; it had me and never let me go, and I hadn’t seen it in a while. The feat of direction is beyond extraordinary.”
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Fair enough, but what about comedies? The Teen Wolf Too superfan included six of them on his list, including some surprises like Richard Linklater’s School of Rock at #14, “the only comedy star vehicle that made the list.” He likened Black’s performance to Eddie Murphy in 48 Hours, Bill Murray in Stripes or Pee-wee Herman in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure — a comedy star in the perfect vehicle exploding into the public consciousness.
The exquisite bone-crunching of Jackass: The Movie was Tarantino’s #13. “I don’t remember laughing from the beginning to the end, like uncontrollably, since Richard Pryor: Live In Concert.”
Quentin might get some grief for the comedy he placed at #10, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. It will come as no surprise to anyone who’s read Tarantino’s Cinema Speculation, in which he praises Allen comedies like Play It Again, Sam (“I couldn’t believe a guy could be so funny”) and Take the Money and Run (“one of the great all-time sight gags”). He’s also waxed rhapsodic about Annie Hall, “one of my favorite movie memories.”
Checking in at #9 is Edgar Wright’s horror-comedy Shaun of the Dead. “I think the script is really terrific,” Tarantino said. “It’s one of the most quotable movies on this list.”
Does Bill Murray’s Lost in Translation count as a comedy? It was #3 on Tarantino’s list, a movie he loved so much that he started dating Sofia Coppola.
The highest-ranked comedy on the list was Pixar’s Toy Story 3, ranking just behind Black Hawk Down as the best of the century so far. The animated classic is an “almost perfect movie,” Tarantino said. “That last five minutes ripped my fucking heart out, and if I even try to describe the end, I’ll start crying and get choked up. It’s just remarkable.”
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