Quentin Tarantino really doesn’t like the new ways to watch movies. That’s understandable, because watching a movie on your phone is really silly. But Tarantino goes a step further, insisting that he doesn’t like Netflix and would rather keep a movie in his collection by recording it on VHS.
Over the weekend, Indiewire published excerpts from I Lost It At The Video Store: A Filmmakers’ Oral History Of A Vanished Era by Tom Toston. In one chapter, Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Darren Aronofsky and others discuss streaming movies. It’s safe to say that Tarantino isn’t happy about the future.
“I am not excited about streaming at all. I like something hard and tangible in my hand. And I can't watch a movie on a laptop,” the Pulp Fiction director said. “I don't use Netflix at all. I don't have any sort of delivery system. I have the videos from Video Archives. They went out of business, and I bought their inventory. Probably close to eight thousand tapes and DVDs.”
Tarantino also said that he still records movies on VHS tapes.
“I have a bunch of DVDs and a bunch of videos, and I still tape movies off of television on video so I can keep my collection going,” he added.
On the other side of the spectrum, there’s Smith and Aronofsky, who said that they don’t mind watching movies on a phone. Aronofsky even admitted that he’s changed aspect ratios for his films because he knows that most of his movies will be seen on a mobile device. He even created a special sound mix for Noah with phones in mind.
Tarantino’s reaction to that? “That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard in my life.”
Tarantino has also been a major advocate for film and is even planning on releasing The Hateful Eight on actual film to theaters on Christmas Day. He sure does love older forms of film distribution.
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