Quentin Tarantino Does Not Want To Watch Dune And Shogun: Here's Why

For Quentin Tarantino, his stance on these films isn’t anything personal. He is just tired of reboots and remakes in Hollywood. “It’s one after another of this remake and that remake," he said. “People ask, have you seen Dune? Ripley? Shogun? And I’m like no, no, no, no. There’s six or seven Ripley books. If you do one again, why are you doing the same one that they’ve done twice already? I’ve seen that story twice before, and I didn’t really like it in either version, so I’m not really interested in seeing it a third time. If you did another story, that would be interesting enough to give it a shot anyway," Tarantino explained.

The filmmaker also talked about Shogun, saying, “I saw Shogun in the ‘80s. I watched all 13 hours. I’m good. I don’t need to see that story again, I don’t care how they do it. I don’t care if they take me and put me in ancient Japan in a time machine. I don’t care, I’ve seen the story." Clearly, Tarantino’s all set when it comes to certain classic tales.

But he hasn’t written off everything Hollywood’s rolled out recently. Surprisingly, he gave a nod to Joker: Folie a Deux, Todd Phillips’ sequel to Joker, which didn’t exactly win over the critics or the box office this year. Tarantino, though, was a fan.

“I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously," he shared. “I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is. And I’m just nihilistic enough to kind of enjoy a movie that doesn’t quite work as a movie. That’s like a big, giant mess to some degree. And I didn’t find it an intellectual exercise. I really got caught up in it. I really liked the musical sequences. I got really caught up. I thought the more banal the songs were, the better they were."