There’s a true argument to be made that Quentin Tarantino’s best movie is his 2019 hangout comedy, Once Upon a Time…
in Hollywood, but when asked about his personal favorite movie of that year, Tarantino’s answer humbly differed from his own masterpiece.
Instead, his tastes leaned towards Crawl, that year’s hit alligator-centric horror thrill ride.
For some who only think of Tarantino as an acclaimed filmmaker, this might come as a surprise.
If you’ve only done the slightest bit of reading into his works and interests, you’ll know that he’s probably a bigger fan of genre movies than he is of prestige films.
Tarantino’s own movies might be beloved by audiences and critics alike and showered with all kinds of accolades, but his works are deeply rooted in the camps of action, exploitation, horror, kung-fu, comedy, and Western, so Tarantino falling for a killer-animal movie should come with little to no surprise.
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