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This honestly isn't worth arguing about, because it has nothing to do with the point that this whole ending-his-career thing is a goofy move on Tarantino's part that's all in his head. Say whatever you want about Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, it was better received than Jackie Brown, his third movie a mere five years after his debut. It's all arbitrary. Good is good and Tarantino's still doing good work. And plenty of people from John Ford to Stanley Kubrick to Kon Ichikawa did great work literally right up until they went into the ground. It's his life and his career, he can and will do what he wants, but it's silly all the same.
yeah I don’t really get his point that “filmmakers don’t age well,” or whatever he’s using as means to justify it. It all comes down to whether people still want to see his movies and, most importantly, whether he still wants to make them. If he’s tired or it and feels like he’d rather be writing, staging plays, etc, then more power to him. But if he’s basing it more on this notion that he has to get out before diminishing returns hit, then I think he should reconsider.
I was hoping rather than saying he’s scrapping the Movie Critic the announcement was going to be his scrapping the plan to do just ten movies.