Quentin Tarantino Explains Why He "F**king Loves" TOP GUN: MAVERICK and Says JAWS Is "the Greatest Movie Ever Made"
Director Quentin Tarantino is a big fan of director Joseph Kosinski and Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick. I have yet to meet someone who hasn’t loved that movie. It’s just so damn amazing, and I don’t know if we’ll ever see anything like that again.
Tarantino was recently a guest on ReelBlend podcast, and while on the show he raved about the movie and explained why he loved it so much. We all have our reasons of why we loved the movie, but one thing in particular that he focused on was how it felt like it was directed by Tony Scott. He said:
“I fucking love Top Gun: Maverick. I thought it was fantastic. I saw it at the theaters. That and [Steven] Spielberg’s West Side Story both provided a true cinematic spectacle, the kind that I’d almost thought that I wasn’t going to see anymore. It was fantastic.”
Tarantino went on to explain that the Top Gun sequel was as close to a new Tony Scott movie as moviegoers will ever get:
“There was just this lovely, lovely aspect because I love both Tony Scott’s cinema so much, and I love Tony so much that that’s as close as we’re ever going to get to seeing one more Tony Scott movie. [Director Joseph Kosinski] did a great job. The respect and the love of Tony was in every frame. It was almost in every decision. It was consciously right there, but in this really cool way that was really respectful. And I think it was in every decision Tom [Cruise] made on the film.”
Tarantino reiterated, “It’s the closest we’re ever going get to seeing one more Tony Scott movie, and it was a fucking terrific one.”
Tarantino did have one little grievance about the film, which was the reunion scene between Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. He said it was “almost too cheap.” But the director went on to say that regardless of that, it worked. He added, “But it absolutely works. It’s a bit like Charlie Chaplin dying on stage for the last scene of Limelight… but it fucking works. You’re waiting for it and the fucking scene delivers.” It’s kinda funny that he gripes about the scene, but then also liked it.
Later in the interview, Tarantino called Steven Spielberg’s Jaws the “greatest movie ever made.” He said:
“Maybe not the greatest film. But it’s the greatest movie ever made. And then there are other movies that can get in its rarefied air. But as far as a movie, there’s no making it better than Jaws. There’s no ‘better’ than Jaws. It is the best movie ever made. And it shows how badly timed most movies made before Jaws were.”
Jaws is definitely one of my all-time favorite films. It’s one that I’ve never seen on the big screen, but that will change soon because it’s being rereleased in IMAX theaters!