Yahoo News Here's why Quentin Tarantino doesn't like Netflix
Quentin Tarantino is a totally brilliant director, we're sure you'll agree, so it's only a matter of time before he takes his talent to the small screen, right?
Erm, wrong. At least if that small screen involves Netflix, anyway.
Don't expect Tarantino to follow in Baz Luhrmann's footsteps any time soon (we miss you, The Get Down), as the filmmaker has been busy lamenting the way Netflix has changed movies.
And basically, he just misses Blockbuster. (Don't we all?)
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In a resurfaced interview (via The Playlist), Quentin insisted his general dislike for Netflix was "not just out of the nostalgia", although it does play a part in it.
"Even if you just have all the movie channels in your [cable] package, and that's something I do have, you hit the guide, and you go down the list and you… watch something or you tape something.
"Maybe you never get around to watching it, or you actually do watch it... for 10 minutes or 20 minutes, and maybe you start doing something else, and [you decide], 'Nah, I'm not really into this'.
"That's kind of where we've fallen into," he explained.
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Reminiscing about the joys of visiting a good, old-fashioned video rental, Tarantino argued that going into a store and physically choosing films on VHS (!) was more of an 'investment'.
"You rented [a film], so you actually wanted to try and watch it some degree or another. And that's what's really lost - in a weird way, what's lost is commitment," he mused.
That's our dream of binge-watching a Tarantino TV series on Netflix out the window.
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