Quentin Tarantinosat down with the British subscription serviceSky Moviesin 2024 and listed his 20 favorite films released since he made hisfirst-ever feature-length film,Reservoir Dogs.That means the movies were released between 1992 and 2025, and he included everything fromBattle RoyaleandThe InsidertoTeam America: World Police.
Tarantino also listed a movie that includedthe star of his breakout film,Pulp Fiction.In his discussion of the movie, he made some interesting comments, saying that this movie was Bruce Willis’s best role of his career,even beating outPulp Fiction.The movieTarantino praised was M. Night Shyamalan’sUnbreakable,which Tarantino said retold the Superman mythos.
Quentin Tarantino Says Bruce Willis Was Never Better Than In Unbreakable
Tarantino Lists Unbreakable In His 20 Favorite Movies During His Career
In 1994, Quentin Tarantino castBruce Willis in his crime dramaPulp Fiction.In the film, Willis played the boxer Butch, a man who double-crossed a mob boss and ended up with an assassin on his trail. However,when looking at Willis’s movies, Tarantino feels he was even betterin a different director’s movie.
Willis starred inM. Night Shyamalan’s breakout movieThe Sixth Sense.He followed that with the director’s next film,Unbreakable.Willis stars as David Dunn, a regular guy who is on a train that derails and kills everyone onboard except for him. Instead of dying (and repeatingThe Sixth Sense’splot), Willis’s character was “unbreakable.”
According to Tarantino, this was Bruce Willis’s best performance of his career, and this includes his role inPulp Fiction:
“The final film on my, alphabetically, on my top 20 list is M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable. Which I actually think not only has Bruce Willis’ best performance on film that he’s ever given – I think he’s absolutely magnificent in the film.”
Tarantino Praises Unbreakable As An Underrated ‘Superman Movie’
David Dunn Is A Superman Who Doesn’t Know He Is Superman
Quentin Tarantino also spoke about howUnbreakablemight have been better if the studio had advertised that it was a movie that presents aSuperman who “didn’t know he was Superman.“While Dunnwas far from Superman-level power,he was a superhero at the end (with Mr. Glass as his nemesis), and he never knew it until the end.
However, Tarantino said he had read comics his entire life and that David Dunn was as close to Superman as you can get in a movie, without actually being presented as a Superman:
“It’s also a brilliant retelling of the Superman mythology. In fact, so much so, that to me the film was very obscure when it came out… I think they did themselves a disservice.
Because you’re able to actually break down what the film was about by one sentence, that I should think would have proved far more intriguing than their ad campaign, which is: ‘What if Superman was here on earth and didn’t know he was Superman?’ Which is what the film is about.”
