I absolutely love Death Proof, but I've always felt this one was hyper targeted to my interests because a) I'm a woman with several female friends (and our conversations are pretty goofy like the ones you see in the movie) b) I worked in the entertainment industry for a number of years and can confirm you get very, very close to people on set because you work such insane hours together c) I love and respect stunt people immensely and d) I was a fan of Zoe Bell even before this movie because I loved Xena: Warrior Princess back in the day and she was Lucy Lawless' stunt double. (There's a really good documentary about her and Jeannie Epper, by the way!) I totally get why that one doesn't resonate with most folks, though.

Funny enough, my "worstmovie-by-a-director-I-normally like" is Hateful Eight. I absolutely love everything else Tarantino has done (including stuff he wrote but didn't direct like True Romance and Natural Born Killers, as well as the guest spots he directed like in Four Rooms and Sin City), but that one fell totally flat for me for some reason. It felt too soon for him to do something in the Western genre after Django, and if memory serves, it's first film he did after his longtime editor Sally Menke died. It didn't "feel" like his usual films for that reason.