Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Marvel Movie? This Flawless Threequel With 93% on RT

Quentin Tarantino is known for his unconditional love of cinema. Working at a video rental store, he saw everything from acclaimed masterpieces to trashy TV movies. In this way, Quentin became familiar with the medium and formed the basis of his own style.

Tarantino hasn’t been known to be a huge fan of superhero movies — in particular, his stance on Marvel actors “not being movie stars” is well-known. But it looks like it doesn’t mean that the iconic director doesn’t have his favorites in the genre.

Tarantino Picked His Favorite Marvel Movie

In an interview with Empire, he said that he is gradually getting to know the superhero franchise and even named his favorite Marvel movie:

“Actually, the last one I saw was Thor: Ragnarok. I loved it. It was my favourite one of the series since The Avengers.”

And with this statement, the director once again proved that he has excellent taste, even in superhero flicks.

Thor: Ragnarok Was Taika Waititi 's First Big-Budget Blockbuster

Taika Waititi was not the most obvious candidate to direct the third Thor. Waititi is known for comedies that teeter on the edge of absurdity, and the subject of Ragnarok, the Scandinavian end of the world, does not seem to lend itself to humor.

Or so it might seem to the average viewer. But Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige clearly had a different opinion. Feige gave the director a level of creative freedom that only James Gunn had previously enjoyed on the set of Guardians of the Galaxy.

And Taika did not disappoint – the director's original style is evident in every frame of Thor: Ragnarok. It is a bright and stylish film with witty dialogue and a hurricane of a musical score.

Many Marvel Fans Still Consider Thor: Ragnarok the Best Movie in the Franchise

It is unlikely that anyone would have thought that the third chapter of the Asgardian superhero's adventures would become the best movie not only of the trilogy, but of the entire franchise.

Thor Ragnarok has one of the highest Rotten Tomatoes scores of any Marvel film, with 93% from critics and 87% from audiences.

Taika Waititi revived Chris Hemsworth 's character and decided to put the avenger in awkward positions.

Only now, instead of Earth, there is Sakaar, a garbage planet where fights for survival are organized, and instead of situation comedy, there is slapstick in the spirit of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin films.

Thor, robbed of his former power and forced to fight monsters in a stadium to please the crowd, is joined by the Hulk. This duo has never looked comical, but in Waititi's hands, some of the Marvel universe's most basic superheroes perform an almost circus-like act, turning the entire movie into a colorful farce.