Tarantino's Trash List: 5 Films to Avoid at All Costs

Of course, filmmakers are different and their tastes differ but it's always interesting to know what the masters have to say about films, which are either loved or loathed by an average cinephile.

Here's a list of top five movies which the Inglourious Basterds director thinks are not worth a viewer's time:

1. Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolution
2. Scream
3. The Hunger Games
4. Groundhog Day
5. Marvel Cinematic Universe films

Generally acknowledged as one of Keanu Reeves ' iconic movies, The Matrix has over years built a huge army of loyal fans, Tarantino no exception. But the subsequent films landed on Tarantino's list of bad movies and drowned the original.

"There was a time actually that I would have considered 'Matrix' the official number two after Battle Royale," Tarantino said in his interview with Sky Movies in 2009. "However, I have to say that time was before Matrix 2 and 3 came out and actually ruined the mythology for me. But even though it did ruin the mythology for me and actually moved the original Matrix down on my list — frankly, I just can't think about it the same way I did before — it didn't obliterate it entirely," he added.

Scream by Hollywood horror heavyweight Wes Craven is also generally seen as one of the best slasher horror movies out there but for Tarantino it is a no go. He once told Vulture that he did not mind doing it.

"I actually didn't care for Wes Craven's direction of it. I thought he was the iron chain attached to its ankle that kept it earthbound and stopped it from going to the Moon."

Speaking about The Hunger Games, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director said he was "a big fan of the Japanese movie 'Battle Royale,' which is what Hunger Games is based on." But it did not help. Tarantino told Jimmy Kimmel Live! that "Hunger Games just ripped it off."

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Another comedy classic Groundhog Day also received its fair share of criticism from Quentin Tarantino and it is all about Bill Murray's arc. In his book Cinema Speculation Tarantino revealed that he was frustrated with Murray's feel-good films of the 1980s.

"Complex characters aren't necessarily sympathetic. Interesting people aren't always likable, Tarantino writes. "If you did make a movie about a f***g bastard, you could bet that f***g bastard would see the error of their ways and be redeemed in the last twenty minutes."

And this is what happens with Murray's characters. The filmmaker argues that Chevy Chase was far better at that because he managed to "remain the same sarcastic aloof as f** at the film's end he was at the beginning."

And Groundhog Day was one such film where Bill Murray's character needed no redemption; after all, "a less sarcastic Bill Murray" is not what everybody needs.

Marvel films in general are what Tarantino really loathes. Just like many other renowned film directors such as Martin Scorsese or Ridley Scott he does not think they are movies and actors inhibiting superheroes are not real stars. He also said he was waiting for the superhero genre to fall out of favor.

"I don't love them. No, I don't. I don't hate them, alright? But I don't love them," he told Tom Segura's 2 Bears, 1 Cave podcast.