Film fans are fuming after comparing the IMDB scores of two top directors and finding one has come out on top. IMDB, which stands for Internet Movie Data Base, is a globally-recognised website where people can rate films out of a potential full score of ten.
It also contains facts about films and cast lists as well as release dates and plot summaries. A post on Facebook compared the IMDB scores of ten Quentin Tarantino films and ten Christopher Nolan’s films and revealed that Nolan’s discography beat out Tarantino consistently — but fans of Tarantino aren’t so sure.
Pulp Fiction, Tarantino’s most famous film, is ranked at 8.8 and Nolan’s The Dark Knight comes in at 9.1
Moving down the list there’s Tarantino’s Django Unchained (8.5) compared to Inception (8.8) and then Inglorious Basterds (8.3) against Interstellar (8.6).
Although not mentioned on the list, Nolan’s Oppenheimer was another smash blockbuster hit with an IMDB rating of 8.3.
Throughout the list, Nolan beats Tarantino’s score all the way down — but Tarantino fans aren’t happy.
Comments on the post blast the ranking as “ridiculous” with one man writing: “In what world is The Dark Knight better than Pulp Fiction? Voted for by comic book nerds probably”.
Another said: “Quentin Tarantino would eat Nolan’s lunch in front of him… this is ridiculous.”
Another commenter wrote that: “Nolan is a great director of blockbuster films of other peoples ideas. Tarantino creates his own ideas and then directs them into reality and they become blockbusters. Tarantino is a genius. Nolan is a director”
The full scores of each film are below
Quentin Tarantino | Christopher Nolan |
Pulp Fiction (8.8) | The Dark Knight (9.1) |
Django Unchained (8.5) | Inception (8.8) |
Inglorious Basterds (8.3) | Interstellar (8.6) |
Reservoir Dogs (8.3) | The Prestige (8.5) |
Kill Bill Volume 1 (8.2) | The Dark Night Rises (8.4) |
Kill Bill Volume 2 (8) | Memento (8.4) |
The Hateful Eight (7.8) | Batman Begins (8.2) |
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (7.6) | Dunkirk (7.8) |
Jackie Brown (7.5) | Following (7.5) |
Death Proof (7.0) | Tenet (7.3) |