Quentin Tarantino Disses Ryan Reynolds’ Streaming Movies: ‘I’ve Never Seen Them. Have You?’

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Ryan Reynolds has starred in several big-budget movies for Netflix, including “6 Underground”, “Red Notice” and “The Adam Project”, in addition to the holiday musical “Spirited” for Apple TV+.

Despite that prodigious output, Reynolds’ streaming movies have eluded director Quentin Tarantino, who took a shot at the “Deadpool” star in a recent interview with Deadline.

The director of such acclaimed features as “Pulp Fiction” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” has long proclaimed to be no fan of movies produced for streaming services, used Reynolds as an example. READ MORE: Quentin Tarantino Explains Why He Doesn’t Do Sex Scenes In His Movies Discussing his impending retirement — Tarantino is in the process of making what he declares will be his final film — the director contended the time is right for him to make an exit. “And I mean, now is a good time because I mean, what even is a motion picture anyway anymore?

Is it just something that they show on Apple? That would be diminishing returns,” he said. Tarantino has long defended the cinematic experience, of watching a film in a theatre, feeling that streaming has cheapened that experience, citing Sony as “the last game in town that is just absolutely, utterly, committed to the theatrical experience.