I would like for him to adapt another novel. Jackie Brown is still his best by far.
It’s fun to see his genre homages because fans of those movies can have a fun time. But to take him serious as a director by doubters of QT, he needs to leave his own mark on film, not praise others that came before him in his films.
QT is more of the dude I would like to hang around with discussing movies all day. I don’t know if I would call for him to showcase originality as a director though. I am a fan of his, so I’m not hating on his films. I want him to succeed. That is why I think it is for the best he drop the homages and do his own thing. Pop culture references has been done before with Godard. He can keep that in his films, but the homages is what is killing his legacy as a true fimmaker in my opinion. I really hope that he shows us what he has someday.
Also, I know he hates “snobby” people, and I know it sometimes can be a good thing for him being a crossover of mainstream and “arthouse”, but I think that is also what is hurting. I believe he needs to choose a side, because mainstream complains about things in his films that they can’t understand and “arthouse” fans bash his films due to lack of originality and just sees him as a gimmick.
Someone like PTA crosses over greatly due to his “homages” isn’t what makes his films, you just see things in them that you can trace back and say he was inspired by so-and-so’s work. It helps that his films are all somewhat original. He isn’t forcing a G.W. Pabst down your throat with references, he could film a scene like a director, but he doesn’t spill out names just to rub in his education on film.
