Before being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, Bruce Willis had starred in a lot of direct-to-video movies. Critics trashed many of these films, and the Razzies even gave Willis his own category (which they later rescinded after his diagnosis). However, Quentin Tarantino has defended Bruce Willis’ direct-to-video movies on the Video Archives Podcast after watching a bunch of them.

“These movies that he’s been making for these companies have really gone under fire in a really big way,” Tarantino said, “and there’s been these kinds of expose articles written about them and talking shit about these movies.” Much like the rest of us at the time, Tarantino remembers thinking, “What the f*** is this, what the f*** is Bruce Willis doing this stuff for?” Ultimately, Tarantino “decided to watch a few of them to see how Bruce equipped himself” and was quite surprised by how much he enjoyed them.