Yeah, then he kept talking and making movies and reality hit.
He still has some style (and the man can write dialogue like no one else), but it’s hard to make every movie a great movie. I can only think of three directors that I love every movie they have directed: Kurosawa, Kubrick, and Hitchcock.
Tarantino isn’t that good, and the last few movies have been (as Simon Cowell would say) horribly indulgent. But he has had a major influence on modern movies.