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Once upon a time in Hollywood
Short version: I slept during a movie made by Tarantino with Di Caprio and Brad Pitt !
Longer version: Tarantino has become his own cliché: shots of feets checked, Nazi getting burned checked, revision history checked, reference to old movies checked, reference to bruce lee checked ... The story is all over the place and you have very long scenes that contributes nothing to the story. The actors play perfectly and the camera movements are amazing so any cinephile will love that. Too bad he forgot that it needed a story or people would get confused, then bored and finally asleep. I guess Tarantino has finished drinking his own Kool-Aid and now believes in his own hype. We're very far from Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill on this one. I'm even more disappointed that one of my favourite movie is Once upon a time in the West and Once upon a time in America is a masterpiece. This movie doesn't deserve that title and doesn't tell that story. ps: I'm too young to get 80% of the references... |
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Like you I didn't care for the movie. I have no idea what he was trying to say.
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IMO it's his best movie since Pulp Fiction. Classic buddy movie. Summer of 1969 in Los Angeles. Former TV star Rick Dalton who is dealing with a drinking problem and fading career with his sidekick Cliff Booth who might or might not have killed his wife.
Summer of 1969 1. Ted Kennedy and the dead Woman in the back of his car 2. Moon Landing. 3. Charley Manson. 4. Woodstock. |
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It was movie about 1 summer
I enjoyed it Especially the Bruce Lee bit |
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I enjoyed it as well. It was slow developing focusing on developing the story for the killer ending. I also enjoyed the scene with Bruce Lee.
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I really enjoyed it and his attention to the visual details of the time made me very nostalgic.
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Once upon a time in Hollywood
I loved the movie for period correct everything. I was 13 in the summer of 1969 and tuned into the music, the cars, even the TV commercials. It was all spot on. The gratuitous over the top violence and re-writing history were also really well done - Tarantino is a master at both.
anti pop I definitely get it - if you were too young to enjoy the movie as a period piece and are not a Tarantino fan to boot I can see where the whole thing would be a sloppy mess.
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My buddy says that Tarantino shoots great scenes, but not great movies. This movie made me think he was more right than ever about that.
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Good point. The 'tube had a halcyon moment when it showed his last film in four segments. He is very good with actors and that will stand if his legacy is seen as formulaic.
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I agree. He has about 10 minutes of interesting scenes surrounded by two hours of filler that often add nothing. At least were not subjected to extended minutes of gratuitous violence this time around. He saved that for the last few minutes when he had already lost most of the audience already.
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