Review, "Once upon s time in Hollywood."

[Averageman]

I'm glad it's been well received here, it's not got a lot of word of mouth recommendations here.
I remember that era and a couple of Sharon Tates movies.
I don't know how many times I've read helter skelter.

[mack7.62]

Yeah those folks were pure evil, I am sure some in the theater thought I was nuts because I was laughing my ass off at the end, if you didn't know the back story you likely didn't get it.

[SteyrAUG]

I'm glad it's been well received here, it's not got a lot of word of mouth recommendations here.
I remember that era and a couple of Sharon Tates movies.
I don't know how many times I've read helter skelter.

It's a nice fairy tale sounding movie, but I don't think I could enjoy it because I know what actually happened. It's like that piece of crap he made Inglourious Basterds. Nobody actually killed Hitler so it isn't entertaining and it's borderline offensive.

The fact that Kasabian actually got an immunity deal makes the whole premise even more offensive.

If somebody made a movie about 9-11 where Brad Pitt suddenly killed all of the terrorists with a machine gun and saves the day, I don't think I'd be able to enjoy that either.

[cd228]

The wife and I loved it as well. Knowing the history, I really was not looking forward to seeing the killings but the movie did it very well. I’ll leave it at that so as not to spoil it.

I had the same concern.

[WillBrink]

A great movie.
A failing actor (Di Caprio) his stunt double (Pitt) are facing the end of their careers in Hollywood and a series of events leads them to a revisionist history meeting with the Manson gang.

If you grew up in the 60s, or know a bit about the Manson Family, you'll love this movie.
Honesty had the entire theatre laughing out loud, plus it has flame throwers.

Do you generally like QT movies? Very hit or miss for me, usually miss. Many are mad at his portrayal of Bruce Lee apparently. If you're going to see a QT movie for accuracy or realism of any kind, and easily offended, you probably should not go to a QT movie is my response to that.

[WillBrink]

Tarantino sucks, he needs to stick to blacksploitation remakes. It's really the only thing he understands.

All his "alternative history" stuff comes off like a comic book.

He's wildly overrated, that's for sure.

[Arik]

It's a nice fairy tale sounding movie, but I don't think I could enjoy it because I know what actually happened. It's like that piece of crap he made Inglourious Basterds. Nobody actually killed Hitler so it isn't entertaining and it's borderline offensive.

The fact that Kasabian actually got an immunity deal makes the whole premise even more offensive.

If somebody made a movie about 9-11 where Brad Pitt suddenly killed all of the terrorists with a machine gun and saves the day, I don't think I'd be able to enjoy that either.

That can be said for a lot of WW2 movies. The events never happened so its offensive

[ramairthree]

He's wildly overrated, that's for sure.

He has a knack for nailing the late 60s early 70s drive in, B movie, exploitation, etc. vibe while incorporating elements of genius, that some previous genius did as groundbreaking work.

And I appreciate that. But at the end of the day he is the master of making homages to films so bad they are good while paying homage to some great, ground breaking films.

It’s like nobody is better at making modern versions of velvet Elvis’s with an occasional Sistine Chapel picture on them.

[WillBrink]

He has a knack for nailing the late 60s early 70s drive in, B movie, exploitation, etc. vibe while incorporating elements of genius, that some previous genius did as groundbreaking work.

And I appreciate that. But at the end of the day he is the master of making homages to films so bad they are good while paying homage to some great, ground breaking films.

It’s like nobody is better at making modern versions of velvet Elvis’s with an occasional Sistine Chapel picture on them.

I don't disagree with any of that, but I find the sum of its parts does not usually add up to a good movie experience with most of his stuff, much of it just garbage. Lot of his stuff starts out well, then just goes off the rails into total fail, ruing what could have been a solid movie. I grew up watching exactly the movies he tries to emulate/make homages to films to, and I still don't find them usually worth watching. Those movies were my era, but seeing era homages films over and over, not always even well done. I couldn't even get through Death Proof, it was just way too stupid for me, and I sat in the movie theaters Sat afternoon circa 70s as a kid watching those movies. I did like Jackie Brown which was a quality version of the exploitation genre.

[Averageman]

Do you generally like QT movies? Very hit or miss for me, usually miss. Many are mad at his portrayal of Bruce Lee apparently. If you're going to see a QT movie for accuracy or realism of any kind, and easily offended, you probably should not go to a QT movie is my response to that.

He's hit and miss with me. I would guess he's batting about 400 at this point.
Reservoir Dog's, Jackie Brown, Hateful Eight (Directors Cut), were pretty all pretty good. The rest, well they have their moments but...