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re: Watching Once Upon in Hollywood..
Posted on 12/11/19 at 5:55 pm to BigB0882
Posted on 12/11/19 at 5:55 pm to BigB0882
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Maybe you elitists can spend a few seconds explaining what makes this film so great and what the OP might be missing?
I haven’t said anything in this thread, but I can’t really say what makes me enjoy the movie. Maybe it’s just that I really enjoyed the acting like an actor, that is acting in the story. I had never seen it that well done before. It was incredible to watch some of the scenes.
The sets are also incredible. Lots of laughs for me as well.
It was one of my favorite films of the year.
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Posted on 12/11/19 at 6:31 pm to McCaigBro69
Thank you! This is the conversation I expect from the Movie/TV board as opposed to the OT schtick that seems to have infiltrated.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 6:40 pm to BigB0882
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Maybe you elitists can spend a few seconds explaining what makes this film so great and what the OP might be missing? Instead of just sitting there trying to act cool. Literally no one has answered his question except to say “wait for the next big CGI laiden film where you can keep an eye on your phone and not miss a beat.” That doesn’t help at all and you don’t come across any smarter because of your response.
Quentin Tarantino is to Muhammed what his movies are to the Quran.
Criticize them at your own peril. If you so much as suggest that he's made some shite movies, you become a cinematic infidel.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 7:05 pm to BigB0882
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Maybe you elitists can spend a few seconds explaining what makes this film so great and what the OP might be missing? Instead of just sitting there trying to act cool.
LOL, who's trying to act cool? It's a tired schtick for people to start threads on here letting everyone know that they don't like things that are popular. Who gives a frick? Stick to the OT. And starting a thread partway through a movie to ask why you should keep watching is just fricking stupid. Watch it or don't.
This isn't an elementary school classroom to explain to you why you should watch something or what you're supposed to get out of it. Watch what you like; but the blase unimpressed hipster act is old and stale.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 7:14 pm to PowerTool
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Posted on 12/11/19 at 7:37 pm to PowerTool
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LOL, who's trying to act cool? It's a tired schtick for people to start threads on here letting everyone know that they don't like things that are popular. Who gives a frick? Stick to the OT. And starting a thread partway through a movie to ask why you should keep watching is just fricking stupid. Watch it or don't.
This. And not to mention there were already 2 threads on this movie on the first page of this board. But people have to start a new one to let everyone know they didn’t like something
Posted on 12/11/19 at 7:42 pm to Pandy Fackler
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If you so much as suggest that he's made some shite movies, you become a cinematic infidel.
When you constantly post in threads about a movie you haven’t seen just so you can keep pointing out that you don’t like some of the directors movies, you become an annoying troll that no one will take seriously
Posted on 12/11/19 at 9:05 pm to jg8623
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When you constantly post in threads about a movie you haven’t seen just so you can keep pointing out that you don’t like some of the directors movies, you become an annoying troll that no one will take seriously
Look, I didn't start the thread but once it's out there, it's for general consumption, ya know. There's no need to get bent over it though. It's just a little coffee talk, that's all.
It's only movies. It's ok to not be taken "seriously" over movies.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 9:09 pm to jg8623
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And not to mention there were already 2 threads on this movie on the first page of this board. But people have to start a new one to let everyone know they didn’t like something
I promise. When I finally see it i won't start a new thread.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 9:56 pm to Pandy Fackler
Posted on 12/13/19 at 7:35 am to PowerTool
This movie was the most “Kevin Smith-ish” Tarantino film to date. Excessive dialogue except throw in QT’s foot fetish and long one-shot follow alongs when characters are walking or driving. I’ll agree acting was great but story sucked.
Glad I didn’t pay for it and I am a Tarantino fan.
Glad I didn’t pay for it and I am a Tarantino fan.
Posted on 12/13/19 at 8:15 am to McCaigBro69
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I had never seen it that well done before.
Your comment made me search my memory - I'm sure I'm missing something, but the only thing comparable is the audition scene with Naomi Watts and Chad Everett in Mullholland Drive, IMHO.
Posted on 12/13/19 at 8:46 am to jg8623
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The spawn ranch scene was great. But I imagine it wouldn’t have been quite as good if I was posting on TD in the middle of it
You can 100% notice how many people are watching movies at home instead of at the theater and are the ones that far more often say a movie is boring.
I probably would've been distracted watching this movie at home, in the theater when you actually pay attention it was never boring
This post was edited on 12/13/19 at 8:48 am
Posted on 12/13/19 at 9:00 am to Dawgirl
I felt the same way. I was really let down by this movie and had totally checked out by the end. Inglorious basterds will never be topped.
Posted on 12/13/19 at 9:03 am to Ace Midnight
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Your comment made me search my memory - I'm sure I'm missing something, but the only thing comparable is the audition scene with Naomi Watts and Chad Everett in Mullholland Drive, IMHO.
The only movie I can remember about watching an actor act as an actor before in the movie is the disaster artist lol.
I just had never seen it done as well as Leo did.
Posted on 12/13/19 at 7:05 pm to Jordanreid2000
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Excessive dialogue
That's interesting. There are some Tarantino movies I don't like precisely because of excessive dialogue, but I didn't get that from this one.
Goes to show we can watch the same thing and see different things
This post was edited on 12/13/19 at 7:06 pm
Posted on 12/13/19 at 7:38 pm to PowerTool
Watched this last night. I loved the first 90% of the movie, but just like Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained it fell apart with the over the top violence at the end.
Tarantino's films are starting to devolve into a predictable pattern. Cool scenery and story setup followed by a gratuitous, gory ending.
This movie could have been so much better. I liked it overall though.
Tarantino's films are starting to devolve into a predictable pattern. Cool scenery and story setup followed by a gratuitous, gory ending.
This movie could have been so much better. I liked it overall though.
Posted on 12/13/19 at 7:45 pm to Jordanreid2000
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Excessive dialogue
This has killed or damaged some of his movies but when he gets it right, he gets it right.
Royale wit' cheese and the superman monologue to me were pitch perfect. They both peaked and ended exactly when they needed to.
The opening scene in basterds though? shite that was awful. It just went on waaaay too fricking long. It began tense. The tension built, it plateaued for a while and then just fizzled out to the point where you just wanted what we all knew would happen from the very beginning, to just go ahead and happen. All that suspenseful tension was lost because the director couldn't draw that shite to a tight close, he tried to sustain it for too long. It just praddled on and on and on. Bullets through the frickin' floor already, ya know. Get on with it.
I'm not saying it was as bad as all that chick talk in death proof but it was still pretty bad.
This post was edited on 12/13/19 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 12/14/19 at 12:27 am to Pandy Fackler
Just finished watching. Loved the movie and LD and BP were excellent.
Posted on 12/14/19 at 6:27 am to Jordanreid2000
It's a really indulgent movie because it's basically him reminiscing. I mean the italian stuff could have easily been cut but you know he wanted to reiterate his love for spaghetti cinema.
I enjoyed it and I think it's great to see him still making radical and important hollywood films at this stage in his career. He could have devolved into typical hollywood formula long ago but he's stayed true to doing whatever the frick he wants.
I thought it was a pretty conservative movie, with the love for the fading era of the 1950s and the hippies getting demolished and seems to me like maybe a metaphor for an alternate history of Vietnam also.
I enjoyed it and I think it's great to see him still making radical and important hollywood films at this stage in his career. He could have devolved into typical hollywood formula long ago but he's stayed true to doing whatever the frick he wants.
I thought it was a pretty conservative movie, with the love for the fading era of the 1950s and the hippies getting demolished and seems to me like maybe a metaphor for an alternate history of Vietnam also.
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