Just finished re-watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood....

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Brad Pitt made the movie!

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I think margot robbie and her dirty feet made the movie.

This movie is proof that the audience will forgive a bad second act if they get a great finale.

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This movie is proof that the audience will forgive a bad second act if they get a great finale.

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Or in the case of Quentin Tarantino, they'll go through near unbelievable mental gyrations to convince themselves a shitty movie is actually good.

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Pandy Fackler, you sure do hate this movie. Like a lot a lot. Can’t stop spreading the word about its shittiness

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I didn't start the thread. I'm just chewing on it like everybody else. Anyway, it wasn't all bad, just mostly bad.

So 1 scene makes a full act for you?


And while that scene was fun, it was 99% irrelevant to the rest film. The only influence that scene has on the film’s ending was that it made Pitt recognize Tex in the final attack scene, which gave us a funny joke. But even if he had 0 clue who those people were, the film’s conclusion would have been exactly the same.

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The second act included Brad Pitt going to the Manson family compound, so in no way, shape, or form was the second act bad

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Although that scene started strong, it petered out and went nowhere. The only thing it set up was Cliff recognizing them in the final moments of the movie and that lasted what? Four seconds before he started beating them to death?

That scene would've been so much better had it shown cliff being somewhat seduced and taken in by that lifestyle.

The time devoted to that pointless bruce dern scene could've been devoted to it. In fact, it should've been that hot little hippie chick with the hairy pits that gave him the acid cigarette. Maybe she did, I forget. No matter.

The point is that it was just a lazy scene that ended with cliff beating up a hippie and had no significant value later in the movie. Big deal.

That entire bullshite scene so cliff could say something like this. "Yeah I remember you", right before he beats them all to death.

Wouldn't it have been more interesting if cliff met Manson and found himself taken by him? In fact, it would've been so much cooler had cliff been packing his bags to move there right when tex and the rest walked in. Now beating them to death under those circumstances would've been great.

I watched the movie for the first time last night and was kind of let down. I enjoyed it, there were some REALLY good scenes, but there was also some stuff that left me wondering how much longer. I’m glad I saw it, but it’s not a movie that has a ton of rewatchibility to me.

Finally watched this and I don't know what the hell I saw. It really didn't have a story or a point, it was just interesting scenes put together. That's ok I guess, it still made it better than 95% of the shite that comes out.

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It absolutely was irrelevant. It set up nothing that mattered and the way that scene ended, made it border on pointless.

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I mean, you don’t think it was important to show the actual Ranch and the people that lived there, how they lived etc?

I agree it would have been cool to see him interact with Manson but viewers needed that scene or the movie really isn’t even remotely connected to the Family at all.


Plus, it does give him the knowledge of who they were and where they are so he can tell the police about the Ranch at the end, presumably stopping the family before they do anything at all.


It really wasn’t pointless at all

I feel like the haters of this movie pound F5 praying for a new thread to pop up to shite on it