re: Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

I thought it was really great, and I went to watch it a second time in the theater. It’s a film that is beautifully shot, and I didn’t want to miss out on any visual details.

Had to give a long primer historical explanation to my Gen Z college aged kids who went to see the movie with me about the Manson family and Sharon Tate, etc.

Here’s a really good (but long) discussion about the movie from a YouTube channel that I like:

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I thought it was really great, and I went to watch it a second time in the theater. It’s a film that is beautifully shot, and I didn’t want to miss out on any visual details.

Had to give a long primer historical explanation to my Gen Z college aged kids who went to see the movie with me about the Manson family and Sharon Tate, etc.

Here’s a really good (but long) discussion about the movie from a YouTube channel that I like:

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Yeah i'm looking forward to seeing it. I hope i like it. You never know with these Tarantino movies though.

Take pulp for instance. I liked it well enough, it was good but it was nothing more to me than just a fun movie to watch. It was unique but i wasn't moved by it like so many others were.

But dogs? Holy shite what a movie that was. I was the first of my friends to see it and i begged them to rent it. Back then it went straight to video.

Anyway, whatever. His movies are hit and miss, no one can agree though on which ones hit and which ones miss. I personally think the bills are far and away his best work and jackie brown, basterds and death proof is his worst. Everything else just sorta falls in between. I never understood why eight didn't get better press. That's his most underrated movie.

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But dogs? Holy shite what a movie that was. I was the first of my friends to see it and i begged them to rent it. Back then it went straight to video.

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I saw Reservoir Dogs opening day at Canal Place. It may not have had a broad release but if you lived in a decent-sized city it was at the theatre.

Just the fact that it opened in 1931 and is still open is pretty impressive and would make me interested in visiting.

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I thought basterds was a pile 'a shite. Dogs was a work of art. Pulp was fun to watch but by no means fantastic and to me, both Bills should hang in the Louvre.

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You're certainly entitled to your opinion - film is subjective, of course. However, based on this, I would take all such opinions from you with a box of salt.

I found it to be ok. Fell pretty flat for me

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You're certainly entitled to your opinion - film is subjective, of course. However, based on this, I would take all such opinions from you with a box of salt.

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Salt or not. His movies stir different opinions.

Django for instance was a pretty shitty movie too, until samuel Jackson entered the picture and then it became worth watching.

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Eight was pretty good. Basterds was as bad as jackie brown and jackie brown was frickin' awful.

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All this guy does is post about how Tarantino sucks. I think he searches for threads just to post on them.

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Right - since a huge unseen character throughout the film is "The Manson killings" - as we get closer and closer to the time, it builds sort of an organic form of tension that is hard to describe. Folks who are unware of the Manson Family at all don't experience that and that mutes the impact of the entire film

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I finally got around to watching this last night. The pending Tate killings looms over the entire movie. My wife won't watch it because she is afraid of how those killings will be portrayed.

When the alternate reality ending happens, there is a sense of relief and good bit of revenge; similar to how I felt when Hitler had his face blown to pieces in Basterds.

I can tell my wife she can now watch the movie without having to worry.

He’s been posting about this movie for months but he still hasn’t seen it. Weird behavior.