Well, I finally got around to watching "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

[TexasBushwhacker]

OMG - IT'S SO LONG and it has NO PLOT! If anyone else other than Tarantino shopped the script around Hollywood, it would have gone straight in the trash. It's as long as Pulp Fiction, but things HAPPENED in PF. His movies still make money, but I have no idea why.

[mitch96]

1. Two reasons... Tarantino and Brad Pitt.. nt

[onecaliberal]

2. I wasn't a fan.

[SamKnause]

3. I watched about 50 minutes of it.

I thought it was boring.

Maybe I will finish it one day, or maybe not.

[TygrBright]

4. To be fair, there were things happening, they just didn't make much sense.

It was the guy equivalent of a Barbara Cartland novel - all fantasy and formula.

I know a lot of guys who just swooned over it.

There were certainly some humorous moments. (I admit I sort of liked the Bruce Lee sequence.)

But it was mostly just fantasy stuff, "what SHOULD have happened" from the Tarantino-brain.

The Tarantino-brain seems to have a solid line on a lot of guy-fantasy stuff about revenge and proving how corrupt 'the system' is, and how much bullshit is involved in, well, everything. And the Lonely Rebel tropes, and the bromance stuff, etcetera.

This movie took all those things and tossed them together like a big salad.

Chick-flick for the penis-endowed, basically. AKA "Dick-flick."

helpfully,
Bright

[hlthe2b]

5. I know I am among an intense minority, but I've never become a fan of Tarantino's work

To each his own.

[Scrivener7]

29. I'm with you. Glad others enjoy him but I never got it.

[Sibelius Fan]

6. I liked it. Bought it on BluRay, in fact.

[we can do it]

7. Loved it. Makes total sense if you know the Manson story.

[USALiberal]

8. Lol! 10 academy award nominations! Maybe it's you?? Nt

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. Because it made a lot of money

Titanic got lots of nominations and made a lot of money too. It's still just a soap opera on a big boat.

The Academy is still made up of mostly old white men who love big budget movies that employ a lot of people and make a lot of money. Ever since they increased the number of Best Picture nominees in 2009, its significance has been diluted. It's still more significant than the Golden Globes though, which are ludicrous.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. It was indeed mostly boring.

Watched it on some premium channel months ago, without knowing anything about the film beforehand.

I kept watching when it became clear that the girls were part of the Manson family. I was curious if it was going to show what happened to Sharon Tate (also portrayed in the movie) and the other murder victims.

Then it obviously departed from what really happened, but I couldn't help but laugh at the flamethrower scene in the pool.

[LakeArenal]

10. We both have watched it several times.

No movie will be Pulp Fiction.

I liked it better than his western where EVERYONE is ugly and hateful and everyone dies.

We are talking about it. I call it a win for the movie.

[Croney]

11. I loved it, especially the revision of what happened.

That rewriting of the horror story made my heart happy, if only for the few minutes I was able to let go of reality and dream.

And, Brad Pitt.

[Sedona]

12. This chick LOVED the flick

In fact I called it a masterpiece on more than one occasion.

and then there was this

[XanaDUer2]

14. Wasn't he great? Nt

[Polly Hennessey]

21. Yes, Sedona. And then there was that. 😋

[JustAnotherGen]

23. I loved how they styled him

Like Robert Redford

[XanaDUer2]

13. One of my favorites!

hated Kill Bill.

I like the re-creation of 1969. Margot Robbie is so pretty, and Sharon Tate's sister said she captured her sister's spirit.

Imo, the best scene is at Spahn ranch. Pitt walked away with the movie. I purchased the extra scenes version.

[Sedona]

16. LOVE ALL the T'tino movies EXCEPT

Kill Bill.

Unwatchable.

Go figure.

Django Unchained is off the hook.

Inglorious Bastards....

Alternate universe ending as well.

Pitt is SO good in that too!

[TexasBushwhacker]

22. I didn't like The Hateful Eight - too long and no sympathetic characters

There were parts of Kill Bill that were okay, but ultimately I think he should have made one solid 2 hour film instead of 2.

As they say, you must "kill your darlings" (or murder your babies depending on who your babies). QT is, and always has been, his own biggest fan. He would do so much better if he had a strong producer or editor who would reign him in.

The writer/director "auteur" method can produce amazing works of art, but it can also produce cinematic masturbation. I've grown tired of QT's racism and misogyny. I'm curious what he could do with someone else's script.

[JustAnotherGen]

24. Django

Made me a fan. I didn't "get" him until that movie. Then Bastards, Pulp Fiction.

I loved the alternative chain of events.

[rsdsharp]

15. I loved it, but to be totally honest I wanted to see what KHJ airchecks had been used.

I know some of the people who provided them.

[Itchinjim]

17. Loved it.

[BlueTsunami2018]

19. I loved it.

I watch it whenever it’s on. Then again I watch all his movies over and over. QT is a master of the art.

[MerryHolidays]

20. Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece

We still watch it and find all sorts of hidden messages and symbolism after 30 or 40 times of watching it. It's funny, paid homage to so many movies, was brilliantly edited, had first-rate dialogue, etc. I can't say enough about the movie.

I always thought that the reason that each segment was out of linear sequence was that Tarantino was trying to show that a moment of redemption that can change your life can happen at any time, not just at the end of your life or at the end of a movie. And you either take that redemption or you don't. Everything can change depending on what you do or don't do when that moment presents itself. Powerful stuff.

Samuel L. Jackson's failure to be nominated as Best Actor and his not winning Best Supporting Actor was an Academy travesty. The dynamic range of his performance is incredible. Travolta, Willis, Thurman, Rhames etc. gave fantastic performances too. But, IMHO, without any doubt, Mr. Jackson was the life force behind "Pulp Fiction." The last 10 minutes of the movie, which was really just mid-way through a linear sequence, is one of the finest in all moviedom, and it's Samuel L. Jackson who carries it.

"Once upon a Time in Hollywood" was just ok for me. I guess its ending was what we wish, in hindsight, had happened with Manson and the Family. But, it was incongruous because we know it didn't happen and that the real ending was so horribly awful. Great performances by Leonardo, Brad, Margot, etc., but it cannot match the magic of "Pulp Fiction".

[USALiberal]

28. +1000 nt

[Cuthbert Allgood]

25. (Full disclosure: Tarantino fan) I loved Once Upon a Time

It was a pretty good retelling of the Manson story with Tarantino's fairy tale ending. That's a solid plot. Nobody else but Tarantino would have come up with that script. It is genius. Tarantino said he would do 12 films and this was his 11th. I told my wife (not a Tarantino fan who liked the movie) that he just needs to quit with this one because I don't think he can top it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

26. Good retelling of the Manson story?

Manson was a white supremacist who wanted to start a race war (Helter Skelter).

[Cuthbert Allgood]

27. It focused on those in his web.

With a fairy tale ending instead of the actual ending.