‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Review: Tarantino Masterpiece Hates on Hippies and Wokesters

Breitbart's Entertainment ^ | July 26, 2019 | John Nolte

[Bratch]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is quite the comeback for Quentin Tarantino. After the stillborn Hateful Eight and the loss of his mentor Harvey Weinstein into the maw of #MeToo, the writer-director is all on his own with his ninth film; he’s off-the-leash, flush with 90 million of Sony’s dollars, and what did he deliver…?

A straight-up masterpiece.

If this isn’t the movie Tarantino was born to direct (that was probably Pulp Fiction) OUATIH is unquestionably the movie his 27-year career has been chugging toward, the one where it all comes together: a passion for forgotten B-movies, for correcting history, for all things pop culture (including commercials), for a time and place before the disease of chain restaurants and big box stores infected every other time and place, for obscure pop songs the now-corporatized Oldies Stations refuse to play, for cooler than cool men who are all men, for womenly women who are all woman, and for a deliberate pace that slowly raises a middle finger to the MTV-afflicted.

OUTIH is not just a movie, it’s an experience — a hypnotic, captivating, immersive tour. Over one weekend in early February 1969, Tarantino dedicates himself to taking us back to a Hollywood that probably never existed — a magic place, where it’s still safe to pick up hitchhikers and leave your doors unlocked. A fabled place, where the hippies are still everything they say they are: all about peace, love, and easy sexuality. A mythical place, where the studios and their clean cut, square-jawed heroes have not yet been replaced by Easy Riders and Raging Bulls.

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I cannot wait to see this movie again … and again … and again … and again.

 

[minnesota_bound]

Rex Reed said it was a comedy leading up to the Manson murders with a twist. A comedy. In short another sick Tarantino movie.
He could have left out the Mansion connection but he has a sick mind.

Imaginative and Awful, ‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’ Is Typical Tarantino
https://observer.com/2019/07/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-review-brad-pitt-leonardo-dicaprio-margot-robbie-rex-reed/

[babyfreep]

Not in “From Dusk til Dawn”, either. (Harvey Keitel is, however.)

[kelly4c]

Why do I only seem to get the negative intuitions? I can’t remember any really positive ones.

[Jmouse007]

“You KNOW, ...for KIDS.” :o)

Love The Hudsucker Proxy.

[elbook]

Consider that just making ONE Great Movie — is more than the vast majority in Hollywood EVER did.

[gcparent]

Omg were you lucky. You have great intuition.

[gundog]

Inglorious Basterds, Deathproof....his role in Kill Bill is practically a cameo....

Michael Parks turns up a lot, too.

[Lockbar]

"Jackie Brown starring Pam Grier was a great movie."

I agree, very much.

[jpsb]

Yeah I loved Kill Bill, a little over the top but still very enjoyable.

[circlecity]

I agree. Jackie Brown was the last good Tarantino movie. But I’ll give this one a chance.

[circlecity]

"I just watched True Romance, a 1993 film."

Great movie. That scene with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken was pure gold.

[plain talk]

thanks for the tip.

[spacejunkie2001]

LOL

[BradyLS]

In the Shakespearean sense, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a comedy. It has an arguably happy ending. The movie is ostensibly about the fall and rise of the career of Rick Dalton (DiCaprio). But it’s really about the bad-assery of Cliff Richards (Brad Pitt).

I don’t want to spoil it by saying any more. There’s a reason why Breitbart raves about it.

[Borges]

It’s comic in tone...so is the violent finale. It’s really great filmmaking rom start to finish. Loaded with extraneous details that will take multiple viewings to pick up on.

[Borges]

The ending is actually quite sad...it assumes the audience knows what really happened. It has an “wouldn’t it be nice” aftertaste.

[BradyLS]

Totally agree.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Reservoir Dogs

Jackie Brown

True Romance

Sin City

all great movies

Oh no wonder. Well that explains it. *eyeroll*

[RinaseaofDs]

I saw it. Best of his fims since PF. It’ll be a classic. DiCaprio and Pitt were outstanding.

[Nateman]

Loaded with extraneous details that will take multiple viewings to pick up on

I grew up in L.A. during this time. Half the fun of this movie was digging into the details of stuff I had no idea happened at the time. Chatsworth to me was a long train tunnel to Semi Valley that I explored as a kid. No idea it had that movie history to it. Or Manson.