Posted on 07/27/2019 3:38:01 PM PDT by Mariner
Rancid, preposterous and hysterically over the top in ideas and execution, “once upon a time” perfectly describes writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is indeed another hopped-up fairy tale like every other Tarantino epic. In everything from the ghastly Reservoir Dogs to the screwy Pulp Fiction to the vastly superior Inglourious Basterds, the Tarantino oeuvre follows the same pattern: disorganized scripts that fall all over the screen like scattered newspaper clippings from the days when we still had newspapers, an over-long mixed bag of wonderful performances and strung-together scenes badly in need of tighter editing, leading up to one great scene at the end both wild and scatterbrained enough for delusional critics to label him “visionary.” Hollywood is no exception. Imaginative and awful, it is typical Tarantino. Who else would envision the historic Manson gang massacre that gripped Tinseltown in a vise of terror as a comedy?
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I thought Inglourious Basterds was a visual masterpiece which captured abject terror better than any film I've ever seen.
Awesome movie if you lived in the late 60-70’s. Brilliant tale of the end of Hollywood prior to the current crop of nut jobs.
It’ certainly qualifies as one of the best Buddy Movies you’ll ever see.
Really want to see this. And yes, “Inglorious Bastards” is a great movie.
Go tonight, right now... You won’t regret it.
Inglorious Basterds is an excellent movie. I’ve liked every Tarantino movie I’ve ever seen including Reservoir Dogs.
I don’t think I’ve seen more than 3 or 4 of his nine.
IMHO, the best line from Inglorious was;
“More like Chewed out, I’ve been chewed before”
This is better than Inglorious, and I loved that movie. It can be argued that Brad Pitt steals the show this time like Christoph Waltz did.
“Bon-Jor-No!”
I saw it last night and it was really good. It took me back like a time machine. Like an earlier post said, it’s a great buddy movie.
Quinton knows how to get the best from Brad Pitt.
“Yeah, we got a word for that kinda odd in English, it’s called ‘suspicious’!”
He’s a brilliant writer when it comes to dialogue. The beginning of Inglorious basterds with Christoph Waltz playing the Nazi is amazing.
I liked the original better,
When Rex Reed does’t like a movie, he doesn’t mince words:
https://observer.com/2005/03/bobby-short-king-of-pop/
[For sewage in a cocktail shaker, there is Oldboy, a noxious helping of Korean Grand Guignol as pointless as it is shocking. What else can you expect from a nation weaned on kimchi, a mixture of raw garlic and cabbage buried underground until it rots, dug up from the grave and then served in earthenware pots sold at the Seoul airport as souvenirs? ]
It’s interesting that he’s back at The Observer. He was fired in 2017. Rex on Melissa McCarthy:
https://worldofwonder.net/queerquote-in-hollywood-if-you-dont-have-happiness-you-send-out-for-it-rex-reed/
[Reed is not very woke. In a review of Identity Thief (2013) he made references to Melissa McCarthy‘s weight, referring to her as “tractor-sized” and a “hippo”. Paul Feig, who directed McCarthy in Bridesmaids (2011) and The Heat (2013) tweeted: “I cordially invite Mr. Rex Reed to go fuck himself.” ]
“I speak the most Italian,............. Omar the third best”
Omar, “I don’t speak Italian?”
“Like I said, Third best”
Yeah, but she’s still a tractor.
Problem is, everyone wants bigger, more explosive, better hand to hand, and now every 100 pound woman to kick some giant guys' ass. I'd rather watch a well acted Rom-com nowadays. There are "chick flicks" I've watched time and again, then the stupid "Transformers" crap.
Seriously, I'm sick of the same over-the-top action movies that are targeted for teenage to 20 something boys. That's why I never go to the theater anymore. Yes, I get the studios are in the business of making money.
Inglorious Basterds was infantile. An exercise in sadomasochistic masturbation fantasy. Like most of Tarantino’s films, pure trash. Only Jackie Brown rose above the effluence of recycled set pieces and stage blood by the gallon.
Yes, put me in the “Thumbs Down” column.
“sadomasochistic masturbation”
Geez, that was harsh. LOL
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