One of my all time favorite movies, but as with all of his movies, it is so disjointed, that it needs to be watched multiple times to really understand the flow.
You hear me hill-billy boy?
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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“You know, Fighting in a Basement offers a lot of difficulties”
“Number 1 being, You’re Fighting in a Basement”
Yep.
More evidence that hollyweird is run by perverts
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.
Yet completely accurate. As I posted in another thread on the same topic, it had a certain Beavis & Butthead quality to it. As if the Jonah Hill character in Superbad, obsessed with drawing penises everywhere, woke up to a wet dream where he avenged the Holocaust by traveling back in time to burn Hitler alive.
I didn’t like Pulp Fiction or Inglorious Basterds either. I found them long, boring, yucky, and weird. That said, I’m going to see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood tonight, because I’m giving him one more chance.
Inglorious Basterds was infantile.
I thought it just stupid and could not suspend my
disbelief.
The Once upon a time movies I though were quite good
in their execution.
Haven’t seen this one yet, rarely go to the big screen
now.
I would have loved to be in the room when Tarantino pitched "Dusk till Dawn" to the money guys. Who would have thought a story about two bad brother bank robbers would transition into a vampire movie and actually get a go? Robert Rodriquez (Desperado) directed it, but Tarantino wrote it. Best thing George Clooney has ever done.
"Now let's kill that band!".
Me too. I also thought it was insulting to WWII vets. And Jews for that matter. The “Jew bear” was just as masochistic as the Nazis. As a veteran, do you think I was right, or off base?
Agree.
Heading out in about ten minutes to see it.
I love his movies, but good God is he a POS.
When I went to see that movie, I had no idea there were vampires in it. It was pretty wild. I liked that movie too.
Rex Reed... what a bitch.
Correct on both of your points.
Oh, give him two more chances. He’s said he’ll quit after one more movie. I seriously hope not.
One of my all time favorite movies, but as with all of his movies, it is so disjointed, that it needs to be watched multiple times to really understand the flow.
You hear me hill-billy boy?
I could watch Hitler and his top command get shot to pieces as others die from the fire any time. It's what all decent people wish had happened, even after knowing about the failed assassination attempts on Hitler. The movie, "Valkyrie" closely follows the biggest attempt to kill that butcher. If you don't like don't like Tom Cruise, don't bother.
"I also thought it was insulting to WWII vets. And Jews for that matter. The “Jew bear” was just as masochistic as the Nazis. As a veteran, do you think I was right, or off base?"
The whole scalping and Jew Bear was over the top, but let me tell you something my WWII Father told me just before he died. Once the Americans found out that the Germans were killing POW's in the woods, my Father and his platoon had no reservation in doing same on occasion. You can say my Father was a war criminal, but I see it as giving what you get. There are many more instances of Allies executing the Nazi POW's. What do you think happened when we found the "death camps"?
It also happened in the island hopping with the Japs. Do you think our flame throwers shot into their holes to burn the alive was wrong? I say good - kill them all. Then we nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killed thousands of civilians. Guess who are our best allies from that war? I'm so tired of our half-assed efforts in wars that kill our children with no positive outcome. Again, kill everyone or don't go there.
I agree with everything you said. I would just add that what tipped the scales against Japan were the mass civilian suicides urged on them by Japanese soldiers, and the civilians being forced to carry grenades which they popped after surrendering to US troops.
You can’t take prisoners when they are booby trapped.
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