Posted on 01/20/2020 8:33:46 AM PST by nikos1121
I purchased, not rent, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood last night, and I've already watched it a second time, (I'm off on Monday's.) The movie is fantastic, and will be sure to please those who like witty and fun movies with actors that poke fun at themselves. I think it's up for best picture.
It will also please those of us here who were in High School and College in the 60s. In fact, there's a lot of truth in the movie, as it takes you back to those days. Think Charles Manson, spaghetti westerns, Bobby Kennedy, mediocrity in the TV industry, throwing garbage on the ground, hippies and polyester. I forgot how really stupid those times were, including the music.
Like other Trantino movies you have as many well known faces slipped in to make the scene interesting. Kurt Russel, Al Pacino, Bruce Dern and Luke Perry are all in here, but the stars are Brad Pitt and De Caprio, your eyes will by on these two the whole time. Margot Robbie plays Sharon Tate, better than Sharon Tate played herself.
In short, it's a very funny and entertaining movie with a lot going on.
Wasn't it Steve McQueen who beat up Bruce Lee with all Lee's "hiyah" karate moves? That was so funny. That's why Tarantino is one of my favorite writer/directors. He changes things around to his own vision of what could be or should be. Much like M. Night Shyalaman, he surprises the audience with twist endings. I love it.
"Natsies". Loved it.
Awesome movie. Saw it in the theater and again at home. No PC bullsh&t. Great ending. Lots of nostalgia. Fine acting. Gotta find me some of that Wolf’s Tooth dog food.
I get it and appreciate it. It's his style and can live with it. The guy has an outlook on stories that few directors have. He could be compared to Hitchcock with his slow suspense building style.
The opening scene of Inglourious Basterds with Hans Landa is a classic in how to gradually build up the tension.
I hope you stayed for the credits.
Can’t believe the guy that played Steve McQueen is the same guy that played Major Winters in Band of Brothers.
“ Wasn’t it Steve McQueen who beat up Bruce Lee with all Lee’s “hiyah” karate moves?”
No, that was Brad Pitt’s character...a howlingly funny scene from start to finish.
Did you catch the name "Antonio Marghereti" in both "Inglourious Basterds" and "Once Upon a Time"?
yes, there are a lot of those “Easter Eggs” in the movie.
Oops, my bad. That scene just killed me and the wife. We could hardly catch out breath from laughing. With all the angst and slow parts who saw that coming? Tarantino is a frigging cinematic and story telling genius. He writes his own stories, plots, dialog, directs, produces, and even plays parts in some movies.
I remember it like yesterday as the facts unfolded in 1970-71
It remains one of the worst things I remember from my teens
She was so precious
Such savagery from such young women towards a swollen ready to burst pregnant woman barely older than they were
Horrid
It’s never left me that murders memory
“I loved this movie was the music but also the depiction of Southern CA during the time”
You are seeing the old Southern California when it was still America. The 3rd world immigration tsunami that would change SoCal forever had barely started.
I had just graduated high school that year. Knew a couple of peripheral members of the Manson family before it became a murder cult.
I never get tired of Gimme Shelter. My favorite moment is when the girl’s voice breaks as she’s belting “shot away” in the middle section. Jagger cheers her on with an appreciative whoop.
I was just telling my son about this today (he’s thirteen). Told him I remember when litter really was a problem and people did work together to fix it.
enjoyed the clip and the video comments had even MORE easter eggs!
“2. Dirty bare feet seems to be a message. The hippies and Sharon Tate both have them.”
bare female feet are a theme throughout Tarantino movies ...
I think I’ll have to watch it again. I think I was less enamored of Tarantino than I was of Pitts.
My favorite version with Fergie on top of her game and amazing Mick with her voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQNTNWaYlUw
I’ve been thinking of our conversation, and I’ve spoken to some friends who are bigger De Caprio and Tarantino fans than you and me, and they tend to agree with us.
De Caprio isn’t and never will be a Johnny Depp. He will always be De Caprio playing De Caprio actor, but that’s the same frankly as some of the other great male leads like Gable, and Eastwood, Harrison Ford and even Brad Pitt in this movie. I don’t have a problem with that.
I find myself staring at these guys the entire time they’re on the screen, and you know that they know people are doing this, and they’re going to watch every movement, every nuanced gesture.
They take roles that are about real people. Aviator did it for me. I really saw De Caprio for the first time as being a larger than life kinda actor.
The less you know about them personally the better.
I struggle now with De Niro, since I know his politics, I hate the guy, and I’m really not excited about seeing The Irishman.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, that I’ve evolved with De Caprio. I was down on him, and not interested in seeing anything, for the reasons you give, ie I didn’t think he was really that great an actor...but now I think he is.
There’s a scene in OUATIH, where the Al Pacino pary, Mr. Schulz, has beat down De Caprio, and De Caprio cries on Pitts shoulder who tells him, “Hey, don’t cry in front of the Mexicans.”
They get in the De Ville and drive off. De CAprio is depressed, like the world is over, and over the radio you hear the newscaster reporting that Bobby Kennedy has just been shot, and of course these two jokers, couldn’t care less about it. And I’m “convinced” by their portrayals of these two guys, that they really couldn’t care less.
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