Brad Pitt and stuntman Hal Needham (also the director of Smokey & the Bandit and Cannonball Run)
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.
Quentin Tarantino's ninth feature film is a story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood. The two lead characters are Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don't recognize anymore. But Rick has a very famous next-door neighbor...Sharon Tate.
Agreed. Cliff Booth is the coolest movie character in years.
My daughter RAVED about “Parasite.”
I just saw “1917” in the theater a week ago. What a tour-de-force that is! It shows WW I like it’s never been seen before.
I’m not a big Tarantino fan, but I really liked this movie. I agree, it’ll ring truest with folks who were in high school and college during the 60’s.
It’s rather a parallel-universe Hollywood. Things are what they were, only more so (as befits a Hollywood movie) and not _quite_ as you remember it.
25 Things You Missed In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNJQmcOSnpA
I’m waiting for Harvey Weinstein to come out with a movie about Fatty Arbuckle and the infamous champagne bottle incident.
You may have read earlier, that Burt Reynolds was slated to play George Spahn at the Spahn Ranch. Well Burt died so Bruce Dern got the nod.
I guess when you are working with those old time actors, you have to move fast.
Most of those actors burn the candle at both ends.
And now apparently they’re going to make 5 episodes of Bounty Law. Great movie. Certainly Tarantino at his best.
the ending is just fantastic....ive watched it at least 20 times. This is the ending anybody familiar with those crimes wished had happened...
Bruce Dern is still alive? Well, I declare!
I was not in HS at the time, only a kid but one of the reasons I loved this movie was the music but also the depiction of Southern CA during the time. It was like Tarantino had access to a time machine. Brought back a lot of good memories for me.
I thought 1917 was an artsy fartsy POS like Dungkirk.
I agree. The Cliff Booth character edges Rick Dalton as the real hero of the movie, IMO. Rick is too full of angst and drama. Cliff just gets it done.
The runtime is 2 hours and 40 minutes, I think, but it passes by very quickly. It's the kind of movie that you want to re-watch immediately after it's over--so many details that I missed the first time through.
The story is loosely based on the relationship between Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham, and it's their movie more so than Sharon Tate's.
Burt was actually going to play the George Spahn role, but died before filming began, but even so, the movie is perfectly cast. Brad Pitt deserves every award he's won so far for playing Cliff Booth.
There is a LOT of cursing--that's to be expected with any Tarantino movie, but otherwise I have no complaints. The ending is unexpected, hilarious, brilliant ... and bittersweet.
great film and the soundtrack was terrific!
we also saw and enjoyed Richard Jewell, 1917, Bombshell and want to see Uncut Gems.
I thought it sucked. For the first, I don’t know, 90 minutes or more, we were all trying to figure out what the freaking thing was about.
The best part was the end with the flame thrower. I laughed so hard I was crying. Other than that, it was waaaaayyyy too long, too disjointed and slow.
God, I am soooooooo happy I posted this. I’m sitting on my lazy boy, alone, watching this. My French Girlfriend, fell asleep, totally lost about what was going on.
I’m thinking, I have no one to share this with. I watched it to the end...AND THEN AGAIN THIS MORNING!!!!!
So, many things you pick up the second time around.
That’d be cool. One or two Bounty Law episodes should be in black-and-white. The rest in living color. And the first color episode should be a bit more colorful than the ones following.
Fantastic movie. Not a single wasted scene. Right up there with Unforgiven in that regard. Watched it twice now myself, first time in the theater. Rare I’ll pay to see something but that was worth the price of admission.
On topic, Brad won another award last night for best supporting actor for that role. During his acceptance speech he said, “Let’s be honest, it was a difficult part. A guy who gets high, takes his shirt off and doesn’t get along with his wife. It was a big stretch. Big”. Then just about lost it as the auditorium erupted in laughter.
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