He’s one of a kind…He’s a filmmaker who belongs to that exclusive club of directors whose name alone can be the attraction—or better, often TOPS the actual title of the movie.
He is Quentin Tarantino with a kaleidoscope of movies like PULP FICTION, DJANGO UNCHAINED, KILL BILL, THE HATEFUL EIGHT and INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS among others to his credit.
He has vowed to top off his career after he finishes his tenth movie. (Ok, we’ll see about that…..)
Today he unleashes his ninth big screen opus.
Call it has love letter to the film business or whatever. But with ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Tarantino immortalizes tinsel town through the lens and music of the 60’s.
A fateful period of transition from Hollywood’s golden age.
A time apparently very close to Tarantino’s early fascination with the industry.
The setting here is 1969 Hollywood where Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Rick Dalton, star of a once hot weekly western series called ‘Bounty Law.’ But he is now struggling and trying to make it into the movies.
Then there’s Brad Pitt as his longtime stuntman, double, driver and everyday assistant.
That premise with detours—and homage to Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western era involving Al Pacino—is set against the backdrop of next door neighbor Roman Polanski….and especially wife Sharon Tate played by Margot Robbie.
Tinsel town cameos all over the place including the likes of Bruce Dern, Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch, Damien Lewis, Luke Perry and Brenda Vaccaro just to mention a few.
All in, it’s maybe not as violent when compared to previous Tarantino outings and you have to wait until almost the final act for it all to explode. And that’s a long time when one considers that the film runs right at 2:40 hours. (Hey, Tarantino gets ‘Final Cut’ privileges.)And ABOUT that ending?
It’s something else. Did I mention Sharon Tate? How about Charles Manson and the gang. My lips are sealed!
If you’re into the behind the scenes of the movies and are fascinated by Hollywood then this is your Must-See film this summer!
(Oh, and an interesting bonus scene appearing about halfway into the end credits. It’s worth your time!)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD with a B grade….to kill for.
(Opening wide)
It looks great, can’t wait to see it.
Look at this review.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/quentin-tarantinos-exploitation-has-no-place-in-hollywood-anymore/
Some Commie Commissar forces the movie into his subjective, “Woke” paradigm and lectures Americans on “Good Think”. It’s a pathetic, political sophistry designed to “WOKE” we uninformed hoi polloi before we made the fatal mistake of enjoying the movie.
Movie reviews, from Hollywood, the most political town in America, including Washington DC, are increasingly difficult to trust.
Rotten Tomatoes is a good example.
Sifting through the chaff for a decent review of an upcoming flick, requires a predetermined knowledge of the reviewer’s politics and the ability to shade his/her review, based on those same politics.
I pretty much gotta go with Rex Reed. He is liberal as hell, but so fuckin grouchy that he accidentally gets it right most of the time.
… if yesterday wasn’t better, why do we look/go back?
‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELeMaP8EPAA
Evidence, man does not learn from history, his or it. Repeats, wallows in it. Neither good nor bad necessarily, be honest about it. Realm entertainment, doesn’t want to learn much as relive its finest moments – over, and over, and over, again…
Even documentary artifact believes it can reinvent/better that came before – oh, the OCD of it all. Sports, ‘That’s The Way It Was’ an equally late show/host Curt Gowdy which, half a decade mid 1970’s, flashed us back happenings long preceded it, afore ‘progress’ came, and changed everything… for the better… and here we are, today.
Life imitates art? Vis-à-vis. As those farewell tours that last forever, we love to wallow. Serling-like twist end a ‘Twilight Zone’ episode modern aside, Rod himself admitted to stealing from his predecessors, and they in turn from their own experience. If nothing is ever truly new under the sun, then rigor of a rite a ‘memory’ be our raison de vivre… even if a by-product ‘someone else’s memory, to start with.
1997 remake Serafian’s original fade to black ’70 Challenger ‘Vanishing Point’, itself a merging two disparate real life incidents, years afore. 1986 space shuttle Challenger’s final act same become tv movie, followed just January this year 2019 silver screen do over; can’t get over ourselves, everything O ld be C omes new again an D again and…
“And ABOUT that ending? It’s something else. Did I mention Sharon Tate? How about Charles Manson and the gang. My lips are sealed!”
– 5oth anniversary come August 8 will doubtless dig up some more memories, if not cremated portions Charlie himself, scattered variously creek bed and bedroom urns. Come some 21st century year not far beyond, he too will surely be resurrected the ‘a little piece of me’ son of man retrospective, script as ‘gift ash with every ticket sold!’ coming to a theater near you.
“you have to wait until almost the final act for it all to explode…”
– Manson said ‘everything in life is about in and out’ explosion copulation, eating, evacuating, seeking get within happiness from somewhere outside of it, till epilog supplants prolog.
As the swiss chiefs trapped within their ‘wait till next year’ become tomb tour embarks birthday 50, Kerouac departs now fire up his ’70 Challenger… as everything /everyone other Houdini, Douglas MacArthur, Siskel and Ebert (Rex Reed being in that limbo in between, is he coming or going?), shall return… as Maltin: Let’s Go To The Movies!
Why not.
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^^Sometimes a movie review is just a movie review chuck.
There are two movie reviews here. Jack’s is JUST a movie review, the one I posted is hectoring, insufferable, agitprop from a sanctimonious Prog.
No doubt, you enjoyed the one I posted almost as much as a speech from that well known thespian, Cory “Spartucus” Booker.