Saw it again yesterday on digital and I think it might replace Jackie Brown as my favorite Tarantino movie. So fucking good.
Perhaps in future you should do some research about what a film is about before buying a ticket. It's what most people do.So this is actually a Margot Robbie movie and there was homework needed to understand the movie? I thought that was the movies job...why's Rick in it at all then if this is actually about Charles Mansons cult even though he wasn't in the movie and the hippies were just normal hippies up until the end?
So you're telling me the hippies aren't just regular hippies, their apart of a cult, run by Charles Manson, and they went to Ricks neighborhood looking for Margot. Instead of actually doing anything, they sit outside his house in their loud ass car long enough to get shoo'd away by Leonardo, and then they turn their sights on him. This is not doing the film any favours at all right now. The ENTIRE film is about what happened IRL to Sharon Tate?? But if you take Tate's family out of the movie and replaced them with ANY other celebrity, nothing changes. You can just say the Hippies were waiting for Rick and Cliff to get back so they can get their revenge. The crux of the film is dependent on knowing these people and what happened to them IRL but then changing them doesn't actually hurt the movie...
Yeah some historical knowledge is needed to properly grasp this film. It was communicated a lot beforehand so I read up on it before going to the cinema and it greatly helped me to get QT's message. Tate's murder was a major loss of innocence for Hollywood which is a major theme of the film. It wasn't just a random celebrity murder.So this is actually a Margot Robbie movie and there was homework needed to understand the movie? I thought that was the movies job...why's Rick in it at all then if this is actually about Charles Mansons cult even though he wasn't in the movie and the hippies were just normal hippies up until the end?
So you're telling me the hippies aren't just regular hippies, their apart of a cult, run by Charles Manson, and they went to Ricks neighborhood looking for Margot. Instead of actually doing anything, they sit outside his house in their loud ass car long enough to get shoo'd away by Leonardo, and then they turn their sights on him. This is not doing the film any favours at all right now. The ENTIRE film is about what happened IRL to Sharon Tate?? But if you take Tate's family out of the movie and replaced them with ANY other celebrity, nothing changes. You can just say the Hippies were waiting for Rick and Cliff to get back so they can get their revenge. The crux of the film is dependent on knowing these people and what happened to them IRL but then changing them doesn't actually hurt the movie...
I went into the film 100% blind, never watched a trailer and I sorta remember reading the charles manson cult thing now back before the movie came out but I didn't even remember that till the end of this post. I think QT should've let someone else direct with himself being a writer.
I just watched this, and I feel stupid. Is this like a alternate reality?
No it's exactly how the Manson murders went down in real life.
My family had a great time watching this last week. Movie has so much energy and it's super interesting watching my parents' reaction to how shit unfolds. They know all about the Manson murders and they were practically cheering at the ending.Watched it a third time with my family and this film gets better with age.
of course. the theater erupted when that happened. lmaoAMAZING MOVIE. Did everyone laugh their ass off when the flamethrower appeared at the end?
I cannot gush enough about the ending. The violence was hilarious and so cathartic seeing those shitty people get what they deserve. Sharon Tate got the ending she should have gotten in real life. I had an overwhelming sense of dread anytime she appeared on screen but sparing her was so beautiful.
The way QT plants that thing early on and pays it off at the end is just perfectAMAZING MOVIE. Did everyone laugh their ass off when the flamethrower appeared at the end?
I got around to seeing this movie on a flight. I'm usually a huge fan of Tarantino films,and was excited to see it when i first saw the trailer, but
i ended up not liking it. It was just boring.
Really kind of amazed at how many people actively hate this movie. To me I think its one of the most resonant and personal films to QT, and a wholy unique one at that. It is a movie thin on plot is the only thing I can look to, for a lot of people's issues
Nostalgia. That's pretty much what the movie sells on.I can't make up my mind whether I like this movie or not. It's got an amazing soundtrack, several excellent scenes, and it's got a really great vibe to it that never lets up, it just leaves you drenched in atmosphere.
On the other hand, I gotta agree that it feels... hollow? Like it's missing the meat, or the core, or what have you. I don't know. I like it for its atmosphere and aesthetic, and that's usually the most important thing for me, so I guess I like it on the overall.
Whittling the movie down to simply "nostalgia" is incorrect. That's the aesthetic portion of the movie, which is done to spectacular detail. Which should be complemented by the way, not used against it.Nostalgia. That's pretty much what the movie sells on.
There really isn't anything else to this movie, it's basically its own universe of what-if the murders could be stopped.
So what made this movie a best picture nominee?Whittling the movie down to simply "nostalgia" is incorrect. That's the aesthetic portion of the movie, which is done to spectacular detail. Which should be complemented by the way, not used against it.
Can't say I was a fan at all.
The final confrontation was over the top gruesome and downright masturbatory. It was not the payoff I was looking for at all, and never once did it feel deserved. This was the movie equivalent to David Carradine's final moments.
Inglorious Basterds is my favorite movie of all time, but Tarantino just seems to be going down a path I'm really not enjoying at this point.
I love that you say it was over the top gruesome and downright masturbatory and then throw in that Inglorious Basterds is your favorite film when the climax of that movie also features a over the top gruesome and masturbatory execution of Hitler getting his face slowly blown to bits, not to mention the carving at the end. Once Upon is the same scenario, cinematic comeuppance for vile historic figures through the hyper violent lens of Tarantino.Can't say I was a fan at all.
The final confrontation was over the top gruesome and downright masturbatory. It was not the payoff I was looking for at all, and never once did it feel deserved. This was the movie equivalent to David Carradine's final moments.
Inglorious Basterds is my favorite movie of all time, but Tarantino just seems to be going down a path I'm really not enjoying at this point.