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OK so I went to go see this today. I have mixed feelings about it but overall give it a 5 out of 10.
The musical score was great. The casting was excellent. But OMG, the story and script just lagged and lagged and lagged.
How do you write and direct a movie that stars Leonardo diCaprio and Brad Pitt, and features old cowboy actors, and Charles Manson, and Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski, and STILL MAKE IT BORING???? Oh, and it's a QUENTIN TARANTINO movie. So my gosh, between all that, surely it wouldn't be, well, BORING, right?
It was pretty dang boring.
I mean, it had some eye candy, good music, and enough to keep a person sort of engaged, but overall, I was not impressed one bit.
OK so I went to go see this today. I have mixed feelings about it but overall give it a 5 out of 10.
The musical score was great. The casting was excellent. But OMG, the story and script just lagged and lagged and lagged.
How do you write and direct a movie that stars Leonardo diCaprio and Brad Pitt, and features old cowboy actors, and Charles Manson, and Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski, and STILL MAKE IT BORING???? Oh, and it's a QUENTIN TARANTINO movie. So my gosh, between all that, surely it wouldn't be, well, BORING, right?
It was pretty dang boring.
I mean, it had some eye candy, good music, and enough to keep a person sort of engaged, but overall, I was not impressed one bit.
Compared to all of today’s movies, I found it to be quite good and thought provoking. It was a bit too long though.
OK so I went to go see this today. I have mixed feelings about it but overall give it a 5 out of 10.
The musical score was great. The casting was excellent. But OMG, the story and script just lagged and lagged and lagged.
How do you write and direct a movie that stars Leonardo diCaprio and Brad Pitt, and features old cowboy actors, and Charles Manson, and Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski, and STILL MAKE IT BORING???? Oh, and it's a QUENTIN TARANTINO movie. So my gosh, between all that, surely it wouldn't be, well, BORING, right?
It was pretty dang boring.
I mean, it had some eye candy, good music, and enough to keep a person sort of engaged, but overall, I was not impressed one bit.
I really liked it.
But then, I don't need explosions, car chases, and shootouts to hold my attention.
I didn't find a minute of it boring. Loved it. Funny and a little sad. Almost heartfelt--by Tarantino standards. It's more a movie about middle age and seeing the next generation replacing you than it's about a bloodbath or Manson or hippies or even Hollywood per se.
Probably Tarantino's best since at least Inglorious Basterds.
But then, I don't need explosions, car chases, and shootouts to hold my attention.
Believe me, I don't either. That's not why I didn't love it. I didn't love it because I felt like the script and story line dragged.
For the record, I went to the matinee and it was in a smallish theater that has recently been renovated, so oddly enough a whole lot of us were laughing and talking beforehand even though we didn't know each other. Afterwards we talked about it too and not a single person (out of about 40) said they thought it was great. Like me, they said it had some strong points, and it was well cast, but EVERYONE there who was commenting on it felt like it dragged and that it was sort of choppy - just not a particularly strong plot or script.
But we did all agree that the soundtrack, casting, and photography were all really good.
Don't get me wrong - I don't regret seeing it. I just have seen better, and seen better from Quentin Tarantino, as well as Brad Pitt and Leonardo deCaprio. Hindsight being 20/20 I would have waited till it came out on a streaming channel, and made my own popcorn.
But as powerful as film is, it cannot rewrite the actual events of history.
It can reveal the untold stories, uncover hidden truths, and clarify the context of history by looking at it in different ways, including from previously marginalized, non-Classic-Hollywood-hero viewpoints.
Or it can wallow in nostalgia so completely that the significance of actual events becomes less important than the brief flicker of memory sparked by the sight of a few Hopalong Cassidy coffee mugs or Damian Lewis pretending to be Steve McQueen (why?) or the pleasure of watching two handsome guys banter their way through yet another buddy movie.
Believe me, I don't either. That's not why I didn't love it. I didn't love it because I felt like the script and story line dragged.
For the record, I went to the matinee and it was in a smallish theater that has recently been renovated, so oddly enough a whole lot of us were laughing and talking beforehand even though we didn't know each other. Afterwards we talked about it too and not a single person (out of about 40) said they thought it was great. Like me, they said it had some strong points, and it was well cast, but EVERYONE there who was commenting on it felt like it dragged and that it was sort of choppy - just not a particularly strong plot or script.
But we did all agree that the soundtrack, casting, and photography were all really good.
Don't get me wrong - I don't regret seeing it. I just have seen better, and seen better from Quentin Tarantino, as well as Brad Pitt and Leonardo deCaprio. Hindsight being 20/20 I would have waited till it came out on a streaming channel, and made my own popcorn.
Help me out with this: How many years had passed between the introduction of Leonardo’s character to 1969? His character seemed to have aged a lot! He was heavier, more wrinkled, etc. was it due to hard living or had a lot of years passed?
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