Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

[CBStew]

If I should ever let slip that I am going to go to see a Quentin Tarantino movie, please stop me.  Please remind me about this movie and Django Unchained and that disaster about killing Adolph Hitler and all of the other Nazi leaders (I have suppressed the title).  This stinker had some very entertaining moments, but like all Tarentino movies it rewrites history to a very offensive degree. 

SPOILER ALERT!


This is about the Sharon Tate murder by Charles Manson's goons.  Guess what?  It didn't happen.  At least according to Tarentino.  Nope.  A very heroic Brad Pitt and a portly Leonardo DeCaprio step in and save the day.  Pitt provides some comic relief to an overly long and mostly boring movie.  The movie spends a lot of time showing them driving around Los Angeles and Hollywood in 1970's cars, including a 4 door Cadillac that probably required three parking spaces when at rest.  In addition to enjoying Pitt's performance I mostly enjoyed seeing the sites of the L.A. and Hollywood streets, which haven't changed all that much since the 1970s.  Although the movie has a terrific climax it doesn't depict what happened, and if you know what happened, and the majority of the millennials in the theater I attended obviously did not know, you may have a confused vacant stare on you face when you watch the closing credits.

[Saul Goodman]

You seem to be grading this movie based on the assumption that Tarantino was tasked with creating a shot-for-shot documentary of what actually happened. What do you find offensive about his alteration to real events, exactly? Some in reviewing the film have said they found some dark pleasure in watching the Manson Family get some brutal justice come to them. Is it the concept you disliked, the execution, or both? Changing history is kind of his thing, as you acknowledge, so if you don?t like that, you?re not going to like anything he does anyway. I?m hardly a Tarantino stan but if your main beef is that the murders didn?t happen that way and you?re going to confuse people who don?t know that, well, yeah, that?s kind of the point.

[Wheezer]

"LSD-laced cigarette"? Dear L-rd.

[JD]

Anyone know when this hits Amazon Prime Video?