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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
I'm a huge Tarantino fan and enjoyed every single one of his movies, except that one.
Maybe you had to have been in the Hollywood scene at the time to understand the humor, but I was bored out of my mind the whole time and wondered whether he's making fun of the audience and seeing if he can get away with a movie without a real storyline if he just includes his signature foot shots, long conversations about nothing and a massacre at the end.
I think the problem was that half of the movie was a memorial to the victims of the Charles Manson murders and the other half of the movie was about Brad Pitt and DiCaprio, and the two stories had absolutely zero synergy.
To be fair, those foot shots are ... as good as foot shots can be, at least.
Sigh.
That was the last movie I saw in theaters until two weeks ago when I saw Furiosa.
I enjoyed Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Furiosa was better, though.
Are you including Jackie Brown in this assessment? Because that's the one Tarantino film I'd never return to. Bored the shit out of me.
I can see how Once Upon a Time in Hollywood wouldn't do it for a lot of people. The storyline was pretty bloody thin.
From memory, my wife and I had only just recently watched the Aquarius TV series (a few years after it was made) followed by Mindhunter (we were on a true crime kick back then), so the intersection with the Manson murders kept us hooked. Also, Tarantino using the same Aussie actor from Mindhunter to reprise the role of Manson felt like a really cool Easter egg.
But, that's the thing about Tarantino - he's always going to be polarizing. You either love or hate a given piece of his work, I guess.
I disagree entirely. Jackie Brown is actually my favorite Tarantino film.
Tasteful and interesting.
See? That just illustrates my point perfectly. I reckon Tarantino intentionally sets out to put people firmly on either side of the love/hate fence, with each film.
It was hugely freeing for me to realize this. I didn't really care for Death Proof and I absolutely hated Inglorious Bastards. My friends thought I was crazy. After loving Kill Bill and everything I had seen before it, I thought Tarantino had just gotten too far up his own ass. Then Django came out and was just fun and cathartic and I realized I just needed to take each project as it came
Damn, Jackie Brown is great
damn i loved jackie brown i thought it was fantastic. and i also loved once upon a time in hollywood
Yeah Jackie Brown is my least favourite Tarantino film by a mile.