this is good to hear! i'm hoping to catch this soonJust got back from seeing "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" and I loved every bit of it (even the nearly 3 hour runtime!)
Already my favorite Tarantino movie, though I've only seen one other one and it's not even really close to this one.
Got tickets for tomorrow night. Hyped.Just got back from seeing "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" and I loved every bit of it (even the nearly 3 hour runtime!)
Already my favorite Tarantino movie, though I've only seen one other one and it's not even really close to this one.
What’s the other one, I wonder.Just got back from seeing "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" and I loved every bit of it (even the nearly 3 hour runtime!)
Already my favorite Tarantino movie, though I've only seen one other one and it's not even really close to this one.
So the complete opposite of every other Tarantino movie?Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is one of those movies where the end makes it all worth it and come together beautifully.
I don't think that's true. The endings of Death Proof, Django, and Inglorious Basterds are almost the best parts of each movie.So the complete opposite of every other Tarantino movie?
I don't think that's true. The endings of Death Proof, Django, and Inglorious Basterds are almost the best parts of each movie.
Whaaat, Inglorious Basterds, IMO, is his masterpiece, and one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. First time I've seen these takes.Haven't seen Django, but let's agree to disagree. Especially Inglorious Basterds, as it's one of my most hated movies of his, and I hate most of his movies. Excuse the analogy, but his movies all feel like ruined orgasms, they build and build and build with all these super fun characters and plots and then they just end suddenly and unsatisfactorily. He has all these great ideas but in my opinion has no idea to give them a conclusion, it never feels right at the end of the film, just like "That's it? Ugh."
I have heard Django is good though, so I'll give it a shot one day.
Whaaat, Inglorious Basterds, IMO, is his masterpiece, and one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. First time I've seen these takes.
Pulp Fiction is his masterpiece, but Basterds isnt far behind it, and I'm with you in this being the first time I've seen those takes.Whaaat, Inglorious Basterds, IMO, is his masterpiece, and one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. First time I've seen these takes.
build and build and build with all these super fun characters and plots and then they just end suddenly and unsatisfactorily.
I'm curious how you got this out of watching several plot lines converge into(All massively paraphrased). If you aren't familiar with his style I can see how maybe the very final shot may feel a little abrupt and seem a strange spot to roll the credits, but I fail to see the unsatisfactory part. Because the good guys didn't all survive?the brutal on screen murder of Hitler, the message spliced into the film, the cinema exploding to avenge Shoshanna, the collapse of the Nazi Party, World War 2 ending, and Landa getting mutilated
Maybe you had Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs more in mind for what I quoted, but you post seemed very pointed at Inglorious Basterds.
I get the sense that you've only seen it once? I didn't love it on first viewing, but on subsequent ones I realized how superb the pacing really is. The whole movie is a fuse burning down to dynamite and the ending is set up way early on. Also, I'm not quite sure how you can dislike the movie for a lack of nazi-killing, but also not like the ending either. It's one of the most effectively cathartic climaxes ever put to film IMO.All the awesome characters died in one abrupt scene and there was a pointed lack of Nazi killing for a movie claiming to be about it. They built all these dudes up and then just scrapped them, like he often does. Yeah, she killed Hitler, but that almost seemed silly as I didn't expect the alternate universe angle and had no reason to. So instead of a "Yay" moment it was an "oh... That's where he was going with this?" moment. A bunch of great characters, abrupt and unsatisfactory endings.
I hd a similar reaction to Basterds the first time I saw it. I think I was expecting more Kill Bill than Pulp Fiction, and the pacing left me wondering when we'd get to the fireworks factory. I think that makes the fireworks factory (which is filled with, like, another fireworks factory) seem abrupt and weirdly underwhelming. It holds up to repeat viewings a whole lot better; knowing to just revel in the dialogue and the buildup makes it all go down a whole lot better.I get the sense that you've only seen it once? I didn't love it on first viewing, but on subsequent ones I realized how superb the pacing really is. The whole movie is a fuse burning down to dynamite and the ending is set up way early on. Also, I'm not quite sure how you can dislike the movie for a lack of nazi-killing, but also not like the ending either. It's one of the most effectively cathartic climaxes ever put to film IMO.