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'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' - Quentin Tarantino


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Yo this legit has become one of my favorite movies upon second viewing and letting it sit.

Still hate that ending brutality scene, nearly ruins it for me.  What this movie goes for is awesome though, no plot like at all and just the biggest hangout movie and love letter to everything Quentin grew up on

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5 minutes ago, Justice4Mike said:

Yo this legit has become one of my favorite movies upon second viewing and letting it sit.

Still hate that ending brutality scene, nearly ruins it for me.  What this movie goes for is awesome though, no plot like at all and just the biggest hangout movie and love letter to everything Quentin grew up on

I was listening to a podcast and QT discussed that Polanski at one point wondered if Bruce Lee did the murders. I think this was early on and he was thinking about everyone who he knew who knew her. So I guess that's another big connection I didn't know about.

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2 minutes ago, _Kyle_ said:

I was listening to a podcast and QT discussed that Polanski at one point wondered if Bruce Lee did the murders. I think this was early on and he was thinking about everyone who he knew who knew her. So I guess that's another big connection I didn't know about.

Yeah something about his glasses being left at the house? All pretty crazy. Love how it was changed to something as simple as Leo hating hippies flooding LA and them going to the wrong house.

Again though, wish he didn't ruin the movie with the damned brutality.  Is what it is.  I was thinking this might sit up there with IB and Pulp Fiction at times, it's so nicely shot and unique.

I don't get this outrage about Bruce Lee though.  The daughter is acting super offended, thought it was a great scene and just a Brad Pitt fantasy.  Loved that scene actually.

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7 minutes ago, Justice4Mike said:

Yeah something about his glasses being left at the house? All pretty crazy. Love how it was changed to something as simple as Leo hating hippies flooding LA and them going to the wrong house.

Again though, wish he didn't ruin the movie with the damned brutality.  Is what it is.  I was thinking this might sit up there with IB and Pulp Fiction at times, it's so nicely shot and unique.

I don't get this outrage about Bruce Lee though.  The daughter is acting super offended, thought it was a great scene and just a Brad Pitt fantasy.  Loved that scene actually.

Yup, I don't know a ton about the murders, so that was interesting to me. But I think this was about as sensitive as QT is going to get with his own work. To me this falls in the Jackie Brown level of his oeuvre, in that I just enjoy it for what it is and the characters and the great filmmaking.

I think after 50 years, you can't really do damage to a person and they eventually just become part of the culture in that way.

Bruce Lee to me in the film represents another soul who's life was cut too short. Spiritually him and Sharon are tied together in that way and I get why he even put it in there.

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On 8/2/2019 at 2:11 PM, _Kyle_ said:

Yup, I don't know a ton about the murders, so that was interesting to me. But I think this was about as sensitive as QT is going to get with his own work. To me this falls in the Jackie Brown level of his oeuvre, in that I just enjoy it for what it is and the characters and the great filmmaking.

I think after 50 years, you can't really do damage to a person and they eventually just become part of the culture in that way.

Bruce Lee to me in the film represents another soul who's life was cut too short. Spiritually him and Sharon are tied together in that way and I get why he even put it in there.

So the ending didn't bother you at all?  It was the most violent scene of any Tarantino movie imo.  Kind if came off as desperate to me from QT.

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28 minutes ago, Justice4Mike said:

So the ending didn't bother you at all?  It was the most violent scene of any Tarantino movie imo.  Kind if came off as desperate to me from QT.

I know a number of people who have seen it already and no one have said anything about the ending being any more gory than any other Tarantino flick.

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14 hours ago, Justice4Mike said:

So the ending didn't bother you at all?  It was the most violent scene of any Tarantino movie imo.  Kind if came off as desperate to me from QT.

lol, I get more bothered by the scenes in Pulp Fiction honestly. The adrenaline shot, the rape, etc. Hell, he cuts a guy's ear off in RD. This was so tame to me.

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So **Spoiler** repeatedly bashing a girl's face into a brick wall, a fireplace mantle, a telephone receiver, down on a table for around 8 minutes and showing us the entire thing, almost from a pornographic view is chill for you guys?

Nice

 

I've never had to look away in a Tarantino film before.  The violence has always been over the top and almost cartoonish, or at least has the decency to pan away in tougher scenes like this.  But he filmed it pornographically

 

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Maybe I have a softer spot for female characters in movies?  Idk, I try to picture if that was the guy and I still think I'd be majorly put off by it.  More just the way it was shot.  Watching a face turn into a stump like that screaming misery for 8 minutes is just haunting me. The movie was otherwise very tame yes, but Speedo you haven't even seen the movie...  I just feel like we got the point after the first few beatings...  I enjoyed Leo's flamethrower though

Reading around, I'm not the only one with this reaction to it, as a lot more unsettling than normal, for QT even.

and yes I'm using my sock from this computer.  At least I don't have full conversations with myself between accounts like most you socklords.

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