Board 8 > Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was fantastic

(+) Yeah! (+)

Saw it on Saturday in 70mm with my wife and we're already planning to see it again

Everything in the movie feels so perfectly executed

The flamethrower was some of the best set-up and payoff I've seen


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Also went to see it Saturday and it's excellent

and both the flamethrower and the crash through the glass door leading up to it had pretty much the entire theater sobbing with laughter

so good
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I also loved the flashback where it's not really made clear it's a flashback until it cuts back to Cliff on the roof.

"Fair enough."

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Good movie, but I didn't like the Sharon Tate parts much. Maybe it works better for people who know more than I do about 60's-era Hollywood, but that whole plot just felt really disconnected from everything else in the movie. Obviously it's supposed to be building tension for the Manson Family killings at the end, but that didn't really work for me because I was pretty sure going in that this would be an "alternate history" thing.
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I agree, I think they should have expanded on the Tate stuff or not had it at all

Overall movie was great though

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I feel like the Sharon Tate stuff was fine. It probably could have been expanded a bit, but it worked pretty well showing her as an up-and-coming excited new celebrity contrasted against Rick.

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Just saw it last night and I loved it.

I was also pumping my fist the whole way through the twist ending
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Also random note,

This movie had so many absolutely beautiful women. I mean, holy crap.
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Pretty good movie for sure.

Last scene was brilliant. Loved when Cliff put up his hand in a gun shape cause he was so damn high lmfao
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The one thing about the movie I didn't really get was its portrayal of Bruce Lee

I mean I get the portrayal of him as boastful, but the movie plays him off as basically a weakling
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Johnbobb posted...

The one thing about the movie I didn't really get was its portrayal of Bruce Lee

I mean I get the portrayal of him as boastful, but the movie plays him off as basically a weakling

Well it was from Brad Pitt's pov, so who knows if it actually played out that way

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Menji posted...

Johnbobb posted...

The one thing about the movie I didn't really get was its portrayal of Bruce Lee

I mean I get the portrayal of him as boastful, but the movie plays him off as basically a weakling

Well it was from Brad Pitt's pov, so who knows if it actually played out that way

"Fair enough."
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Bruce Lee was overrated, but people like tales of legends. IRL Bruce Lee was basically the same as the lore of Jaime Lannister. Both solidly skilled, but hyped beyond belief, and their egos added to it.
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Loved every minute of it. Post credit scene tied some stuff together.
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I think the Bruce Lee scene touches on what alot of people nowadays think - Bruce Lee wouldn't be worth anything in MMA or the UFC.

He sure as hell wouldn't be able to knockdown Ali, atleast IMO.
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Saw it last night. Great movie; probably his second or third best.

You sure could tell that Tarantino has a foot fetish, though!

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INCEPTlON posted...

Also random note,

This movie had so many absolutely beautiful women. I mean, holy crap.

What do you expect from southern California.....they flock there like sheep.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Saw it last night. Great movie; probably his second or third best.

You sure could tell that Tarantino has a foot fetish, though!

Haha, definitely. That shit was blatant.

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Saw it a second time last night

Still A+
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main thing to remember is that Brad Pitt represents a bunch of real life stunt doubles.
for that scene it's likely referencing Gene Lebell's little skirmish with him when he was working as a stunt double for a movie and proceeded to dominate Bruce Lee via headlocks and a fireman carry.

from there the rest is just taking liberties by changing the fight style and making his opponent a former Green Beret instead of a judo master.
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I thought it was pretty good but nothing more

I like it as a fantasy in which Sharon Tate lives and so does her baby and all that. There's a sweetness to that. But there's a lot of stuff there that wasn't necessary and also wasn't entertaining. It was still good fun, tied together by the ending. There was a lot in the first half I could have done without. Overlong perhaps.

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It was okay. Least fave QT movie
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XIII_rocks posted...

I thought it was pretty good but nothing more

I like it as a fantasy in which Sharon Tate lives and so does her baby and all that. There's a sweetness to that. But there's a lot of stuff there that wasn't necessary and also wasn't entertaining. It was still good fun, tied together by the ending. There was a lot in the first half I could have done without. Overlong perhaps.

https://comicbook.com/movies/2019/08/08/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-netflix-4-hour-cut/
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neonreaper posted...

It was okay. Least fave QT movie

What was your favorite, out of curiosity?

This one is up there for me, but my favorite might be Reservoir Dogs
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How anyone can prefer Hateful Eight or Death Proof over anything is beyond me
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It's super nerdy, but I just kept thinking "Bruce Lee IRL said repeatedly he'd never do a flying kick in an actual fight because it's dumb easy to counter"
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