Last movie you watched......

Yes

 

SOLD.

 

I enjoyed Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood today. I went at the 11:30 a.m. showing, was hoping for a private screening, but five other folks came in after the previews started.

On a related note, I've been listening all day to Tarantino's Spotify playlist of music from his movies. Even if you don't like his films, this playlist is great.

 

Pacino as Hoffa is strange. (Pesci’s voice fits Hoffa better). Anyway, looks interesting.

 

Red Sea Diving Resort from Netflix. Pretty good, based on a true story (evacuating Jewish Ethiopians to Israel). Great cast: Chris Evans, Michael K. Williams, Ben Kingsley, Greg Kinnear.

Only annoyance: though set in 1979-81, a character sings Hungry Like the Wolf.

 

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Mixed bag for me. Not among his best work.

To each their own, I know, but one thing is obvious: Whereas Tarantino almost always gives his villains a certain wicked flourish - think Landa, or Black Mamba, or Ordell Robbie - he has zero interest in making the Manson Family the least bit clever or stylish. They're empty evil - a void. And I don't blame him; they don't deserve it. But the movie's missing something almost elemental to the typical Tarantino film.

It's also missing Samuel L. Jackson. And, to me, that's a big absence.

 

Three things about me:
1) I have paid to see more than two Transformers movies.

2) I have vigorously defended “Jackie Brown” and “The Hateful Eight” as great movies.

3) I once drove 2 hours to Orlando to see “Attack of the Clones” in IMAX on opening weekend, only to find out that my buddy had the wrong tickets and got hustled out of $30 a head. We saw it in standard definition and split gas. All to see ... “everything here is so soft ... and smooth.”

All that said, “Once Upon a Time ...” is in my top three for worst film I’ve wasted money to see.

 

Always thout it was Margo ROB-E, now I've learned it's pronounced ROBE-Y.

 

I've been buying senior, matinee tickets for years. A ton of teenagers work at my theater and never look too closely at the tickets. I have some people say I bought the wrong ticket and I just say my grandparents bought it for me, and they often just let me through.

 

I think you're being more honest than a few of my younger friends, Tarantino diehards, who said it was "pretty good" without offering much detail as to why.

It was a "hmph" experience for me. Rick Dalton is regarded "as is" - so too is Cliff Booth - so neither one of them have particularly interesting monologues.

 

Quentin Tarantino is the Jeff Koons of moviemaking.

 

I saw OUATIH today, and enjoyed it. As mentioned previously, the soundtrack is great. As for the ending, too bad real life didn't emulate the movies. I wonder how they got permission to film at the house? Or if not, it sure looked like photos I've seen of the house.