Finally went to see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood today. While I don't love every one of Tarantino's movies, I'm a big Tarantino fan. A few of his movies are on my all-time-favorites list.
Like many QT fans, Pulp Fiction is my favorite. I've watched it many times and will likely watch it many more. The Kill Bill movies (even though QT considers the two movies to be one) are also great. Reservoir dogs was ahead of its time and I like it a lot also, even though the violence put me off a bit the first time I saw it...it was the first time I'd seen a QT movie and didn't know what I was getting into. Heheh.
I consider myself a QT fan because those movies rank among my favorites of all time. But his other movies...Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds, et. Al....have often left me not quite so impressed. I'm afraid I have to put One Upon a Time in Hollywood in that category.
Pulp Fiction and my other favorites were good enough the first time I saw them that I wanted to watch them again. Then they just kept getting better and better to me. But I really have little desire to watch Once Upon a Time in Hollywood again. It just didn't do it for me. I may try to watch it one more time when it's streamable just to catch all the Manson/Tate connections and such. But I thought it was drug out, tried to get just too cute with shot setup too often, focused way too much on feet and legs (does QT have a fetish about feet especially?? Heheh), and simply did not have the interesting plot elements that his best movies have had.
Oh well. My two cents. It doesn't diminish my admiration for the movies I mentioned above. But this movie could have been an hour shorter. Still not sure I'd have liked it that much.
I'll let you know if my opinion changes if I do get around to watching it a second time.
