What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Torris]

Re: Once Upon a Time in HW

Too much DiCaprio, not enough Pitt. At least a half hour too long. Fabulous 70’s fashion and the usual killer soundtrack

Wouldn’t you have loved to imagine a Charles Bronson revenge fantasy on the Manson Family and all those middle class girls giving in to murder getting the tables turned on them? All because Manson couldn’t cut it as a musician and went to the wrong house by mistake (record producer Terry Melcher)

I found DiCaprio’s machinations tedious but Pitt epitomizes cool.

[Torris]

W hat we do in the shadows Attachment 1145029Lot's of people are disregarding this movie due to "Lack of plot" or "Poor cinematography".

This isn't supposed to be that sort of movie, it's a mockumentary, done in the style of a documentary.

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As much as I loved the movie (surprisingly violent for a mockumentary), I like rhe FX TV series even more.

[Stavros]

Re: Once Upon a Time in HW

Too much DiCaprio, not enough Pitt. At least a half hour too long. Fabulous 70’s fashion and the usual killer soundtrack

Small point: 1960s fashion, not 1970s -film concerns events that took place in 1969. But yes, at least 30 minutes too long.

[Cereal Escapist]

Finding Dory.

It was no Finding Nemo!!!

[Stavros]

Foxtrot (Samul Maoz, 2017)

This Israeli film concerns the family of a soldier on duty at a remote road block somewhere in Israel (looks like it is either the north or the far south). Although the core of the film is a mix-up in the identification of a dead soldier, and the boredom of four guys manning a remote road block the films makes some subtle, and not so subtle points about contemporary Israel -the accommodation of the soldiers sinking into the mud; the solitary camel that won't go away; the atheists in Tel-Aviv who smoke dope. The script is fine, the acting good, the direction to be admired. The title refers to a dance whose steps always take you forward and then back to where you began, with a exquisite foxtrot danced at the checkpoint by a soldier, one of the highlights of the film.

The Flood (Anthony Woodley, 2019)

The film may star Lena Headey and Iain Glen from Game of Thrones, but the excitement ends there. A worthy film about an asylum seeker that is well made and well acted but is predictable from the start and never really sparks into life.

[blackchubby38]

Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

This sad, pathetic fantasy is tedious to watch. The script is flat, almost lifeless compared to the director's first two features, and the acting either over the top or matter of fact. The ending, which I am not to disclose, comes after two hours of what some consider a homage to the Western, network tv shows, and 'Hollywood' in the era when the Studio system ended and actors were independent and MGM stopped making musicals and so on. Who cares? Tarantino cares, and to some extent he matches the scenes from the Westerns being filmed with a scene at Spahn's Movie Ranch where the Manson family watch Cliff Booth stride up 'Main Street' toward, not the Saloon, but an old house. But once you see it the comparison becomes trite and overall has no other role in the movie. At a party at the Playboy Mansion, Steve McQueen shares a joint with a young woman, but is played by Damian Lewis in a blonde wig that makes him look not like Steve but an old Hollywood Queen, and is seen no more.

The fundamental problem is that the fading star of TV's Bounty Hunt and numerous Westerns, Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo di Caprio is a drunk, and as interesting as a drunk, which is not very much, just as his boyfriend Cliff is the Stunt Man who is closer in real life to the mean bounty hunting cowboy he lives for.
That's about it, other than to suggest Tarantino has a problem with women, but that is a discussion for another day if anyone can be bothered.
Oh, I forgot, just as Tarantino usually names characters after gay porn stars, there is a real 'Thick' Rick Dalton, a 'twink' with a thick cock who does gay porn. Go Figure.

Okay, I'll ask the question.

Why do you think Tarantino has a problem with women?

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Hidden Figures

[Stavros]

Okay, I'll ask the question.
Why do you think Tarantino has a problem with women?

It is true that women play a prominent role in Jackie Brown and Kill Bill, but neither are films that offer much to the audience other than senseless violence ripped from Asian films, or the failed attempt to 'shaft' Shaft with Jackie Brown, a film about survivors who have no moral right to survive. Tarantino's moral confusion is a major weakness in Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood where there is not one substantial role for women -that women were crucial to the identity and maintenance of the 'Manson family' is beyond doubt but one of the many aspects of them that Tarantino leaves out even in the scenes shot at Spahn's Ranch where they appear to be hippies livin' a life or free love and getting high.
Mia Wallace has a prominent role in Pulp Fiction, but the film is a sequence of episodes in which each star has his or her own episode in which to dominate. I can think of only one loving relationship between a man and a woman in Tarantino's films -Butch and Fabienne in Pulp Fiction- as even with Django Unchained, the rescue of the lost wife is merely a plot device, the wife has no substantial part to play in the film and Django's relationship wth his 'daddy' and White Saviour Dr King Schultz (a dentist, note -hard things in the mouth) is the driver of the film. Jackie Brown may have a love element in the relationship between Jackie and Max Cherry but it doesn't get beyond a kiss, and anyway the sex between men and women in his films is rare, but note when it happens: anal sex in Jackie Brown (de Niro and Fonda), sex with a comatose Uma Thurman in Kill Bill; but gay sex is prominent: anal sex between men in Pulp Fiction, whle the men waving guns at each other in Reservoir Dogs are basically willy-waving in search of blow, and come, aka bullets.
I don't know if that satisfies you as an answer, but it is the best I can do without having to endure his fims all over again, and admit I don't recall a lot of The Hateful Eight or Inglourious Basterds, two forgettable films.

[blackchubby38]

It is true that women play a prominent role in Jackie Brown and Kill Bill, but neither are films that offer much to the audience other than senseless violence ripped from Asian films, or the failed attempt to 'shaft' Shaft with Jackie Brown, a film about survivors who have no moral right to survive. Tarantino's moral confusion is a major weakness in Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood where there is not one substantial role for women -that women were crucial to the identity and maintenance of the 'Manson family' is beyond doubt but one of the many aspects of them that Tarantino leaves out even in the scenes shot at Spahn's Ranch where they appear to be hippies livin' a life or free love and getting high.
Mia Wallace has a prominent role in Pulp Fiction, but the film is a sequence of episodes in which each star has his or her own episode in which to dominate. I can think of only one loving relationship between a man and a woman in Tarantino's films -Butch and Fabienne in Pulp Fiction- as even with Django Unchained, the rescue of the lost wife is merely a plot device, the wife has no substantial part to play in the film and Django's relationship wth his 'daddy' and White Saviour Dr King Schultz (a dentist, note -hard things in the mouth) is the driver of the film. Jackie Brown may have a love element in the relationship between Jackie and Max Cherry but it doesn't get beyond a kiss, and anyway the sex between men and women in his films is rare, but note when it happens: anal sex in Jackie Brown (de Niro and Fonda), sex with a comatose Uma Thurman in Kill Bill; but gay sex is prominent: anal sex between men in Pulp Fiction, whle the men waving guns at each other in Reservoir Dogs are basically willy-waving in search of blow, and come, aka bullets.
I don't know if that satisfies you as an answer, but it is the best I can do without having to endure his fims all over again, and admit I don't recall a lot of The Hateful Eight or Inglourious Basterds, two forgettable films.

What Tarantino was trying to do with Once Upon Time In Hollywood was to remove the horror and mystique that surrounds the Manson family and show them for what they actually were. A bunch of girls with daddy issues and inept home invaders. He also made the movie to remind me people that Sharon Tate was a person and not just a murder victim.

When it comes Jackie Brown and Kill Bill, while its true that Tarantino pays homage/rips off other genres of film, I don't know what else the audience should have expected from them. Also Pam Grier was starring in blaxploitation films before she starred in Jackie Brown. So if anything it was an attempt to make his version of Foxy Brown.

Tarantino films deal with crime, violent periods in time, and the darker side of the human psyche. So I don't expect to see loving relationships between men and women in them. That doesn't mean he has a problem with women.

Finally, that wasn't anal sex in Pulp Fiction. That was rape.

[Torris]

Hidden Figures

That movie could have benefited from some gratuitous Janelle Monae nudity