Once upon a time

Rating: 4/10 (1 September 2019)

Bad movie.
While its not new to anybody acquainted to the man's works that tarantino loves to indulge himself in pastiche like cinematography but in most of his other films that comes off as a bleeding through effect of his emotional bond with the films and genres that he is referencing. In this one however, his most pastiched one so far , not only he does what he usually does but he also neglects the value of his source material by making fun of the same kind of films he build his whole career on referencing. For example the infamous Bruce Lee scene. You can say that Bruce Lee was not the nicest or most humble person in the set and that is okay, that is not the point. The point is that, HIS CHARACTERIZATION was humorous. He was written to act as a big mouthed fool and you get the impression that essentially anyone could beat him up if they wanted it, which to me seems uncomfortably odd considering all the nods to Bruce Lee films in Tarantino's filmography such as Beatrix Kiddo's outfit in Kill Bill. Not only that but he dismissively makes fun of western spaghettis. The same man that literally build his career on top of pastiche style remaking each and every style of European exploitation films. The funny thing to me is that he ridicules western spaghetti, he makes fun of kung fu films but what he DOES NOT DO is make fun of american westerns.
I also never saw one Tarantino film that was this openly reactionary. The film makes every hippie look like an assassin, it deviates the guilt for the charles mason murders from mason himself to the hippie culture. Also is really weird that he makes the hippies speak in left wing cliche slang when they were following charles mason who literally had a swastika on his forehead. And if that weren't enough the film is also very violent towards women so if a woman is on screen she is either being viciously killed or being sexualized or just being Sharon Tate.
I feel bad for the generation that sees Tarantino as one of the biggest names in cinema ( mine).