Next time, lead with the blood

Rating: 2/10 (26 July 2019)

Stick with me and I think you'll see my point...
Q is the greatest, I love (in no particular order) Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Death Proof, Reservoir Dogs, KB 1&2 and even Hateful Eight. And, I think his best screenplay was True Romance, I love the guy! I couldn't wait to see "Hollywood" on opening night. The problem was, then I saw it. And, it just isn't funny, which is odd. Here is what I think happened.
It's odd because in most of his other movies I usually laugh way more, so it isn't like Q can't write funny. But I do think that he can't write only funny. Here is my 2 cents.
Q has indicated in interviews (paraphrasing here) that he likes to play with the audience and make them laugh in the middle of the most horrifying scenes. Examples that come to mind are, "I shot Marvin in the face" and when M. Blonde talks to the sliced off ear. But when these jokes happen in his films they aren't just joke/story/joke/story. Instead QT sprinkles those laughs throughout his gory awesome flics and it always works because the weight of the well executed bloody violence is given relief by the joke. And the relief makes the joke way more funny because it isn't expected.
In "Hollywood" however, the jokes aren't mostly centered around blood but rather they are for the most part just jokes and frankly, Q isn't the best at writing just comedy.
He is, however, the best at writing QT type movies and in those movies the jokes get great laughs. So, while watching "Hollywood", nobody laughed much at all until the final 15 minutes and then I thought...next time, lead with the blood.