playing with expectations

Rating: 6/10 (28 August 2019)

What Tarantino does is, he plays with the expectations. Everybody knows the real story of Sharon Tate and that makes some of the thrill in this movie.
But let's take this away. Take a look at this without the reality behind this characters. What do we get?
A story about an alcoholic, has been actor and his driver /stunt double. They drive around LA, we see them at set. All quite funny, but no real development in terms of character or story.
And we have Tate, the neighbour, driving around LA, dancing at a party, watching herself in the theatre. No story at all. And not connected to the Dalton/Booth storyline.

The look and feel, the acting, everything is good or great. But the story is not there. Even the violence is not as intense as one would expect from Tarantino (No complaining). I always expected to all hell break loose, but nothing. And Taranto o played with this expectation. But he forgot to write a real story. Only in the end he connects both story lines when he opens the question: What could have happened if the Manson family would have tried to kill the neighbours and not Tate and Co.
If he wanted an homage to the 60s Hollywood, he could have left the Manson/Tate thing away completely and wrote a real story for DiCaprio and Pitt. I hope to see them together again in the future.
The movie is entertaining in therms of the music and the look and the references to all the old TV shows etc. But in terms of story, this is by far no masterpiece.