Historical or Fiction

Rating: 6/10 (24 November 2019)

I'm a fan of history, I love the authenticity that went into this film. The cars, the clothes, music, commercials, sets and language are all on point. I almost thought Rick Dalton was a real person. The slow build and character development was classic QT. Now the last third of the film really lost me. The movie piqued when Cliff Booth went to the ranch. That scene alone reminded me of the tension in Hateful Eight. But then we get into Kurt Russell quickly narrating the next six months and up to the very h plour the infamous Manson murders took place.
Everything after that is pure fiction. That's where the film lost me. Either make the entire film fictional or historic, don't combine the two. It doesn't work, revising history is pointless. I wish QT went the other direction and ended the story the way it really ends. It's almost as if while filming Titanic, James Cameron decided the boat shouldn't sink at the end and everyone gets off ok. The violence was pointless, the dog attack scene was just vicious and Cliff Booth came off as a real woman killer by the end of the film. I give this movie 6/10 because I liked it up till about 60%. What a strange film.