Mediocre

Rating: 5/10 (30 June 2020)

I cannot fathom how this movie beat out Marriage Story and Parasite for best screenplay. The entire thing is fruitless and makes me a bit angry I wasted time watching it despite how good the cinematography and acting is. Every single character in this movie is two dimensional and unlikeable mostly based on how little we actually know about them despite this movie being almost 3 hours long. I guess Quentin Tarantino had to focus all his attention on the 30 or so minuets of super important smarmy Manson family fanfiction instead of things like "character arcs" whatever that means. The argument I see the most for this movie is that it's a "slow burn" and that "regular folks just don't get it!", But there is a very big difference between a slow burn that builds tension and a boring ambling mess with a 60s aesthetic and some neat little self congratulatory film history references sprinkled in.