I was surprised but not in a good way

Rating: 5/10 (29 July 2019)

I am been the biggest fan of Tarantino movies since the 90's. I wanted to see this movie so badly that I nagged all my friends endlessly to see it as soon as it came out. Now I'm embarrassed that I did that. I felt I had to apologize to them for taking them to a this movie. Every single movie he has ever made, he has built characters that you can invest in, that you care about. This is not the case with this movie. There is no story line or any time spent on any of the characters to any extent that you would care about them. The characters in past Tarantino's movies have always have a goal that each one was reaching for. It may be small or maybe large and/or insignificant but it was a goal. The characters in this movie seemed to be just floating. I think their biggest goal was driving around LA and having a beer at the end of the day. It starts to work when Leo's character talks to the child character about his place in acting but they don't take it any further. And the same with Brad Pitt's character who starts to feel anger toward the manson family but then it doesn't go any further. Everything just fizzles out. Hell I even started the care about the dog and I wish he was in the movie more. Take the dog to the manson ranch. I mean there is one gratifying scene but only one. I can't think of any movie from Tarantino's past that only had one gratifying scene that you're totally invested in and/or have some satisfaction or enjoyment after it's done....until now. The music is great but I wanna scream that I was rob of a Tarantino experience.