"Oh, no, you weren't supposed to take it seriously!"

Rating: 2/10 (27 July 2019)

Major spoilers here ahead! I have a friend who is a big QT fan and that's what he says when he anyone criticizes a QT film. So, then is it a comedy (nothing in this film hasn't been done already in a funnier way)? I didn't find it funny, just strange (though with some sadistic elements, a touch of racism, mysogyny, occasional tasteless mockery, etc.). The characters are not developed, other than a bit for Pitt's. There's no real plot, though at first (not knowing anything about the film) I thought it might be a comedy/bio-pic of a Clint Eastwood type of actor. As things go on we get the sense that the Manson murderers will be covered, though what we get is some sort of "alt history" that just makes one feel worse for Sharon Tate and the others who were killed by the Manson clan. We're supposed to be happy that all these years later someone made a lousy, very long film that featured a "happy ending" for Tate, Polanski, and the others affected by the murders? This is borderline psychotic to my way of thinking, but perhaps I'm "getting too old for this kind of stuff" (though I'm younger than QT). QT fans should know there aren't a lot of action scenes nor particularly amusing dialogue. And if you want to see some old video of Hollywood in the 60s and 70s, just go to Youtube!