Expect something more like The Big Lebowski than Pulp Fiction.

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2019)

While it still did generally feel like a Quentin Tarantino movie it wasn't really what I was expecting. At first I felt somewhat underwhelmed by that. It was more slow moving than I was used to with Tarantino and I kept wondering when this fantastic movie everyone was talking about would show up. And with the exception of the fight scene at the end, it never really did. But an hour after leaving the theater I looked back on it again and I realized that maybe this is just a different kind of movie. It's still Tarantino and there are still plenty of callbacks to film history like spaghetti westerns, macaroni combats and Bruce Lee martial arts flicks. No surprise with it being set in Hollywood, of course. But it wasn't overly stylized and was more subtle than usual for Tarantino. In 2016 the Coen brothers released Hail Ceaser which followed one day out of Hollywood life in the '50s. And that's essentially what this film does, only with the '60s. The film basically follows three plot lines and it's a series of segments. Again, something more like The Big Lebowski or Caddyshack or Napoleon Dynamite or the aforementioned Hail Ceaser. So you could say that I liked it more as I thought about it more.