Tarantino's poetic story about life in Hollywood!

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2019)

Like many others, I was somewhat thrown off with the pace of the film. However, the characters...the characters and the little situations they went through were hilarious and very engaging. I don't understand why the kids are upset! Whining about no plot and criticizing the film went nowhere. It seems like this latest generation of cinema lovers can only find entertainment in a movie being constantly fed countless fighting sequences and explosions and whatnot. The movie was comedy, and a DAMN good one! The Tarantino suspense was there, the Tarantino violence was there, Tarantino dialogue was everywhere. The music was great and made me feel ironically nostalgic even though I only grew up in the 90s. The set looked fantastic. Margot Robbie was a ray of sunshine in the movie and I believe she portrayed Sharon Tate beautifully. The innocence of her character and her joyous presence really developed throughout the movie. The more I watched, the more I understood the characters! So many little easter eggs were thrown in that I'm sure 60s folk Tarantino fanbase would love. The film sort of did have a plot, while also charmingly shying away from the plot by ingeniously dissecting movie and tv sets. It is so much like Pulp Fiction without chapters. Pulp Fiction had no plot and was praised, praised because of the characters. I have no doubt that if Pulp Fiction were to come out today rather than in '94, it would be receiving the same backlash as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. With that said, I've watched the movie 2 times in theaters with different friends and going again in a couple days with a couple of other friends! So far most of them have enjoyed it and I'm sure I'll enjoy it even more the third time. There's so much material in the movie, it's like studying through a textbook!