It has to be more

Rating: 5/10 (1 August 2019)

It has to be more than a fairy tale. It has to be more than an homage to Hollywood Gone By. It has to be more than filled with beautiful shots that take us back to days gone by. All this was there excellently, but without human beings and a human story (or stories) to draw us in and make us care, it all ends up just so . . . . cold. Until we get to the ratched-up ending which, although it certainly makes us sit up and take notice, I don't know to what end. Yeah, I wish that final episode had turned out your way too in August of 1969. But so what? It didn't. The switchup may be cathartic for Tarantino 50 years later (like the scalping in that other one), but it wasn't for me. Just didn't make me care about anybody or anything in this movie. And that's my era.
Well, maybe the clips from the old TV shows got to me a little.