Quentin Tarantino's Manson murders movie

I didn't really notice but people sure seem hung up on it. I don't know what effortless vs effortful acting means or why one is better than the other

If you're a dude with a reputation for jerking off to feet, it takes some cojones to constantly ask your actors to prop 'em up and shove them at the camera.

tbf, by some weird coincidence his two worst films also happen to be the two films that do not feature fetish shots of feet

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tarantino-billboards-hijacked-la-slam-epstein-polanski-pedowood-1227227

xp which two?

dis ting got a soundtrack yet?

― calstars, Sunday, July 21, 2019 6:15 AM (six days ago)

fifteen copies for sale at each screening at the New Bev today

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which two?

Django and Hateful 8

every other one - except for Reservoir Dogs, which I don't think has a single woman in it anywhere (apart from the one who gets carjacked) - has a foot shot

Could've sworn he managed to work one in on Django, but by this point everyone's on the lookout and I trust any such claim.

I'd like a foot shot of QT tripping over one and off a cliff

sounds hottt

Re effortful acting, I mean that Leo is capital A Acting, trying so hard, and you can tell, like a dancer who has memorized the choreography but still looks like they have to think about what they are doing. It's almost campy, but at least in this one it was often kind of TV actor campy on purpose.

Very stagey and broad is what I'm getting at I guess.

will never be able to fathom what Scorsese and QT see in Sweaty Bigface

box office

does he really have a reliable fanbase a la Nic Cage or Tom Cruise or idk some other aging hearthrob? who are these people?

a butthole

Oops wrong thread

xps I'm not sure, but I think The Aviator made money, so they must exist.

I'm fairly sure leonardo dicaprio is one of the biggest stars in motion pictures and that this isn't a little-known fact

His last few movies have grossed more than $100 million, dudes.

he's a star by any definition, but for my students he's already "old."

But are Leonardo DiCaprio movies "Leonardo DiCaprio movies" the way Tom Cruise movies are "Tom Cruise movies"? Or are they inherently interesting movies that happen to star Leonardo DiCaprio?

I saw Inception and The Wolf of Wall Street in theaters, and I go to about one movie a year, but DiCaprio was not the selling point for me in either case.

he is generally the main character in movies he stars in.

and gets top-billing.

But are Leonardo DiCaprio movies "Leonardo DiCaprio movies" the way Tom Cruise movies are "Tom Cruise movies"? Or are they inherently interesting movies that happen to star Leonardo DiCaprio?

― shared unit of analysis (unperson),

I dunno about "inherently interesting," but otherwise yes and yes

The Revanant grossed $150 million and won him an Oscar because it was a monster movie starring Scrunchy Face.

I can say after teaching a film class this summer that thanks to the interchangeability of MU stars (three different Peter Parkers in 15 years?) the men and women less than 25 don't give a shit about stars generally, BUT Brad Pitt and Scrunchy Face (and Meryl Streep!) are easily recognizable and have a "brand." For them, though, Pitt is like Paul Newman when we were kids: "old," "handsome," cool enough to watch in a movie.

Fair enough. Movies, even more than pop music, are an area where I am totally alienated from what normal people like and why.

It was fascinating.

A plot digression features Bruce Dern as a blind, wizened, weakened victim of his own lusts as well as of female opportunists, a Harvey Weinstein figure.

Armond will never change he will only get more despicable

Leonardo has rarely been the best thing about any movie he’s in though I admired his insane commitment to the role in The Revenant (which was pretty good) and he was fantastic in Wolf of Wall Street.

WoWS may be the only movie I legit enjoyed him in, yeah

certainly that may be the only scorsese movie he's in where I find he doesn't distract.

Can only think he must be very easy to work with/director-friendly, like they say about Cruise.

I thought this movie was a serious pleasure to watch - wonderful pacing and world-building. Really enjoyed how restrained and patiently meandering it was. I've always thought his movies were extremely heavy-handed and left little room to breathe, and this was refreshingly different. One thing I didn't like was the narration bookending the movie - it was jarring and bizarre to me.

also this movie is so ... fun? really lighthearted and often hilarious

a butthole

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No, you're in the right place.

Nic Cage or Tom Cruise

This would be a wacky alternative cast for this movie.

Josh's posts above are more or less in line with my own reaction. Setting the last half-hour to one side, the rest is not bad and not silly, and I could pick out a few scenes I liked. To go along with that, many other scenes that are weirdly flat. The biggest surprise for me--should have been a lay-up--was how lazy the soundtrack is.

"Patiently meandering"--if you were to take a half-full view toward it, that's exactly what I meant by weirdly flat. It'll just depend how you feel about the pacing.

lol sorta disappointed to find out the wikipedia plot spoilers upthread were false

Wait what were the false spoilers? The ones I read match the updated synopsis iirc

nvm, tracked them down

Loved it

I liked a lot of scenes but this ended up being one of QT's worst IMO.

Qualified rave from David Edelstein:

http://www.vulture.com/2019/07/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-review-quentin-tarantino.html

"world-building" needs to go to hell

also what a steaming pile of hypocritical crap Wolf of Wall St was

He'll have Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten debating whether Green Acres or The Beverly Hillbillies is better.

― clemenza, Wednesday, July 12, 2017 9:16 AM (two years ago)

I think I was actually pretty close here when Tex Watson and Patricia Krenwinkel start comparing notes on Dalton.