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This is me with most Tarantino films. I watched Pulp Fiction and have no idea what actually happened in that movie.
That sounds like a you problem. It's really not hard to follow.
Tarantino films are dense with dialogue and cultural references, but the plot and characters are usually very simple.
Feet and the n-word
Really? I understand not liking it, taste is personal and his movies are quirky to say the least... but not understanding the plot? were you on your phone all movie (my wife does this and then complains she got lost). I ask because the plot of pulp fiction could be written in half a page, the only thing complex about it is that it is shown async
"i can't follow the plot"
bitch, put the fucking phone down for longer than 30s and maybe you will
My wife once asked if we could rewind two minutes, where I told her "Just this once. Will not happen next time you're on the phone during a movie". She never repeated it, but still has to look at her phone many times during movies.
In my experience, when people are on their phone throughout the movie, it's usually a sign that they find the movie incredibly boring. Some people simply don't like watching 2 hours of people talking.
I CAME FOR ASPLOSIONS.
I disagree... I have seen so many people, my wife included, not letting the phone down for a good 15-20 minutes after the movie starts, by then, they are already lost so the movie never had a chance
If you find a movie boring, stop it... why ruin it for yourself and all around you by being on the phone throughout the duration of the movie?
"i can't follow the plot"
bitch, put the fucking phone down for longer than 30s and maybe you will
I find many of his movies enjoyable, but they definitely is a required taste. The last Tarantino movie I saw was the hateful 8 and I hated that movie so much, so I get where you're coming from. Haven't watched his movie about Hollywood because I cannot bring myself to care about Hollywood people making movies about life in Hollywood. The only Hollywood director who could get away with that was David Lynch, but he also had so much more to say and his Hollywood-focused films were so much deeper than the typical navel gazing bullshit in that specific niche genre. Under the Silver Lake is a movie I wish I could unsee. Ironically another film that people seem to love, but where I'm just over here like: okay Hollywood, don't gas yourself to death with all that farthuffing.
Time in Hollywood is good, but then if you did like hateful 8 maybe his movies just arent for you
I don't think you read what I wrote, my friend. Me hating one of his movies doesn't mean his entire filmography isn't for me. I have enjoyed the vast majority of his films, believe it or not. I just really hated that one.
And as for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, it's not because he made it that I don't care to watch it, it's because I don't like Hollywood movies about Hollywood. I find most of them to be pretentious, navel gazing and deeply uninteresting.
well, you might like Time in Hollywood then it's more a critique/look behind the curtain kinda movie thing
I can give it a watch at some point, for sure.
It kinda is navel gazing though. Sort of like how Inglorious Basterds (which I would recommend) is alternate history about some violent dudes killing bad guys, the Hollywood movie is like that... except Hollywood.
So instead of Brad Pitt playing a bad ass that kills Hitler, it's Brad Pitt playing a bad ass killing the Manson family cultists before they do those murders. Maybe the implication is that Roman Polanski wouldn't have become a child rapist if that happened? There's some kind of implication that 70s Hollywood was awesome until the Manson family ruined everything.
Anyway, it's basically like Inglorious Basterds, but Hollywood. Definitely one of Tarantino's weaker movies, maybe better than Hateful 8 (seemed more like a stage play to me) but not by much. Unless, like Tarantino, you get off on women showing off their dirty feet while watching 70s movies, you can probably give it a miss.
the feet are always clean, you animal
Guy gets a watch.
Nothing much, really, at the end of the day.