Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Official Thread)

[CodeBlaMeVi]

It's at 250 worldwide, they pulled it off. 110 mill budget. 79 mill in domestic sales. Crazy. Worldwide saved this shyt from being in the red. Gonna make a decent buck off this shyt.

His films generally perform well internationally. His best domestic film is Pulp Fiction I think.

 

[Big Dick]

Tarantino on the Bruce Lee stuff

“Could Cliff beat up Bruce Lee? Brad would not be able to beat up Bruce Lee, but Cliff maybe could,” Tarantino said. “If you ask me the question, ‘Who would win in a fight: Bruce Lee or Dracula?’ It’s the same question. It’s a fictional character. If I say Cliff can beat Bruce Lee up, he’s a fictional character so he could beat Bruce Lee up. The reality of the situation is this: Cliff is a Green Beret. He has killed many men in WWII in hand to hand combat. What Bruce Lee is talking about in the whole thing is that he admires warriors. He admires combat, and boxing is a closer approximation of combat as a sport. Cliff is not part of the sport that is like combat, he is a warrior. He is a combat person.”

And

“Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy,” Tarantino told press about depicting the actor in such a cocky manner. “The way he was talking, I didn’t just make a lot of that up. I heard him say things like that to that effect. If people are saying, ‘Well he never said he could beat up Mohammad Ali,’ well yeah he did. Alright? Not only did he say that but his wife, Linda Lee, said that in her first biography I ever read. She absolutely said that.”

 

[Big Dick]

Also I’m not a big box office guy anyway but in this case in particular I doubt any of the parties involved are gone be hurt because they’re all Teflon.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

His films generally perform well internationally. His best domestic film is Pulp Fiction I think.

Adjusted for inflation Pulp is his highest domestic grosser. Officially Django is his highest grossing movie domestically and ww.

 

[Fallacy]

Tarantino on the Bruce Lee stuff

“Could Cliff beat up Bruce Lee? Brad would not be able to beat up Bruce Lee, but Cliff maybe could,” Tarantino said. “If you ask me the question, ‘Who would win in a fight: Bruce Lee or Dracula?’ It’s the same question. It’s a fictional character. If I say Cliff can beat Bruce Lee up, he’s a fictional character so he could beat Bruce Lee up. The reality of the situation is this: Cliff is a Green Beret. He has killed many men in WWII in hand to hand combat. What Bruce Lee is talking about in the whole thing is that he admires warriors. He admires combat, and boxing is a closer approximation of combat as a sport. Cliff is not part of the sport that is like combat, he is a warrior. He is a combat person.”

And

“Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy,” Tarantino told press about depicting the actor in such a cocky manner. “The way he was talking, I didn’t just make a lot of that up. I heard him say things like that to that effect. If people are saying, ‘Well he never said he could beat up Mohammad Ali,’ well yeah he did. Alright? Not only did he say that but his wife, Linda Lee, said that in her first biography I ever read. She absolutely said that.”

 

[Jack Skellington]

Brad Pitt carried this. Incredibly underwhelming QT flick

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Theres really not much here to talk about. Movie is really bare the more you think about it.

 

[OmegaK2099]

Lol @ Tarantino calling anyone arrogant

 

[Fortunate Lee]

Just seen it

Up there with The Hateful Eight as far QT movies..and that movie was average too

It had some great moments (mostly by Brad Pitt) but for a 3 hour movie, this shyt was light

I didn’t mind the ending, I was expecting that as soon as that hippy hoe was trying to get at Brads character

6/10

It’s still

Pulp Fiction
Django
Kill Bill/Reservoir Dogs
Jackie Brown (his most underrated)
Inglorious Basterds


Hateful Eight
Once Upon a Time...
Death Proof

I didn’t rank True Romance or From Dusk because he didn’t direct those

Do better next time breh

 

[Zero]

Unsticky this shyt

 

[TheGodling]

I'm wrestling with exactly why this didn't work for me. I definitely want to watch, like, 90 minutes of this again. As an elegy for a Hollywood of that time, I loved it. The small moments, the easter eggs and the production design were beautifully done. The storytelling just stretched will beyond what I would consider necessary or entertaining. There a great movie in here, it's just drowned by a flat, decidedly non-Tarantino script. It's a damn shame.

Perfect summary because this might quite possibly be the best made garbage I have ever seen. There are great scenes in this, every actor delivers and then some, but it is still fukking garbage. I have seen three 3 hour foreign arthouse movies this year that all moved at a goddamn snail's pace and I can genuinely say that all three justified its length and pacing more than this movie ever came close to.

At this point we really need to have a serious discussion about how much Sally Menke saved QT's movies because since her passing (R.I.P.) the editing and pacing of his movies have gone straight to shyt, and this stumbling disjointed mess is his worst offender. Shout out to @InGodWeTrust as the only other poster to mention her, glad someone has a fukking clue around here instead of the Coli's resident 'our only talking points are things we heard on a podcast' circle jerkers.

I'm also completely dumb founded at the love people have for the third act. Not only is it the most painfully obvious climax of any QT movie, it also literally did nothing for anything in the movie. Basically all it achieved was showing us that QT had absolutely no balls to circumvent expectations and challenge audiences. Which, after the nigh 2+ hours of forcing them to sit through unnecessary plodding exhibition, could have been its only saving grace.

By large the biggest cinematic disappointment in years, especially because you can see the skeleton of the movie that would have worked throughout this mess.

 

[HHR]

Perfect summary because this might quite possibly be the best made garbage I have ever seen. There are great scenes in this, every actor delivers and then some, but it is still fukking garbage. I have seen three 3 hour foreign arthouse movies this year that all moved at a goddamn snail's pace and I can genuinely say that all three justified its length and pacing more than this movie ever came close to.

At this point we really need to have a serious discussion about how much Sally Menke saved QT's movies because since her passing (R.I.P.) the editing and pacing of his movies have gone straight to shyt, and this stumbling disjointed mess is his worst offender. Shout out to @InGodWeTrust as the only other poster to mention her, glad someone has a fukking clue around here instead of the Coli's resident 'our only talking points are things we heard on a podcast' circle jerkers.

I'm also completely dumb founded at the love people have for the third act. Not only is it the most painfully obvious climax of any QT movie, it also literally did nothing for anything in the movie. Basically all it achieved was showing us that QT had absolutely no balls to circumvent expectations and challenge audiences. Which, after the nigh 2+ hours of forcing them to sit through unnecessary plodding exhibition, could have been its only saving grace.

By large the biggest cinematic disappointment in years, especially because you can see the skeleton of the movie that would have worked throughout this mess.

Yup. I've mentioned the Menke thing offline to several people. Not that they have idea who or what I'm talking about lol

 

[Slimkid07]

Tarantino on the Bruce Lee stuff

“Could Cliff beat up Bruce Lee? Brad would not be able to beat up Bruce Lee, but Cliff maybe could,” Tarantino said. “If you ask me the question, ‘Who would win in a fight: Bruce Lee or Dracula?’ It’s the same question. It’s a fictional character. If I say Cliff can beat Bruce Lee up, he’s a fictional character so he could beat Bruce Lee up. The reality of the situation is this: Cliff is a Green Beret. He has killed many men in WWII in hand to hand combat. What Bruce Lee is talking about in the whole thing is that he admires warriors. He admires combat, and boxing is a closer approximation of combat as a sport. Cliff is not part of the sport that is like combat, he is a warrior. He is a combat person.”

And

“Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy,” Tarantino told press about depicting the actor in such a cocky manner. “The way he was talking, I didn’t just make a lot of that up. I heard him say things like that to that effect. If people are saying, ‘Well he never said he could beat up Mohammad Ali,’ well yeah he did. Alright? Not only did he say that but his wife, Linda Lee, said that in her first biography I ever read. She absolutely said that.”

So this kills the argument a lot of people had in here that the fight scene was a figment of Cliff's imagination or if he put extras on it.
Straight from the horse's mouth.

Told you. I don't know why people thought that. It was clear as day the way it was presented.

 

[FlyRy]

Yup. I've mentioned the Menke thing offline to several people. Not that they have idea who or what I'm talking about lol

Only issue with the menke thing for me is I love django and have no problems with it despite how long it is. Not much longer than inglorious. But hateful and this maybe could have used some trimming

 

[TheGodling]

Only issue with the menke thing for me is I love django and have no problems with it despite how long it is. Not much longer than inglorious. But hateful and this maybe could have used some trimming

Django's fourth act is terribly paced and the editing of the whole film is noticeably worse.