Knowing some of the old Hollywood stories helps. My wife didn’t know who any of the people were supposed to be, or the things that actually happened to them.
It reminded me of Inglorious Basterds the way he kinda modified history. Tarantino has been painting himself into a corner for years. His fanboying for Hollywood jobbers is getting a little stale, but I think this movie was a nice last stand. DiCaprio bought in hard and made a great effort. I don’t pay attention to the Oscars, but he has to be on a shortlist of best performances for last year
Knowing some of the old Hollywood stories helps. My wife didn’t know who any of the people were supposed to be, or the things that actually happened to them.
Oh I've learned about the Tate murders quite a bit, that was the most entertaining part of the movie to me. It definitely felt like Inglorious Basterds with the alternate history thing (IB is my favorite Tarantino film) but something about Basterds felt more fleshed out to me. Hollywood felt like Tarantino and DiCaprio just wanted to film old-style scenes on old cameras and have an excuse to do it with the multiple montages in the movie. Yet again, I enjoyed it thoroughly, and no Tarantino film really has literary value, but the others at least sort of pretended to.
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