Seeing Once Upon a Time In Hollywood it’s easy to say that this is the best movie to hit the silver screen in a long time.
I’m borderline obsessed with it. It’s stunning in its visuals, with beautifully, simple shots.
The characters were so well-crafted that while the plot wasn’t especially heavy it still kept me engrossed because of characters I had fallen in love with.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are very recognizable actors.
Sometimes it’s hard to see the character in a story under the guise of someone so well-known.
In this movie, however, I saw Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth, and they were outstanding.
These two never lose their friendship, never fall into the petty arguments, they never end up a cliche.
These two feel like they’ve known each other forever, and been through the gauntlet together, and built a life around and containing each other.
Rick and Cliff make this movie work with their on-screen chemistry.
The little moments in this movie matter.
There’s one sequence in particular that deserves special mention: at one point, three stages of Hollywood life are playing out in a very different, but undeniably connected fashion.
Cliff is confronted with a profoundly creepy new reality in a place where stories were once created.
Sharon Tate, played by Margot Robbie, is watching the reactions of the real world to something she helped create.
Rick is portraying a character in an attempt to make a fictional scenario look real.
“This is masterful storytelling; the relationship betwen fact and fiction is especially prevalent for a movie about Hollywood, and in American society today.”
This is masterful storytelling; the relationship between fact and fiction is especially prevalent for a movie about Hollywood, and in American society today.
One of the main complaints about the movie is the plot, or lack of.
But this is more of a personal preference than an issue with the film itself; Once Upon a Time In Hollywood is a slice of life movie, straightforward and unpretentious.
There’s no grand quest, no liar revealed story arc, it’s just following a few months in the lives of three people in the movie industry.
If you’re a person looking for something driven more by plot than character, you’ve come to the wrong movie.
The weakest point of the movie would be the pacing.
There are just a few too many times when the movie drags on and just a couple of scenes that go on a bit too long, despite the plot and background the film has given itself to work with.
This would be less of an issue if the movie had more of a dynamic plot, but as is, it does unfortunately become noticeable.
While there are legitimate criticisms of this movie, I urge you to watch and judge it for yourself.
Anyone who loves movies for movies’ sake should certainly put this love letter to Hollywood on their must-watch list.