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Sorry, but this was a bad movie


It had a good opening scene, but slowly went downhill and became about nothing but moving from scene to scene to hangout with actors playing whatever cast member for 5 minutes and repeat. The movie just felt like a 2 hour montage without a compelling story about why I should care about any of it. Having it play out in real life was a bad choice because it really made it feel like it was just full of a fluff. It really dragged until the last 10-15 minutes where it finally got interesting and then it was over. I'll give them credit that it's a well made and acted movie, but it was boring and not interesting.

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That was my reaction after watching “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

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This was worse imo

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You need not express sorrow.

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I'm about 75% through and find it is a lot less enjoyable than I thought it would be.

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I was excited because it sounded like this would be a return to form for Jason Reitman after the crappy Ghostbusters movies, but it was far from that.

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The whole biopic documentary movie formula got ruined by Cameron Crowe back in 2000 when he dropped Almost Famous. Ever since then these pictures have this unbearable smugness and self awareness to them. Where instead of presenting people as emerging talents just trying to get noticed or make a buck, they're presented as demi-god prophets who know they've been put on Earth to change culture forever and know they're better than everybody around them. It's gross and absolutely impossible to relate too. This otherwise fine movie is absolutely over-sauced with the stuff.

I'm excited to see the new Robbie Williams flick because knowing this, he literally made himself a monkey. He gets it.

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