Slowly starting to come around to this one

Same.

LOL i became able to appreciate how well made the film is. QT really is a masterful director. His cinematography, editing, and ability to build an atmosphere is unlike any other. The late 60's look is really groovy too. But yeah this film transports its audience back to another time better than nearly any movie I've ever seen.

Your inability to follow or understand the story doesn't mean there is no story. This is a film of incredible depth.

agreed. the entire film is basically self indulgent late 60s LA nostalgia porn.

also if you skip all the Sharon Tate parts its a much better and paced film. but as you said no story.

One of the key things in the movie -- perhaps only noticeable after a rewatch or two -- was the incredible detail that QT put into the "rooms of the two leads."

For instance, Rick Dalton has on one shelf three "Hopalong Cassidy" glass cups of different colors, and late in the film, we see his hand put a fourth cup alongside them -- in a NEW color.

Meanwhile, Cliff Booth in his trailer living room has a poster of actress Anne Francis (in a bathing suit) on his wall. Francis had a TV show called "Honey West" on in 1965-1966 -- she played a sexy private eye with karate skills who beat up bad guys -- and I kind of figured if Cliff had her poster on the wall -- he must have stunted on the show and they had an affair.

There is a perfect "Mad" magazine spoof cover of Rick on Bounty Law that mercilessly mocks Leo's rather weird face in real life; and I think Cliff has a copy of TV Guide with Mission Impossible on the cover.

Details, details, details. Everywhere.

And how about that montage of "places turning on their lights" all over Los Angeles as dusk turns to night on the night that Sharon Tate is to die?

We get the Cinerama Dome(now the Arclight) on Sunset Boulevard playing the 1969 "non classic" Krakatoa, East of Java (critics noted that Krakatoa is WEST of Java.) And we get a Taco Bell opening -- a Taco Bell in the "Mexican adobe" style long ago abandoned(racial issues?)

Posters on bus stop benches advertise local LA newsman George Putnam, and the syndicated series from network "Combat" and "The Invaders."

Details. A world created.