Good lord. I did not know that... & now I want my 2 and a half minutes back. Is there no laugh that I could be having that they can't ruin? Hell, my version could probably be funnier lol
After digesting it a bit more, I think I can see where the criticism is coming from, not that it's all that egregious, for a silly fantasy flick imho. We can cut it a little bit of a break. TBH, the dude's not making high art So, it's not really that she's being portrayed as "Attractive", or that she's not as main a character as the men. It's that the whole point of her character is to be the macguffin. Basically, there is no worse objectification that you can do in drama, than to make a human being the plot object & nothing else, a real life human woman, who was tragically murdered, no less. Ultimately, this movie is 50% love letter/lampoon of 60s Hollywood. It's no wonder he wanted Burt Reynolds in it. It's his Hollywood. 25% of the movie is a commentary on/capitalizing of the Manson family stigma, & 25% of the movie's screen time is fetishizing Sharon Tate, with one of modern Hollywood's hottest. The movie treats Sharon Tate as a fetish & the impetus of her real life murder as a macguffin. The real hilarity of the outrage is that I've actually seen as much objection to how Bruce Lee is portrayed, but even those criticisms are screwy imho, because the scene in which he is lampooned is actually a dream sequence, & not to be taken as an actual event in the film. Of course the character imagining Bruce might think he's like that, even if he isn't & we all know it, especially Kung-Fu movie buff Tarantino. It's just a purposefully silly movie, & it's not one of his best imho. I could enjoy it for what it was, but it probably ranks near the bottom of his 9 Django Unchained (I'll give it 8.5 out of 10) Pulp Fiction (8.4) Kill Bill (8.0) Reservoir Dogs (7.99999) Inglorious Basterds (7.0) Hateful Eight (6.999999) Jackie Brown (6.7) Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (6.5) Death Proof (4 stars)
I saw the film today and it felt like a 3 hour long film. Production and costume wise, it was really well put together. As a narrative, it was merely decent, but probably QT's worst film I have seen.
I have not. The only QT films I've actually seen were: Reservoir Dogs Pulp Fiction Inglorious Bastards (My favorite of his films) Django Unchained Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
I was surprised that it was about two and a half hours long; it felt while watching it like a short movie.
The same sadly hopeful folks, I suppose, who still think of Star Trek as somehow significant popular art rather than disposable popcorn junk entertainment.
Tarantino would be the only good thing that's likely to happen to Trek. In fact, it's so good it won't happen. Tarantino doesn't need Trek - his reputation and career can not benefit in any way from it; it's purely a fun-to-do. Paramount will not let it be fun - people managing franchises are simply incapable of the kind of faith in artists that would let Tarantino be himself.* *No, Marvel wouldn't either...and Tarantino has no interest in them.