By 1969, the real Golden Age of Hollywood was long gone, this was a time when the permissive age and hippies were changing films and audience tastes, and not for the better. I can't say I'm a Tarantino fan, but he does have a huge following, but then I'm a guy from an earlier era, Someone once told me how fabulous Pulp Fiction was so I bought the DVD and thought it was the biggest load of rubbish I'd ever seen, this film was at least better, in my old fashioned opinion, had a nice 1960's look to it, spoiled as always by over the top foul language and violence, but did have a handful of nice nostalgic bits in it, my favourite being the 'Hopalong Cassidy' mugs on the shelf, Hoppy was my boyhood hero! Leonardo and Brad were excellent in their roles, almost as good as Brandy. And at the end, avoiding the tragic Sharon Tate murders for an alternative scenario, to me made no sense whatsoever, still, I guess that's Quentin love him or hate him?