SYNOPSIS: A re-imagining of the Manson murders while paralleling a story focused on Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), an outdated actor who is trying to find his way back to being on top of Hollywood cinema.

REVIEW: A long movie. A long movie for sure with some fat that could be trimmed. This was a very divisive film and I can definitely see why. I did enjoy the film for the most part, there was just a whole lot of "wtf am I watching?"

POSITIVES: DiCaprio is so good in this. Truly a great year for film and the Best Actor category is so strong it's not even funny. Some actors who weren't nominated had winning performances in other years. Brad Pitt is another one. Fantastic job. He deserves to win and I'm sure he will. To everyone saying "it's just Brad Pitt being Brad Pitt", and no one can play that cool ass stunt double better. He's never won for Best Actor playing the cool guy so let's give him this one cause damn was he good. He's the first non-superhero that I watched and was like, "wish I was that guy." The guy was poor living in a trailer and the shadow of Dalton and I wanted so bad to be him. There were many memorable scenes like all of the scenes where Rick Dalton was shooting a film or show and the scene with Bruce Lee (Mike Moh) was simple and purely awesome. The last 30 mins of this film were spectacular and you won't convince me otherwise.

JULIA BUTTERS: Yea... had to make her own section this. BEST. ACTING. EVER. *clears throat* okay, moving on.

NEGATIVES: Too long. Enough said on that. Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) almost felt not necessary. Someone sparked the idea that possibly we were following her for an excess amount of time to try to diverge the audience into believing we were going to see the real outcome of the horrendous Manson crimes, but to that I say Tarantino is known to flip the true story into what we all secretly cynically desire would've actually happened. So, yes, have Sharon Tate in there, but let's not focus too much on that. I understand this was a love letter to Hollywood, for me I didn't connect much with it so that fell flat. Unfortunately, a lot of the dialogue didn't carry me throughout the film like most of Tarantino's films have in the past. CONCLUSION: This film had a lot of very funny and memorable scenes, however, the runtime really hurt this film and I felt that a lot of the dialogue in this film couldn't help carry me through. Absolutely, stellar acting all around and great directing. Great film at time and sorely lacking at other times. 6.7/10.