IMDb plot summary: A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Emile Hirsch.
(Spoilers.)
While this plays as the same sort of fictionalized version of real events as Inglourious Basterds, it's far less entertaining. There are no really engaging characters, and the ending that allows the "good guys" to win out is much less satisfying. It dances around trying to say something interesting about Hollywood's glorification of violence but never actually lands anywhere. There are some fun individual moments, but for a director who I've always found to be delightfully over-the-top, this film feels duller, and it suffers for it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood > Peter Pan Live!
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood < Cold Comfort Farm
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood < Real Life
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood < Absolute Power
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood > Heat
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood < Hans Christian Andersen
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood > Finding Forrester
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood < De-Lovely
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood > The Sandlot
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood > Blade
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood < A Bug's Life
Final spot: #1413 out of 3085.
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