Time to Blow 

Haha! Just have seen a lot of people on here with opinions who haven’t seen it! I mean it’s fine if people don’t like it, Tarantino has been nothing if not divisive his whole career. I saw a different side I suppose. While I don’t think I see the past with rose colored glasses, I do love the aesthetics of the 1960s…

Have you seen it?

I don’t think Tarantino felt the need to provide more “context” because he assumes that people have the context of the Manson murders? Like if you don’t know that the Manson family was a perverted outcropping of the hippie movement separate from the “real” peaceful Woodstock hippies, then that’s kind of their own…

They mention that jingle in the article 

I mean I guess it was more of a situation where they didn’t expect anyone else to be there and so were caught off guard and didn’t want to leave witnesses. 

Just a note: it’s not Squeaky. It’s Susan Atkins. Squeaky as far as I know was never charged or convicted of anything until she attempted to assassinate Ford in 1975. Atkins is infamously the one who wrote “pig” in blood at the Tate murders, and thus gets the violent end she deserved.

Rick Dalton berates them when they drive up his cul-de-sac (to go to commit the murders at the Tate house). He calls them dirty hippies basically and thinks they’re coming out there to smoke pot and is very aggressively yelling at them to get off his lawn basically. When they go back down to the end of the block to…

The LA Times article from November of 1969 when Tex Watson was arrested calls the Manson family an “occult band of hippies” and an “outlaw hippie clan.” Tarantino isn’t conflating the two. The entirety of American media did so.

Yeah, Tarantino is not grossly misjudging the Manson family. They were what everyone would have called hippies, and it would have been an insult coming from someone born in the 20s like Leo’s character. That is just historical accuracy. They looked and acted like hippies until they murdered people.

My personal beef with that scene is that everyone is saying he kicked Bruce’s ass in that scene. They were going for best out of three in terms of knocking their opponent to the ground. Bruce knocks him down once, he knocks Bruce down once (sure, very hard but he does get right back up), and then in the third round…

Yeah the more I think about it the more I don’t think he killed his wife. It’s pretty obviously a rumor that gets spread around the backlots in my opinion. 

Yeah I remember before I saw it someone mentioned to me the part that Roman Polanski plays in the movie and how he’s garbage and blah blah and I saw it yesterday, and he has like a couple lines? And some non-speaking shots where he’s driving Sharon around LA? Like he’s basically in there as little as possible while…

Sad but true 

It’s amazing to me how many people I know who are like “yeah these movies are soulless cash grabs and a lot of them are pretty bad but I’m still gonna see them.” Is voting with your dollars not a thing anymore?

Yeah I’m surprised about the B grade. I get the reasons why this is SUPPOSED to be monotonous, slow etc.... but it still didn’t pull me in. And I love Goldblum. I think the most accurate sentence in the review is “the movie itself sometimes feels a bit lobotomized.” But Alverson will always be a polarizing filmmaker.…

CGI is improving though I still think a lot of it is garbage. But with CGI there’s no real sense of “how did they do that???” Because the answer is always “on a computer.” Unless you have a deeper understanding of the technologies or software programs, that’s kind of where the convo ends. Practical effects still get…

I don’t know, I just showed ET to my 9-year-old niece this summer, and as someone who has been raised with CGI and other huge spectacle films, she was FULLY enthralled even just watching it on my little laptop screen. And she was so impressed by the creature effects, she kept asking how they made the alien. And she…

HA well if so that’s too bad. Will prob see it this weekend so we’ll see how I feel 

I know that Polanski legally doesn’t have a leg to stand on in the US, but it is generally messy and frowned upon to rewrite the lives of people who are still alive. Easier to leave him out.