I can understand this film not being everybody's idea of a good time.
It doesn't follow a beaten path.
I got the same sort of vibe from films by the Director Robert Altman (particularly
NASHVILLE and Pret - a - Porter.)
My eldest son (who has his own Podcast, Entertainment Landfill) urged me to see it and
his was a positive review.
I'd say the word "catharsis" is applicable and accurate to express my exact feelings at
seeing the Manson killers extinguished before the holocaust we know as actual history.
What a different world for those few minutes!
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12Once Upon A Time In ... Hollywood (My review)
by Terry inonce upon a time in... hollywood my review.
i rode my bike through 3-digit temperature and watched quentin tarentino’s new film.the title harkens back to sergio leone’s trilogy titles.. i wanted to see it for personal reasons.
the time span covered is the background to much of my life.
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Once Upon A Time In ... Hollywood (My review)
by Terry inonce upon a time in... hollywood my review.
i rode my bike through 3-digit temperature and watched quentin tarentino’s new film.the title harkens back to sergio leone’s trilogy titles.. i wanted to see it for personal reasons.
the time span covered is the background to much of my life.
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Once Upon A Time in... Hollywood MY REVIEW
I rode my bike through 3-digit temperature and watched Quentin Tarentino’s new film.
The title harkens back to Sergio Leone’s trilogy titles.I wanted to see it for personal reasons. The time span covered is the background to much of my life. As a kid, Western movies were mother’s milk. I knew all the actors.
Further, I was a real movie Nerd. Not unlike Tarantino himself.I also moved to California and was on the edge of the fringe of Hollywood as a young man.
In other words, knowing the Director would be faithful to the essential feel of the decades in question - I’d be reliving part of my own life.
Self-centered enough reasons for you?
Okay. With that out of the way …The title of this film is important.
Nothing about Hollywood has ever been real.California’s fine weather and generous sunlight magnetically sucked in legions of actors, Directors, dream seekers, and self-promoters from the get-go.
HOLLYWOOD OR BUST pretty much sums it up.
Most aspiring folks end up disappointed, used, abused, or - worst of all - simply drunk on what a little fame and exposure does to create a bubble of charisma. This leads to a complete nightmare distortion of reality.
For instance ...You may not know the Brad Pitt character (Cliff Booth) is based on Hollywood stuntman and (later) director Hal Needham.
Needham was a man of steel in his heyday. That’s how he met Burt Reynolds (also a wannabe actor and stuntman).Leonardo DiCaprio is a pastiche of fading Western actors from the 50’s TV obsession with cowboys. He is a chain smoker (back when smoking was “soothing”), hard drinker, non-intellectual who must confront something truly terrifying: his FUTURE.
There are some fun Zelig moments but unless you are an old geezer - they will go over your head.
The difference between overconfidence and self-doubt demarks (Rick Dalton’s) his career.
He’s still a BIG DEAL to other celebrities on their way up. (Actors are just as coo-coo over other actors as small town rubes on a tourist binge).In Once Upon A Time …
We are dropped into a time and place (familiar as hell to me) where we meet our two protagonists and ‘hang out’ with them as voyeurs.
It doesn’t take long for an audience to realize something rather shocking:
Standard storytelling will not be visiting your local movie theater.
This time we are required to shut up and watch the way a reporter might do a “drive along” with cops on their beat. You strap in and stay out of the way.You either adjust to the PACE of this film or you do not.
This is a visit to a museum. There is no ticking clock.
Well, maybe there is and maybe there isn’t.
We are teased gently toward a grisly and horrific historic event not unlike the old writer’s trope: “If an author at any time shows you a gun in a drawer - sooner or later it will be used.”
I’m talking about Charles Manson and his hippie commune of misfits and mind-controlled automatons.As we glimpse the unmajestic lives of a former Big Star and his sidekick and best buddy stunt double, the golden ring turns our finger green.
If Rick can’t pull it together and learn his lines he’d rather be dead.
As an audience member, I wanted to stage an intervention for these people to SNAP OUT OF IT! Take care of yourself why don't you?How many stars simply fade slow, slower, slowly until we read their obituary in the newspaper? Most? Some? Too many.
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I was dreading the slow buildup to the Charles Manson event which was approaching little by little.
That crescendo is handled like a fine Italian horror film.
I would expect nothing less from Q.T.And that’s when it happened to me!
An unexpected emotional response seized me and I couldn’t do anything about it.
I can’t explain it.You see … when you KNOW what’s going to happen … it’s just a matter of technique as to how it will be dramatized. Right?
WRONG!
I started crying in the theater and if you were sitting next to me you’d absolutely think I was a flippin’ idiot.
Why?
Tarentino did me a huge favor and made me inexplicably happy.
Huh?
That’s right. He made me so happy I couldn’t help but cry.I assure you - this won’t be your reaction.
For me, it was a vision of a much better version of a world I lived in.
A gift.If that puzzles you - well - go see the damn movie. Just don’t expect it to be like any other Tarentino film. It isn’t.
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Do You Think Trump Bares Any Responsibility For The Mass Shootings Occuring?
by minimus inwhen any mass shooting happens is it the president’s fault?
i’m talking over the last few decades..
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https://www.newsweek.com/there-no-such-thing-race-283123
"There is no such thing as race."
In 1950, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued a statement asserting that all humans belong to the same species and that "race" is not a biological reality but a myth.
Logically then - there can be no such thing as "race - ism". Right?
Well, hold on just a minute! Do any of us harbor doubts about either 'race' or 'racism'?
I'd say probably not.
Everybody seems to have a remarkably clear (in their own head) idea of what's what.
It's impossible to discuss race and color and not catch your foot in an emotional trip-wire.
Logic, Science, facts don't matter nearly enough because EMOTIONS prevail.
If YOU are a person "of color" rather than just a person - it's too late to talk you out of it.
If "race" is America's number 1 problem - I'd disagree because the language, the words, the emotions have poisoned the debate before one word is spoken.
It's too late.
If any person (especially in politics) speak up and speaks out in ignorant words and strong emotions - the landmines will explode and there will be violent upheavals.
The President just can't keep his mouth shut.
Even if he were the finest executive the world has ever known - he's a hot mess because he can't / won't shut his pie-hole.
If all life is 'sacred' or at least precious, humanity is precious.
LIFEFORCE has no color.
Realistically, logically, and scientifically there's no such thing as a colored life
or white life.
That's a category error and fallacy.
Example:
Black People matter
but Black "Lives" matter is a misnomer.
Yes, yes - I know inexact speech is a booby trap going forward.
To talk of Color or Race is likely to be an UN-necessary trespass.
It is "life" we revere because we can't replace it.
Quality of life because of prejudice is the difficult problem created by trespass.
Pre-judging people because they have a different culture, different religion, different political belief is stupid and upsetting, but almost ALL of us are guilty.
Until we clean up our words, learn to frame our debates without color and without race - we are condemned to an unending death spiral.
My opinion is unimportant.
Yet, here I am sharing it.
I'm not part of the solution either - just part of the same damned problem. -
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The "Good Old Days" - what made em' good?
by Terry inhave you ever heard the phrase:.
well, since i can't sleep tonight - you're gonna hear my version of what it means.. .
so, just suck it up and deal.. .
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Good Old (overlapping) Days
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Do you have a barking, snarling, vicious Brain-Dog too?
by Terry inthere is a snapping vicious junkyard dog in my head.
a dog constantly barking, hungry, terrifyingly intimidating, and above all...relentless!.
unless i feed it a constant stream of input - it threatens to eat me alive.. (it is that monster from the id in forbidden planet.).
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If I had to concoct an analogy ....
Our DNA is analogous to a deck of playing cards.
We are dealt a hand.
Here is where it becomes interesting.
Often in Poker, the absolute 'value' of the hand you hold is secondary to how you
play.
You might have a losing hand and play it as though it is a world beater.
Conversely, a winning hand you may perceive as inferior to what others hold.
A Lifetime is a series of 'showdowns' with wins and losses.
We all have something to work with.
Where I've failed on the whole is in the ambition department. I've worked seven decades to eradicate my feeling of inferiority. Some of it was bluff and other times guff.
In between I learned, adapted, rope-a-doped, and re-calibrated.
By the time I could play competently, I'd wasted a great many wonderful opportunities.
I'm still alive.
That's a BIG WIN all by itself.
I am not my brain. I am the ghost inside. I haunt my perception of Self.
Dreams, delusions, aspirations, beliefs, loves, are the formaldehyde in the jar where it all floats.
Yeah - I went too far on that one. -
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Do you have a barking, snarling, vicious Brain-Dog too?
by Terry inthere is a snapping vicious junkyard dog in my head.
a dog constantly barking, hungry, terrifyingly intimidating, and above all...relentless!.
unless i feed it a constant stream of input - it threatens to eat me alive.. (it is that monster from the id in forbidden planet.).
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Xanthippe -
Maybe it's like metabolism. Each person has a different baseline.
Mine is high octane and my head the racing engine that can't sit in the garage.
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Blew it this morning with 4 JWs
by Vanderhoven7 inso i decided to go hunting for jws this morning.
walked to the end of my driveway and who should be approaching...but 2 ladies, one old (dianne) and one younger both with watchtower mags in hand.
dianne shared how the world was under the control of satan etc.
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In my lifetime I've had moments of spectacular rudeness I can never take back I'd directed toward fairly innocent and well-meaning JW's who approached me with face filled with sunlight. I torched them.
Once in the presence of my two small (at the time) kids who looked at me like they'd had no clue their father was a monster.
Like I say ...we may not know how damaged and angry we are. PTSD is my only excuse - if it is indeed that.
Suffice to say - I do not go down that road. Who am I helping?
Who could be helped?
We live. We learn.
Chalk it up to damage done and repaid. -
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Do you have a barking, snarling, vicious Brain-Dog too?
by Terry inthere is a snapping vicious junkyard dog in my head.
a dog constantly barking, hungry, terrifyingly intimidating, and above all...relentless!.
unless i feed it a constant stream of input - it threatens to eat me alive.. (it is that monster from the id in forbidden planet.).
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Yeah; you're right.
Or one wolf with schizophrenia :)
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Do you have a barking, snarling, vicious Brain-Dog too?
by Terry inthere is a snapping vicious junkyard dog in my head.
a dog constantly barking, hungry, terrifyingly intimidating, and above all...relentless!.
unless i feed it a constant stream of input - it threatens to eat me alive.. (it is that monster from the id in forbidden planet.).
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The Monster from the id certainly feels about right :)
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Do you have a barking, snarling, vicious Brain-Dog too?
by Terry inthere is a snapping vicious junkyard dog in my head.
a dog constantly barking, hungry, terrifyingly intimidating, and above all...relentless!.
unless i feed it a constant stream of input - it threatens to eat me alive.. (it is that monster from the id in forbidden planet.).
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I just took the Briggs-Meyers test:
https://www.16personalities.com/personality-typesThe Myers–Briggs Type Indicator is an introspective self-report questionnaire with the purpose of indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world around them and make decisions.
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1. 57% Extroverted
2. 69 % Intuitive
3. 63 % Feeling (Nature)
4. 56% Tactics
5. 72% Turbulent Identity
Your personality type is:
Campaigner
ENFP-T
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Curious – When it comes to new ideas, Campaigners aren’t interested in brooding – they want to go out and experience things, and don’t hesitate to step out of their comfort zones to do so. Campaigners are imaginative and open-minded, seeing all things as part of a big, mysterious puzzle called life.
Observant – Campaigners believe that there are no irrelevant actions, that every shift in sentiment, every move and every idea is part of something bigger. To satisfy their curiosity, Campaigners try to notice all of these things, and to never miss a moment.
Energetic and Enthusiastic – As they observe, forming new connections and ideas, Campaigners won’t hold their tongues – they’re excited about their findings, and share them with anyone who’ll listen. This infectious enthusiasm has the dual benefit of giving Campaigners a chance to make more social connections, and of giving them a new source of information and experience, as they fit their new friends’ opinions into their existing ideas.
Excellent Communicators – It’s a good thing that Campaigners have such strong people skills, or they’d never express these ideas. Campaigners enjoy both small talk and deep, meaningful conversations, which are just two sides of the same coin for them, and are adept at steering conversations towards their desired subjects in ways that feel completely natural and unforced.
Know How to Relax – It’s not all “nature of the cosmos” discussions with Campaigners – people with this personality type know that sometimes, nothing is as important as simply having fun and experiencing life’s joys. That Intuitive trait lets Campaigners know that it’s time to shake things up, and these wild bursts of enthusiastic energy can surprise even their closest friends.
Very Popular and Friendly – All this adaptability and spontaneity comes together to form a person who is approachable, interesting and exciting, with a cooperative and altruistic spirit and friendly, empathetic disposition. Campaigners get along with pretty much everyone, and their circles of friends stretch far and wide.
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Poor Practical Skills – When it comes to conceiving ideas and starting projects, especially involving other people, Campaigners have exceptional talent. Unfortunately their skill with upkeep, administration, and follow-through on those projects struggles. Without more hands-on people to help push day-to-day things along, Campaigners’ ideas are likely to remain just that – ideas.
Find it Difficult to Focus – Campaigners are natural explorers of interpersonal connections and philosophy, but this backfires when what needs to be done is that TPS report sitting right in front of them. It’s hard for Campaigners to maintain interest as tasks drift towards routine, administrative matters, and away from broader concepts.
Overthink Things – Campaigners don’t take things at face value – they look for underlying motives in even the simplest things. It’s not uncommon for Campaigners to lose a bit of sleep asking themselves why someone did what they did, what it might mean, and what to do about it.
Get Stressed Easily – All this overthinking isn’t just for their own benefit – Campaigners, especially Turbulent ones, are very sensitive, and care deeply about others’ feelings. A consequence of their popularity is that others often look to them for guidance and help, which takes time, and it’s easy to see why Campaigners sometimes get overwhelmed, especially when they can’t say yes to every request.
Highly Emotional – While emotional expression is healthy and natural, with Campaigners even viewing it as a core part of their identity, it can come out strongly enough to cause problems for this personality type. Particularly when under stress, criticism or conflict, Campaigners can experience emotional bursts that are counter-productive at best.
Independent to a Fault – Campaigners loathe being micromanaged and restrained by heavy-handed rules – they want to be seen as highly independent masters of their own fates, even possessors of an altruistic wisdom that goes beyond draconian law. The challenge for Campaigners is that they live in a world of checks and balances, a pill they are not happy to swallow.
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