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Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
Boring, disjointed, too long (as ever, from QT), what was all the fuss about??
After hearing so many good things about this flick, the actual experience of watching it was a massive let down. It has a rambling, incoherent story line, is just boring for long stretches as nothing really happens and I just don't care about any of the characters enough to care whether they come out of the film well or not. The 'twist' at the end, whereby the Manson hippies enter Dalton's house not the Tate house, is just weird but I suppose QT had to try to inject some sort of 'big' ending to this bore fest didn't he. Oh yes, Dalton would definitely have been allowed to take home a flame thrower from the set wouldn't he...
Worst QT film by far in my view. A mess of epic proportions that is not worthy of the great man.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Not Great, far from Rubbish Though
The people rating this 1/10 are clueless about what makes a good, entertaining film, that much is clear. This was a long film but kept myself and my 12 year old son engaged throughout, with the twists and turns of the film scarcely believable but who cares?! He loved it, I was satisfied, what more can you want. All the Star Wars nerds saying this is an awful film are just wrong. It takes things from earlier Star Wars films? Yes, of course it does! That's good in my boom and adds to the nostalgia of this one. Far from perfect but absolutely not rubbish.
Syriana (2005)
Way too confusing
Fine, others will sniff and sneer and say I'm thick but this was hard work from the off I'm afraid and I challenge anyone to know what the h*ll was going on for at least the first 45 minutes.
Way too clever for its own good, this film could have been great but I spent too much time trying to figure out what was happening, who was doing what, why any of them were doing it and so on, that any enjoyment of watching the thing was severely diluted.
Same thing happened with Inception - completely clueless after 30 minutes! It must be me....