Can't help but feel slightly let down coming off of his red-hot streak of Basterds, Django, and (arguably) Hateful 8. I think this was a bit weaker than those, and was lower-tier Tarantino, but that's not a total knock. Very good but not quite great
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BOY did that final scene deliver. Tarantino has played with long, drawn-out scenes of tension plenty of times before but this was almost an entire movie of that in a way. I guess you could say his revisionist/wish fulfillment history trope is starting to get a BIT played out but I think he played it out differently enough from Basterds/Django that it worked well enough here
Tom Cruise was originally in talks to play Cliff Booth and as great as Pitt was (as is typical), I think I would've liked to see Cruise play that part even more
That scene with Dalton and the little girl talking might've been my fav of the whole movie?? That was amazing, she was so good
Another great scene: that super tense scene where Cliff looks for George in the hippie ranch. I was basically burying my head in my hands that whole scene, I thought Cliff was gonna bite it for sure. That scene ended up being a microcosm of the whole movie in a way
Definitely a great MOOD piece and you could feel Tarantino's love for that setting/time period the whole time. I'm sure Vern's gonna love this one
forgot to mention how great the soundtrack was, even though that's almost a given with QT's movies. Bring a Little Lovin and especially Out of Time were the standouts
such a perfect song choice, especially with it
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seemingly building to Tate's demise with this scene. Gave the perfect amount of melancholy without seeming overly foreboding
