Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

What better film to launch Fuck You I'm From Austin Film Talk than Quentin Tarentino's 'Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood?' Right? Have you seen it yet? It's a great movie chock full of movie shit for movie lovers.

Like Ms. Lizzo sez, "I been waitn' for this one!" It's a buddy story, really. Two old school Hollywood types, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) literally tear up the screen. They're getting the Fuck You I'm From Austin Film Talk 2019 hottest on screen chemistry prize. Dang! I've never gone for the pretty boys in life, but, sheee-it, Pitt winds it up all over the place. I could've crawled up on that roof all day long to help him tweak his antennae. And a hot guy with a dog, a pit bull. That's a dealmaker for an old pit bull rescuer, boy howdy. But, more on Brandy, the pit bull later on. Vanity Fair's article on Brandy manages to diss on Rick and Cliff. They're not nice people. Oh, really? Well, I like my movie characters and my friends salty. Try making a movie with nice people. And, face painting for the kids. Yawn.

Delicious Margot Robbie figure skated like a bat outta hell from Queen Elizabeth over to Sunset Strip to portray Damien Lewis's Steve McQueen fills us in on how it works.

probably one of the most alluring gorgeous and tragic stars in Hollywood history. Robbie plays Sharon Tate with her own brand of some delicious personality de vivre. She is not ashamed to shake it and not break it for an extended marvelous scene at the Playboy mansion while Billions and Homeland's Damien Lewis who is an unbelievably believable Steve McQueen tells it like it is.

Al Pacino's Marvin Schwarzs and (Venus Williams' main squeeze) Nicholas Hammond's Sam Wanamaker bring it on adding in that old Hollywood pizazz how things got/get done out yonder. These kinds of Sam Fuller characters are who your's truly would want to hobnob around with in Tinseltown. Imagine the stories!

Let's get to Spahn Movie Ranch. This is a character-driven movie and shoot, is it crammed full. Quentin Tarentino pretty much does what the fuck he wants to and that's fine with Fuck You I'm From Texas Film Talk. Breaking the rules makes good movies. Just ask some a them French New Wavers. Many many years ago when the Manson Family was creepy crawling all over Benedict Canyon, I was working at the town newspaper in Beaumont typing up classified ads. The Manson ordeal was in the paper every day and I boned up on it, so to speak. I couldn't get enough about that old movie ranch. Word to the set people, I could smell that place all the way to Austin. Good work!

George Spahn was perfectly cast with one of my all time favorite actors, Bruce Dern. When I was growing up, we saw him in (A Lonely Place on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour). Bruce was so terrifyingly insane whoever spotted him from then on would scream out, "Jesse's on TV!" and the whole group would come a runnin'. Hollywood must've seen the same episode, because Bruce played Jesse roles for many years after. Every script and novel I've written has a Bruce Dern character in it. Love the man. He could've stayed asleep in his bed and still pulled off the performance he gave as George Spahn.

I want to take a second to commend Tarentino for not being nervous about a nice long take and nice long set 'em up Joe during the beginning. We don't mind fearless filmmaking at Fuck You I'm From Austin Film Talk. In fact, a long take takes real balls.

PETA had to get their panties in a wad over how pit bulls were used in "Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood." So, let's get a couple of things out of the way. Ingrid Newkirk is an ex-dog catcher who hates pit bulls. PETA kills pit bulls. That being said, stick to getting riled up over the rat on the glue trap and leave the pit bulls to Reunion Rescue where we know dogs. And, films. Brandy was played by three pit bulls, Sayuri, Cerberus and Siren. Side note, Pitt is the proud guardian of a pit bull in real life. Hey, PETA, rather than kill dogs, why don't you take a page from the dog trainers in this show. They seem to know what the fuck they're doing. Stick to rats. You'll fit right in there, Ingrid.

Watch for the real good moments like Margot/Sharon watching herself on screen barefooted with dirty feet. All those unexplained scars on Brad Pitt's beautiful body. All the interesting people eating at the bars and the restaurants, not a detail missed. And the cars! The guy at the movie theater and the cashier. The Van Nuys Drive In. And good ol' TV like right outta my cat room where they sit around and watch Lawman and Wanted: Dead or Alive all day long.

Oboy moments with Bruce Lee and (Andie McDowell's daughter) Margaret Qualley, the sweet hitchhiker who tries to take Cliff Booth for a ride.

Five fucking stars for a great entertaining flick. I will definitely be over-watching this one. Not a dull moment for this grizzly old movie buff.