First one of these in like six months and I should have posted this earlier today. Very busy today…and some of you can help. Please stop sending me e-mails arguing either that the new Tarantino film is either the absolute greatest movie ever made or the absolute worst. I cannot be convinced it is either of those things. I'd try to connect each of those arguing one position with someone else arguing the other but, like matter meeting anti-matter, I fear an explosion that would rock the universe.
If you want to tell me something, tell me why it matters so much to you that I — a blogger with minimal influence on anything — totally agrees with you about this movie. And I promise you this: If you can ever manage to get every single other person on this planet to agree with your view of this film, I will throw in with you all. I will vote to make it unanimous.
Until then, leave me alone on this. I have a long-standing policy: The length of time you spend arguing about a movie should never exceed the running time of said movie. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (which I believe is how you should spell it, ellipsis and all) is two hours and forty-five minutes. I am currently at about 2:41. In one sense, it's great that a movie arouses so much interest and discussion…but I can only take about another four minutes of it and I prefer to spend it praising whoever did the redress of the Bruin and Village Theaters in Westwood. You have no idea how many movies I saw in those places when they looked like that.
Normal posting should resume here in a couple of days when the current workload abates, the sixth volume of The Complete Pogo is off to the printers, and my cleaning lady comes and I no longer have to wash one dish in order to eat one dish of anything.