Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is BORING as hell

Quentin Tarantino is one of the best-known film directors in the world. He is well known for his peculiar and distinctive style. While this style varies from movie to movie, almost every single one of them still has this "tarantinoesque" touch to them, which is almost unique to him.

His movies are notorious for often containing very long and complex dialogue scenes (where two or more characters do nothing but talk to each other) which are often so well-written that it's incredibly engaging and interesting, and one rarely gets bored. Where your typical movie might have a group of people have a conversation for half a minute before the scene changes completely to something else (or, sometimes, the violence begins), Tarantino's movies will often have the conversation going on for 10 minutes and even more. And not one moment of it is usually boring.

Yet, regardless of these long dialogue sequences, which there usually are a few throughout the movie, most of his movies also know how to keep the events and action going, with the movie being full of his characteristic violence. Somehow, regardless of these long draw-out dialogue scenes, his movies are notorious for being very action-packed, often with very graphic violence. Or otherwise the pace of the movie keeps moving at a reasonable speed, so the viewer is rarely bored. Several of his movies also use a non-linear narrative style (which is different from a movie simply having some flashbacks or flashforwards), which is another very distinctive and notorious characteristic of his script writing style.

It's actually hard to describe what makes his movies so distinctive, so "tarantinoesque". You can try to describe it in words, but really you have to see his movies in order to get the feeling.

Well, there appears to be one exception to the rule.

In 2019 he released a movie called "Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood" (which, rather obviously, is a very direct reference and homage to the super-classic movies "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "Once Upon a Time in America").

Recently I finally watched the movie, expecting a typical thrilling Tarantino movie full of engaging complex dialogue, action scenes, popcultural references and perhaps non-linear storytelling and plot twists.

I was utterly, utterly disappointed.

About the only thing there is in the movie is dialogue. But not your typical "Tarantino style" dialogue, but very, very boring dialogue. Almost the entire film consists of people smoking (it's set in the 1960's), drinking and talking. And not like involved complex engaging dialogue, but very boring dialogue for the vast majority. Nothing of any interest happens for the vast majority of the movie. I'm not exaggerating.

The only "tarantinoesque" violent action scene begins at about 2 hours 10 minutes into the movie (the movie is 2 and a half hours long in total). That's how long you have to sit through before you get to anything interesting. And that's literally the only characteristically "Quentin Tarantino style" scene in the entire movie. Everything else is utterly boring, with a couple of scenes in the middle of it being perhaps slightly interesting, but that's about it. Most of it is a pain to wade through.

If you haven't seen the movie and don't believe me, watch it for yourself. You'll see.