Q-Tips Reviews

Once upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature film is a story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood. The two lead characters are Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore. But Rick has a very famous next-door neighbor…Sharon Tate.

Q-tips say:  Complex, conversation-starting look back at the film business at the close of a tumultuous decade.  No real plot, fancy car driving shots with some stand out scenes but overall disjointed and a tad dull.  Many famous names/actors.

1917 – At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay) and Blake (Game of Thrones’ Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers–Blake’s own brother among them.

Q-tips say: 1917 is an impressive technical achievement, 1917 captures the trench warfare of World War I with raw, startling immediacy.   War remains hell, and this movie shows us that inferno to devastating effect. Not an easy movie, but certainly a memorable one. Technically, it is undeniably impressive.

JOKER -Joker is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix. It is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.    

Q-tips say:
The Mr. really wanted to see this movie.  Mrs. Q said, “ok, let’s get it over with and see it.”  Dark, weird movie about a sick, mentally sick person and much killing.

Mrs. Q says: With all the killing/destruction in our society these days, do we need another movie that children see and follow thru with what  is done in this movie. The ending shows others in clown masks celebrating what “Joker” has done – killing all types of people.

Shame on [Martin] Scorsese for making this piece of trash. He has much more talent than that. I guess violence & killing sells in Hollywood and other places. But since he did, Mrs. Q will say that he picked Joaquin Phoenix to be the Joker and Joaquin did an excellent job in acting as the Joker which is a most difficult role indeed.

R (for many strong bloody violence killing, disturbing behavior, language and brief sexual images). No child or young adult should see this movie.