Average movie here

During the 3 hour sprawl of this film, some characters were actually watching other movies and reading books and as a viewer you would like to have been doing the same thing.

As usual w QT the dialogue consists of a lot of useless banter where someone says something and then it gets repeated back in the form of a comment or question and on and on. Like ' Wow you dented my car" "If I knew that was your car do you think I would have dented it?" "Does it matter whether you knew that was my car or not, you still dented it" etc etc.

This film for what it actually says and resolves could have been 1/2 as long.

The sixties nostalgia was nice though but still if you want that you can watch a PBS documentary and I never get his oddball choice of obscurities for a soundtrack. There were some gems by Neil Diamond and the Rolling Stone's 'Out of Time' which he stole from 'Coming Home' ( was the theme song) but most of it was as forgettable now as back then. Paul Revere and the Raiders lol. Even 'Kicks ' or " Indian Nation 'would have been better if at all and Jose Feleciano who is also best forgotten butchered up another song - " California Dreaming'.

Maybe he thinks he is more knowledgeable about music than the audience and is showing us all these hidden gems we must have missed vs many being forgettable to begin w. Like the 'Coconut song' by Harry Nilsson in Reservoir Dogs. Please.

There was so much going on and so many characters it was all spread out so thin there was no sense of depth to anything other than the relationship between Cliff and Rick. Nothing was really learned about Sharon Tate, or Roman Polanski and friends so you wonder why they were even in the film. Same for George Spann, Steve McQueen, Michelle Phillips, Bruce Lee and the agent played by Al Pacino. Same for the entire part in Italy and the throwaway character of Rick's wife.

Anyway, I enjoyed his take on the alternative version of the Manson murders, but you didn't need 2 and 1/2 hours to get there