Hollywood loves to make movies about Hollywood. I give the director credit in that he clearly set out to make an epic. That said, he didn't get there. Much of the first two hours of the movie were really, really disjointed. This movie kind of reminded me of The French Dispatch in that I wondered if I was one of the people in that line of business would I have appreciated more? For the most part it didn't work for me despite some really fantastic performances by the leads (particularly Robbie and Calva, although the scene with Pitt and Smart might be the best one in the movie). The part that did work for me was the last 30 minutes of the film. When the movie got past some of the sillier scenes and got down to some real drama things seemed to go a lot better. The movie is ultimately about stars being made and discarded as part of a bigger machine. It's a shame that the majority of the movie doesn't work because the final scenes (the montage) are unbelievable.
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Hollywood loves to make movies about Hollywood. I give the director credit in that he clearly set out to make an epic. That said, he didn't get there. Much of the first two hours of the movie were really, really disjointed. This movie kind of reminded me of The French Dispatch in that I wondered if I was one of the people in that line of business would I have appreciated more? For the most part it didn't work for me despite some really fantastic performances by the leads (particularly Robbie and Calva, although the scene with Pitt and Smart might be the best one in the movie). The part that did work for me was the last 30 minutes of the film. When the movie got past some of the sillier scenes and got down to some real drama things seemed to go a lot better. The movie is ultimately about stars being made and discarded as part of a bigger machine. It's a shame that the majority of the movie doesn't work because the final scenes (the montage) are unbelievable.
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