It's not that I dislike it. I did use the word bullshit, but I mean, in entertainment bullshit can be taken two ways, it can be good, or it can be bad. I loved Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I think it may be his best film for several reasons. 

When I went to see it at the cinema, there was a young couple sitting next to Julia and me. When the film ended, I heard them talking and realized that they did not know the story of the Manson murders. So, they seemed more than a little confused about the film. They kind of seemed to see it as a slow-moving comedy.  Of course, the end of the film did not register with them the way it would have registered with someone that knew about the Manson murders. I realized then, that while I may love the film, it would be a bit lost on anybody that did not know the story of the Manson family. 

That's not the whole film, Tarantino shows off all his fetishes as well, TV, movies, feet, his nostalgia for the past, and of course, revenge. In this one though, you do have to know the Manson story to grasp his fantasy revenge ending. 

I have no grudge against metamodernism in film. I like the storyteller to have everything available to them in their bag, and then you find the best way to tell your story. I love all kinds of films and stories. 

I guess the thing that can be irksome is just people constantly rewriting other movie scenes and how this is part of the narrowing of stories that get told. Then there would be my, and really a lot of people's, lament of the how art and commerce converge. In big budget films, they have a tendency to just want to recreate whatever they had success with before. So, the big franchise films strike me, at least, as the same film over and over again. That I don't really like. 

I like the absurd and I like the idea of getting people to an emotion in a way they might not expect. I like the idea of the reflection in multiple mirrors. 

So, in telling a story I see metamodernism as a stylistic choice, but what I was talking about was the story you chose to tell. Are you trying to take people somewhere they have not gone or are you riffing. Either is fine, either can be entertaining, but films that are just riffing have to be damn good to stick with me. 

That's what I mean. It does not help that I am a huge movie fan and I've seen a lot of movies. So, that makes it harder to show me something I have not seen before. I am just a pain in the ass.