Sorry, I don't mean to go on and on about
IB but things keep popping up in my little bird brain.
The whole Chapter thing and the whole "Once upon a time" thing at the beginning felt phony to me. Kinda cheesy and bushwa. I'm not sure how to describe that. It didn't seem necessary. But I like how it seemed like each Chapter could be its own movie or short film.
Tarantino's films kinda feel like this for me: You're watching a fireworks show at the beach or park. You stand there and the sky starts off black and calm. Then bang a big firework. It screams look at me! Look at what I'm doing. Then it goes away. Then there's another bang, different colors maybe bigger than the last one. We go oooh and aaahh and then it goes away. Maybe there's the Star Spangled Banner playing somewhere and it sort of fits because the blooms are red white and blue. But halfway through this fireworks show you think, hmm... I wish I was at Disneyland. At Disneyland there's music choreographed to the show, it's coordinated and makes you feel something. Happy, sad, touched etc. I never feel emotionally invested in any of his films. I don't care about a lot of his characters. I cared about Shoshana as she ran away at the beginning but I was also resolved to think that hey, Tarantino is probably going to kill her off anyway... maybe right at the beginning, right now.
I have no idea if I'm making any sense.
ETA: Now, I'm not saying everything has to be Disney. That's not the point I was trying to make.