Cliff Booth

[seattleblue]

I'm an idiot and somehow didn't see Once Upon A Time in Hollywood in 2019, but instead in the fall of 2023.

In 2019 I was relatively fit, but in 2023 I was not. So about a week or two after I saw that I was ho humming along in the middle of my day when I thought, wait, HOW old was he in that movie? I looked it up. This man Tarantino put a 55 year old shirtless Brad Pitt up on the roof fixing Leo's antenna. It was provocative as a challenge to a 52 pudgeball.

So what does everyone always immediately say? Oh they have teams of people whose entire lives are dedicated to making this man fit! You don't have those resources, ergo it's impossible for you. I say that is such nonsense. Yes he has a lot of resources and support I wouldn't have but the (bleep) physiology does not care. People are reflexive excuse makers. I just do not have patience for that advice, it is dumb as [shirt].

So anyway I decide, I am going to look like that by 55. Casually lean. Who's going to stop me, you with your skepticism? No.

Fast forward to summer 2025 and I am at the doorstep with that final burn to go. the one where you can't achieve it unless you are locked down on a 500 cal deficit while holding your protein/muscle steady and tracking every single thing you eat for cals and protein and refusing to have leaks. While also strength training, rowing zone 2&5 training and heated stability/cardio work. And it's all habit. I have almost a full year before I'm 55. It's doable, and what you do is you build habits by doing something 28 days in a row and making it a habit where it would seem weird to not do the thing. But also takes strong will. This whole thing started as a joke and I can ferociously commit to jokes.

And now what you are telling me is ... the man is now 61 and going back up on the (bleep) roof? If I were any younger there would be emojis about it.

[MikoTython]

He also likes dags. So throw that into your routine. Get a border collie and follow it around.

Sounds like a plan. Thing is, one can just keep letting ones self go, and then the road back becomes harder. In my own smallish way, I'm dropping the pounds too. Feels good, is good.

[3dender]

I don't doubt it's possible, I just doubt it's worth it. That's Nathan Fielder levels of bit-commitment, but you're not getting paid millions for it like him.

[seattleblue]

It is a lot of commitment but I feel I'm committed to one simple thing and every other activity is either serving it or not.

I already have a 8.5 yo female border collie but she can't trot freely because she's insane and will lunge at cars and large white trucks that pass.

As for the movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood itself, I thought was a masterpiece and his decision how to close the film was special. Substantively I'm really looking forward to the next one.

[MikoTython]

I can't choose between OUATIH or PF as his best film. But they're the top. Yes, there are other viable challengers, other great ones, but that's my take, based upon their narrative sweep, originality, drive. I truly thought DiCaprio's performance was masterful - what a wonderful blend of comedy, pathos, satire went into that character. Pitt is simply natively cool, QT just plugged him in and let him roll.

Brad vs Hippie :

[seattleblue]

I can't choose between OUATIH or PF as his best film. But they're the top. Yes, there are other viable challengers, other great ones, but that's my take, based upon their narrative sweep, originality, drive. I truly thought DiCaprio's performance was masterful - what a wonderful blend of comedy, pathos, satire went into that character. Pitt is simply natively cool, QT just plugged him in and let him roll.

Brad vs Hippie :

I'm right there with you. Pulp Fiction is an almost impossibly clean masterpiece, that has to be the answer. BUT OUATIH is like a bookend to that, it's soulful in an evocative way. It's as if he internalized all the "Once Upon A Time In" movies and delivered an essential nostalgic experience for an achingly different past.

[todd-parker]

As for the movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood itself, I thought was a masterpiece and his decision how to close the film was special. Substantively I'm really looking forward to the next one.

Script by Tarantino, Directed by David Fincher. Good combination for the follow-up film.

Only thing that could make it better is if Fincher starts working on those Mindhunter films directly after.

[FrankTheTank]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/art ... 19511.html

You might need to grow your hair out now too! Congrats on your success!!