speculation is the critic will be based on Pauline Kael.
I'm looking forward to it. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood really grew on me.
Oddly enough I watched Pulp Fiction last night on Prime. I was doing some work and wanted something I didn't have to pay that much attention to. I never thought about the fact that the night Vincent takes Mia out is the same night as the boxing match. Maybe Marcellus took his girlfriend to the fight so he needed Mia to be occupied. That turned out to be a bad time for Marcellus. His guy Jules left the organization, he got double crossed in a fixed fight, his wife overdoses, he gets beaten up and raped by rednecks, in addition to getting run over by Butch, Vincent gets killed by Butch. If Marcellus ever found out what happened to Mia? Same end result?
The whole movie hinges on two things. The guy in the bathroom when they go to pick up the case, and Butch's girlfriend forgetting his watch. If they knew about the guy in the bathroom, there's no epiphany for Jules. No epiphany means no discussion in the car where Vincent turns around and shoots Marvin. No need to see Jimmy or The Wolf. Jules stays in the org. Perhaps they have breakfast at Hawthorne diner earlier and no encounter with Ringo and Honey Boney. If Butch didn't go back to get his watch no encounter with Marcellus leading to the redneck rape.
In that scenario Jules and Vincent go looking for Butch around the country. That would be a good movie.