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Todolojodo

I found the 'red apple' mentions kind of forced.
They brought to the table many times.

10 months 1 week ago

On cinema at the cinema

A goddamn masterpiece! 100 bags of popcorn!!!

3 years 7 months ago

Windill

Misoginous since the very first minutes.
The hate of women is such a disgraceful disease!...
Too bad, because the film is otherwise pretty good.
Except it's racist, too.

5 years 10 months ago

I'm a loyal Tarantino fan, ever since Reservoir Dogs, and I loved Django Unchained... BUT... ugh... This is my least favorite of his (until this, it was Jackie Brown - but I didn't hate it).

The Ugly: Really liked the first half, but just about hated the second half. I thought the "twist" was ridiculous, which made the entire movie/plot ridiculous and pointless, IMO. Not to mention, EXTREMELY hard to believe. spoiler

The Bad: Also, I'm a huge fan of Ennio Morricone, but I don't remember hearing much from his score except for the beginning. Final gripe: shot in 70mm, I was expecting lots of landscape and beautiful scenary. 90% of this movie takes place inside a CABIN! And when they're outside, they're in land covered completely by SNOW!

The Good: QT delivered his trademark poetic dialogue - my favorite was the letter from Lincoln. Loved the cast and performances (especially Jennifer Jason Leigh - Tarantino sure has a knack for giving out Oscar-worthy roles, doesn't he?).

5 years 11 months ago

Earring72

Overlong but goooooooood. Never found it boring due to the great cast and cinematography. Stage play western upped with a lot of Tarantino juice :-)

6 years 6 months ago

DisneyStitch

It feels like it should be so much better if that makes any sense. It has Tarantino's fingerprints all over it but it lacks some of the energy and pizazz of his former films. If I was a diehard Quentin fan anxiously awaiting his next movie then I think I would have been disappointed here. A solid "B-" I suppose.

By the way, those of you calling it a spaghetti western should probably familiarize yourself with the term before tossing it around.

6 years 11 months ago

Marasmusine

Well, at least it was a better The Thing remake than the 2011 The Thing remake.

7 years 5 months ago

mowgli1337

A new favorite for sure!!! Tarantino is still the best director of all time after Tim Burton!!! Not Quite Pulp Fiction but still a masterpiece. A one of a kind masterpiece 5/5!!! This is not a movie, it's an experience 4lyfe!!!

7 years 5 months ago

starnamedstork

Tarantino does Tarantino in Reservoir Dogs meets Django Unchained. I had a blast!

Yeah, long. Yeah, dialogue. Yeah, blood. It's Tarantino, what do you expect?

7 years 7 months ago

aniforprez

Entertaining but the plot falters in a few places and sometimes the pacing seems off. Still VERY enjoyable. QT is still the master of character building and tension.

9/10

7 years 7 months ago

aussieflickfan

Another formulaic blood fest like DJANGO. Someone needs to tell Quentin he isn't a great writer.

7 years 10 months ago

ikkegoemikke

"Now, Daisy, I want us to work out a signal system of communication. When I elbow you real hard in the face, that means: shut up."

Countless film enthusiasts were waiting impatiently for the new "Star Wars" movie last year. Believe it or not, I wasn't really. On the contrary, I was waiting for the new film by Quentin Tarantino. Sorry Tarantino haters, but Yankee Doodle Dandee, this was again a brilliant film by the most rebellious, anarchic director Hollywood ever saw. You have to give him credit for one thing : he remained true to his personal style. So once again we get a typical Tarantino movie with acrimonious dialogs, racist statements and a bloody apotheosis. The end result is a kind of "Reservoir Dogs" mixed with "Django Unchained", which takes place in a small space as in "From dusk till dawn". I hope Quentin's abandons the intention to make only 10 films. But isn't it time he changed his routine a bit? Are you a big fan of classic Italian spaghetti westerns? Well you'll be enthusiastic when the movie begins in all its grand splendor. A snowy landscape with in the foreground a cross covered with snow. And while slowly zooming out, you can see a stagecoach approaching in the far distance. This is accompanied by music of Ennio Morricone and text in a font type that can be associated with old westerns. The moment this chariot stops willfully (after a long period) because Samuel L. Jackson, sitting on a pile of corpses, blocks the road, it's the start of a nearly 3-hour immersive cowboy story full of mystery and revenge. A kind of Cluedo in a cabin. Except that there won't be a solution that sounds like "The colonel's committed the murder with a candlestick in the billiard room", but rather "Which of the eight people who took shelter in Minnie's Haberdashery because of a snowstorm, will endure the storm".

The hateful 8 are almost all old acquaintances of Tarantino and appeared in one of his earlier film projects. First there's Samuel L. Jackson, who recently starred in "Kingsman: The Secret Service" (after some less impressive performances) and in the past appeared in "Pulp Fiction", as the bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren. Samuel L. Jackson as I like to see him: raw, angrily defending himself and disturbingly brutal. The white bounty hunter John Ruth is played by veteran Kurt "Death Proof" Russell. A bounty hunter just like Major Warren, but suspicious and protective when it comes to the award he's getting for his prisoner Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Along the way they pick up Sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton "Django Unchained" Goggins), who's on his way to Red Rock, the place where Ruth wants to get his money. The blizzard however prevents them from traveling further and they have to sit out the storm in Minnie's cabin. And this in company of a Mexican called Bob (Demian Bichir), the executioner Oswaldo Mobray (Tim "Reservoir dogs" Roth), the wandering cowboy Joe Gage (Michael "Reservoir dogs" Madsen) and former general Sandy Smithers (Bruce "Django Unchained" Dern). So everything is prepared now for a thoughtful game of 'whodunit' with Domergue at stake.

Despite the long runtime (3 hours is a bit too much), the movie isn't boring for a second. The conversation at the beginning between Jackson and Russell is a foretaste of what comes after wards. Because the whole film is full of such hilarious conversations. The film is neatly divided into six chapters. The story is explained in detail painfully slow. And as required in a real Tarantino, the film is peppered with humor, rude and racist comments and an exaggerated end with massively flowing blood. And all this in a meticulously elaborate and detailed decor. It looks more like a Shakespearean drama.

Needless to say that the acting of the various characters deserve the most praise, because the film consists mainly out of brilliant dialogs. A memorable joust with witty arguments and dialogs which made sure the tension increased. The contributions of Russell and Jackson were in this case of a high level. The only rather bizarre choice for me by Tarantino is the presence of Channing Tatum. I would have preferred an appearance of Christoph Waltz.

Maybe I'm a little biased because I'm a huge admirer of the work that Tarantino always delivers. And yet I think "The hateful Eight" isn't his most successful creation, even though it's a wonderful masterpiece. Perhaps it's because I see through the concept that Tarantino uses and the surprise element is completely gone. The way the dialogs are structures, is indeed always the same. The repetitive nature of dialogs and the phrases that follow each other at breakneck speed as if they are fired by a Gatling gun. Patiently and meticulously the complete story is being formed. For the impatient viewer it appears as if it takes ages to finish. Of course there's the rudeness and inclemency both contextual as textual. And the usage of extravagant humor. And finally, the excessive, violent and bloody climax. These are usually the fixed elements that recur in a Tarantino. Except that each film is placed in a different setting.

But as a true Tarantino fan, again I can only conclude this was an exquisite film and I enjoyed it full three hours. I'm already looking forward to the next movie. Hopefully Quentin seeks an alternative approach, in such a way that he can surprise me again.

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8 years 2 months ago