The Hateful Eight

Even tho i was expecting more action, I've found myself at the edge of my seat at times. The characters were nicely developed. The dialogue was as expected from a Tarantino movie. The story is 3 hours long, it takes place mostly in a one single room and it's still not boring. That's something not everyone can do. All of the actors we're perfect for their roles and the acting was great as well as the character design, all of the characters were memorable and well written. The movie is divided into chapters in most of which a small twist takes place that makes you more interested in the movie. I enjoyed the film but my biggest flaws were the length and the spontaneous introduction of a narrator mid- movie, that was a pretty 'out of nowhere' lazy way to develop the back story, but oh well, Tarantino is known for making risks and doing crazy sh*t

Well...If you're the type of person that zones out during nowadays action scenes and is always hoping for strong dialogue, unexpected twists and some dark humor that is. But still, this movie will give you powder-keg confrontations that will even grasp anyone's attention. And yes the movie absolutely delivers on the sheer moment-to-moment pleasures fans have come to expect, combined with dynamite dialogue . Armed with vicious humor and an intense story, Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight is as brutal in its insights into race relations and human nature as it is in its depiction of violence in the old West. I'm starting to doubt if Pulp Fiction is still his best movie to date.

Why do people insist on glorifying every pointless, overly-violent, massively cliché, plot devoid, piece of drivel that Quentin Tarantino manages to capture on film? I may never understand how movies this stupid become so popular. You would think that after watching the last several Tarantino films with the EXACT SAME formula that people would eventually get tired of it. Allow me to summarize this movie to demonstrate its resemblance to the rest of Tarantino's collection of crap: Contrived, poorly written dialogue meant to come off as somehow intellectual or witty followed by predictable, graphic violence followed by screaming, end movie. This is a device which could reasonably be used for one scene in one movie. Not for every scene in every movie. And to those claiming that this film somehow makes a political statement I ask, HOW? By killing off people of different ethnicity and gender in various but equally violent manners? What political theme could you possibly be reading into this film? The movie doesn't even attempt to be a murder mystery. The setting is merely one of Tarantino's more contrived excuses for aimless bloodbath. It is amazing that Tarantino has convinced so many people that he is a master filmmaker when almost all of his films follow the same tired formula.

Imagine this - a Tarantino fan is asked to write an eight hour season of a TV show, set in a log cabin for budget purposes. They write it, paying homage to Tarantino films in a few different ways, casting some of his usual players. They do their best to be Tarantino - there are too many self-indulgent speeches, the characters all talk the same flowery lingo, every question or fact has to be asked/given in some repetitive, distracting, and unbelievably self-conscious way. Yet, it doesn't have any of the verve or quotability of an actual Tarantino project. You eventually end up buying the DVD set of this series in a supermarket bargain bin. At home, you notice that one disc is labelled "Deleted Scenes". You put the disc in - check the time, and there are 180 minutes of deleted scenes. You watch them all in sequence. THAT is exactly the experience of watching The Hateful Eight.

Well that's 2 hours of my life I have lost forever. What a shocker. The script ( and there's plenty of it ) was just plain bad, not a memorable line in it. Just an excuse for QT to break the N word taboo. I expect he thought we would all gasp in shock but really everyone I was with just groaned with the lameness of it. And the blood and gore effects were just as bad as in Django, straight out of a low budget horror film, do your homework QT and try and get it right because realism is a lot more shocking than cartoon blood and gore. And the time line really was poorly thought out but I suppose that's Hollywood Film making... all up front with no thought to the finer details. No point mentioning the actors because other than Kurt Russell the rest were forgettable, even Samuel L Jackson played his standard character with no surprises. All I can say is Meh.....

Please do not spend your hard earned cash to watch 3 hours of absolute boring rubbish. I can't believe this is a Tarantino film. The characters are wooden, there is no plot with everyone insisting on explaining, over and over, what's going on, even when almost nothing is! You begin wishing pretty quickly for these characters to start putting each other out of their misery. I really can't be bothered to write anymore about this movie except to say I wasted 3 hours of my life which I'll never get back. I'm so disappointed with Tarantino, I hope he looks back at his older films and goes back to doing what he does best.