Clays Russians | 24 Jan 2016 7:39 p.m. PST |
Awful , violence for cinematic violence sake, end of line, and to think I could have seen ANYTHING else |
Kevin C | 24 Jan 2016 8:23 p.m. PST |
What more did you expect from Quinton "Snuff film" Tarantino. I never waste my time on his tripe. Kevin |
de Ligne | 24 Jan 2016 8:31 p.m. PST |
I thought it was terrific. |
leidang | 24 Jan 2016 9:36 p.m. PST |
You either love his stuff or you hate it. I really found it new and cool when I saw Reservoir Dogs for the first time but the more movies he makes the more tired it gets to me. |
Ironwolf | 24 Jan 2016 9:41 p.m. PST |
all of his movies are the same, just different scenery. lol |
Mako11 | 24 Jan 2016 10:05 p.m. PST |
That's Quinton's only "go to" move. |
Yellow Admiral | 24 Jan 2016 10:18 p.m. PST |
I liked the background, setting, scenery, and atmosphere, and thought it was a great movie until the narration started. Once people started dying, it just turned into a typical Tarantino black humor bloodbath. - Ix |
raylev3 | 24 Jan 2016 10:37 p.m. PST |
It's all Tarantino can do…but the critics love him. |
Cyrus the Great | 24 Jan 2016 10:43 p.m. PST |
I was entertained. That's why I go to movies. |
alexjones | 25 Jan 2016 12:58 a.m. PST |
Childish garbage. He hasn't matured at all, he is in his 50s for %&% sake. |
Piquet Rules | 25 Jan 2016 3:50 a.m. PST |
I haven't enjoyed his movies for quite some time. After his anti police rant, I can pass on them even easier now. I won't be seeing this one. |
Winston Smith | 25 Jan 2016 5:50 a.m. PST |
Exactly. It's very easy to boycott something you never had any intention of going to see anyway. |
Clays Russians | 25 Jan 2016 6:55 a.m. PST |
A huge amount a racial messages and "not quite so undertones" thru-out as well. As usual……… I should have learned my lesson with Django, another awful excremental string of Dreck. |
Chuckaroobob | 25 Jan 2016 7:36 a.m. PST |
His movies would be improved if they edited out 50% of the dialog. Haven't seen this one yet, probably won't. |
Inkpaduta | 25 Jan 2016 11:32 a.m. PST |
Thought it was really good. Well acted, good script, good mystery and a well done Western. And no I am not a Tarantino fan. Only seen one other of his movies. |
Doctor X | 25 Jan 2016 12:41 p.m. PST |
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MattyGroves | 25 Jan 2016 4:10 p.m. PST |
If you don't like Tarantino movies why would go to see one? He has a 'style' you either love or hate. |
rvandusen | 25 Jan 2016 5:16 p.m. PST |
If you want to see the same type of exploitation film, but done with more class, just go back and watch Spaghetti Westerns, Japanese cult films, and Hong Kong actioners from the 70's. I tried to watch Kill Bill once until I got to the parts that were plagiarized from Lady Snowblood and I shut it off. |
Norman D Landings | 30 Jan 2016 2:32 p.m. PST |
I enjoyed it. Wonderful Morricone score which eschews any faux-spaghetti whipcrack and churchbell gimmickry in favour of a full-on old-school orchestration. The opening overture is all threat and menace. Classy touch to have it play out over a stunning panorama of desolate blizzard-swept landscapes. That shows some confidence on the part of the director that he can keep the audience on-board. (and a welcome change from the usual short-attention-span focus-group formula which demands an immediate 'stunt' opening) It worked for me – by the time the action started, I was already engrossed. The 1950's-style 70mm cinematography looks amazing. Obviously, its great for panoramic vistas, but in close-ups it makes the character's faces look like craggy landscapes, and in the confines of the cabin it gives an immersive effect like widescreen without the 'letterbox' narrowing, which means you can follow character's gaze around the set – or look around the background, as if you were watching a stage play. When it comes to the plot, the analogy of a 'country house murder mystery' has been overused. It does apply, but only to the set-up. Once the shooting starts, Hateful Eight is what a 'Cabin in the Woods' slasher flick would be if – instead of just one psycho – everybody in the cabin was a hardened killer. The violence is a full-on horror show. It's remarkable how much blood Tarantino manages to squeeze out of such a small cast. The amount of gore is a massive bloody elephant in the room. If it's not to your taste, I suspect there's no way back to liking the movie. I'm ambivalent – I've no objection to it, and in a couple of specific instances I think it was 'justified' in terms of the story, but I reckon the film would have worked just as well with a few buckets less. I do think Tarantino's violent sequences seem to come under more scrutiny than other directors, though. Hateful Eight features a shotgunning filmed with a tasteful, downright old-fashioned cutaway as the trigger is pulled – a deliberately non-gratuitous touch which goes unremarked in the reviews I've read. Maybe the most blatant piece of grand guignol sfx is an explosive headshot – a stunt I last saw in a Western in Geoff Murphy's 'The Last Outlaw', which upset precisely nobody. (Steve Buscemi was on the receiving end.) I thought the voiceover intro to the flashback scenes (What? That's not a spoiler – it's a QT movie – of COURSE there are flashbacks.) was contrived and gimmicky. It came across as smart-alecky and I don't think it'll age well. A simple caption would have been sufficient. The cast are very good – especially in that some of them are characters pretending to be something other than themselves. Some of them revel in the playacting, some are visibly uncomfortable. Loyalties change throughout the course of the film, but there are no convenient volte face moments – respect is hard-won, grudging and convincing. That's about all that occurs to me. Overall, I'd say it was well worth a watch. |