The Hateful Eight

Jochen Stremmel jstremmel at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 08:30:53 CST 2016


For this moviegoer the best Tarantino is Jackie Brown, the best movie after
a Leonard novel and one of the best film adaptations I know. The Hateful
Eight is an adolescent's dream.

2016-01-19 14:30 GMT+01:00 The Jonathon Hunt Experience <
newtalkingwall at gmail.com>:

> Oddly enough, a lot of the Morricone music in the movie was from other
> movies. Specifically Exorcist 2 and John Carpenter's The Thing.
>
> I enjoyed the movie. I went in with zero expectations, as I am not much of
> a Tarantino fan, but thought the movie did a great job of building tension
> and paranoia.
> On Jan 19, 2016 6:42 AM, "Mike Weaver" <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Saw it last week.
>> Best Morricone score since the 60s, wonderful photography and a good
>> story, but I'm afraid I'm not that impressed with QT's skills as a writer.
>> Comparisons with Reservoir Dogs are risible.
>>
>> Having heard he'd chosen Walton Goggins because of Justified I was very
>> disappointed with the words he gave him to say. Having watched the final
>> series of Justified a couple of weeks ago, my reaction to Hateful 8 was
>> almost to start over on series one. There are so many utterances by WG, or
>> conversations including him, in the series which were head and shoulders
>> above everything in the film script.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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>>  John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote :
>>
>> > Has anyone seen Tarantino's latest? I'm swearing because I just
>> > learned he turned up with Kurt Russell and Samuel L Jackson at the
>> > tiny local cinema near me last night (we're talking serious backwaters
>> > here) because the ancient projectionist managed to source a big ol'
>> > 70mm projector.
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