The Hateful Eight

[Mark Thibodeau]

I just watched it with a friend, and as with every QT since Kill Bill,
there were things that I loved about it, and things that I really
disliked. Lots of cheap tricks disguised as shocking revelations, a
few truly awesome cinematographical moments and use of the ultra-wide
screen (some excellent staging and shot compositions) but ultimately
too long by about an hour, and what little narrative heft it has
doesn't manage to ground it at all. Don't know if that makes any
sense, but for such a bloated thing, it sure was insubstantial in the
end.

MT

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:43 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Saw it last night and agree with Mike - every element here is
> technically excellent but QT's writing has really dropped since his
> early days. It wasn't until after the Intermission (about two hours
> in) that something happens that got me thinking NOW he's going to get
> as playful as he used to be, but it's kind of a deus ex machina rather
> than really clever writing. And there are so many in the film. But it
> does do a pretty good job building suspense, even if the Agatha
> Christie comparisons people are making would have her reaching for the
> cyanide.
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 5:25 AM, john bove <malignd at gmx.com> wrote:
>> One interesting footnote to Jackie Brown is that Michael Keaton played the
>> character Ray Nicolette.  He then played him again, a year later, in Out of
>> Sight, a Soderbergh movie.
>>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 3:29 PM
>> From: "Jamie McKittrick" <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
>> To: No recipient address
>> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Re: The Hateful Eight
>> Pure pantomime.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  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.
>>>>> > -
>>>>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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