Dear Haters of Quentin Tarintino's Hateful Eight:
If you are thinking about leaving a dislike on this review, don't bother. You've already done it on Several other positive reviews so why even bother rating a review like this? I will not be discouraged to talk about my opinion and I will not take people shoving hate down this movie without any good reason at all. So If you are a hater of this movie and are going to rate, read and listen. If you're a person who feels discouraged by these reviews, don't worry, I'll tell you everything you need to know.
Without a doubt, The Hateful Eight is a modern masterpiece of cinematic art, Tarintino's movies have been getting much better since Django Unchained was released and that is where the hate seems to start. People are offended by the overuse of the N Word in his movies, but may I remind you that this takes place in the 19th Century when that slang was used most frequently and is an important part of the movie due to it's relationship with the world today with all the police brutality on black people.
It's Misogynist you say? Well, I can't really say anything without spoiling it, so I'll give you some spoilers. Daisy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a criminal in the movie who has done filthy things. Yes she gets beaten by John Ruth and Major Warren (Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson) but it's because she is evil. She is the main antagonist for the movie for crying out loud! Do you really think it's not OK to punish a criminal for what the person has done no matter what sex they are? Although it's not seen, it's talked about. She is really rotten in this movie, really. In the end, hanging her was justice. This is not acts of misogyny, it is an act of law and order even if it's done in a sadistic way.
Do I even have to talk about how violent this movie is? We all know it's a Tarintino movie. But the movie has a different way of gruesomeness, it builds up, and up, and up until the climax where everything shatters. People say Oh it's tedious and boring. Not one moment in this film is boring. NOT. A. SINGLE. MOMENT. The whole movie has amazing writing and dialog and twists that will keep you entertained until the end credits. Did you haters just sleep through the second and third act thinking nothing was going to happen? Well guess what. Stuff does happen. We find out the Lincoln Letter (Which is important) is a phony, we find out Warren killed Sanford's son, we find out Daisy works with her brother in a gang, we find out who poisoned the coffee, we find out that the three people working for Jody are not who they say they are, many people are killed. That's Boring!? I have no clue what is wrong with you but you need to get your head checked. None of this was boring, to me at least.
His Epic Fail of a WWII film doesn't work because the dialog is not interesting and nothing happens. Plus it's offensively inaccurate to what happened. Here, The Hateful Eight is a movie that is so well written it may as well be one of the best screenplays of all time.
Let me tell you what I loved about the movie and maybe you can understand why people like it also. I saw the roadshow version (where the projector broke after intermission so we had to watch a digital print) and to tell you the truth, it's resurrecting film. Hearing the projector, looking at the grain of the picture, the sharp picture quality of Ultra Panavision 70 is unbelievable. This is a film to be cherished. The Use of 70 mm film is making a comeback with things like Interstellar and The Dark Knight Rises, Tarintino cares about film so he made a film that was actually filmed with reel to show how much he cares. This was my first time actually seeing a modern movie not only in Ultra Panavision 70, but the first modern movie I saw to have an Overture and an Intermission which I highly defend the use of.
The ensemble cast is excellent here, Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Walter Goggins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern, Zoe Bell and Channing Tatum are all excellent and are dedicated to their performances. Every single line you believe is actually real and coherent.
The writing is superb as I said before, those 3 Hours went by fast and I didn't even know that three hours went by! Tarintino knows how to make an excellent screenplay when the writing is so good that time flies by fast.
The build up is amazing, I was in suspense the whole time and I really wanted to know who would survive this bloodbath. "Boring" this isn't. Not a single moment is boring as I stated.
Look I can't say what all the other positive reviews have said but this experience is one I will remember for a very, very long time. If you are easily offended by gore and language, then you would be better off seeing freaking Norm of the North which comes out next week. But for fans of using actual film reel, film students who want to make movies, people who love Tarintino, and people who like a movie that is gripping throughout, The Hateful Eight is one to see. I don't only think this is one of 2015's best films, I think it's one of the all time best in my opinion. So try watching it again if you had a hard time with it and maybe you can understand what he was trying to accomplish.
Signed, The Reviewer.
97/100 A
If you are thinking about leaving a dislike on this review, don't bother. You've already done it on Several other positive reviews so why even bother rating a review like this? I will not be discouraged to talk about my opinion and I will not take people shoving hate down this movie without any good reason at all. So If you are a hater of this movie and are going to rate, read and listen. If you're a person who feels discouraged by these reviews, don't worry, I'll tell you everything you need to know.
Without a doubt, The Hateful Eight is a modern masterpiece of cinematic art, Tarintino's movies have been getting much better since Django Unchained was released and that is where the hate seems to start. People are offended by the overuse of the N Word in his movies, but may I remind you that this takes place in the 19th Century when that slang was used most frequently and is an important part of the movie due to it's relationship with the world today with all the police brutality on black people.
It's Misogynist you say? Well, I can't really say anything without spoiling it, so I'll give you some spoilers. Daisy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a criminal in the movie who has done filthy things. Yes she gets beaten by John Ruth and Major Warren (Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson) but it's because she is evil. She is the main antagonist for the movie for crying out loud! Do you really think it's not OK to punish a criminal for what the person has done no matter what sex they are? Although it's not seen, it's talked about. She is really rotten in this movie, really. In the end, hanging her was justice. This is not acts of misogyny, it is an act of law and order even if it's done in a sadistic way.
Do I even have to talk about how violent this movie is? We all know it's a Tarintino movie. But the movie has a different way of gruesomeness, it builds up, and up, and up until the climax where everything shatters. People say Oh it's tedious and boring. Not one moment in this film is boring. NOT. A. SINGLE. MOMENT. The whole movie has amazing writing and dialog and twists that will keep you entertained until the end credits. Did you haters just sleep through the second and third act thinking nothing was going to happen? Well guess what. Stuff does happen. We find out the Lincoln Letter (Which is important) is a phony, we find out Warren killed Sanford's son, we find out Daisy works with her brother in a gang, we find out who poisoned the coffee, we find out that the three people working for Jody are not who they say they are, many people are killed. That's Boring!? I have no clue what is wrong with you but you need to get your head checked. None of this was boring, to me at least.
His Epic Fail of a WWII film doesn't work because the dialog is not interesting and nothing happens. Plus it's offensively inaccurate to what happened. Here, The Hateful Eight is a movie that is so well written it may as well be one of the best screenplays of all time.
Let me tell you what I loved about the movie and maybe you can understand why people like it also. I saw the roadshow version (where the projector broke after intermission so we had to watch a digital print) and to tell you the truth, it's resurrecting film. Hearing the projector, looking at the grain of the picture, the sharp picture quality of Ultra Panavision 70 is unbelievable. This is a film to be cherished. The Use of 70 mm film is making a comeback with things like Interstellar and The Dark Knight Rises, Tarintino cares about film so he made a film that was actually filmed with reel to show how much he cares. This was my first time actually seeing a modern movie not only in Ultra Panavision 70, but the first modern movie I saw to have an Overture and an Intermission which I highly defend the use of.
The ensemble cast is excellent here, Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Walter Goggins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern, Zoe Bell and Channing Tatum are all excellent and are dedicated to their performances. Every single line you believe is actually real and coherent.
The writing is superb as I said before, those 3 Hours went by fast and I didn't even know that three hours went by! Tarintino knows how to make an excellent screenplay when the writing is so good that time flies by fast.
The build up is amazing, I was in suspense the whole time and I really wanted to know who would survive this bloodbath. "Boring" this isn't. Not a single moment is boring as I stated.
Look I can't say what all the other positive reviews have said but this experience is one I will remember for a very, very long time. If you are easily offended by gore and language, then you would be better off seeing freaking Norm of the North which comes out next week. But for fans of using actual film reel, film students who want to make movies, people who love Tarintino, and people who like a movie that is gripping throughout, The Hateful Eight is one to see. I don't only think this is one of 2015's best films, I think it's one of the all time best in my opinion. So try watching it again if you had a hard time with it and maybe you can understand what he was trying to accomplish.
Signed, The Reviewer.
97/100 A