saw it sunday night, it's a straight up comedy...
Posted on 12/22/2015 6:19:17 PM PST by Perdogg
I can honestly say I've never paid money to see one of his movies in a theater. But watching them on Netflix or DVD is a guilty pleasure. I figure I don't make him too rich watching the films that way.
I understand his movies aren't everybody's cup of tea. A lot of profanity and a lot of gratuitous violence. But the dialogue is often brilliant. Like the "tipping" scene in Reservoir Dogs or the tavern scene in Inglorious Basterds, just to name a couple. He also has a knack for picking the perfect music to go with his movies.
I'll be seeing this latest movie when it goes to Netflix and not in a theatre.
Kilmer not being nominated for Best Supporting Actor for “Tombstone” is one of the great injustices in the history of the Oscars. He and Kurt Russell were terrific together. You can tell they loved playing off each other. It’s a great movie.
Yes. I even like Django. After a while you get used to the N word.
They were quite different from each other, but in good ways.
Saw it last night. Not bad. Violence so far over the top it becomes a parody of its self. I lost count of how many times Samuel L. Jackson’s character was called a nigger.
Unforgiven is still my Number One rated movie. Misfire? Awesome.
saw it sunday night, it's a straight up comedy...
It was in there. Jackson’s character was prodding Dern’s character into picking up a pistol he provided so he (Jackson) could “legally” kill him. Vague as to whether the story was fabricated.
Did you see it in 70mm?
I completely disagree. Hateful Eight is an absolute unmitigated disaster and a complete embarrassment for all associated with it.
There is not a single character you give a damn about. It is slow as molasses. The plot is non-existent. They shot it in 70mm and had Ennio Morricone write a score, and then set the entire damn movie in one room.
Remember that Quentin Tarantino snappy dialogue? It ain’t here. The entire thing sounds and looks like a bad high school production of a badly written stage play.
Then, everyone starts projectile vomiting blood all over each other and getting shot in the nuts and it isn’t interesting, cool, or even mildly diverting. It’s just over-the-top and soulless.
That’s the word I’d use to describe Hateful Eight: Soulless. The work of an arrogant director who thinks everything he does is awesome, so he doesn’t bother caring. A bunch of actors who don’t convey for one second that they care at all about what they are doing, all of them reading a screenplay where YOU don’t care AT ALL about a single one of them.
The only reason I made it to the end of it was because I truly believed it HAD to get better at some point. It never did.
I’ve kind of soured on Tarantino over the years, but I was eagerly anticipating this. From the opening credits when he bills it as literally “The eighth film by Quentin Tarantino”, every single thing in this movie is not only done incompetently, but with a veneer of arrogance on it that is offensive and shocking.
100% agree.
I don’t care if Tarantino makes a great movie or not - he is a non-person as far as I am concerned.
Once an entertainer uses their fame to push his/her libtard politics out there I am done with them.
Call it the “Dixie Chicks Syndrome”.
I would be perfectly happy to see Tarantino flop just as far and as fast as the Dixie Chicks did.
I thought Kilmer’s part was overblown
Anybody drinking constantly and the amount would be dead in a week
From all accounts, Doc could really put it away.
online...
It's been released on the internet already. You can watch it and he won't make a dime off of it. Kurt's already been paid so he won't be bothered that it's been pirated before it ever hit the theatres.
I didn’t really want to see this particular film to start with, because I have a hard time stomaching Jamie Foxx, but I really wanted to see Christoph Waltz, who I just love.
So I think that is why I finally broke down and watched it when it came on tv.
Another injustice, Peter O’Toole not winning best actor for
Lawrence of Arabia or not winning for . . .
In terms of movie making, Tarantino is an evil genius, and a truly unique talent.
His musical selections are absolutely mind blowing, and I have to say that Inglorious Basterds is one of my all time favorite movies, and it is his masterpiece IMO.
The part that language played in that movie was brilliant.
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