The Hateful Eight
(2015)Tarantino's eighth film, a western set in post-Civil War Wyoming. With winter raging, a ragtag bunch of armed strangers find themselves holed up in the same stagecoach stop. Predictably for this scenario (and director), tensions will rise and violence will ensue... Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Samuel L. Jackson are 3/8 of the stars.... More
Sometime after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as 'The Hangman,' will bring Domergue to justice.
Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town's new Sheriff.
Losing their lead on the blizzard, they all seek refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. There they are greeted by four unfamiliar faces: Bob (Demian Bichir), who's taking care of Minnie's while she's visiting her mother; Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock; cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen); and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm descends on the mountainside stopover, our eight travellers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock.Hide
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Best Original Score (Ennio Morricone) at the 2016 Academy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTAs
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Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins, Michael Madsen, Zoë Bell, Bruce Dern, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Channing Tatum, Demian Bichir
Written by Quentin Tarantino
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BY Newt superstar
Tarentino's eighth film and it is as exciting and funny as it is tense and fervently fierce. The movie feels a little long until the closing chapters really pick up the pace. Walton Goggins delivers a great under-the-radar performance as Mannix
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BY jaydencaine wannabe
Completely absurd and very Tarantino. This is a highly entertaining way to spend three hours. You won't even notice the time fly by as Tarantino sucks you into this adventure western.
BY Ken-Burns superstar
but it delivered in ways I did not anticipate. Funnier in extreme ways, things happened out of place. I would easily see it again
BY PeterS superstar
An okay plot with QT's heavy handed gore. The gore I didn't mind, but taking so long to tell the story ... that's feels self-indulgent.
Not even the stunning cinematography could stop me from thinking it was too too long.
(And enough with the chapters already).
Had to see it just for completeness, but I'm feeling grumpy about the extra time.
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On a par with Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight starts low-key but ultimately delivers big, bold, blood-soaked rewards. Roll on, QT Western number three. Full Review
A superior entertainment that marks Tarantino's most mature outing since Jackie Brown. Full Review
Some of the film's ugliness is therefore a sign of integrity, and of relevance. But much of it seems dumb and ill considered, as if Mr. Tarantino's intellectual ambition and his storytelling discipline had failed him at the same time. Full Review
Morricone's seesawing score sometimes brings to mind Tarantino fave Sergio Leone, but the real ancestor here is John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing, another thriller percolating with close-quarters paranoia and Hawksian gab. Full Review
"Thriller" is a generic label which has lost its force. But The Hateful Eight thrills. Full Review
As ever with Tarantino films, however, some of the performances are lip-smackingly delicious. Full Review
Familiarity aside ... the movie absolutely delivers on the sheer moment-to-moment pleasures fans have come to expect, from dynamite dialogue to powder-keg confrontations. Full Review
It certainly won't be a film for everyone, but for those who can handle the brutality and nihilism, there's a lot to love about The Hateful Eight. Full Review
BY Dominic Corry Flicks Writer
As great as Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained were, the manner in which Quentin Tarantino's pointed proclivity for ponderous proclamations went unchecked in those films prevented me from wholly embracing them. In The Hateful Eight, the third entry in QT's unofficial 'Revisionist Myth' trilogy, those tendencies go even further, gloriously so.... More
The writer/director's trademark verbose speechifying works in a way it never has before. It aids and abets the building of characters and the generation of tension, and often serves as misdirection for the plentiful jolts thoughout the film. And yet it's what goes unspoken that provides most of the film's thematic heft.
The influences felt here (old TV westerns, Agatha Christie) are fertile new ground for the filmmaker, and he mixes them together with a nasty, darkly funny alchemy all his own. Tarantino's love for cinema is always felt in his movies, sometimes distractingly so, but The Hateful Eight manages to artfully transcend the filmmaker's otherwise always-evident personality.
All the actors are amazing and in total command of their performances, but if anyone deserves singling out, it's Walton Goggins, who with his utterly hilarious turn in this film officially takes over from Bill Paxton as cinema's greatest good ol' boy. Zoë Bell's appearance is a welcome sprinkling of Kiwi pepper that can't help but generate a smile.
The Hateful Eight is a leisurely, articulate and strangely funny descent into hell. It's pure cinematic gravy, and I loved every second of it.Hide
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