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Post by bklynred on Dec 24, 2015 0:46:50 GMT -4
I'm just gonna post what I wrote about this on Facebook:
The Hateful Eight aka Quentin Tarantino's Hate Personified. If you enjoy misogyny & rampant racism complete with a bazillion N words presented under the guise of historically correct language & behavior, then THIS is the movie you've been waiting for. See women get abused and killed! See the single black man in the film cursed out every five minutes!
This dude is so problematic I don't know where to start. The actors were great. Wonderful cinematography. OK plot. But he's so wrapped up in neuroses it's distracting and disturbing. Seriously, if you like Westerns, check it out and report back. I'm interested in what others took away from it (this black woman was not amused).
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Post by ratscabies on Dec 24, 2015 11:17:38 GMT -4
I am going Saturday or Sunday. Mostly for the technical aspects. He shot it on FILM, in 70mm Ultra Panavision and has arranged for projectors to be set up in 100 theatres.
The last time this format was used was for "Khartoum" in 1968. Other films using this format originally were "Ben-Hur", "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad World" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told".
I am so over seeing pixels on the movie screen when I have paid $15 to get in to a theater.
I almost don't care if the movie is the worst piece of shit since "Gone Fishin'". As long as it is light passing through celluloid, I am gonna gladly hand over my money to watch it!
Film 4 Evah!
ETA: Mind you, this "roadshow" version is only playing the week from Christmas to New Year's. After that it goes to regular shitty cineplex version. Then I'll worry about the content on it's merits.
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Post by Queena on Dec 25, 2015 21:12:44 GMT -4
I'm just gonna post what I wrote about this on Facebook: The Hateful Eight aka Quentin Tarantino's Hate Personified. If you enjoy misogyny & rampant racism complete with a bazillion N words presented under the guise of historically correct language & behavior, then THIS is the movie you've been waiting for. See women get abused and killed! See the single black man in the film cursed out every five minutes! This dude is so problematic I don't know where to start. The actors were great. Wonderful cinematography. OK plot. But he's so wrapped up in neuroses it's distracting and disturbing. Seriously, if you like Westerns, check it out and report back. I'm interested in what others took away from it (this black woman was not amused). I was thinking of going to see this. Thanks to your review, it doesn't sound like my kind of movie. I liked Django, and Inglorious Basterds, but from this review and the reviews on IMDB...I'll pass! Maybe I'll see Creed. |
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Post by Martini Girl on Dec 26, 2015 0:44:02 GMT -4
The trailer looked awful, but I was waiting to see what folks thought before totally making up my mind. I do not like the n-word uttered every few minutes (actually at all), which is why I didn't see Django. Thanks for the review. I'll pass.
Queena- go see Creed. Its' wonderful.
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Post by Ladybug on Dec 26, 2015 20:25:49 GMT -4
I was 50/50 on Django. Had a lot of problems with the movie itself, but the performances were great. That's how I feel about a lot of Tarantino. I read some spoilers and I think I'm going to pass a theater trip. Will probably watch at home where I can mute and fast forward.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2015 19:36:51 GMT -4
I just saw the roadshow version, I enjoyed the first half. The second half not so much. The resolution was just flat out ridiculous.
The score, cinematography, set design, and art direction were phenomenonal though. More movies should be filmed in 70mm. Just better movies than this one.
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Post by ratscabies on Dec 30, 2015 8:45:51 GMT -4
What a beautiful, magnificently crafted hunk o shit that was.
I had to go to the 10:30pm show last night, as I have a ten hour drive to the next show. Got home at 3am. Even the 10:30 show was sold out, like every other showtime in Cleveland has.
Tarantino is the "Weird" Al of film directors. All his films are what Al calls "style parodies". "Inglorious Basterds" was his "war" parody. "Kill Bill" was his "martial arts" parody.
This was his "western" parody.
So dissappointing.
Looked GREAT though!
ETA: Don't get me wrong, I am glad I went. It was an "event", and as a film luddite/snob, I was compelled to play my tiny part in reminding the movie industry that if they put a little effort into making something great, people will be willing to pay to sit in a theatre an hour from home until 2am.
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Post by save lilo! on Feb 8, 2016 23:24:59 GMT -4
They talked so so much, I fell asleep. I never fall asleep watching movies in the theater!
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Post by ratscabies on Feb 8, 2016 23:51:27 GMT -4
Oh, and that guitar Kurt Russell destroys after Jennifer Jason Leigh sings that folk song? It was a priceless 1880s Martin guitar on loan from the Martin museum. Apparently, a breakdown in communication failed to tell Kurt that there was supposed to be a cut to insert a prop guitar to be destroyed. That look of horror on Leigh's face is a real as it gets.
The vintage guitar crowd is howling for Tarantino's blood over it. Oddly, they don't blame Russell, just Tarantino.
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