Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight"

I gave it to three actors: Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Tim Roth. The one I know didn’t do this is Tim Roth. One of the others let their agent read it, and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood."

Joe Cabot: That lump of shit's working for the LAPD... He was the only one I wasn't a hundred percent on. I should have my fucking head examined going in when I wasn't a hundred percent sure.
Mr. White: That's your proof?!

Yeah, not buying this.

....which?

Durant is gonna beat Kobe's 81 this season

― Spottie, Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Wrong thread, yes, and yet... a more interesting topic than the one under discussion. Given KD's usual MO, I'd lay 10-1 odds against this happening. He just isn't selfish enough to post an 80+ box score.

....which?

A lot of it, if not all!

wasn't the Django script knocking around online way before the film came out too? or is that somehow.. different to what's happened here?

A lot of major property scripts leak these days.

Who reads the first draft of a script online? Fucking nerds.

Who is the biggest fucking nerd? Quentin tarantino. Open and shut.

why does he care so much that his script got out jeez

no one want to read yr stupid paper words

yeah, I get where he's coming from on John Ford. Ahistorical dumbass ignorance.

http://defamer.gawker.com/here-are-plot-details-from-quentin-tarantinos-leaked-1507675261

T suing Gawker! sure is keeping this dead horse hitched to his mansion...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/quentin-tarantino-suing-gawker-leaked-674424

I read it, it's textbook QT. Anyone want to guess how it ends?

toe fucking?

lol

Hitler cuts Uma's toe off

Live read-through in L.A. last night:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/todd-mccarthy-tarantinos-hateful-eight-697739

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/inside-tarantinos-hateful-eight-reading-697740

this movie shd be called "the hateful eightful" imo

this sounds a lot more interesting than Django imho

Poster, as published in Empire

http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4835964/hateful-iimage-7-30.jpg

all I can say is I hope this is better than the last one, but I'm a little doubtful.

yeah i thought attempting a western exposed his limitations more than anything he'd done before.

my suspicion is that losing Sally Menke is what really exposed his limitations

Maybe he'll get it in under 1:45 like Death Proof?

strong strong agreement on loss of menke. it also hurts that his dialogue isn't nearly as strong as it used to be but he still relishes it like it is.

otm

http://deadline.com/2014/11/quentin-tarantino-retirement-hateful-eight-international-release-1201280583/

Flanked by Harvey Weinstein and cast members Walton Goggins, Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tarantino stoked the fires by regaling prospective offshore distributors with his grand plans.

Very glad academy award winner walton goggins will be getting a plum role this time around

walton goggins owns

why is this movie still not called the hateful eightful tho it enrages me

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“For me it has more of a Western Iceman Cometh kind of vibe about it,” says Tarantino. The film also takes a belt from the bottle of the director’s first film Reservoir Dogs. “A bunch of guys in a room who can’t trust each other,”

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/06/this-weeks-cover-inside-quentin-tarantinos-bloody-brutal-new-western-hateful

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Sorry Charlotte

i still believe this movie shd be called the hateful eightful

that hateful eight nine

wait

the h8ful ate 9

OICU812AMI

Hateful Ate'em and Smile

Hatful of Eights (it's a Cyndi Lauper western)

“Test footage from Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight—photographed by two-time Oscar winner Robert Richardson—received enthusiastic applause when it was projected in 70mm anamorphic film for a full house at the Paramount Theater on Saturday at Cine Gear Expo.” Not only does Carolyn Giardina have more in the Hollywood Reporter but Jordan Raup adds this at the Film Stage: “A few years back Paul Thomas Anderson had a handful of pop-up screening for The Master in 70mm and it looks like Tarantino will go even further with his film, with plans to retrofit around 50 theaters in the U.S. to show the film in the format. Considering Panavision reworked 19 classic Ultra Panavision 70 anamorphic lenses for the production (not used since 1966′s Khartoum and now set to be employed for Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One by cinematographer Greig Fraser), it’s quite a substantial deal for exhibition.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/cine-gear-expo-hateful-eight-800623

http://thefilmstage.com/news/quentin-tarantino-retrofitting-50-theaters-with-70mm-projectors-for-the-hateful-eight/

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Ennio Morricone will be doing an original score for the #HatefulEight, his first western score for 40 years. Recording very soon. #sdcc

First time ever for a Tarantino film to have an all original score, I think? (Assuming that's what this also means.)

*psyched*

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:D

I want to make one announcement that people don’t know yet. It wasn’t for sure, but we just settled it. You guys know that I don’t use an original score in my movies, I kinda take scores from other movies and put ‘em in there. This one, I thought should have an original score. So I’m here to announce that the great Ennio Morricone will be doing the score for The Hateful Eight. He’s writing right now, and recording in Prague in the next couple of weeks.

wow!!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/italian-composer-morricone-slams-tarantino-428954

Don't understand the hate at all, but then I'm not that big on other Tarantino films (his early films are generally great but they're not favourites because I'm not interested in the setting I guess) so Hateful Eight was a delightful surprise for me.

Also don't get it how some people who like his films can't stand hearing him talk, but I think he's a great talker. Hearing him joyfully talk about leaving highschool was awesome (I really hate hearing people say they miss school).

I like hearing him talk. I like his rambles/rants. I like all of his movies, from Dogs to Pulp to Jackie to Death to both Kill Bills to Basterds. I like (more or less) from Dusk til Dawn, I like Crimson Tide, I like (more or less) True Romance. But I really didn't like Django and mostly didn't like Hateful Eight (and I love westerns). Mostly on those last two movies, it's the scripts I think that suck, which is something, coming from a person best known as a writer. Visually, I think the guy knows how to make a movie. But write? Django and Hateful are crappy scripts, so I don't know what's up with that. It's like JK Rowling's crap script for the Fantastic Beasts movie: who is going to tell her to rewrite it?

Otm, they have big, basic story problems

He also lost his longtime editor who I think was crucial in helping shape his pre-Django films.

Yes definitely

i didn't know about his involvement w crimson tide!

Django was terrible, his worst film. Hateful Eight was ok, but I don't have much desire to sit through it again. It was basically Reservoir Dogs turned into a Western, minus lots of necessary editing.

was the "she started letting dogs in" line supposed to be some mega-hilarious zing?

finally saw this.

well it had some aspects that were exceptionally good. The haberdashery was an outstanding setting, really well-realized and easily understandable in terms of where anyone was at any given moment. i was surprised that ultimately Walton Goggins had a role that was almost a co-lead, but he certainly deserved the chance and really pulled it off. i get what Tarantino was trying w/Jennifer Jason Leigh's role so I wasn't bothered by the treatment she received and the fact that she was great certainly helped (only breaking character vv slightly when Kurt Russell inadvertently destroyed that 140+ year old guitar in the scene vs the stunt guitar he was supposed to wreck). Everyone else was good, to varying degrees. I appreciated the homages to The Thing. And the weird homages to Inglourious Basterds were ok too (though I guess a Hicox being in both isn't an homage as much as it is Tarantino doing the "shared universe" thing for himself). The poisoning scene is good. The ending is good.

let's see...the rape scene is dire. SLJ's interrogation of Bichir sucks. in the scene immediately following Tatum shooting his nuts off from the basement, SLJ is curiously really chill about the whole thing. Actually SLJ just generally gives maybe the worst performance here in terms of frequently falling back on his tics and not being a character. Not that there weren't tics from the other actors as well, but they played better in the roles due to being more subtle. SLJ was fine here in some instances when he was low-key, conversational, etc. But much of the time he was pretty bad. I didn't necessarily like the flashback either, it just seemed like a very lazy explanation for what occurred and seemed like unnecessary padding. The scene didn't have much tension (it felt like perhaps he was trying to create some much like he did in the much superior tavern scene in IB but it didn't work except as a showcase for a massacre and even as that it didn't really do much).

ultimately it just had some egregiously bad bits weighing down what was ultimately otherwise a pretty decent Agatha Christie mystery western. Lower tier Tarantino, obv. Maybe he should just stay away from westerns.

second watch i found worked completely differently once the agatha mistrie isnt pulling the viewer left and right

all fair comment tho

I finally saw this - the Extended Version! The build-up was interminable. The repartee not nearly so clever as to justify the length. A couple of slightly amusing jokes (coffee, Domergue mispronunciation).

All characters were cardboard cutouts - they should have used name tag balloons like in IB. The payoff was decent, bloody fun, but for a movie trying at Agatha Christie locked room it was utterly lacking in suspense (deus ex Channing didn't do it for me). Like a lot of Tarantino an enjoyably bad genre film.

yeah i think a fundamental miscalculation that QT arrived at (& one of the reasons i got off-board) is that simply making the audience wait /= building suspense

The whole project was pretty misbegotten, imo. Good cast, good setting, but just falls flat for lack of substance and suspense. This and Django are his worst scripts.

I wish I'd been able to bring a book during the screening.

This movie is all cover, no book.

I mean, its def in the lower half of Tarantino flicks, and easily his weakest on dialogue; but there was some really beautiful parts and hilarious violence. The whole time I was think it wasn't as good as Dead Man tho

― poorzingis (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 4, 2016 12:37 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I rewatched this via the Netflix Extended Version and now think it might be in the upper half

Did it feel like a different movie? Was there a lot of added material?

I don't remember exactly how they are different but I do know I liked the extended version more, at least because it broke the film into more digestible chunks

Given Tarantino's love for physical media, it's kinda wild to me that Netflix is the only way to see the extended version of this.

I think it's mostly just more yapping.