Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight"

i tend to like tarantino's technical approach and his high points seem undeniable but the endings of both Django and Basterds were so spectacularly sadistically shitty and packed with self-indulgence that I'm a little shook to put myself in a theater with this.

Then you'll smack your lips at what he has in store for Jennifer Jason Leigh.

is the new one as infantile as the last (highly overrated) two?

Worse. The advance word gives the impression that it's a Jackie Brown-type gabfest, but so much of it is exposition (the guy still doesn't trust his camera).

ill prob still check it out though the last two made me feel pretty disgusting afterwards.

Can't wait its gonna be awesome obv

Then you'll smack your lips at what he has in store for Jennifer Jason Leigh.

you guys are making me worried

yeah, this one sounds emphatically not for you forks

no idea but surely her feet have to come into it at some point

I think an argument can be made that the only movie that doesn't indulge QT's foot fetish is his worst one, so I hope so

I loved Basterds & Django.

Basterds is his best so ppl disparaging here in comparison to his new one I am happy to write off but idk Django doesn't bode well for QT doin Westerns (and I agree his views on Ford make it seem like he doesn't actually get the genre)

the actors reminded me of the kids in Bugsy Malone

cool I love Bugsy Malone and am pissed it is not available on DVD

apparently Christoph Waltz, the world's smuggest actor, was unavailable so QT directs Tim Roth to twinkle with cuteness as much as possible. He wasn't even the worst offender though.

you don't even like Waltz? wow

only when spooning cream onto strudel.

Waltz is good in IB and that's about it imo

he's (mostly) effective in IB because he doesn't carry the movie.

"That's a bingo!" was p much only funny line in IB.

NYCers don't need to see this for 70mm, bcz

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2015/12/27/detail/the-wild-bunch-in-70mm

never knew so many ppl thought IB was his best.

it's a weird ILX hivemind thing. have not encountered this in the real world

i have encountered it in the real world. from an ex-ILXor though.

I have encountered it in the real world from someone who is not, to my knowledge, an ILXor but possibly should be.

it goes - pulp fiction, jackie brown, reservoir dogs, kill bill 1/kill bill 2, death proof, django/inglorious.

I don't think its ILX Hivemind, didn't Pulp Fiction win the last poll? (which I actually think is his second worst after Django but whatever)

imdb rankings (so huge grain of salt obv but closest simulacrum of popular opinion i could think of) has pulp fiction his best, followed by django, reservoir dogs, basterds, and kill bill 1. those are the only ones in the top 250 movies of all time. all of them are ranked higher than notorious, as are the green mile, shutter island, and snatch.

i also have not seen the thing waltz does work outside of IB.

ah this was before IB I guess: Tarantino Poll

I thought there was another poll done afterwards but I don't see it

not that it's fun to watch a parade of people do this but: inglourious > jackie brown > kill bill > pulp fiction > death proof (liked this at the time but only seen it once cuz never wanted to sit through all the talking again i guess) > django. have never seen reservoir dogs lol

all of them are ranked higher than notorious, as are the green mile, shutter island, and snatch.

nicely curated

that's about my order too, with maybe JB and IB neck and neck because they're such different sorts of pleasure i don't wanna hafta choose

jackie brown his best, i'd watch kill bills and death proof again for the action (ok and rosario), could imagine watching basterds again if i came across it on cable as i was entertained but if i was choosing something i'd choose great escape or dirty dozen or hell is for heroes or kelly's heroes or or or etc first. pulp fiction i could imagine watching out of some weird impulse of nostalgia, plus travolta is great in it.

O but where to put Four Rooms?

JB > True Romance > RD > PF

I haven't seen anything he's done since Death Proof, which I hated.

that car chase though

actually i probably wouldn't watch death proof again as i can just pull up that scene on youtube

it goes - pulp fiction, jackie brown, reservoir dogs, kill bill 1/kill bill 2, death proof, django/inglorious.

― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:58 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Youd struggle to construct a list that made as little sense as this read in either direction

There isn't much else in IB besides the barn, strudel, and bar scenes. Someone gave me a Xmas copy several years ago and that's what I skip to.

wrong. the final theater sequence is incredible, that image of Laurent's dead face projected on the smoke in the theater is all-time.

no dmac that order is perfect

recapping a director's entire career in every new-film thread never gets old

There isn't much else in IB besides the barn, strudel, and bar scenes.

i mean, this is almost literally true

anyway none of those scenes have no no say it again but this time let me hear the music in it

More or less restaging the prom scene from Carrie is probably the best thing QT's ever done.

wrong. the final theater sequence is incredible, that image of Laurent's dead face projected on the smoke in the theater is all-time.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 1:22 PM (3 minutes ago)

loved it the first time, second time I couldn't disconnect it from the vigilantism. After TH8, IB looks like Merchant Ivory.

recapping a director's entire career in every new-film thread never gets old

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius),

It doesn't. That's what you're supposed to do when you watch a new movie.

tbf I am probably biased about being enamored of a movie where "the face of Jewish vengeance" = making a movie where Nazis are murdered in a movie theater, the reflexiveness/hall of mirrors aspect is v appealing to me.

I did laugh at Hitler giggling over every American shot.

Would also agree with that StillAdvance ranking, but I'd at least put IB ahead of Django instead of grouping them.

JB
PF
IB
dinner/brandy scene in Django
fuck the rest

I thought for a sec that meant brandy was in django unchained and I missed her