Review of the movie The Hateful Eight. Disgusting, but tasteful (Topic)

Scold Tarantino's movies – it's like seeing rotten tomatoes flying in your face beforehand. However, do not scold good old Quentin for the “ Hateful Eight ” it is simply impossible, because it turned out to be a rather ordinary, generally unremarkable movie. Although Tarantino certainly tried, collecting, as always, an excellent caste of unusual actors (let's close our eyes to Samuel L. Jackson for a second), movieing in a stunning 70mm format, providing the beginning with an overture, and interrupting for a real intermission, and taking a classic detective story as a basis wrapping it in a beautiful wrapper of Hitchcock suspense.

But the most branded Tarantino is very small here. The memorable shots can be counted on the fingers, long clever dialogues may have turned out to be too long and too smart to seriously delve into them for three hours of timekeeping, and sometimes such cheap tricks were used as you don’t understand where and why the offscreen voice came exactly in the middle. Somehow all this does not look like a movie of a true master of cinema.

However, no matter how drawn-out, compressed and simply boring "The Hateful Eight" is, it is still an invaluable experience. He will surely be remembered as the most unusual trip to the cinema. Not only because of the pronounced theatrical basis of this movie. Not only because it also resembles reading a long, long exposure novel, detailed acquaintance with all the characters and only after the transition to the very essence. But also because Tarantino writes funny, captivating and daring, which compensates for the shortcomings of the main mystery of the picture, which seems classic and unpretentious when revealed.

It's time to pay attention once again to the fact that the movie, the main action of which takes place in a closed room of a small hut, it takes three hours. And nine minutes! And if you think that Tarantino has found a way to shove some mind-blowing action into this hut, then it's all about a little firefight and a fight. And the amount of blood poured onto the screen is simply not comparable. The story itself only partially saves the situation, since it simply lacks events for three hours. Of course, the characters seem to be close relatives by the end, black humor makes you laugh from the heart several times, and the number of topics that were not touched upon, but laid out and discussed as in a lecture on philosophy, arouses respect for the thought processes of Quentin Tarantino, but for an inexperienced viewer to sit through this without falling asleep at least once is an almost impossible task.

“ The Hateful Eight ” thus turns out to be very limited in terms of audience. Fans of Tarantino and fans of, say, Agatha Christie will definitely like the movie. For the rest, the road to the cinema is largely booked. Tarantino creates characters that are unpleasant and secretive, in a word disgusting, sometimes to such an extent that you just want to turn away from the screen or close your eyes. Cinematographer Robert Richardson does not give out anything remarkable, since he has nowhere to turn around within the four walls of the hut. Only the atmospheric, harsh music of Ennio Morricone draws all the attention from the very first seconds, because, unlike everything else, it constantly changes and draws a much more vivid picture than Richardson and Tarantino combined.

For the sake of the actors also not worth going. Samuel L. Jackson always plays himself, and his ability to present the text in an interesting manner here disappears under the pressure of endless dialogue. Channing Tatum is small and his role is not interesting. Kurt Russell keeps on one note all the time. The movie was completely stolen from them by the little-known Walton Goggins, who plays the sheriff, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, as the villainess with knocked out teeth. Tarantino entrusted them with roles that are really rich in content and experiments, which both were quick to take advantage of. Surely both of them will still appear in Tarantino's resume once or twice.

So if you discard all “ for ” and ldquo; cons, it turns out that Quentin Tarantino took a script for a movie that is worth watching at home on a small screen, and tried to make a full-fledged cinematic experiment out of it. In simple terms, he tried to combine the incompatible. And it turned out that watching such a movie in cinema is frankly boring, and at home there is not enough of the immersion that Tarantino arranged in cinemas. Conclusion: people with home theaters received a great New Year's gift.

The Topic of Article: Review of the movie The Hateful Eight. Disgusting, but tasteful.
Author: Jake Pinkman