100/100

I wasn’t prepared for this. Obviously, I went into The Hateful Eight with the same expectations as I do with every newly-minted Tarantino flick. I wanted snappy dialogue, grand moments of violence, and masterful sequences of flourishing character, and I got all of that, for sure. However, I didn’t expect to walk out of the theater with a stupid grin on my face, barely able to walk because of the rampaging poignancy and blazing hatred woven through every frame. Going even further, I also wasn’t ready to ponder the question of whether The Hateful Eight was legitimately my new ‘favorite film’.

Yeah, you read that right. Hell, even I was stunned. A new Tarantino? My F-A-V-O-R-I-T-E film? What the…

It's winter in Wyoming, post-Civil War, USA. A bounty hunter, his $10,000 female bounty, another bounty hunter, a recently elected sheriff, an old war general, a hangman, a silent cowboy, and some fella named Bob all cross paths at Minnie's Haberdashery. Who can be trusted? Where's Minnie? Will it ever stop snowing? It's QT's 8th film about 8 hateful people. Now, who wants a drag from a Red Apple tobacco hand rolled cigarette?

Not only was 2015 the year of the western, but it's the year of the Kurt Russell mustache. My lord! From Bone Tomahawk to The Hateful Eight, Kurt's facial hair is fuckfabulous. You can't help but think of John Carpenter's The Thing. People trapped in the snow.…

The Locked-Room-Mystery-Evil-Cabin-Western America not only apparently deserves but supposedly could stand to use. The Hateful Eight is A Horror Movie more than it is anything else. The Morricone Cues from Exorcist II and The Thing as well as the David Hess (!) song from The Last House On The Left are clues enough but the threat here is not Demonic Possession nor Alien Invasion but the Accrued Evil of the United States In Action, with all parties at each others' throats in a scramble to suppress those on the bottom cruelly and violently until an error happens and the tables are turned, for however long, and common cause is made only in violence against another. This is Grand Guignol Home…

Not many cinematic provocateurs can outdo Quentin Tarantino, and no one’s creative juices are more boiling than the man whose eighth film looks to make heads roll. His latest doesn’t quite hit the mark, and its certainly his most bloated with 3 hours that often feel too much like a good thing. But Tarantino writes like a machine gun, with incendiary dialog that is near poetic. And he thinks bigger and bigger with every film. The Hateful Eight is available in select theaters in 70mm that has an overture from the film’s composer, the legendary Ennio Morricone, complete with an intermission that lets his usual haters get riled up over violence, misogyny and the N-word. Even if you don’t find…

"The Hateful Eight" boasts writer-director, Quentin Tarantino's typical style of intriguing and unique characters delivering rich, engaging dialogue that builds up to moments of satisfyingly violent action sequences. The film is unique in challenging its viewers to find a moral character to hold on to for narrative guidance as the film progresses. This, of course, is pulled off by Tarantino's casting of his usual suspects like Samuel L. Jackson along with newcomers like Walter Goggins who I have to say is surprisingly superb in this feature. Not only that, but the film experience is heightened by the original music of Ennio Morricone who is known for his composing for classic spaghetti westerns. With that in mind, however, the film's biggest…