{"id":239,"date":"2016-01-04T22:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T22:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oortcloudreviews.wordpress.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2019-05-14T12:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:16:27","slug":"the-hateful-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/llimeworks.com\/oortcloudreviews.com\/the-hateful-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hateful Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nIOmotayDMY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I was looking forward to Tarantino\u2019s latest, until I actually saw it. I always thought that the writer\/director has some kind of self-destructing wish and this one brings it all home to me. I am usually pissed when a writer builds up a character and makes the reader empathize and even fall in love with him\/her, only to kill them off towards the end of the story. In Tarantino\u2019s previous movies it seemed to work though I was not very happy when Christopher Waltz\u2019s character got shot <em>in Django Unchained<\/em> or Travolta\u2019s got drilled in <em>Pulp Fiction<\/em>, but somehow those movies seemed to work for me quite well. <!--more-->This time I don\u2019t get it. All the characters are mean and nasty and still you want them to survive somehow even though they all deserve to die. Chances are that the world has become a better place in the aftermath of their demise. Perhaps culling the human race of its rotten apples was the main role of the Wild West.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The character are as expected portrayed fabulously by a crew of Tarantino regulars that include Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Kurt Russell. Jennifer Jason Leigh, a new face in Tarantino\u2019s arsenal, is of course superb just as I expected. As I said earlier, I kept trying to figure out a way in which at least some of them survived and I really wanted to be surprised, but it did not happen. So, I can\u2019t say that I enjoyed this movie too much, even though as I said, the acting, directing and filmography were excellent. There is too much vitriol, ugliness and hatred for my taste. I cannot quite understand the movie\u2019s reason for being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I read another review somewhere that claims that <em>The Hateful Eight<\/em>\u2019s reason for being is its cinematography. The movie was filmed in 70mm Ultra Panavision and according to some this is a spectacular format that makes a movie filmed in that format a special and very spectacular event. I actually saw it on a 1000 mm TV screen, so all of that was quite lost on me. The 70 mm projectors are quite expensive and not many theaters are showing the movie as originally intended. Though the concept is intriguing and I admit that I would love to watch more movies on 70mm screens, this is not one of them. I couldn\u2019t sit through it for a second time and for that reason I\u2019ll have to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking forward to Tarantino\u2019s latest, until I actually saw it. I always thought that the writer\/director has some kind of self-destructing wish and this one brings it all home to me. 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