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Originally Posted by banecat
It's just my opinion, but I see his work as getting better and better with each film that he makes. I still like Jackie Brown as my favorite. But Inglorious and Django are right up there with it. I need to see The Hateful Eight once I can find the three hours to commit to sitting down and watching it
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Originally Posted by Why Not?
You should make the time this week. It's ****ing phenomenal
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http://chiefsplanet.com/bb/showthread.php?t=293878
Here's a contemporary discussion.
I'd put H8ful near the bottom of Tarantino's resume, but that's because I have very high standards for Tarantino movies.
There was a time when I first started consciously switching from movie theater to home theater for movies, and I went a while without going to the movies. Opening night of Kill Bill was the first movie I went to the cinema to see in months maybe years. And it was the last movie I saw at the cinema until opening night . . . of Kill Bill II, to give you a perspective.
The cinematography of H8ful is beautiful, and the broad strokes of the story are fairly sound. But the narrative Tarantino wanted to convey combined with the close quarters of the setting made it overall into more of a Broadway play than a motion picture. The stories are vivid, but they are entirely exposition. It was a post-Civil War, big-dick contest version of sitting around the campfire telling ghost stories.
If your FAVORITE part of Pulp Fiction was Jules TELLING Vincent about the time Marcellus threw Tony Rocky Horror out a window for giving his wife a foot massage, this is an entire movie a lot like that scene.