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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
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.
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If you got to be in one of the lucky towns with the Roadshow, it was awesome. To the programs, the movie just starting with no previews or commercials, the Overture, the 70mm, the intermission, the soundtrack, it was a unique experience.