The Hateful Eight

[cmdrmcbragg]

As a huge spaghetti western fan, the violence in Tarantino's Django Unchained wasn't too far over the top. The old spaghetti westerns (including and outside of Leone's masterpieces) were all pretty bloody and sometimes gratuitously violent. I am a Tarantino fan and have loved all his work because I am familiar with all his genre inspirations: spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation films, Kung-fu, grindhouse cinema and old horror from America, UK, Japan and Italy. If you're not totally familiar with all the influences then you're not only missing references and "Easter eggs" but also the influences that shaped his writing, cinematography and directing.
Tarantino is a dude that I "get" and to me it feels like he is making movies for me.
Also, Tarantino has featured pipe smoking three movies in a row now.

 

[drwatson]

Never been a huge Tarantino fan myself. He is a good film maker, just dont like the stories too much..Nut this one sparked my intrest, may have to go check out.

 

[jpmcwjr]

The recent film was filmed far away from Italy- but I guess there's some spaghetti in them thar Colorado hills and mountains.
I will wait till netflix.....

 

[mephistopheles]

+1 Cmdrmcbragg
I'm a Tarantino fan. He does some excellent work. It's hard to find another director that is so fresh. He doesn't give a crap what people think about his films. He makes them the way he wants and he has fun with it. That's exactly why he's become popular with a lot of people - they can appreciate his style. He isn't politically correct and he doesn't care about people's issues with violence. He is all about creating a unique experience through film and he has said multiple times in interviews that rational people can clearly tell the difference between fantasy and real life. He doesn't make his films for people that can't clearly distinguish between the two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL3k5NtBUaI
I like the story lines, the interesting characters, and the over-the-top violence. It's fun and some of the quotes are great! Inglorious Basterds is one my favorites (outranking Django Unchained for me). The ending is spectacular! It's one of the only movies I've ever clapped for in a public theater.
I have high hopes for The Hateful Eight. I'm thrilled that Kurt Russell is going to be a major player this time around. I'm also disappointed that Christoph Waltz apparently won't be in the film (he's a Tarantino regular) due to a scheduling conflict. Regardless, I'm sure it will be worth a trip to the movies. Gotta love good Westerns.

 

[ssjones]

Looks pretty good to me. Django was a bit too tongue-in-cheek for me and WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY to long at nearly three hours.
+1 on Jackie Brown
I'm definitely in, heck of a cast.
Panavision 70 mm looks cool as well.

 

[brian64]

I thought this was going to be an announcement that the Sinister Six had expanded their ranks by initiating 2 new members.
Preview looks good though.

 

[captainprophesy]

As a huge spaghetti western fan, the violence in Tarantino's Django Unchained wasn't too far over the top. The old spaghetti westerns (including and outside of Leone's masterpieces) were all pretty bloody and sometimes gratuitously violent. I am a Tarantino fan and have loved all his work because I am familiar with all his genre inspirations: spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation films, Kung-fu, grindhouse cinema and old horror from America, UK, Japan and Italy. If you're not totally familiar with all the influences then you're not only missing references and "Easter eggs" but also the influences that shaped his writing, cinematography and directing.
Tarantino is a dude that I "get" and to me it feels like he is making movies for me.
Also, Tarantino has featured pipe smoking three movies in a row now.

I completely agree with you... having grown up in the 70's all his influences were what I grew up watching. These were awesome shows and movies, like Kung Fu Theater, Black Belt theater, Elvira, etc..
Channel 5 (KTLA) always played the Godzilla and similar films and the Planet of The Apes series... on Sunday morning I always watched Popeye on this channel
Channel 13 (KCOP) played all the gritty war films like The Big Red One,The Naked and The Dead and Kelly's Heroes as well as a ton of Spaghetti Westerns & blaxploitation films, like Coffy, Super Fly, Black Belt Jones, Shaft, Cleopatra Jones
And channel 9 (I forgot the original station name) had Elvira. Kung Fu Theater as well as Black Belt Theater which showed some awesome classics as Master of the Guillotine, Five Deadly Venoms, Drunken Master, Master Killer
Once I hit 10 years old I was busy doing other things... but my first 10 years was watching TV and movies were in the 70's

 

[danielplainview]

Inglorious bastards was a great Tarantino movie and will be hard to top. His movies are meant to be over the top with just the right amount cheesiness. There's a lot of dark comedy built into the violent scenes in many of his films. Only Tarintino could make Hilter taking an entire clip of an MP 40 to face funny.
This will be his third film in a row that the main characters smoke pipes. Very cool.

 

[philobeddoe]

My favorite scene in Inglorious Bastards is the underground bar game/shootout scene with Michael Fassbender, the tension is superb.

 

[mranglophile]

 

[beefeater33]

Was that Warren at the :35 second mark???.... WARREN"S FUR HAT

 

[jkrug]

The trailer for this film looks pretty good. I'll be keeping an eye open for it. ::

 

[andrew]

I love over the top violence in films, anything that makes me cringe. Django unchained was awesome. After watching a bunch of underground horror films over the years my tolerance for violence in films is pretty high. Stuff like Maniac, Salo, Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, it takes alot to shock me now.

 

[cmdrmcbragg]

It's good to see I'm not the only one in on what Tarantino is up to and where his ideas come from. I even have a few printer like minded friends over for a Good Beer, Bad Movie Night a couple times a month. Watch a lot of old horror, spaghetti westerns, King fu, sci-fi and grindhouse type flicks that I dig around for, some which are also Tarantino influences. I grew up watching old Nick at Night, Friday the 13th movies, Halloweens, spaghetti westerns, etc. Lots of really good and really bad flicks. Joe Bob Briggs and Mystery Science Theater 3000 really got me into stuff off the beaten path.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Joe Bob says check it out! Hadn't seen anything about him in a long time. Some fond memories of his 'reviews'.

 

[derfargin]

Love Joe Bob Briggs, and like some of Taranteno's work. Pulp Fiction is great, big fan of the non-linear storylines, I like seeing everything come together at the end of the movie.
Kill Bill could have been one movie still keeping at three hours, but I just felt there was way too much dialogue over the course of both flicks.
I really enjoyed Inglorious Bastards, but because Christolph Waltz's character made the movie, tension in a scene is done better by no other actor in my opinion.

 

[foggymountain]

Philo: If you like Cardinale, see "The Artist and the Model" on netflix. Great film; she is an old lady in it. As far as Tarantino goes, his films are mildly entertaining. Not really good, but could be a lot worse.

 

[johnnyreb]

Philo: If you like Cardinale...

I bought the 40th anniversary edition DVD of "Once Upon A Time..." A few yrs ago to replace the other one I had. Among the extras on the DVD is an interview with her. After she left American films I guess I sort of forgot about her & didn't know about her long career in foreign films. Her interview was mostly about Peckinpaugh & the other stars, most of which are dead now as you know. Worth seeing.

 

[rayje589]

Taranteno is hit or miss for me. Hated Reservoir Dogs. Kill Bill vol 1 and 2 were a little much for me. However I did recently watch Django Unchained not expecting to like it but I loved it. I'm hoping this will be just as good. Plus it's a western. Not enough of them are made anymore...
aaaaaand one more edit: Forgot about Inglorious Bastards. It was okay.

 

[newbroom]

My early western heroes were Gene Autry, Hop a Long Cassidy, and Roy Rogers. Later Clayton Moore and Fess Parker took their places. Did I not mention "The Duke", or Burt & Kirk? Anybody remember Gunsmoke and James Arness?

Viewed with the eyes of my adulthood, I see now that violence glorified in the name of vengeance has been a recurrent theme not only in the Western genre but throughout the movie 'industry'.

Good vs evil, righteousness, revenge, white hats vs black hats, heroism as Hollywood presents it in an oversimplification of the human condition. These are the concepts of the likes of Wayne LaPierre and Dick Cheney.