Watched the extended version on Netflix
The Hateful Eight is a true test of how much QT you can really handle. This is Tarantino, I think, at his most self-indulgent. OUATIH definitely competes but at least there’s new locations and subplots, etc. to distract you, but here we’re locked into one spot with a small group of characters and it’s every tool in his arsenal dialed to 11. Personally, I dug it a lot after a long time between watches.…
Some good ol classic espionage fun that takes itself seriously but not all that serious. Glad I didn’t see Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse so my introduction to her was through this; she kills it. Fassbender and Blanchett work extremely well. 90 minutes of sharp as hell writing and smooth direction all leading to a fantastic final scene. In and out.
Shoutout Professor Emshwiller my freshman year film class teacher who was the set decorator AND one of the detectives in the movie!! My goat. The Player was incredible. My first Robert Altman film - cool to see a movie be so self/meta referential before it was popularized by Tarantino (I’m assuming this was one of the few films that did this before it was normal, but I actually don’t know). Really liked this and excited to watch more Altman. That opening sequence is great and all the Hollywood cameos are fun.
Watching Wes Anderson movies gives me the feeling of watching a school play but like especially when I was 12 or something while also making me feel like I’m watching one of those old videos you see before some of the rides at Disney World. There’s something so endearing and comfortable about it and I couldn’t really explain it better than that.
