Best review of this movie ever.
Straight and to the point. http://www.imdb.com/user/ur62669626/
shareA thing -- or perhaps THE thing -- to consider about Tarantino is that he has established himself as perhaps our one true "sick" filmmaker, making sure to put something violent or outrageous in pretty much of his films with one exception: the rather mellow Jackie Brown, from a novel by Elmore Leonard. And even in THAT "mellow" movie, four characters are violently killed.
The rest of the time, we have things like the cop getting his ear cut off, and Tim Roth's gutshot stomach, in Reservoir Dogs; the male-on-male rape and comical head blowing-off in Pulp Fiction; the mass slaughter of the Crazy 88's in Kill Bill 1; the serial killlings, strangulation of a beautiful woman, and baseball bat beating of a "sympathetic" Nazi officer in Inglorious Basterds; the excruciatingly painful shootout at CandieLand in Django and...well, what happens in The Hateful Eight. There is also ultra-violence in QTs scripts for From Dusk Til Dawn, Natural Born Killers, and True Romance.
QT has said that not wanting violence in a QT film is like not wanting heavy metal chords in a Metallica concert. He's setting himself up as a "shock filmmaker" in a way that is very much a throwback to the 70's(when movies like A Clockwork Orange, Deliverance, Chinatown and Death Wish delivered ugly realities to jaded viewers). QT's movies often play like Midnight Movies or grindhouse features -- but Midnight Movies and grindhouse features aren't made any more.
In a time where Hollywood is mainly given over to Marvel Movies, The DC Universe, and Pixar, QT is a proud throwback to when movies could outrage people, and were made for an audience over the age of 14.
QT's movies aren't for everybody, but he attracts big stars to be in them and they often make plenty of money. Somebody out there values the shock value of QT's own personal universe. His dialogue remains brilliantly written and funny in the telling - even if(as yet another trademark), most QT dialogue scenes go on far past their supposed time limit(he wouldn't be QT if these dialogue scenes were "short and sweet" -- self-indulgence is the name of his game; I think he tightened up after the overlong Inglorious Basterds, though.)
And honestly, who can say that the outside "real world" right now is any LESS violent, gender-hating, and racially combustible than what QT has put in his fiction?
What's interesting about The Hateful Eight to me is that its four or five ultra-violent(and sexually violent) scenes are "captured" within one of the most visually gorgeous movies ever made, with hilarious dialogue and with one of Ennio Morricone's great scores(even if he only partially scored this film.) As QT said with a chuckle, "I used the massive old-fashioned 70 MM presentation once given to Ben-Hur and Lawrence of Arabia...and made a shock violence movie with it."