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Where The Hateful Eight Lands on My "QT Movies Ranked" List

posted 3 years ago by ecarle (14979)
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Pretty high.

1. Jackie Brown
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. The Hateful Eight
5. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
6. Django Unchained
7. Inglorious Basterds
8. Kill Bill 1 and 2
9. Death Proof

Why so high?:

The cinematography. The cast(so many great, eccentric actors.) The script. The opening shot(Jesus -- scary) and how it is returned to later in the film with more meaning. What the story is "about."

Overall, I think that QT had a great "Los Angeles trilogy," (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown) took off for six years and came back to make some exploitation stuff (Kill Bill, Death Proof) and then..one by one...film after film...got better and better in crafting his scripts so that they did not meander or slow down.

Its a close call between The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but I felt that the latter film meandered a bit, too -- to the movie theater with Sharon Tate; to the TV soundstage with Rick Dalton.

Still, QT's two most recent films are his best since the "Los Angeles trilogy." He got better, not worse.

[–] ElizabethJoestar (946) 3 years ago

I still need to see this one. One friend of mine saw it on 70mm and loved it. A coworker absolutely loathed it and she's normally a big Tarantino nerd.

Makes me all the more eager to see it.

[–] ecarle (14979) 3 years ago

I still need to see this one. One friend of mine saw it on 70mm and loved it. A coworker absolutely loathed it and she's normally a big Tarantino nerd.

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I'm in the "loved it" category and uh, yeah, I'm a big Tarantino nerd (but for entirely justifiable reasons.)

A warning: The Hateful Eight has one particular, extremely ugly and sexualized scene. But then, I've come to determine that QT puts one particular, extremely ugly scene in ALL of his movies, except Jackie Brown and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood(which after a violence-free 80%, save Brad Pitt beating up one guy, delivers big violence at the end, but happily so.)

The Hateful Eight has a SECOND scene which is more "gross" than ugly...but which I consider a small masterpiece of narrative construction and shot selection. (It has to do with...coffee.)

I've determined that my high regard for The Hateful Eight stems mainly from how good it looks(I love to be IN the movie), but I also think, for all of its long, long length, that every scene is interesting, and usually funny. Inglorious Basterds and Djano Unchained were also very long, with overlong scenes in some cases -- but with The Hateful Eight, the length didn't bother me at all. Hell, most quality Broadway plays can run four hours.

PS. The Hateful Eight also has one of the greatest opening credits scenes in movie history(both image AND mood-setting music.) We rarely even get credit sequences up front any more.