1) Its not over the top trying to be cool. No cringe scenes that only teenagers would like.
2) Its pretty. Just plain out pretty.
3) Its a relaxing movie about a friendship.
4) There's a flamethrower.
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1) Its not over the top trying to be cool. No cringe scenes that only teenagers would like.
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Tarantino is a middle-aged guy who actually likes to tell stories about the times that people even older than him remember, often casting middle-aged stars as middle-aged characters (like everybody in Jackie Brown.) Teenagers don't much matter to QT so he has a huge boomer fan base.
2) Its pretty. Just plain out pretty.
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Yes. But The Hateful Eight was even prettier with its snowy outdoor mountain landscapes and the beautifully lit INDOOR colors of "Minnie's Haberdashery." All grays, blues, and golds.
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3) Its a relaxing movie about a friendship.
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And who doesn't like that? Remember: one of QT's favorite movies is "Rio Bravo" a leisurely "hang out Western" where friends John Wayne and Dean Martin are relaxed and hanging out.
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4) There's a flamethrower.
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Trivia: both times the flamethrower is used, QT puts on the soundtrack some music by Bernard Herrmann(who wrote the famous scores for Hitchcock's Psycho and Vertigo) that was SUPPOSED to be on a Hitchcock movie("Torn Curtain") but Hitchcock fired Herrmann and threw away the score. This "un-used Torn Curtain music' has now been used by BOTH QT (in this movie) and by Martin Scorsese (in the houseboat/hurricane climax of his 1991 Cape Fear.)
Also flamethrowers are cool...but shit-fuck you don't want to mess with THAT dragon.