December 31, 2015
The Hateful Eight
So, this is a Quentin Tarantino movie, which means that you already know it is:
- Deliberate and artistic and cinematic throughout in ways that too damn few movies are.
- Ultraviolent.
- “Problematic,” to be polite about it.
- Structurally interesting.
In addition to that, in this case, the movie is:
- Boring as all fuck
- Nihilistic and pointless
Easily his worst movie since Jackie Brown. (Well, I never saw Death Proof. Maybe it’s as bad as that.) If you see it in a theatre, bring a pillow. But don’t do that, it’s trash. Beautiful, artistic trash. But trash.