{"id":2524,"date":"2016-01-14T19:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T03:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2016-01-14T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T03:56:04","slug":"the-hateful-eight-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/the-hateful-eight-review\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Hateful Eight\u201d Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Declan Hertel\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n<p>I love Westerns. I love the films of Quentin Tarantino. I love comic ultraviolence. I love snappy, stylized dialogue. I love single-setting stories. I love Tim Roth.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m getting at is I knew I was going to love this movie before I set foot anywhere near the theatre. And boy howdy, did I.<\/p>\n<p>Tarantino\u2019s latest film brings us Minnie\u2019s Haberdashery, a small cabin in the mountains of Wyoming, where two bounty hunters, a wanted woman, and the soon-to-be sheriff of Red Rock, WY, hole up with four other strange and seedy characters to wait out a blizzard. As everyone is locked inside, it becomes clear that not everyone is really a stranger to everyone else, and that some of them may be working toward some hidden agenda. Unraveling the mystery is the three hours\u2019 traffic of the silver screen, and it is just freaking fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hateful Eight\u201d features a cast full of multiple-movie Tarantino collaborators, notably Samuel L. Jackson (\u201cPulp Fiction\u201d) and \u201cReservoir Dogs\u201d alums Michael Madsen and Tim Roth. I love when directors develop a cadre of actors: as they become more and more in tune with each other\u2019s style and vision, it turns the process into one creative whole, rather than trying to herd a lot of disparate people toward a nebulous end. \u201cThe Hateful Eight\u201d shines for this reason: the majority of the cast has worked with Tarantino before, several of them many times, and this camaraderie allows everyone to understand what they\u2019re working toward and make it great.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this in the opening, but it bears repeating: this film is really, really gory, even for a Tarantino film. If it\u2019s likely to result in a shower of blood and viscera, someone probably does it to someone else during \u201cThe Hateful Eight.\u201d Sure, ninety percent is played for laughs, but it\u2019s seriously intense. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d also like to address one of the oddest criticisms of this movie that I have been seeing consistently: that it is boring. I have seen the word \u2018boring\u2019 used to describe this movie. This is completely unbelievable to me: if you found \u201cThe Hateful Eight\u201d boring, I want to know what a tremendously exciting life you must lead to be bored by this film. This film is engaging, exciting, and excellent, and I think you ought to see it. <\/p>\n<p>Now, in true Tarantino style, I\u2019d like to go on a tangent: please, for the love of art, take every review you read with a grain of salt, especially negative reviews. People have vastly different tastes in art, and any review is just that one person\u2019s opinion. Don\u2019t take anyone\u2019s word as gospel. I loved this movie. You may not. I have hated movies you may love. The point is that this is all just my opinion and my interpretation. And because you and I, dear reader, are not the same person, we will likely differ somewhat in our opinions. That\u2019s part of what makes art beautiful: it may not speak to everyone, but for those it does speak to, there\u2019s nothing better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Westerns. I love the films of Quentin Tarantino. I love comic ultraviolence. I love snappy, stylized dialogue. I love single-setting stories. 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