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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
the h8full eight.. i really digged it. kinda slow burn build up but i love kurt russel and sam jackson so im cool with that.
it was prototypical Tarantino flick. the dialogue was witty, snarky, yet sophisticated. the plot was like a subverted Gabriel Garcia Marquez magical realism, like magical urbanism.. a blend of the criminally psychotic with a gentile politeness, what was so superb about Pulp Fiction.
i felt like it was Pulp Fiction meets Inglorious Bastards set in the west however i didn't see Django so i can't say anything about it.
the scene where the set up took over Minnie's made me realize how much this polite ambush trope is a big part of Tarantino flicks (Vincent and Jules at Marvin's apartment, the wedding scene in Kill Bill, the Nazis raid in Inglorious Bastard.. the ambush at Minnie'a in h8ful eight) i never realized it was all the same until this one
i particularly liked the costumes and cinematography.
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Yeah, "polite ambush" ... Nice.
I loved the "flashback" scene you're referring to, when the plot really started to unfold. Excellent. And how about Channing Tatum
not sucking?! Good for him!
I thought it was quite different from a lot of Tarantino films in that it had the feel and scope of a stage production. Never has a Tarantino film been so focused on one setting. But that's a classic trope in itself. Gave the movie a classiness.
Most writers/directors wouldn't have been able to pull this film off. It was almost entirely dialogue focused, something you just don't see much in films these days (except for stage/screen adaptations like Doubt). I don't think anyone else could have held audience interest through the first ¾ of the film. For Tarantino, it probably was no challenge at all.