Synopsis
Set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a
stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty
hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy Domergue, race towards the town of Red
Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as "The Hangman," will bring
Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major
Marquis Warren, a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and
Chris Mannix, a southern renegade who claims to be the town's new Sheriff.
Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek
refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When
they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four
unfamiliar faces. Bob, who's taking care of Minnie's while she's visiting her
mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray, the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher
Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers. As the storm
overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may
not make it to Red Rock after all...
In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
ReplyDeleteIt seems more like a cowboy story movie.
Some sort like cowboy in the winter?
I wasn’t prepared for this. Obviously, I went into The Hateful Eight with the same expectations as I do with every newly-minted Tarantino flick. I wanted snappy dialogue, grand moments of violence, and masterful sequences of flourishing character, and I got all of that, for sure. However, I didn’t expect to walk out of the theater with a stupid grin on my face, barely able to walk because of the rampaging poignancy and blazing hatred woven through every frame.
ReplyDeleteA meticulously crafted film, Tarantino has made an even more traditional film divided in acts. The film feels like you're going to the theater with an overture that introduces you into the mood of the film with the wonderful music by Ennio Morricone.
ReplyDeleteThis film felt more like the Tarantino oldies, with a much slower pacing and a exquisite finale. And the intermission was very helpful for digesting the film in two parts.
Best to go into this movie without knowing anything about it beforehand, which is my opinion for almost all movies but in this case I felt that my clueless halfway through the movie greatly affected my liking.
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