h8ful eight


 Last night I talked about Pulp Fiction and what an amazing work of art it is. Tonight I go to the other end of the Tarantino spectrum and bring you the worst movie he produced. It's appropriate to me that it's called hateful because I hated it.

It's got a great cast! Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins (from Justified), Channing Tatum, and Tim Roth. The acting wasn't terrible. The scenery was nice, and I really like the way that Tarantino brings back the long pans and slow builds. 

But the writing in this movie was easily the worst of his films. I'll be doing reviews of the Kill Bills, Inglorious Basterds, and Django Unchained. They all had great writing. But the writing in H8 is so bad. There's one scene where two characters are literally saying, "You have a letter?" "Yes." "You have a letter." "Yes." "On you." "Yes." 

It's like a junior high kid wrote it.

The plot has a couple good moments, but the movie drags on WAY TOO LONG for how bad the writing is. I kept hoping it would get better. It didn't.

Rated R for strong bloody violence, a scene of violent sexual content, language and some graphic nudity.

I do NOT recommend this movie.


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