Review of The Hateful Eight (2015) by Joefurlan1 — 14 Jan 2016

DO NOT SEE THE HATEFUL 8!!!

Warning... disgusting stuff, foul language and spoilers in this review. Not for kids to read.

People, I haven't gotten on and ranted about a horrible movie since Noah but as a public service I have to warnDO NOT SEE THE HATEFUL 8!!!

Warning... disgusting stuff, foul language and spoilers in this review. Not for kids to read.

People, I haven't gotten on and ranted about a horrible movie since Noah but as a public service I have to warn you all against this piece of trash.

Don't get me wrong, I am (or was) a big Tarantino fan. I loved pulp fiction, loved the Kill Bills, loved Inglorious Bastards, loved death proof...even loved Django (though the gratuitous violence and constant use of the N word was beginning to get old.).

This movie though.... seriously, I should have got up and left half way through when Sam L. Jackson (in a horrific flash back) forces fellatio on a naked white guy who's on his knees begging for a blanket in the snow (Sam laughing his big signature Sam L. Jackson laugh the whole time). But I in cowardice looked away and waited for the movie to get better. It didn't.

From the running gags where Jennifer Jason Leigh is repeatedly called a **** and punched in the face until her front teeth break off and she's covered in blood, to the big finally where Jackson (barely conscious from having his nuts shot off) along with a horrible mortally wounded racist sheriff team up to (in their dying moments) deliver true justice to Leigh but noosing her and lifting her to the rafters until she slowly dances to death at the end of the rope, this movie is nothing but gore-porn idiocy.

There are no heroes to root for there are no Nazis or slave masters to hate. Everyone is horrible. Everything is violent. Everything is.... well... just gross. To make matters worse it's frekking BORING! After a relatively hopeful first half hour or so with a few funny bits, some smart dialogue, some dramatic building and beautiful scenery... the thing basically becomes a bloated whodunit play with every other line containing the word **** or **** I was so bored I nearly fell asleep two hours in. It just drags on and on.

I literally felt dirty driving home. It really made me question my own media consumption habits and where I draw my lines in life. Maybe I should have know better? Perhaps I should have drawn the line at the rape scene in Kill Bill 12 years ago. But the would be rapist immediately gets his ass handed to him in that movie by one of the most interesting bad ass heroines to grace the silver screen. Creative,violent revenge against horrible people is intriguing and at times invigorating and delightful in Tarintinos previous films. The purposeless over the top all around evil in this one though... it just goes too far down a very dark road.

I don't know.... This one really made me question my own discernment.