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Yeah these choices were definitely not in your wheelhouse. I think we might have a foreign film coming up soon tho...
I liked Mag 7 more than I thought I was going to. Like you are saying with Hateful 8 and QT, Mag 7 has a lot of the best and worst traits of that era's action movies and is a movie full of contradictions.Gee, this is going to be a fun first discussion.
I watched Hateful 8 over the weekend. I found myself liking it more and disliking it more than I remember. I think my love and hates with Tarantino are on full display in this one. 1/2 way through Mag 7 as well.
Not sure what you mean. The music wasn't over the top, it was just different. These days music is used much more pervasively, or at least it seems that way. That said, I don't like the shrill music they tend to use in movies from the 60s. I didn't like the music used in this version of the Magnificent Seven.
Ok, lots of people complain older movies use too much music and it’s too loud. I was just wondering what you thought was different. The biggest I see is that so many movies today use established songs not written for the movie where older movies tend to have a unique score or songs written for the film.
The only music from old movies that struck me was The Little Rascals "theme" music that was barely audible in the background yet seemed to be on a loop throughout every single one of their movies. Funny thing was that certain parts of it seemed to really match what was happening in the story, like the scenes that had a lot of action/tension, there was a part where the tune sped up. I usually miss stuff like that in other movies, but that one is burned into my memory. Glad I found it on youtube.
I’m like a third of the way through. The chapters makes it easy to watch in multiple sittings.
There are a lot of reasons I thought the movies would be interesting pairs (though it was a bit of a guess since I hadn't seen either). The obvious is they are westerns with numbers in them. I also thought it was interesting that The Magnificent Seven was at the forefront of the American "get the gang together" action/western/war genre while The Hateful Eight is a dark modern version of that. Instead of assembling 7 heroes, we assemble 8 bad guys. Unfortunately one of the parallels may be that people don't love either movie.
I’m almost done with it now and it’s kind of a western mystery movie. Its pretty good imo- I like it it more than some here have implied. There are some serious flaws and could have used some editing at every step in the process but I think it is best enjoyed knowing it’s kind of a parlor mystery like Clue but set in the West with lots of guns.
I hope you're right, but since this is Tarantino, I have a feeling I'm closer to right than wrong. It feels like he's setting the audience up for something, but because he's Tarantino, he's going to subvert their expectations. Unfortunately, I feel that since to me that opening chapter established a general sense of mistrust, I'm already mistrusting the entire story. I'm getting a sense of some sort of caper is afoot because I've been told in every scene and every dialog not to trust anyone. And I'm still just 40 minutes in. It may still veer off in many directions, but I feel at least one key to the endgame has already been revealed. I guess we'll see...Ilov80s said:
Honestly, I am good with that too, as long as the discussion is good. I think the most we can hope for out of this endeavor is to: 1. See some new movies or something we haven't seen in a long time. 2 generate some good discussion from people who love watching movies.Ilov80s said:
Once something happened at the start of Part 3, I wanted to punch the screen and QT.Ilov80s said:
I'm not there yet but I too feel like he's QT'ing up the movie so far. Like it's too self-aware, or he's too self-aware of the story he's telling.
Ohh yeah you are are right about that. I thought you meant more how it will end.
I'll admit I did a little recon about this movie, so maybe I'm just getting early confirmation of what direction it's going. Maybe that's why I feel like certain big clues are supposed o be hiding in plain sight but they're not really hiding.
I saw a couple people complain that Netflix screwed up something and that there are a couple glitches in that series.
A lot of times there are youtube videos out there with behind the scenes/bonus materials on movies
Totally, totally agree but I pin that on Tarantino's writing, not Jackson's performance.
One of the things I was wrestling with and still thinking about is if I thought the acting was good. I actually only liked 1-2 of the performances, but can understand how they would be intentionally cheesy (Tim Roth)
I liked all of them for what they were: caricatures. It reminded me a lot of Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.
I can see that, I guess - probably just chalk it up as not being my thing. Wasn't Lewis nominated for supporting actress though?
In a way, I think this is where this movie is a good companion to Magnificent Seven, in that the actors in that movie pretty much played to their established strengths. In Hateful 8, with one or two exceptions, we've seen these actors play shades of their roles in this movie in other movies, but what they do is why they were cast, and they all hit their marks to a T. Jennifer Jason Leigh had the meatiest role of all IMO, and even though I'm kind of meh on the movie, I fell in love with her all over again, and would love to see her show the current so-called top actresses how it's done in more mainstream movies.
I've been holding back the last few posts, but I can't anymore. When you guys say 'Lewis', you mean Jennifer Jason Leigh, right?
Wtf- sorry that is on me. No idea what I was thinking and had the complete wrong last name.
thanks for pointing that out.
Now just add Rosie Perez and Melanie Griffith to Juliette Lewis and you'll have my 3 least favorite actresses of all time. :X
1. Perez doesn't seem like she's acting in any of the movies I've seen her in--either one of them.
