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Originally Posted by listopencil
Wait, that wasn't Christoph Waltz?
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Nope, just Tim Roth doing a Waltz impression.
You know how everyone that does a George H.W. Bush impression is actually doing Dana Carvey doing a Bush impression? Walken impressions are the same way; people doing impressions of Jay Mohr as Chrisopher Walken.
That's pretty much what Roth did throughout that movie; an impression of a Christoph Waltz impression. It took me out of the movie at times.
Even Michael Madsen seemed to just be playing Michael Madsen in a farmer's costume.
Goggins and Dern were the only two people who impressed in that movie, IMO. Russell and Jackson were just trying to one-up each other to see who could chew the most scenery and everyone else was just largely forgettable apart from Tatum's relatively brief cameo.
Most great Tarantino movie's have a standout performance that really elevates them. Djano - Waltz; Basterds - Fasbender and Pitt; Pulp Fiction - Jackson (nod to Rames and Willis); Reservoir Dogs - Keitel. Kill Bill was such an ensemble that it's harder to identify one but I thought Lui and Carradine were both amazing and the story was incredibly strong.
True Romance used its characters very much like Hateful Eight did; more characters, less emphasis on a lot of them, but it did a better job of it. Walken, Hopper and Oldman made that movie from ancillary roles, IMO.
I just didn't feel that way about this one. Maybe another viewing would change my mind but I just wasn't terribly impressed.