The Hateful Eight

[keg in kc]

Yeah, yeah I know it's also marketed as "The H8teful Eight", but that's dumb.

Anyway...trailer!

[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I don't want to overplay the 'rowdiness' of the crowd.

It wasn't just bedlam, people yelling at everything. It was understandable reactions to the events on screen. The 'holy shit' when Vincent wrecked his car actually added to the experience, because it was pretty close to my reaction as well.

The one other theater experience that stands out to me like Pulp Fiction for audience reaction was There's Something About Mary. That movie had the audience ROLLING in spots. Really added to the experience to share belly laughs at the hi jinks.

I think we're on the same wavelength. I totally remember seeing There's Something About Mary and the entire audience was hysterical. I can't explain it, but you just got a sense of everyone around you completely in unadulterated laughter to the point where people were commenting with total strangers as if they knew everyone around them.

At the time, that movie was a fresh look at some taboo behavior and subjects, it almost was if the bluntness of everything pulled back the façade of how we act in public vs if you watch a movie at home with a bunch of close friends.

Just sitting there watching it, the entire place felt like there was an air of joy through out the theater. One of those cinematic experiences.

[Silock]

I thought it was okay. Not the best QT. That's okay. A little long.

[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

In addition to Pulp Fiction these movies were playing in the theater in Oct. 1994 at the same time..................

Jurassic Park
Lion King
Forest Gump
Shawshank Redemption

Originally Posted by mnchiefsguy

Jurrassic Park was released in 1993. June 11th, to be exact (wide release). It was not in any first run theaters in Oct 1994.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/releaseinfo

It may have been lingering in some discount houses (the release window to VHS at that time was significantly longer than it is today to DVD/Blu-Ray.

Forest Gump was still playing because it was hit and had legs that year. Lion King is not in the list you provided...it was a hit, and was probably still playing, but not in the top 15.

Note that on your chart Jurrassic Park is only playing in 116 theaters and is in its 71st week of release.

Shawshank was in its 4th week. Other than Jurrassic and Forest, all of the other movies on your chart were out 5 weeks or less.

Either way, take a look at the list and the movies around the mid 90's.
http://www.imdb.com/search/title/?re...e_type=feature

That's obviously just a broad example and there were a bunch of independent, small release, art house, whatever you wanna call it films in that time frame - not just '94 , specifically.

Technically, it falls probably more in the early 90s, but I remember going to see Reservoir Dogs at the Tivoli. It was either the only theater or 1 of 2 that it played at in KC.
I used to go there a ton! Trainspotting, Dream with the Fishes, Crash (the one with Spader and Hunter) and tons of other obscure flicks. Typically, hit up D'Bronx, Mario's, or The Jerusalem Cafe before or after the show on a Friday or Saturday.

Good times.

[frankotank]

I rather enjoyed it.
ole Channing had a great big part huh!? wonder how much he made for that?
some really good humor in it.

loved the door thing......YOU GOTTA KICK IT OPEN! lol

[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by frankotank

I rather enjoyed it.
ole Channing had a great big part huh!? wonder how much he made for that?
some really good humor in it.

loved the door thing......YOU GOTTA KICK IT OPEN! lol

Even if he made $0, you'd jump at the chance to get a part in a QT film.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

Even if he made $0, you'd jump at the chance to get a part in a QT film.

I heard he actually BEGGED for the part.

[SAUTO]

http://www.msn.com/en-nz/entertainme...ole/ar-BBnLs5k

[Deberg_1990]

heh. Goggins cracks me up.

"Who the **** is Daisy Domergue?"

[Predarat]

For those that did not get to see the Roadshow that wanted to see it, The Hateful Eight is being shown in digital format for a week or so before the home media release. Not sure if this is true everywhere, but around here a lot of theaters are showing it that way.

[Cheater5]

Calling down fire on myself here...but so be it.

We rented it this past weekend, and I fell asleep an hour and twenty minutes into it (I'm not that old, and I wasn't really tired). I thought the dialogue was poorly written and clumsy; very un-Tarantino like. I felt no tension building and nothing held my interest whatsoever. Stone acting and poor pacing killed it for me. Sadly there is nothing compelling me to spend another two hours seeing what I may have 'missed.'

Generally speaking I like Tarantino films as they are original as compared to most Hollywood shite, have interesting dialogue and unique characters. The third of the movie I watched had none of this. Perhaps I'm one of 100 that didn't enjoy it, but I expected much more.

[luv]

Originally Posted by Cheater5

Calling down fire on myself here...but so be it.

We rented it this past weekend, and I fell asleep an hour and twenty minutes into it (I'm not that old, and I wasn't really tired). I thought the dialogue was poorly written and clumsy; very un-Tarantino like. I felt no tension building and nothing held my interest whatsoever. Stone acting and poor pacing killed it for me. Sadly there is nothing compelling me to spend another two hours seeing what I may have 'missed.'

Generally speaking I like Tarantino films as they are original as compared to most Hollywood shite, have interesting dialogue and unique characters. The third of the movie I watched had none of this. Perhaps I'm one of 100 that didn't enjoy it, but I expected much more.

Ditto. Except I am probably getting to be considered old...lol. I did go back and watch the rest of it, though. I just thought, "Really? This is it?"

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by luv

Ditto. Except I am probably getting to be considered old...lol. I did go back and watch the rest of it, though. I just thought, "Really? This is it?"

Saw it in 70MM and it was fantastic. The Cinematography was off the charts. It was a little more loose with the dialog than usual for Taratanio.

[unlurking]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Saw it in 70MM and it was fantastic. The Cinematography was off the charts. It was a little more loose with the dialog than usual for Taratanio.

This. Was an awesome movie.

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by unlurking

This. Was an awesome movie.

Yep.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Cheater5

Calling down fire on myself here...but so be it.

We rented it this past weekend, and I fell asleep an hour and twenty minutes into it (I'm not that old, and I wasn't really tired). I thought the dialogue was poorly written and clumsy; very un-Tarantino like. I felt no tension building and nothing held my interest whatsoever. Stone acting and poor pacing killed it for me. Sadly there is nothing compelling me to spend another two hours seeing what I may have 'missed.'

Generally speaking I like Tarantino films as they are original as compared to most Hollywood shite, have interesting dialogue and unique characters. The third of the movie I watched had none of this. Perhaps I'm one of 100 that didn't enjoy it, but I expected much more.

I'm with you.

The fact that Tim Roth's part was so very obviously written for Christoph Waltz was distracting (and if it wasn't written for Waltz, Roth shouldn't have spent the whole movie doing a poor imitation of him).

As murder mysteries go, it was never terribly compelling. As character driven movies go, I never gave a large rat's ass what happened to any of them. Beyond story and on to execution, the dialogue wasn't nearly as sharp as his best stuff. And maybe the digital version I saw just didn't do justice to what he was trying to accomplish but I wasn't impressed by the visuals either.

What we got was a cut-rate Reservoir Dogs set in the reconstruction era west. Oh yeah, all while saying '****er' a lot. Like...a whole ****ing lot. Like, enough to where it become genuinely repellent despite the fact that Tarnatino movies use ****er like commas by and large, they just generally do so much more artfully than this one did.

I didn't dislike this movie, I just didn't like it.