Django Unchained: Volume 2

Rating: 8/10 (10 September 2016)

No doubt, Django Unchained: Volume 2 is what this film was originally meant to be, but I guess he couldn't get Jamie Foxx, so decided to make it The Hateful Eight, so he could use his favorite actor, Samuel L. Jackson. I'm surprised he didn't get Christoph Waltz to play Oswaldo Mobray, though Tim Roth did manage to ape Waltz's speech pattern & lines quite well. I guess it was purposeful, either by the actors or Tarantino, for Jackson & Roth to use EXACT lines & mannerisms used in Django Unchained, but I found that to be odd, insulting, unprofessional, and unsettling. If I hadn't seen Django Unchained, I'd probably have given The Hateful Eight a 9 instead of a 7. I was protesting Tarantino's, racist, anti cop rhetoric, so wouldn't pay money to see it in the theater, but for $5.99 On Demand, I had no choice, as I've adored several of his films. From the trailer, I was never overly excited to see it, but found it surprisingly good for the most part, despite a molasses slow start and unnecessary filler. I'd like to see his ninth film with 100% actors who have never been in his films before. Seeing the same actors again & again has gotten old, well prior to The Hateful Eight. Surprised that some reviewers found this to be excessively violent, as I found it much more mild than his usual violence, though it did lack his comical excess, that tends to make the violence less disturbing.