Mixed feelings about this movie

Rating: 6/10 (29 January 2016)

There is so much I like about this latest Tarantino movie and yet it left me uncomfortable and dissatisfied . While others here criticized the slow build up and the lengthy dialogue, I enjoyed this part of the movie the most. I got caught up in trying to figure out who the characters really were at Minnie's Haberdashery. I loved the stage coach scenes , the snow and the horses. I didn't feel this section of the movie dragged at all and was necessary for the set up. I question though the need of the 70 mm film as a lot of the picture occurs indoors in the claustrophobic cabin. It seemed extreme lengths to go to and was either a clever marketing ploy to present this movie as something special or just pandering to a director's ego. Many reviewers here claim to be fans of Tarantino's previous movies but (spoiler) are outraged by the rape story ( did he rape him or did he invent this to anger the father?) yet are quick to forget that the Bride is raped by hospital orderlies in Kill Bill 1 and a black man is raped by white men in Pulp Fiction(and quite graphically ). Why is it a deal breaker for you in The Hateful 8? Is it confronting because it is a black man raping and humiliating a white man? I do question the need to show the chapter where (spoiler) we see what happened to Minnie and the staff and stage coach driver. That was already pretty obvious. What made me uncomfortable is how far the violence was pushed this time. I understand he makes genre movies an exploitation movies. The difference here is that it didn't have the choreography of Kill Bill or the cartoonishness of Pulp Fiction, nor was it justified like with the history in Django. The contrast from the talking scenes to the violence was huge. And the pleasure somehow this was meant to give viewers, I found disturbing.At the end of the day it is a lot of $$$ to put in to what is an Exploitation Movie, despite the good actors.