I wanted to love this film

Rating: 7/10 (18 December 2016)

This film is a remarkable piece of cinema. The character development is carried out in a painstakingly methodical way. QT's association with Samuel L Jackson goes back a long way, though some might say that this was the "easy" casting option. Anyone upset by the language or violence should not have gone to see a QT film.
However, for me, there is a problem and that problem is Inglorious Basterds which is an unbelievably taut, well crafted, gripping, believable (?) work of art.
Watching Hateful Eight for the most part all I could see were the I.B. references, which though it is often a directorial trait, missed the mark.
With regard to scoring the film I would have given a 9.5 if I had never seen the Basterds. QT says he will stop at ten films. This might not be a bad thing in my opinion as he may well have peaked too soon in 2009.