Way too long, too much talking

Rating: 2/10 (21 January 2016)

"Hateful Eight" was mostly a room full of people insulting each other, and a couple of brief "shoot-outs"; cut down to proper length it'd make a decent half-hour, old "Gunsmoke" episode. As someone else mentioned, it came across as a "stage play".
All the characters were, if not "hateful", at least unpleasant, and there was nobody to root for, or against. We can just about see the shooting location from our house, and they didn't take advantage of the spectacular scenery: camera work was pedestrian and unexciting. A couple of uses of modern words and phrases spoiled the feeling of the time period, and dumb statements about the snow melting in a couple of days (a couple of months would be right) didn't help us believe that the characters knew the area.
Samuel Jackson stood out as a sadistic homosexual bounty-hunter, helped by the fact that he looks like an elf from Hell. Kurt Russel was unfortunately killed off early because the other actors were rather boring - sitting around talking didn't help much. Walton Goggins, the main smirking criminal from the series "Justified", played the same character here.
Our main impression was "will it never end?"