Django Redux

Rating: 6/10 (14 November 2016)

Although I appreciate Tarantino's recycled Pulp Fiction genre of non-linear storytelling, I've avoided some films because of their gratuitous violence.
However, I LOVED Django Unchained. So, given the hype about the Hateful Eight, award nominations and all, I was excited to see it. As the yawns set in, all I thought is how recycled the characters from Django were. Tim Roth as Christoph Waltz, Samuel Jackson as Jamie Foxx, the oppressed, yet outwitting winner of battles, racially and otherwise.
Yes, Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance was entertaining as was Kurt Russell's, seeing them both stretch their comfort zones. But, for me, that didn't compensate for what seemed like a longer, contrived, reiterated version of Django with a few changes in weather and peripheral characters.