Not Tarantino's best movie but a good ambiance.

Rating: 7/10 (21 August 2017)

I found the dialogue wasn't as cool and stylized as previous Tarantino films so I've only given it a 07-10. But the atmosphere was great that cabin out in the snow. The movie has some great epic western score. The scene where Warren and Bob are setting up a rope line to the outside toilet reminded me a lot of a scene from The Thing 1982, even the music sounded a lot like John Carpenter's score for that movie (not a coincidence as Morricone and Russell both worked on that movie). In fact, there is a scene in H.E. where the music is, in fact, an exact copy of Morricone's score for The Thing. Tarantino must be a fan of that movie. H.E. has some of the same feel as The Thing, a bunch of people (mostly men) locked together in the snow and one or more are not who they appear to be. I thought Bob's Mexican accent was REALLY over the top and wondered why they couldn't get somebody to do a better accent turns out that the actor is actually Mexican! Warren's gloves are bad a#s. I always loved those big ol' white leather cavalry gloves when I was a kid. There are some fantastic tiny moments between Ruth and Domergue they are like an old married couple, manacled together, I thought that was really interesting (and even touching) he even cleans a little bit of stew off her cheek. The scene where they serve and eat the stew was probably my favourite. I love a good movie scene where people are sat around eating. I have got to get myself one of those big old wooden bowls and a wooden spoon for my cocido and fabada. That stew looked really tasty. Is the movie based on some real historical events and characters? I got the feeling that Tarantino was trying to create characters around actual events of the time. Lost a lot of respect for Michael Madsen (since his character in Reservoir Dogs) with his new haircut and the extra weight he just looked like a big ol' fat drag queen and not a tough guy. I thought the Tarantino narration halfway through was very forced, just didn't fit into the movie for me. Maybe that was typical in old western T.V. shows? Smithers was cool. If you haven't seen the movie Silent Running I recommend you watch that – It's a Sci Fi classic, with Bruce Dern a the main character. Definitely, a film that I am going to have to watch a few more times especially in the winter. It's quite possible that the score may go up on watching it again.