Yet another overrated Tarantino movie

Rating: 6/10 (17 January 2016)

I liked what Tarantino had for us up until the sequel to Kill Bill came out. His movies were edgy, gory, unpredictable and designed for shock value, drawing inspiration from old western movies. Then he overdid it. Nowadays there is a lot of talking in his movies, the main protagonists come across as bad asses and end up as half asses. Lets take the Inglourius Basterds as an example. The plan to assassinate Hitler starts to go horribly wrong until a stroke of luck helps them to bring the plan back on track. It wasn't a great movie, it was all right. Then we had Django Unchained and the only part I liked about the movie was when Leonardo DiCaprio came on screen and the game of cat and mouse began. Now we have the hateful eight in which the first half of the movie is about the hateful eight being the boring eight, talking and talking till I almost dozed off. There are a lot of scenes that are unnecessary, the plot to free Daisy is unnecessarily complicated, of course they tried to justify this in the FAQ section but I still feel that the narrative could have been tighter and this didn't have to be such a long movie. The Domergue gang gets their comeuppance in the end but being such a notorious gang, I was surprised that Joe Gage and Jody Gage literally made no impact (other than shooting Marquis Warren in the crotch which was hilarious but had no effect on the story thereafter). Its a good movie but not an excellent movie and definitely not deserving 8 stars. I mean just compare it to Reservoir Dogs, one of Tarantino's best movies. Would you say it matches that level of storytelling and screenplay? I think not.