My thoughts about THE HATEFUL EIGHT and other reviews

Rating: 9/10 (24 December 2015)

There are two types of people who have watched this movie. 1- Those who were disappointed because the movie was too similar to previous Tarantino pictures or: 2- Those who enjoyed the movie for the same reasons.
I am part of the latter.
I have read many reviews of THE HATEFUL EIGHT, positive and negative, and I have not yet seen a review in which the viewer had felt the same feelings I had during the end credits.
It seems that everyone who watches a movie absolutely wants the movie to end with answers to all the questions they were asking themselves during the the movie. This is not that kind of flick.
Who is trustworthy? This is the question to ask. There are no heroes in this movie, unlike Django or The Bride. It is difficult to pick someone to root for. And I believe this is where the audience confuses itself. The audience seems to need to have a good and a bad character. Some viewers cannot enjoy the picture if they have mixed feelings at the end. I was a little confused in my emotions at the end of the movie and I was reminiscing on all the characters and their ambitions. I have come to my own conclusion and I'm sure others won't share the same thoughts as I did. THIS mix of opinions makes a movie worth watching, and reviewing for that matter. You cannot have all answers given to you, you must think a little.
Every character tries to bargain or lie to get his or her own way. It seems that viewers have a hard time understanding that it is not because a character says something that it is necessary true, especially if that character is SAYING that he must lie sometimes to get his or her way.
The narrative frame, the flashbacks and the narrator made that movie even more interesting to me. Yes, the movie starts slowly. Very slowly. There is a lot of dialogue that seem pointless. Yet, it is necessary in order to understand each of the goal and a little bit of the history of each character presented and you later understand that everything that has been said was indeed important to the story. I admit that towards the middle of the picture, I was eager for something to happen, as expected from Tarantino, and then a turn of events occur and the narration part embarks. I have read many reviews that criticized the narration but I thought it was brilliant. Tarantino being probably the greatest storyteller of our generation gets into the story is if you were listening to the DVD commentary. It wasn't any narrator, it was Tarantino himself telling you "Okay, here we are in the movie, now watch what will happen next. You'll be surprised!"
Furthermore, the scenery was exceptional. The cast was great, especially Jennifer Jason Leigh. I have read from other reviews that some characters were just thrown in the movie just for the sake of the 8 in the title and claiming that they should have had more dialogue. I again disagree. Given the history of each character and the situation they were in, I felt that they were perfectly written for the story.
Anyway.
I recommend this movie to patient viewers with an eye for realistic human reactions. What would you do in these situations?
9/10