I hate this EIGHT

Rating: 3/10 (29 December 2015)

I gotta be pretty unimpressed to write a bad review, let alone one for one my favorite directors. But WOW....I paid a pretty penny to see this on opening day and was thoroughly disappointed. I like Tarantino films, I do. I have re-watched countless times Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Django, and others really enjoying picking apart the scenes, score, etc. But I will always critique a great director's blunder films, because we are set up to expect more. Kurosawa's Ikiru and Dodeska-den come to mind, Kubric's Barry Lyndon, Scorsese made Shutter Island and Spielberg directed Hook....sigh. Yes even the greatest director of all time, John Ford (*caugh* How Green was my valley *crap*) made some throwaways. But what irked me the most is how bloated and self-centered Tarantino has become with this last film. Never mind all the hipster-like pedantry surrounding the whole Ultra-Panavision 70 mm roadshow (it was a nice touch for all the outdoor cinematography...all 20 minutes of it), but relying on tiresome slapstick humor and endless "niggerisms" for the sake of a few laughs was giving the audience a big middle finger. It's like Tarantino is telling the world in a too-tall-for-his-age-7-year-old-kid's voice....i get to make films and you don't....and LOOK i get to say n***** as much as I want, and parade around a stable of great actors who play out bad jokes for MY entertainment, NOT yours.
BTW....if you could....just watch Leigh's performance...it is Oscar worthy...but not because Tarantino directed, but because it's Leigh. Can't say the same for Tim Roth...who is also directed by Tarantino apparently to be a cheap stand-in for Christoph Waltz. The score is great and so is the cinematography, but why have superfluous narration and a song by the White Stripes? The contradictions simply add to one emperor who has lost all of his clothes. I want my money back CUE-TEE