Because Jackie Brown Wasn't Slow Enough

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2015)

This is the kind of film a director makes when no one around them is checking their ego. It's not just the Wyoming setting that evokes memories of Heaven's Gate. It's the idea that I'm sure all artists have. They find success and then forget that it was all the hard, hungry work that brought them there.
Hateful Eight is a very long movie, and barely gets started in the first hour. It *is* beautiful. Beautifully made. But Tarantino has this thing where he gets cocky and makes something boring. Jackie Brown and Death Proof, to be exact.
It's also a hateful movie. The characters of course, as you would expect. But also the tone itself. A great deal of anger against women, especially, and his endless use of the N word, which he should have tired of a long time ago.