Too slow


I kept getting bored and looking for things to entertain myself with while waiting for the next thing to happen. Tarantino was seriously self-indulgent with the unnecessary lingering on the scenery and the mundane tasks. A faster pace would have improved the movie immensely.

And no, I don't have ADD; I'm a patient viewer, and I don't mind three hour movies - when there's enough going on to justify that runtime. This, on the other hand, is a standard length movie stretched out to three hours for no good reason. The glacial pacing is the critical flaw, here.

Tarantino: "Hey, isn't it cool how they had to make rope leads to the outhouse and the barn so as not to get lost in the blizzard? Here, let me show you how they make those for twenty minutes. Yes, they're totally supposed to stick all the rope-lead-sticks in the ground right here in the foreground and make longer and longer trips back to fetch just one at a time."

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I agree. I'm a massive Tarantino fan but this one took waaaay too long to get moving.

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Tarantino: "Hey, isn't it cool how they had to make rope leads to the outhouse and the barn so as not to get lost in the blizzard? Here, let me show you how they make those for twenty minutes. Yes, they're totally supposed to stick all the rope-lead-sticks in the ground right here in the foreground and make longer and longer trips back to fetch just one at a time."

yep "and then I'll make sure to never use or mention the chain ever again in any significant way because nobody really gives a fck anyway."

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Yeah my mom and dad is never use that chain to get to the car, so I have no use in the world in it ever . You dumbasses they still use this in the Alaska and Canada you little *beep* never go outside your house and learn something, and no sense in trying to learn something. They were trying to identify the audience with the kind of weather and condition they had to deal with.

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The pace was fine for me. I was entertained the whole time.

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I was fine with the pace. The stagecoach scenes - good stuff, the cabin scenes before the poisoning - OK even though it could've done with more tension and suspense.

Loved the look of the movie and Kurt Russell in it.

But once Tarantino's narration starts, I zone out. Then we get the typical switched time frame, and it turns into yet another OTT comic-book type gore fest that Tarantino's been doing for years now. What happened to the more realistic Pulp Fiction/Reservoir Dogs bloodshed he used to do?

I liked the first half but hated the second.

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The pace and runtime didn't bother me at all, I thought the dialogue made pretty much all the scenes worthwhile. But then again I'm not a brain dead moron who needs an explosion every 3mins to keep me entertained.

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I partially agree, while I love Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Django & Death Proof I only liked this outing. Although I do think it's much better then Inglourious Basterds & Jackie Brown.

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Completely agree, really disappointed. I had high hopes

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