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Too slow

posted 8 years ago by xanxei
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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."

[–] AndyDufresne95 8 years ago

Grow up pal, there cant be action every 2 seconds to keep your fragile mind entertained.

[–] leefoo-1 8 years ago

I just posted something similar.

I totally agree that scene was unnecessary and added zilch to the movie.

[–] maratonrunner 8 years ago

I agree. this my key nitpick about the movie that is so slow

+Samuel Jackson is usually one of my favorite actors but in this movie he does not give everything he has. it was really under his standard.
and he should really be the one to lift the movie.

+ what annoyed me the most about the movie is that one of the actors Tim Roth tried to play with the same wit as Christoph Waltz did in Inglourious Basterds however he could not do it. in the character of Oswaldo Mobray

[–] franzkabuki 8 years ago

Firstly, the rope lead scene lasted a little over a minute, not twenty minutes. Secondly, it was there to illustrate just how bad the weather was getting and how isolated the place was, adding to the sense of claustrophobia.

And anyone who's seen Tarantino's films before, should sort of be familiar with his tactics by now - long scenes of dialogue punctuated by sudden eruptions of gruesome violence. Personally, I found the dialogue/characters in The Hateful Eight better written and the suspense better sustained than in any of his other films since Jackie Brown. Only the final act's a bit of a letdown when it becomes apparent that there really ain't a whole lot of point to the orgy of almost cartoonish bloodbath. But it's entertaining alright.

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[–] [deleted] a year ago

It's nearly three hours long for no good reason. Could have made the same movie with a 100 minute runtime no problem.

[–] ShadowHunter (814) a year ago

or at least 1 or two more action scenes. i love Tarintinos dialogue id argue hes the best in the business at it. But hes the best at it partly because it often slowly builds up and grows the tension into a crashendo of violence. all his best movies have this done masterfully. yet its like he forgot the violence part which he does masterfully.