July 2019: "The Hateful Eight" Netflix Mini-Series: Longer than the Movie; Nothing New

Update on the "Hateful Eight" mini-series on Netflix.

A good, detailed article in the Guardian makes the point that while the total running time of the series is at least a half hour longer than the movie...there's just about nothing new.

Because much of the new material is simply, at the beginning of each "episode," "re-running the opening credits"(that great shot of Jesus with the great Morricone score) and then running a "previously" scene with footage already seen.

About the only thing to make it into the series that wasn't in the "wide release" of The Hateful Eight is a scene of Mexican Bob plucking a chicken.

But, I , personally, SAW that chicken plucking scene when I saw The Hateful Eight in its first week of release in 2015. However, the chicken plucking scene was REMOVED from the DVD version that I own.

The Guardian article suggests that perhaps QT just wants to help promote Once Upon a Time by putting this "special edition" of The Hateful Eight on Netflix. Its OK by me, I still love The Hateful Eight, warts and all. I'll summarize that is the cast(every single actor is either one of my favorites or here impressive), the cinematography, and Morricone's score(both new and re-used) that makes the movie especially fun for me.