There are only four weeks left in 2015, but those four weeks contain some of the most highly anticipated releases of the year. And no, we’re not just talking about Star Wars. The Hateful Eight is due out on December 25, and though they’re probably not technically supposed to be talking about it right now, critics have already started raving about Quentin Tarantino‘s latest. Get the Hateful Eight early buzz after the jump.
As Awards Daily’s Sasha Stone notes, reviews for The Hateful Eight are embargoed until December 21.
@akstanwyck @kristapley here is the poster. http://pic.twitter.com/DxPIen2pp1
— Sasha Stone (@AwardsDaily) December 2, 2015
You may have noticed that today is not December 21. But some critics just couldn’t wait that long to gush about the movie. If the film is half as good as they say, it’s hard to blame them. The reviews so far range from very positive to very, very, very positive.
"The Hateful Eight" is awesome. Tarantino's fullest exploration of genre to date. Expert first-half tension explodes into blood & violence.
— Kristopher Tapley (@kristapley) November 30, 2015
And the roadshow experience is exquisite. I've decided all films should have intermissions.
— Kristopher Tapley (@kristapley) November 30, 2015
THE HATEFUL EIGHT is one of those movies that's really great on first viewing, and will be about a thousand times better the second time.
— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) December 2, 2015
Jennifer Jason Leigh is absolute dynamite in THE HATEFUL EIGHT. And Walton Goggins *almost* steals the show from Samuel L. Jackson. Almost.
— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) December 2, 2015
Tarantino sets up characters and stakes in post-Civil-War race drama @thehatefuleight, a languorously intense 70 mm cinephile's fantasy.
— Anne Thompson (@akstanwyck) December 2, 2015
Actors will love the luxury of this ace ensemble surfing with QT's dialogue. The images, sound, settings, rich Morricone score are tops.
— Anne Thompson (@akstanwyck) December 2, 2015
The rest waits for the embargo. Jennifer Jason Leigh as only woman in key cast could nab Oscar nom. Jackson, Russell & Goggins also tops.
— Anne Thompson (@akstanwyck) December 2, 2015
The dark cynicism of Peckinpah smashed into the playfulness of Tarantino still makes for the meanest film of QT's career. Loved it.
— devin faraci (@devincf) December 2, 2015
I think HATEFUL EIGHT is sort of QT's response to his own historical revisionist films. There's a whole thread in H8 that comments on them.
— devin faraci (@devincf) December 2, 2015
We can talk about 'Hateful Eight' now? Ok good. Loved everything about it. QT at his most indulgent. Sam Jackson is terrific.
— Mike Sampson (@mjsamps) December 2, 2015
THE HATEFUL EIGHT is dark, bloody and diabolically funny. If you thought the Crazy 88s were crazy, they got nothing on these eight. So great
— ErikDavis (@ErikDavis) December 2, 2015
THE HATEFUL EIGHT is like The Thing took the form of an early John Ford movie & holy hell is it great. Sam L. Jackson = a national treasure.
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) December 2, 2015
My HATEFUL Take: I freakin' love this movie. Agatha Christie's DEATH PROOF in the Old West. I wish it were an hour longer.
— Jordan Hoffman (@jhoffman) December 2, 2015
It’s worth pointing out that such early reactions are probably skewed. Breaking an embargo to praise a movie is one thing, but those who disliked The Hateful Eight probably don’t want to risk annoying the studio by bad-mouthing it before they’re allowed to. A few critics have hinted that the movie might not be as unanimously beloved as the tweets above might lead you to believe.
I don't like to write about movies negatively before they open so I'll keep my thoughts re: Hateful Eight private…
— Sasha Stone (@AwardsDaily) December 2, 2015
@AwardsDaily i was there and i am beyond curious to see the reaction. Probably some of the most polarized of the year
— Michael Kamens (@TheMBrand) December 2, 2015
We’ll surely hear much more about The Hateful Eight before it opens, but for now, maybe it’s just enough to know there’s a lot to like about it. Check out the synopsis and trailer below.
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
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