To paraphrase Bret from Flight of the Conchords, “I want to tell this trailer how hot it is, but it’ll think I’m sexist. Not sure about the Tim Roth element, but Joe Gage is a hilarious name for the Michael Madsen role. Daisy Domergue signals perfection! And Kurt Russell hasn’t looked so good in ages. Well, it’s about time Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tarantino got together. If this film disappoints, I may swear off going to the movies altogether. This will be my Xmas gift to myself this year. In the hands of Quentin, this will likely be a Mad Hatter party of biblical scale. A repertory of his favorite actors from past films, locked together in single room for three days. In a nutshell, this looks like the same type of character driven, action/drama that QT gave us with Reservoir Dogs. *Tim Roth! AND Michael Madson! Together again! (whole head explodes) *Sam Jackson! And Kurt Russell! And Tarantino! (brain explodes) *Kurt Russell! Jack Burton! The Thing! YAY!!!! So, here’s what I was thinking as I watched the trailer. ![]() I’m so excited I can’t even put my thoughts down in an organized coherent way. After watching a few more times, I’ve learned to appreciate it more, but I still pine for the days of QT films like Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill. I’m a huge fan of classic Italian westerns, not to mention the iconic Django, and I thought Quentin’s take was a little uneven. To be honest, I felt a little let down by Django. This looks like the Tarantino film I’ve been waiting on since Inglorious Basterds. ![]() The opening seconds of The Hateful Eight had me twitching in anticipation like a child on Xmas morning. Whoever put this teaser trailer together earned their salary today because I’m definitely… um… teased and, by golly, I want more. But that’s just pretentious, isn’t it, and reveals more about me than this trailer, I guess.Īll this gets me wondering if this why they call these things “Teaser Trailers”? Is it because they tease you into thinking about all the things that this movie could be? Or is it simply to tease you into wanting to be teased some more before you decided to commit? Whatever. But then you got Kurt Russell in a snow storm telling us that “ one of them fellas is NOT what he says he is” and I go all John Carpenter’s The Thing in my noggin and start to wonder if there will indeed be some sort of alien nastiness going on, which then makes me think about 2011’s Cowboys & Aliens staring Daniel Craig, and who the hell wants to think about that? Then, of course, towards the end of the trailer when there is that juxtaposition between a snowstorm on the prairie and the E ight Strangers/One Deadly Connection captions go up, I start mentally thumbing through the pages of Stephen Crane’s The Blue Hotel. I mean the obvious one is that there is a sort of classic Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction vibe going on here, you know, with the ensemble cast and, of course, the Samuel L. But as I watched the thing, my brain started to get flooded with all sorts of random cultural references and, as what happens when you succumb to the anxiety of influences, I started to have a hard time telling the difference between what I was actually watching and what I thought it reminded me of. So I just watched the “Official Teaser Trailer” for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming The Hateful Eight and, yeah, it got my attention. ![]() The trailer also solidifies my opinion that Tarantino is just making movies he wants to see I’m glad we have similar tastes. ![]() It’s an inspired choice that will hopefully be appreciated by the audience. Shooting the whole thing in Panavision makes up for the lack of my dream cast. The Hateful Eight looks like it will be an excellent companion piece to Django Unchained, and it features nearly every actor I want to see in a film, though I was crossing my fingers to see Jeff Bridges, Sam Elliott, or Ian McShane. I will admit that I am in the full throes of super hero franchise fatigue and am ambivalent about ninety percent of the movies that receive a wide release in theaters. The trailer for The Hateful Eight is the most exciting trailer I have seen since Mad Max: Fury Road.
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