10 Movies That Were Too Damn Long

For Tarantino purists, The Hateful Eight is a welcome blast from start to finish. For others, it's one of the director's most forgettable and annoyingly self-indulgent movies. With over-stuffed Tarantino dialogue and a sense that it wants to be seen as much more intelligent than it actually is, the western action-drama is 168 minutes (or 187 if you watch the extended version) of just...meh.

Set in an old cabin during a snowstorm, the film follows a wide range of morally ambiguous characters as their strong personalities and ulterior motives clash.

And that's it. That's the plot. Long, winding, and with nothing optimistic to say about the world or people, it's nearly three hours of over-the-top violence, over-written monologues, easy-to-spot plot twists and a painfully underwhelming conclusion.

It works, in parts, as a neat little revisionist western, but any potential it had is lost after its first hour. At two hours, it could have been something really special, like a western-era Reservoir Dogs (1992), but at three hours it's a should-be work of art that falls as flat as a punctured tire.