If much critical and audience discussion has gone into the movie's length, QT at least does the courtesy of explaining early on why it runs in at around the 3-hour mark, The Hateful Eight opens with a lengthy and undeniably indulgent titles sequence, showing off Robert Richardson's incredible cinematography and Ennio Morricone's epic score as Tarantino slowly pans away from a shot of a wooden statue of a crucified Jesus while the credits roll. It's a fair few minutes longer before we actually get the first words of dialogue, with stagecoach driver O.B. (James Parks) being forced to stop in the road as Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) desperately attempts to catch a lift from him, in order to transport three frozen corpses to the town of Red Rock to collect the bounty. It may be the most excessive of Tarantino's openings, but let's face it, you're not soon going to forget it either.
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