The Hateful Eight: 8 Reasons It's Quentin Tarantino's Best Film Since Pulp Fiction

2. The Roadshow Version Is A Phenomenal Experience

The Hateful Eight is a great movie as it is, but if you can get to the roadshow version it becomes something even better. Projected on 70mm film and, thanks to the overture and intermission, running twenty minutes longer than the standard release, it's the version Tarantino wants everyone to see and seals the sheer epic scale of the production. The overture is an excellent tone setter, formed of six minutes of Morricone's score over a striking title card of the Wyoming landscape coloured blood red with a small stagecoach at the bottom of the frame (thus acting as a preamble to the movie while also providing a bit of foreshadowing). The intermission is likewise highly effective; it comes at the perfect point in the narrative, signposting the film's two key halves, and Tarantino has a bit of fun when returning to the action after the break. These elements all hearken back to another age of film where the whole cinema experience was a lot more theatrical, something the classically-obsessed Tarantino is very keen to return to (he is one of the few filmmakers who can still get a movie released on proper film, after all). Like the cinematography, having it here isn't just for the fun of it though - it's all to further the feeling of a massive feature.