The Hateful Eight: 8 Reasons It's Quentin Tarantino's Worst Film
6. It Contains Tarantino's Worst Writing To Date
For all their set-pieces and soundtracks, for all their inspired costume choices and wonderful cinematography, for all their great performances and instances of directorial flourish, the one thing Quentin Tarantinos films will always be remembered for is their writing, their dialogue, the monologues and soliloquies that have entered film history as some of the greatest ever written. Like a Virgin. Royale with Cheese. Foot Massage. If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut. The Rat Catcher. Tarantino has said he wants to win the most Academy Awards for screenwriting ever. He currently has two, for Pulp Fiction (shared with Roger Avary) and Django Unchained. To his likely dismay, he was not nominated this year, and rightly so, because The Hateful Eight is his worst screenplay to date. The script here is basically an inferior rehash of Tarantinos best moments, using his familiar talk, talk, talk, kill system but lessening it because the talking is so, for lack of a better word, boring. Nothing here feels even remotely memorable or quotable, and the already famous oral rape vignette serves easily as Tarantinos most shameful grab at something Shocking, capital S.
