The Hateful Eight [Blu-ray]

I always go back to this movie every now and then. Tarantino is a master of making seemingly innocuous situations turn insane very fast and naturally.

Also had a slip cover.

I am a Tarantino fan and this movie entertains. The price was great as well.

Arrived on time , in great condition and it's a great film.

The latest movie from director Quentin Tarantino. Like his last one, it's a western.In Wyoming, bounty hunter John Ruth [Kurt Russell] is on the way to the town of Red Rock via stage, along with his prisoner. The charming Daisy Domergue [Jennifer Jason Leigh]. There's a storm coming along. They end up picking up two passengers. Bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren [Samuel L. Jackson] and Chris Mannix [Walton Goggins] one time guerrilla now - supposedly - town sheriff.A stop off at Minnie's, a stagecoach way station, turns out to be a longer one than intended. As the storm makes it impossible to leave. Not that, once the travellers and those already there get together, everyone may make it out alive anyway...Shot in 65mm film, this has absolutely gorgeous cinematography. It's a western made the way they used to do it. There are some stunning snow covered landscape shots. It's very much a character drama/detective story. As the characters interact and secrets come to light. Like most of the director's work, there are long conversations. But they do all set the scene and add to the characters, and they do all lead somewhere. And there are narrative tricks, twists and turns. In a plot that is very well put together and develops at just the right pace.It's as violent as you would expect. A couple of bits being nearer the knuckle than anything even this director has done before. And it gives good actors strong parts they can really get their teeth into and make the most of. As with some of Tarantino's other films, this one takes an actor who had somewhat vanished off the radar - in this case Jennifer Jason Leigh - and gives them a career redifining role that really shows off their talents.Even with all this strong characterisation, Michael Madsen's character does feel a little underdeveloped. And this is not quite as good a film as Django Unchained, simply because since it's the director's second western in a row, it doesn't feel as original as that did. But those are only minor complaints. All in all it's memorable movie making, and worth five stars.The dvd has the following language and subtitle options:Languages: English.Subtitles: English.The disc goes straight into the film when loaded with no ads or trailers.Be aware that, when it comes to chapter selection, it only has a handful of these. The exact same chapters the film is divided into. So you will have a lot of fast forwarding to do if you want to get a certain point in the middle of one.There are two extras:Beyond the eight: a four minute long behind the scenes feature. Which is just one of those promotional pieces with cast and crew extolling the project.Sam Jackson's guide to glorious 70mm, however, is a fascinating seven minute long look at how the film was shot, and how it was done and released in the manner of certain films of old. Well worth a watch, especially for movie buffs.

This was we'll worth watching and a cheap night in at our own cinema,a highly recommended film to watch.

Worth watching

There isn't a bad performance in The Hateful Eight. Everybody is up to or above their usual game. Tarantino's choice of special film stock also lends the outdoor scenes a fantastic clarity and light quality, and the indoor scenes an almost luminous edge glow.The writing is of a high quality too. The characters are richly realised and get a huge amount of meaty dialogue that rounds out their attitudes and roles nicely. What we end up with feels like a cross between the isolation and suspicion of 'The Thing', crossed with the beer-house confrontation from 'Inglourious Basterds' set in Western times. It's hard to single out a performance: Russell is almost too dominating - his character virtually controls the film whenever he opens his alpha-male mouth. Similarly Jason-Leigh is a destabilising influence, being so anti-social and kooky that her character takes charge of scenes. Viewers may be due a surprise with Channing Tatum's performance, which reeks of a sinister and unnerving threatening energy that will be unsettlingly alien to his rom-com fans. However, the Hateful Eight is a film of a lot of dialogue and quite a slim plot. Like so many 'strangers fatefully trapped in a building' movies, it can't rely on action, so it relies on character interplay, secrets and paranoia. These strings are plucked expertly, and we see characters spend half the film in the background, only to become extremely important for 10 or 20 minutes as hidden facts emerge. Fans of Tarantino are very likely to thoroughly enjoy the way this plays out. As a fan, I did too. However, I was also acutely aware of the film's flaws: and unfortunately it has many. For one, (and yes, I am taking the period setting into consideration) the sheer deluge of uses of the 'n' word will have even the most laid back viewer cringing slightly. I found myself wondering how on earth Sam Jackson felt, after perhaps the hundredth racial slur was spat at him by an onscreen character. Yes it probably was historically accurate, but it could have been reduced tenfold and still had a major impact. Jackson also gets a grandstanding speech about halfway through the film which is so excessive, sexually lewd, overly lengthy and absurd that everyone I spoke to about the film (no matter their temperament) said "that speech from Sam Jackson - what the hell???" and rolled their eyes derisively. The film also drags on about 30 minutes past its welcome. This isn't helped by the amount of times characters repeat dialogue just to ram a point home. Frankly, it felt like Tarantino's most self-indulgent film to date - and he's already a director known for self indulgence. I wasn't alone among folks who've watched it in thinking it could have done with the attention of a less reverent eye for the material, and a damn good editor willing to trim some of the fat and self-indulgent yacking from the movie. As a film, it's well made, good, and well worth seeing. As a movie, it's no 'Inglourious Basterds' and I certainly won't be adding it to my collection.

Great movie. Must have if you want the whole Quentin Tarantino colllection.

L'edizione UK in Blu-ray di "The Hateful Eight" si presenta in un elegante slipcase cartonato, aggiungendo un tocco di classe alla collezione di ogni appassionato di cinema. Questa versione è ideale per chi predilige l'esperienza audiovisiva nella lingua originale, dato che include solo la traccia audio inglese. Coloro che desiderano una versione doppiata in italiano dovranno cercare un'altra edizione. Nonostante questa limitazione linguistica, il Blu-ray offre una qualità visiva e sonora superba, rispettando la visione artistica del regista Quentin Tarantino. Un acquisto consigliato per i cinefili che apprezzano i film nel loro formato più puro.

OK

This movie edition has turned out to be Region A locked (North America) so my european Panasonic bluray player cannot read the disc. Further more movie's box has been damaged during shipping due to inappropriate packaging (standard amazon's cardboard envelope).Languages: English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital AudioSubtitles: English SDH (deaf or hard hearing) and spanishScreen format: 2.76:1

Es una pelicula muy buena y no tuve ningun problema con la paqueteria y la caja de la pelicula