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I couldn't make it past 20 minutes...


I'm a huge fan of Tarantino, but I'm sorry, I just couldn't bare watching this film. First off, the dialogue was way too excessive. And yeah, I get it, Tarantino is known for dialogue. That's his style. But this dialogue was exceptionally bad and boring. I wasn't buying Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance for a second. I stopped watching it once they arrived at the cabin. I could tell this was going to be an endless dialogue-fest. Not for me.

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I detest Tarantino (his movies and his fans) Yet I sat through this movie......Trust me, You missed NOTHING (juxtiposition, if anything?)

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how dare you

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Whats the movie or moment where you decided tarantino and his movies where awful?

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Pulp Fiction, but with Jackie Brown and Kill Bills he proved that I was wrong. Lately he hasn't done anything interesting (Inglourious..., Django... Once upon a time...). The Hateful Eight is probably his last good film. Altough I liked the build up of Once Upon a time in Hollywood, but finale was a let down, very similar to Inglourious Basterds.

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You have some weird taste man.

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I just recently watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - and liked it... So, I am going to have another bash at watching this one. I also got about 20 minutes in the first time. It just seemed too distasteful AND dull.

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I got through it but now I fastforward through the blowjob rape scene.

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I’m a major Tarantino fan and this film marked a low point in his filmography for me. Thank God he turned it around and hit a home time with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

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Imagine if it had been a play.

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Oh man...

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I watched the whole damned thing. I wish I had not. His worst film.

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It gets better.

You missed Samuel L. Jackson's Rape Fantasy Scene.
There aren't many Rape Fantasy Scenes in mainstream cinema so you missed a whopper.

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for me the first portion of film, in the stagecoach, was probably the most intriguing.

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Same here. The beginning is the best part of the movie. Like other later Tarantino flicks, it continues to unravel and get less interesting as it goes along until finally going completely off the rails at the end. I feel like QT has cool ideas but never an actual story he wants to tell.

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I agree. I love the stagecoach banter about their Civil War experiences and also the exchange between General Smithers, Mannix, and Marquis about Baton Rouge, but after Mobrey says "if you shoot this unarmed old man..." it goes downhill after that.

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