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Watched Homeland S05E11 & 12.

While the penultimate episode of the season meant a slight decline from the exceptionally qualitative TV this series has meant this fall, the finale makes up for it and manages to tie the plots together to a satisfying conclusion. Can't wait for the next season.
 
Saw Star Wars again and loved it, again.

Saw The Hateful Eight today in 70mm with the full "presentation", meaning a musical overture to open the show, a program booklet, and an intermission.

@Cornfed Hick - It was an absolutely beautiful movie written like an American Western stage play. Comes as no surprise, but the majority of the film is dialogue based, and the acting is great (especially Samuel L Jackson, Tim Roth, and Walton Goggins). I absolutely loved the film up until the mid-point, at which it becomes rather standard Tarantino fare. Still definitely worth a watch, but it didn't wow me upon the first viewing like Inglorious Basterds or Pulp Fiction. If I had to compare it to his previous work, I'd say it's like a combination of Django Unchained and Reservoir Dogs.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
I'd say it's like a combination of Django Unchained and Reservoir Dogs.
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Exactly what I was expecting. I hope I can see it Wednesday, but I'm having a hard time fitting it into my schedule. It seems like a really unique experience that I don't want to miss though.
 
Mosh said:
Exactly what I was expecting. I hope I can see it Wednesday, but I'm having a hard time fitting it into my schedule. It seems like a really unique experience that I don't want to miss though.
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It definitely is a unique experience. It's not as cool as the full show of Grindhouse, but still very neat. I'd go during the day, though, and save some money. It was still $12 a ticket for an 11am matinee.
 
The only showing I'll be able to make is the 3pm one, so full price. :( On the bright side, I saw matinees of Star Wars both times, with $5.25 tickets.

My last imax experience at this particular theater was Interstellar, which was amazing. So I'm sure it'll be worth it either way.
 
Well I saw Hateful 8, it was pretty awesome. Much better than I expected, wasn't too excited about another western from Tarantino but it's nothing like Django.

If you're a fan of Tarantino already, I imagine you'll like it. Has his stamp on it but it's also its own thing. Lots of comparisons to Reservoir Dogs are going around but really the only similarity to me was that it all mostly takes place in the same location.

Also, the Morricone score is fantastic. Definitely going to try and get ahold of the soundtrack ASAP. It's up there with Pulp Fiction, but for different reasons obviously.
 
Mosh said:
Well I saw Hateful 8, it was pretty awesome. Much better than I expected, wasn't too excited about another western from Tarantino but it's nothing like Django.

If you're a fan of Tarantino already, I imagine you'll like it. Has his stamp on it but it's also its own thing. Lots of comparisons to Reservoir Dogs are going around but really the only similarity to me was that it all mostly takes place in the same location.

Also, the Morricone score is fantastic. Definitely going to try and get ahold of the soundtrack ASAP. It's up there with Pulp Fiction, but for different reasons obviously.
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Oh, God, the score was incredible. Morricone is a master of drama here. It really added a special touch to the film.

As for my comparison to Django, it was more for the time period/post-Civil War slavery tension and less for the actual tone.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
Oh, God, the score was incredible. Morricone is a master of drama here. It really added a special touch to the film.

As for my comparison to Django, it was more for the time period/post-Civil War slavery tension and less for the actual tone.
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Oh yea definitely. Didn't mean to discount that.

Btw, cool fact about the score/soundtrack:

In the scenes where
They drink the poisoned coffee and when Jennifer Jason Leigh is hung
there's a Morricone piece playing but it isn't originally from the Hateful Eight score, but from the soundtrack to John Carpenter's The Thing. Not sure if this was a new recording that Morricone recycled or if QT threw the old recording in there. Either way it's pretty awesome and fits right in with the mood of the rest of the score.

 
Mosh said:
In the scenes where
They drink the poisoned coffee and when Jennifer Jason Leigh is hung
there's a Morricone piece playing but it isn't originally from the Hateful Eight score, but from the soundtrack to John Carpenter's The Thing. Not sure if this was a new recording that Morricone recycled or if QT threw the old recording in there. Either way it's pretty awesome and fits right in with the mood of the rest of the score.
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Wow, I didn't notice that! I actually just rest a piece about the film in which Tarantino said that the film was inspired by his own work on Reservoir Dogs and Carpenter's The Thing. The only movie he made his cast watch in preparation was The Thing!
 
Oh that's very interesting. I've never seen The Thing, I just have the soundtrack, but these connections are really making me want to watch it. I read a review earlier that compared the two movies as well.
 
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