Ennio Morricone won the award for Best Score at the Critic’s Choice Awards last night, for his work on The Hateful Eight.
Congratulations him!
Going Sunday evening to see it… can’t wait
The cool @upbruckner and I will attend the Berlin premiere on tuesday. I will then see it again the saturday and sunday that follows. Three times in one week should do 
So on Tuesday evening I went to the Berlin premiere… and now with the hangover behind me and two more screening coming up Saturday and Sunday, I still tried myself at a little review of the film
So I have seen the 70mm Roadshow Version now 3 (!) times in one week, and revised my review a bit. To my own surprise, my opinion of the movie greatly improved from each viewing. I did not expect that, especially considering the mystery aspect of it.
Nice to see Ennio Morricone win the BAFTA for best score. Deserves the recognition as he’s produced some great scores for numerous films over the years and he’s probably not done yet!
The Hateful Eight BluRay and DVD infos, covers and Amazon links added:
http://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/The_Hateful_Eight_BluRay
The only real problem I had was that random voice over in the middle… the fact that it was him, and it would have been a nice surprise if he hadn’t said or shown anything
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I would have preferred it being someone else than Tarantino himself too.
At first I thought that the voice over was a bad decision and unnecessary for the film but I saw it without breaks. I think film this long is shown with an intermission in many places and considering it this way makes sense.
Classic Tarantino plagiarizing. A bit on the narration on the flashback scene where he tells of the owner of place, Tarantino came out and said he just got around to watching Wes Anderson movies so to me that scene is pure Anderson that Tarantino raped. Now i know we have a site dedicated to iconoclast directors, Anderson included but other directors like Leone and aforementioned did it with class and a purpose. Morricones weakest score ever. Theres so much more i can dissect but ive been through this with Tarantino too many times before. Hes done nothing of value since Pulp and hes never matched the real grittyness of Dogs, hes fucking tex avery and Kinji Fukusaku(thats sounds kinda cool actually). Either way hes shite. IMO of course.
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shoulda uploaded that instead Bill, you know , so you wouldnt have to quote Taylor Swift and look like …well , a taylor swift fan. To each his own…I guess?
Eh, didn’t understand a word. Taylor who?
OK back on topic guys 
I guess we can all agree on the fact that Mr Tarantino tends to split audiences, and we can also agree that if we apply certain definitions of plagiarism to the realm of art and culture, we’d have none of it.
If we allow ourselves to always agree to disagree, nothing progresses. Tarantino’s homagiarism(new word) is a cancer, we’ll just have Tarantino copycats thinking theyre paying tribute to the works of him, when really theyre just inadvertently learning how not to be creative. Hes doing things that Godard has always been doing, but of course if you ask his big head he’ll tell you hes surpassed Godard lol Our greatest living director ,Scorsese (a true iconoclast and master of homage) has never given QT props, yet a peer of QTs , Wes Anderson is always being championed by Scorsese. One last thing, even Morricone hates the man lol and has said he doesnt know shit about moviemaking.
If I have to be the Fernando Sancho or Eduardo Fajardo or Luigi Pistilli of this forum then Im your huckleberry.
All in good debate amigos!
You need to read some of the interviews where he explains how things got misquoted and ripped out of context…
Scorsese is just as influenced by other movies as Tarantino is. You gotta leave it to a filmmaker to make the films they wanna make. Nobody forces you to like them, and Tarantino will always make the movies Tarantino wants to make. It is basically just a coincidence that his earlier movies kind of “met the spirit of the decade” and had such an impact. He always made hommages, from the very second he first switched on a camera. Those who dont appreciate that, just dont watch his flix 
Totally fair, I am not saying everybody needs to love the man. Quite the opposite, as posted earlier, I do believe his movies split audiences… would be a shame if he made movies everyone likes… that would be mainstream 
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In fact Tarantino is far from copying other films, only a few directors are as original and creative as he is, and only a few have changed the face of cinema as much as he did.
Yes, he clearly takes inspirations from older films (but who does not?), but his films are always remarkably different form his inspirations.
Seeing him only as a copycat is the oddest of all criticisms of his work.
But it is fascinating how much people want to hate him instead of simply ignoring him when they don’t like his films.
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That is true, but I guess it is caused by the praise - often verging on worship - he receives from others, resulting in series and series of articles about everything he’s doing. I don’t dislike Tarantino, I even rate some of his work (notably Kill Bill) rather high, but I confess that this worshipping irritates me as well from time to time. Some critics or people who are otherwise writing about film makers, obviously find it difficult to keep a certain distance to the subject (be it man or work)