[mickilennial]

Feel free to be condescending, I’m a big boy who grew up on the internet. I can take it.

But no, yeah “universal” might not’ve been my wording but I guess I was just looking for some kind of conversation even if it was a silly argument. BEA’s been kind of uninteresting for me lately so I’m looking for any kind of conversation as long as it isn’t an echo chamber.

For the record, Hateful Eight was one of my favorites of last year.

[Hayden]

The Hateful Eight is definitely a polarizing film.

I think it's great. It's not my favourite Tarantino film, perhaps not even in my top 5 from him, but I certainly enjoyed it. The entire minimal sets stage-play feeling it has really appeals to me.

The only thing I think people are overrating (or just talking about too much) is the cinematography. Just because it's on 70mm doesn't mean it's the best shot film ever. Or even of the year. Or even of the month it came out. It's just ridiculously wide I'm still not sure why Tarantino thought it was necessary to pull that stunt when working on a film that is essentially 80% inside a cabin.
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[cestuneblague]

Yeah Im on a shorter temper than usual today, so perhaps getting needlessly snappy. I guess I just see this thread a bit too much as us all lecturing each other on semantics.

But the best way to put it I guess is that obviously we all have kind of a limited barometer on how we gauge the overall reaction to film, as often the general perception is more often based on who we interact with personally. Obviously if you liked the film and most of the people you talked to share that opinion, than obviously that can paint the perception of more universal praise, which isn't entirely true- and of course on the other hand, like me who didn't care for the film and who tends to share Skinny's experience in that most of the people I talked to or read their reaction were more towards just being underwhelmed or had a much more negative reaction, so that could also gave a bit of a specious perception that the film wasn't all that well liked and could be a bit surprised it did so well on a poll like this, even though looking at the wider reaction that isn't so surprising. If you were to look at a critical or audience rating-based site to get some sort of numerical (but far, far from ironclad) guesstimate of overall reaction, I think on say Metacritic (although that needs to be taken with a major grain of salt as there's something fishy in how they calculate their reviews) it got like a 68, 69, which overall says yes the reaction leans toward the positive- but it also had a lot of mixed and even a few outright appalled reviews as well, so there was no overwhelming "consesus" towards the positive. And going on say IMDB, letterboxd, the reaction still was fairly strong, but it had a lot of vocal detractors as well. So obviously I know it was said to be "near universally praised" in the quoted post which is a lot different than saying there was a unanimous, universal consesus opinion, cause no film no matter how many great the reviews all seem to be, is ever going to have a positive reaction from every single viewer that sees it. However, it's not wrong to say either "it was generally well liked" nor "it was polarizing" since both depend on a subjective view of the overall opinion and obviously The Hateful Eight did get a lot of love but also a fair amount of less-than-stellar reactions. So I guess overall it's just pointless to make a mountain of molehill here since nobody is really mistaken either which way they view it, other than it got a unanimous "100 percent positive/negative reaction".


ANYHOOZ, which films were the runners-up here, and what were the number ones.

[Hayden]

[badseed]

[AwaitingAndrew]

[AwaitingAndrew]

I just have to add that I watched Carol when compiling my own list at the beginning of 2016, and I just don't get the love for it. Maybe it's just me.

[Michaell13]

my - Brie Larson (Room)