The Hateful Eight (2015) (1 Viewer)

[Josh Steinberg]

In the most recent American Cinematographer, they said pretty much everything but the underwater sequence in the latest Mission: Impossible was shot on 35mm film. The article also mentioned that Cruise himself thinks he looks better on film vs digital, and since Cruise was also the producer, there was never any question that it would be shot on film. But it was finished digitally with a 2K DI.

 

[dpippel]

I was expecting this to be a big Magnificant Seven-esque Western with a Tarantino spin. Despite the Western framing, it looks more like an Agatha Christie closed room thriller.

My thoughts exactly. Other than that spectacular opening shot this trailer didn't grab me at all. I didn't much care for Russell's delivery, and seeing Sam Jackson and hearing him do his usual shtick pretty much takes me out of a film at this point. He's become Johnny Depp to Tarantino's Tim Burton.

 

[Mike Frezon]

After watching that trailer a few times, all I can anticipate (besides a new Tarantino film) is the endless debate on this forum about how the home video release looks too blue.

 

[Dr Griffin]

I am expecting this to show in 70mm at the AFI Silver near DC. The 2.76:1 aspect ratio should be interesting. You really need a 60+ feet wide screen. I don't think the AFI's is quite that wide. Probably not too many of those left.

 

[FoxyMulder]

I hope Mr Tarantino has used most of the 2.76:1 frame, from the trailer it looked to me like they might be playing it safe by keeping everything essential in the 2.40:1 part of the frame with redundant picture information that could easily be discarded at the sides, i hope i am wrong, i'd love to see a film like this use the entire frame for an epic feel.

 

[Vic Pardo]

I was expecting this to be a big Magnificent Seven-esque Western with a Tarantino spin. Despite the Western framing, it looks more like an Agatha Christie closed room thriller.

We always knew this was going to be about a motley crew of passengers isolated in a snowed-in cabin along a stage line. That was pretty clear from the descriptions of the film ever since the story broke about the script being leaked some years ago. There's a whole history of westerns like that, including RAWHIDE (1951), starring Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward, HANGMAN'S KNOT (1952) with Randolph Scott, Donna Reed and Lee Marvin, and quite a few others I can't recall offhand, plus at least one samurai film, MACHIBUSE (aka INCIDENT AT BLOOD PASS, 1970), with Toshiro Mifune as a sword-for-hire who's assigned to travel to a remote inn to get his orders and meets a motley crew of bad guys there, all with mysterious agendas. Plus crime movies like KEY LARGO (1948), with Bogart, Bacall and Edward G. Robinson.

 

[Sam Posten]

Helpful details:

http://nofilmschool.com/2015/08/quentin-tarantino-hateful-eight-anamorphic-65mm-70mm-film-panavision-ultra-70-trailer

 

[DP 70]

I hope it gets a screening on the Cinerama screen in Bradford although it would crop some of the image due to the curved
screen.

 

[RolandL]

I hope it gets a screening on the Cinerama screen in Bradford although it would crop some of the image due to the curved
screen.

The Pictureville screen is 55ft by 21ft about 2.6:1 so not much will be cropped if any.

 

[MatthewA]

I wonder whether the Castro in San Francisco will be able to run the full 2.76:1 image. They still run 70mm (and they've got Vertigo in 70mm planned for next month), but I don't know what the widest ratio they can show is.

 

[Dr Griffin]

Apparently this is being advertised as 2.75:1 aspect ratio. Apologies for the misinformation.

 

[Dr Griffin]

The 70mm roadshow rollout this Christmas will include reserved seating, overture and intermission, and possibly more. I'd love to see a program also, but I'd be prepared to pay for it.

 

[Bryan^H]

The 70mm roadshow rollout this Christmas will include reserved seating, overture and intermission, and possibly more. I'd love to see a program also, but I'd be prepared to pay for it.

Nice. Hopefully there will be a list of theaters showing it 70mm sometime in the near future. I'll drive a good stretch to see it this way.

 

[Lord Dalek]

Apparently this is being advertised as 2.75:1 aspect ratio. Apologies for the misinformation.

...there's a difference?

 

[Dr Griffin]

...there's a difference?

As miniscule an attempt as it was, it's called humor - try it sometime.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Apparently the 70mm prints will be a longer cut of the movie than the digital version in conventional cinemas.

 

[MatthewA]

Apparently the 70mm prints will be a longer cut of the movie than the digital version in conventional cinemas.

How much longer?

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

How much longer?

Apparently around six minutes, not including the overture and the entr'acte.

 

[FoxyMulder]

Apparently the 70mm prints will be a longer cut of the movie than the digital version in conventional cinemas.

Let's hope the longer version makes it onto blu ray and UHD, I say that because I imported the uncut DVD of Kill Bill all those years ago from Japan, cost ask lot of money, had awful edge enhancement, halos around everything but hey it was uncut and superb.

I wish Mr Tarantino would push for that one to be released on blu ray, I cannot watch the censored version, not ever, the uncut flows brilliantly, cannot watch the cut edition so I am deprived of seeing it in HD.

 

[Vic Pardo]

Let's hope the longer version makes it onto blu ray and UHD, I say that because I imported the uncut DVD of Kill Bill all those years ago from Japan, cost ask lot of money, had awful edge enhancement, halos around everything but hey it was uncut and superb.

I wish Mr Tarantino would push for that one to be released on blu ray, I cannot watch the censored version, not ever, the uncut flows brilliantly, cannot watch the cut edition so I am deprived of seeing it in HD.

Yeah, ever since I got the Japanese cut of KBV1, that's the only version I watch.