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The Hateful Eight

  Quentin Tarantino films are always events.   They occur every three or four years and are represented by a talky film that has memorably named characters, spouting fun dialogue as they go through an often larger than life scenario.   They are usually kind of violent though his better films mostly use it sparingly. Despite the rhythmic nature of the title, I found the name The Hateful Eight uninspiring.   For the most part I love Tarantino films and I thought Inglorious Basterds was one of his best films, but he followed it with Django Unchained.   As I mentioned in the review, I was disappointed by the amount of blood spatter and lack of imagination especially in the last act of that film, after an intriguing set up.   When I learned that Tarantino was going to make another western, with an advance poster showing a wagon creating a trail of blood I lost enthusiasm.   At one point a copy of the script leaked (Tarantino writes all his scripts on a word processor so there were only hard