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After watching the hateful eight I've found out that I'm a Quentin Tarantino's fan. This movie is not as strong as Pulp Fiction or Django Unchained but it's still a pretty good one. Tarantino's style has long ago fixated at black humor, action and extreme violence. The difference with this film is it's theatrical nature as most of it takes place in just one place where eight characters hate (or about to hate) one another and keep on talking revealing secrets and weaknesses. The long duration of the film (3 hrs) is quite tiring but still the performances by the cast (especially Samuel Jackson who is always great) along with some great as well as extremely comical dialogs will pay you for your trouble. Jennifer Jason Leigh got a deserved Oscar nomination (you' ll have trouble even recognizing her) and Ennio Morricone easily won the music Oscar. The film's plot climaxes slowly but it's second half is satisfying and the movie ends in a massive splatter scene. I'll never forget the extremely graphical Samuel Jackson monologue (no need for spoilers here). You can't compare the film with the epic masterpiece called Django Unchained but it's still one damn good authentic Tarantino experience.

Grade: B+

Is The Revenant the best movie of the year? Surely not and in fact it's doubtful if it's a great movie at all. OK, so Alejandro Inarritu wanted to be realistic, moved to Argentina for more snow, had actors crawling naked in it and other bullshit like that, but seriously what is the point of the film? And what is so realistic about getting almost raped by a giant bear and attacked by uncountable Indians and elements of nature but still managing to survive to get revenge? Inarritu is a great director, perhaps the best (along with Christopher Nolan) of our time and the movie is technically and artistically perfect. If he hadn't already won the direction Oscar last year with Birdman, he would certainly get this one. DiCaprio's performance is brilliant but so is each and every of his performances. Still they'll finally grant him an Oscar for his crawling and growling in the Revenant but in reality it will be an Oscar for his entire career. Tom Hardy's performance is even better and he deserves it even more than DiCaprio but he is going to lose to ... Stallone (Jesus Christ Academy, you suck!). Nevertheless and despite some very impressive scenes (namely the entrance scene, the bear scene, the horse scene and the final revenge scene and that's it) and artistic beauty, a movie should have a ... script and this one has none. So it ends up being a Cast Away clone without the emotional touch of the last.