Roger Ebert he ain’t.
Media Research Center official Dan Gainor begins his Jan. 13 purported review of the new Quentin Tarantino film “The Hateful Eight” in mean-spirited style: “Spoiler Warning: If your life is so dull that you want to waste three hours of it watching this awful movie, this article reveals some key details.”
Gainor does indeed spoil the film’s ending for no good reason. Rather than serving up an actual review, he looks at the film as a right-wing apparatchik would, documented all the instances of violence in it (as if Tarantino didn’t have a sufficient enough track record that this would surprise people), sniffing, “It’s ‘Ten Little Indians’ for sociopaths and sadists. A snuff film with big name stars.”
Gainor spends a good part of his so-called review attacking Tarantino personally for committing the one thing that’s even more offensive to Gainor than making violent movies: supporting gun control.
Gainor concludes: “Tarantino clearly aimed for shock, but settled on schlock. And the only people he seems really hateful toward, other than police and conservatives, are his viewers.” Well, Gainor certainly does know hate, having spewed it throughout his so-called review.