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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  A lot of classic westerns are talky. Many begin with an action sequence and then that's it until the final showdown or whatever. Admittedly the majority of Randolph Scott films don't last two hours forty though. |
You have sort of summed up my main issue with the film. It does follow in the footsteps of other westerns in that it is building towards something – perhaps a little like Rio Bravo (141 minutes), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (123 minutes) or even Stagecoach (96 minutes). Even Once Upon a Time in the West (166 minutes) and The Unforgiven (131 minutes) are shorter than the regular version (168 minutes) of The Hateful Eight, and even The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (179 minutes) is shorter than the 187 minute 'Roadshow' version of The Hateful Eight.