I call plagarism pure and simple.

To me, this isn't any worse than what Tarantino has done in the past. Quentin is a bit of a mashup artist, and it works for him. I enjoy the way he alters stories of the past and combines them with other things. This movie is like partially this episode, partially the movie Stagecoach, and a million other things. It is not plagiarism. It is inspiration and cleverly combining various plot and character elements from other works.

It's only plagiarism when everyone else does it, especially if it's by a director you hate. But when it's Tarantino its a "homage" or "references".

The Hateful Eight is a rip off of The Rebel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C9Svv0c4Xw&feature=youtu.be

What a bummer. Lame how some are trying to evade the issue by rambling on about the nature of creativity. The point is that Tarantino needed to give credit where it is due. Nothing wrong with using other peoples ideas as long as credit is given.

Meh. Shakespeare ripped off pre-existing stories for his plays. We all know Tarantino's a magpie but who cares when he ultimately turns their story ideas into gold?

Perhaps he should be more open about his exact 'influences', but does anyone really believe he's not a rip off merchant? Part of enjoying his films is watching him put a twisted modern spin on cinema from distant times and places.

Thats curious because yesterday i saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HgbSAL8OKY
A video comparing Reservoir dogs with some Japonese film called City on Fire and Tarantino coppied the whole plot.

I watched a few scenes from The Rebel and got instantly bored; I sat through 3 hours of The Hateful Eight and was abundantly entertained. So Tarantino got the plot from it; big deal. Shakespeare got all the plots for his plays from older sources that he never ackowledged. The thing is, we're still reading Shakespeare and not those old sources that interest only academics.

You really think that a 25:00 minute episode can be turned into a 3 hour movie and be called plagiarism? When I paid to watch The Hateful Eight I didn't pay to watch the plot about a bounty hunter with a woman chained to him surrounded by strangers inside a building. I paid to watch Quentin Tarantino's version of that idea! I wanted his vision, his interpretation! You can watch The Rebel episode all you want, but it doesn't have Robert Richardson's awesome photography, it doesn't have 70mm lens, it doesn't have Morricone's eerie score, it doesn't have a great cast, it doesn't have Tarantino's bizarre dark humour, his political incorrectness, his gift for dialogue and his sense of grand guignol spectacle that would have horrified mom and pop watching television back in 1950.

If you really only care about ideas, you shouldn't even bother watching movies; you should just read screenplays online; they have the idea; that's what you care about, right? The idea, just the bare bones, the gist. None of the tiny, unique details and sensibility that come only from the identity and vision of the artist. Think carefully about what you're complaining, and you'll realize you're telling artists to stop being artists.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

It does not come as a surprised to me anymore, it has always been his schtick. I'm pretty sure you can find copied material in each of his movies, most of the time it is copied from foreign cinema. Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Django Unchained and so on, they all have some scenes directly copied from other movies.

Granted it does sound like he took it to another level with The Hateful Eight.
I still enjoy his movies though, like you also said that you do.