They call it a Royale with Cheese.

Quentin Tarantino is one of my favorite directors. He's bold, inventive, dynamic, totally weird, and his films consistently boast an all-star cast. He pushes the envelope and makes you feel uncomfortable. While I realize that many of these are traits that keep people from seeing his films (minus the all-star cast), these are all reasons I run to the box office.

Another reason why I love him is that he made a surprise appearance at an evening showing of The Hateful Eight at our very own Hollywood Theatre here in Portland, Or back in December 2015.

It was as if he were just another film buff eager to take in the spectacle of the first feature film shot in the Ultra Panavision 70mm format in nearly 50 years.

I feel like he genuinely wants us to enjoy the cinematic masterpieces that are the object of his affection, hence why he's given us such titles as the prodigious Pulp Fiction.

Synopsis

Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together, comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.

Fun Facts, Compliments of IMDB:

Uma Thurman originally turned down the role of Mia Wallace. Quentin Tarantino was so desperate to have her as Mia, he ended up reading her the script over the phone, finally convincing her to take on the role.
The movie cost $8 million to make, $5 million of which went to pay the actors' salaries.
Bruce Willis worked on the film for only 18 days.
Selected for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
Marsellus and Mia never actually speak to one another on-screen, even though they are seen together poolside and are husband and wife.
One of the first movies to use the Internet for advertising.

Ryen's Review - Loved It

You already know by now that I am a yuuuuuge Tarantino fan, so it shouldn't come as a shock to you that I loved this film. The fact that Tarantino wrote the script so that each character was somehow involved in one another's lives throughout the film never felt planned, it always felt like a magical accident. I was consistently surprised by each plot-turn; consistently surprised each time Samuel L. Jackson delivered his lines that included the passage in Ezekiel, with how much fervor and emotion seemed to emit from his vocal chords; consistently surprised that I could never distinguish between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" during the two hours and fifty eight minutes I was glued to the television screen.

With any Tarantino film comes graphic violence, and so I will warn you that if you are averse to blood and violence in film, proceed with caution. That being said, I highly recommend this film and know for next time that I'll need to watch it as I enjoy a "royale with cheese".