Well people don’t generally converse in the way that QT writes dialog in general. But yeah H8 was my least favorite QT movie for sure.
True, and I love QT. Like having Jackie Brown as my 7th favorite out of 9, still puts it in probably my top 100 all time favs. No one else can write dialogue that drives a movie like he does. I think some of the dialogue in his films probably comes from actual conversations he's had which makes it fun being a fly on the wall and listening in. If he did another hour of just around the table conversation in the diner scene in the beginning of Reservoir Dogs, I'd have loved every minute of it.
I think he just missed the mark in Hateful 8. A lot of the dialogue was just characters calling each other by first and last name over and over again, a lot. Repeating the same words, or synonyms, a lot. Did the whole letter from Lincoln bit twice. Things that just make it longer, not move it forward.