Hateful Eight & Dive Club

With the Bad Dads reduced to a mere duo through a combination of illness and stupidity on behalf of the rest of the team, it's up to Sidey and Dan to steady the ship and bring us this week’s show. Trees. Bloody magnificent aren't they. You can climb them, put a tree house in them - hell build an entire city in one if you like - marvel at their beauty, rescue a cat from them, eat their fruits or use them as a metaphor for an abusive relationship as in Shel Silverstein's haunting children's book The Giving Tree. Oh, and you can use them as the topic for a Top 5 which is exactly what we did this week. I haven't seen Hateful's 1-to-7. With that out of the way we can talk about Quentin Tarantino's provocative 2015 western THE HATEFUL EIGHT, apparently sometimes marketed as "The H8ful Eight", a fact which makes me loathe my fellow humans that little bit more. Breath-taking cinematography, the movie was filmed using 65 mm lenses and released to be played with Ultra Panavision 70 mm projectors which Tarantino himself helped kit out cinemas with (possibly). As you well know, this takes the native 2.20:1 aspect ratio and then expands it by shooting with 1.25x anamorphic lenses, later unsqueezed to a super-wide 2.75:1 — much wider than the normal widescreen in cinema today, which is 2.39/2.40:1. It's also incredibly bleak and nihilistic, Tarantino unflinching in holding up a mirror to the USA's historical and ongoing issues with racism, told through stories featuring mouth-rape, a woman being punched many, many times and a man having his genitals blown off by Channing Tatum (not in a good way). DIVE CLUB is FREE REIN meets HOME & AWAY meets BAYWATCH NIGHTS except in that version in my head the horses are all wearing red swimsuits and have drowned. Let's be honest, Sidey is just a randy bugger and presumably the cast of young, attractive people caught his eye whilst browsing Netflix and here we are. This was better than I thought it would be though, so that's something. We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com.  Until next time, we remain...  Bad DadsYou can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads