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A failed movie.
Follow Ups:
...it was one of the ten best films of the year.
Of course the blood and shooting was all a little over the top but that's Tarantino.
Lot's of fun, too.
Supposedly one of the most accurate portrayals of the antebellum south.
Fun? for the first ten minutes after boring boring--
Fun was the last three films before that one.
...was a hoot.
Nt
otherwise I liked it
though QT cliche it is
And then only spilling blood. How boring. Well the Nigger issue was at least honorable...
I find it interesting that there were three bullet holes in the man's shirt two of them just a hole and the third a tiny bit of blood at the bottom of the bullet hole. In other words almost no blood at all, most movies are so far off in this regard I try to ignore it.
What the heck QT is thinking is money at the box office and nothing more imo and I agree, too bad in that regard.
Overall I thought it was pretty good. QT's ultra violence has become tiresome.
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"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
Waltz's character was this super bad-ass killer and he doesn't know that YOU SHOOT THE ARMED GUY FIRST????!!!!!
No, you shoot the unarmed guy and then stand around waiting for the armed guy to kill you.
But this stupidity was required for the patented Tarantio blood-bath to follow.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Dr. Greg House
It dragged in spots, but I was ready for Tarantino's graphic comic book theme, beginning with using the old Technicolor "cowboy flick era" red lettering for the title and credits. It set the tone right off.
The film broke more ground in the field dug by Mel Brooks's "Blazing Saddles"; digging deeper into the bad old ugly South. A theme that I'm glad to see dragged out into more light. I think that finding a cast to participate in it might have taken some effort.
I may be the only one thinking this, but that wasn't DiCaprio's best work. Actually it wasn't anyone's showcase work.
Yes yes it does set the tone right. I see no relation with Brooks, but I have seen it decades a go. Ugly South? Not so sure. Most Nordist were also racist, anyway.
It is a political fim. That is its biggest failure.
which isn't saying a lot, but we did enjoy it.
Lots of good laughs, and except for the Tarantino overkill/regression of the shoot-out bloodbath
scene a pretty entertaining film.
One doesn't watch a Tarantino film for anything more than to be entertained, right?
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
I think that Tarantino can do better than only Entertaining.
N/T
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Overblown-cliched, viewable in parts--casting himself as a "dumbass Cowpoke" who looked
to have had too much Linguini to cap it with the stooopid dancing horse scene at the end
Comic book stuff
des
I can not disagree.
I agree. Paper thin premise, overblown production. Typical of recent Tarantino.
Only that his patchwork do not work here. Oscillating between too many genre, Making too much film in the cutting room, some scenes are good too very good, but I fear he started to copy himself, miss taking cannibalism's for creativity.
Now waiting for the next to come.
and wasn't bowled over by Waltz' performance in this one. I wonder why Tarantino decided this film needed making.
He is the best second part ever...
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You think Tarantino is simply in love with tomato sauce?
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Well What I do think, is that Tomato sauce, the erfect one, is a question of art. You may just overcooked it.
I think it's pretty obvious. He cast himself as a racist in Pulp Fuction with all his yammering about "Do you see a sign that says 'dead n***** storage"...the constant use of the N word is one thing coming from the mouths of black actors like Samuel Jackson, but Tarantino was roundly condemned as racist by every African American with a pen or microphone, including Spike Lee. Tarantino was never able to live it down. Until now.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
A failed "review".
for a failed film..
...viewing Django but couldn't find a few more minutes to describe its failures??? FAIL!
And me not.
I did not mean to write a critic but just to say how deceived I was.
Nowhere did I pass judgement one way or the other on Django in this thread. Just a comment on your pompous, unsupported proclamation. FAILx2.
.viewing Django but couldn't find a few more minutes to describe its failures???Just a comment on your pompous, unsupported proclamation.
nt
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SE of course!
...but who am I to argue ?
Later!
Think of ever lasting youth.
a failed director.
Most are who had to rely on nonlinear time to try to make their films interesting. Although I admit that Reservoir Dogs is a guilty pleasure. Of course that had more to do with Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth and Steve Buscemi than Tarantino.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
He's made a number of very enjoyable films. As for bad directors, there are many -- many really bad ones.
Christopher Cain (Gone Fishin', anyone?)
McG
M Night Shamalan -- Mr. one trick pony, who's turned into a turd factory.
My friends dragged me to The Village when it opened. Probably the worst film I have ever seen, taking into account not just the bad acting, bad directing, bad sets, bad writing but the idiotic overarching message.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
I kid like his Kill Bill films.
A good copy of Bronson revenge Movies, with merits on its own.
You are one F-up dude! You didn't like Kill Bill either?
nothing is more boring than the truth - bukowski
I hate to break the news to you, but liking Kill Bill is more indicative that you ARE fecked up more likely than not.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
I thought that it was the best movie that I've seen in years (and I've seen many). I accepted the musical anachronisms and enjoyed it.
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The film has garnered various awards and nominations, with most nominations recognising the film itself, Tarantino's screenplay and the cast's acting performances, particularly those of Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio. The American Film Institute included Django Unchained in their list of the Top Ten Movies of the Year, while the African-American Film Critics Association nominated it for Best Picture. The film gathered five Academy Award nominations in categories ranging from Best Original Screenplay to Best Cinematography and Best Sound Editing. The production designer for Django Unchained, J. Michael Riva, received a posthumous nomination for Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film from the Art Directors Guild. Tarantino earned a Best Original Screenplay nod from the Broadcast and Chicago Film Critics Associations.
The British Academy Film Awards nominated the film for five accolades, including Best Direction and Best Editing. Django Unchained also gathered five nominations from the Golden Globe Awards and came away with Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Waltz. The film received seven nominations from the MTV Movie Awards. The NAACP Image Awards nominated Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington for Best Actor or Supporting Actor awards, while the film was nominated for Outstanding Motion Picture. The National Board of Review included Django Unchained in their Best Film category and awarded DiCaprio the Best Supporting Actor accolade. The film was also nominated for Best Picture from the Producers Guild of America. Django Unchained garnered eight nominations from the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association, the most of any film,[5] but came away with three awards.
Good the ultimate proof it was a political act of a film.
But...did you like it...
But it was a soul-less mess and the most brainlessly stupid glorification of violence I've seen in ten years.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Dr. Greg House
Well, Tarantino is kind of known for brainlessly stupid glorification of violence. What were you expecting?
I've seen my last Tarantino movie.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Dr. Greg House
...I've grown tired of Tarantino's slow motion bullet penetrations where blood spurts out like a fountain. It's like a bad SNL skit. It's overdone, absurd and beyond boring at this point.
He needs to find a new schtick ...his current one has grown wearisome.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Why?
One bad makes you decide?
The last three were fairly good.
I was not a fan of "Inglourious Basterds" either.
Which is not to say that it, or "Django Unchained" were bad movies, (they weren't), but neither was a great movie, (such as "Resorvoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction" or "Kill Bill" ), or even a very good movie, (like "Dawn to Dusk" or "Jackie Brown").
Both were just okay movies.
(And, IMHO, without Christoph Waltz, I think both of Tarantino's last two movies might have actually been poor movies, Christoph was that good!)
My two cents worth anyway.
His films are over blow, sometimes it works sometimes....not. CW is excellent.
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