Django Unchained

I watched this last night. I enjoyed the Shultz character but I thought the treatment of the subject matter felt a bit fucked up, the 'show down' gunfight was daft and the violence was gratuitous. I'm back to feeling like Tarantino's a bit pish after he half won me over with Inglorious Bastards.

What did you guys think about it? Like it?

 

I didn't quite get the obvious satire of the end, I need to watch it again. Apart from that I really liked it, the dialogue and characters were pure Tarantino. I also liked the point of view how the Civil War, like any war ever, gets started on personal level, despite historians find larger reasons for them later

 

The bitterness of the slaves and the rise against sadistic landlord was IMO a clear reference since the story dates to the times right before the war

 

No, I am saying that events that eventually lead to wars go back to personal level and in this movie it is portrayed through the bitterness of slaves

 

I have to agree with Hut. Trying to fit in slavery in a cowboy action movie with comedic notes feels a bit strange.

 

I don't need to watch this to know it likely blows, since every other movie from that idiot does

 

To me taking the Nazis lightly is cool but a 'Tarintino approach' to the holocaust would have been a bit off. This one felt on the other side of that subtle line a couple of times....I didn't find it 'offensive' or anything, i like that hes trying to do weird things, but the tone and the subject matter didn't gel right for me. There's some completely harrowing stuff in it mixed with some total comic book stuff. It made me a bit uncomfortable. But maybe that was the point.

 

I enjoyed Django Unchained much more than Inglorious Bastards.

 

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Death Proof
5. Jackie Brown
6. Django Unchained
7. and 8. Kill Bill movies

 

Of course. And how could they take his wife? Since they were slaves. And this created the bitterness.

 

IMO the point in IB was that the viewer cheers for the Bastards and loathes the Nazis even though both sides are portrayed as mindless sadists (and at the end Nazis are giggling for same kind of movie as the viewer is just watching). As Hans Landa says in the first scene, people hate rats but not squirrels even though there is no actual reason for that and he hates Jews but not others even though they don't touch him on personal level.

The humor parts I viewed as satire, how wars and horrible events of the history become entertainment in pop culture (Tarantino's style is so over the top that it is obvious he isn't serious)

 

I'm not sure. I think you might be projecting too much depth onto the man.

 

As Lex Luther said....some people can read war and peace and come away thinking its a simple love story :: Ugo can read the back of a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe :bears:

 

Death Proof wasn't that good

 

:: that is my job as a literature teacher, to find a (usually non-existing) meaning from books and poems and preach it to others.

However, I do think Tarantino has plenty of point in his movies (apart from Death Proof), he just uses unique ways to express himself

 

seriously, that film was an abysmal failure...

 

Jackie Browne was great but it wasn't as good as Pulp fiction and ten years won't change a damn thing about it. Anthony just has an exclusive taste.

 

It was a perfect indictment of the moron who directed it

 

Ah I thought he just disagreed with the number 1 spot - in this case 10 years will definitely not change anything.