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Django Unchained
Elki
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Don't let anyone talk to you about Django Unchained. Just get your ticket, and buy a drink and watch it when it comes out. You've already read too much!
No plot spoilers, but I do not recommend that you read the disjointed thoughts contained within.
Can't wait to see this again.
No plot spoilers, but I do not recommend that you read the disjointed thoughts contained within.
Halfway through way what I would call the climax, I felt tears forming. This film could have gone in a bad way. In lesser hands, it could've been the most offensive film made for a decade (more or less). Sure, I went in with an open mind, but I'm never without skepticism. It floored me. I only found out that it was 2:45 long once the credits were done and I checked my watch.
In style, blood, and energy Django was an the amalgamation of childhood memories of spaghettis, unspoiled by a spoiled adult's eye, rewatching with the baggage of time.
Christoph Waltz aside (and he was wonderful), this was my favorite performance by everyone involved. And DiCaprio is, basically, Christoph Waltz in Basterds. Not in the particulars of how he inhabits the villain's skin, but in magnitude (without the terror). One could say that Jackson was even more terrifying.
Did I mention that it was gorgeous?
In this case the subject matter necessitated it, but there's something about putting a Western in the South that feels right. It takes place before it happens, but for me, this is now the civil war film (I haven't watched Ride With the Devil, yet).
In style, blood, and energy Django was an the amalgamation of childhood memories of spaghettis, unspoiled by a spoiled adult's eye, rewatching with the baggage of time.
Christoph Waltz aside (and he was wonderful), this was my favorite performance by everyone involved. And DiCaprio is, basically, Christoph Waltz in Basterds. Not in the particulars of how he inhabits the villain's skin, but in magnitude (without the terror). One could say that Jackson was even more terrifying.
Did I mention that it was gorgeous?
In this case the subject matter necessitated it, but there's something about putting a Western in the South that feels right. It takes place before it happens, but for me, this is now the civil war film (I haven't watched Ride With the Devil, yet).
Can't wait to see this again.
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Zero Dark Thirty is getting good reviews so far as I'm aware.
ZD30 and Django are the only films that I have any great interest in seeing in the near future.
I only learned how long the film was after I checked my watch, when it ended.
oh man oh man
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/12/09/SNLs-Foxx-Cheered-For-Killing-All-White-People-In-Movie
Many of the comments would make even a freeper blush.
Its cause you called them people.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
My super rightwing spectator twitter feed is going to be glorious.
Some good ones today:
"Some black people need to mow my lawn, don't worry I already paid for it"
"Lincoln was just like a sitcom. Dumb white people with smart black people"
"Why is a man of Tarantino's supposed intelligence fellating the same old alpha man negro stereotypes."
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/12/the-django-wars/266215/
I can't wait to see this movie, I had no idea it
I love his movies but I am surprised by some of his comments. He claimed that Inglorious Basterds wasn't a critique of propaganda....which seems like a super weird statement for a movie in which the heroes commit all the horrific acts and you only cheer for them because they aren't German.
plus the actual... propaganda film...
yeah, that is a bit odd.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I buy it.
I'm going to appreciate Inglourious Basterd's social commentary, Tarantino, and you can't stop me aaaahahahahahaaa...
Also kind of expecting to be thrown a curveball or two in terms of where the story takes us.
I'll be kinda shocked if it is just a straight up action-y puff piece like the trailer depicts. The guys who do the trailers just get lost on some films.
My brother said he liked Basterds more, calling it a more "cerebral" film, though I haven't heard him elaborate on that yet. But he was sweating by the end of Django; that's how intense the movie was.
Django was a surprisingly straightforward film, and for that, I really enjoyed it. The comparisons to Basterds are kind of unavoidable because they're so similar in tone, but I found I preferred Django.
I'll be seeing it again in a week or so, so I ought to have more thoughts then. Everyone go see it.
Basterds was pretty cerebral, since
By contrast, Django was a straight up revenge flick, though the "talking" climax (as opposed to the "shooting" climax) was astonishingly good.
Sam Jackson was actually pretty terrifying, and I honestly loved DiCaprio's character.
There's a very funny scene in the first hour or so involving some bumbling Klansmen, actually there's quite a bit in the film that gets played for laughs, despite the fact that it is much darker in its own way than Inglourious Basterds was.
Also tons of cameos and references to other Westerns that I appreciated, even though most of them I didn't catch. My particular favorite was the reference to The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly near the end.
There's a lot more than that, but it takes awhile to process everything.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Something off I noticed:
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I will say that in some ways it is thematically similar to Basterds, but whereas that film is occasionally amusing but has a dour undercurrent, this one is genuinely hilarious at times and is in the whole less mean-spirited. I know that doesn't count for much, but I think it mostly stems from much of the violence being almost cartoonishly bloody and abrupt with little sadism from the heroes, as well as the fact that DiCaprio isn't nearly as menacing as Waltz was before him. That said, I liked this more.
*Do I have to remind you not to bring your kids to this movie? While it felt less darkly violent to me than Basterds, it's still incredibly so and was enough to put some people in the theater off during certain scenes.
Speaking of lines, based on the one in my theatre, Les Miserables is goingt to have quite the opening.