The D is Silent. AND UNCHAINED

Wyborn

I haven't seen any of the trailers since the first one

If he was in the first one I forgot

Listen I'm not good at this

Balefuego

Buttlord wrote: »

Wyborn wrote: »

Man I think him even being in the movie is a spoiler

he's in the trailer brah

his name is also on the poster in giant letters

and he is prominently credited in the opening credits

Balefuego

also

Kerry Washington is an attractive lady, I'm just going to throw that out there

Buttlord

i think my favorite thing about this movie is either

combination of the theme from the original Django and franco nero showing up

tarantino getting exploded

or how quickly they wrapped up the brittle brothers plot, which the trailers made out to be the majority of the plot

Balefuego

Buttlord wrote: »

i think my favorite thing about this movie is either

combination of the theme from the original Django and franco nero showing up

tarantino getting exploded

or how quickly they wrapped up the brittle brothers plot, which the trailers made out to be the majority of the plot

That was a kind of a nice surprise BUT on the other hand I would have also been incredibly happy just watching Django and King go around being badass bounty hunters a whole bunch

Buttlord

i mean you kinda did

montage and all

Balefuego

yes I just mean that that is a thing I would not have said no to more of

mensch-o-matic

the black community is ruminating, please allow us several gigaseconds to interpret our response to this movie in a manner that can be comprehended by mortal minds!

Buttlord

oh absolutely

you should read the script, there's a lot of little bits that got cut that, while they definitely would've slowed the movie down and needed to go, they were just fucking phenomenal

the training montage was longer

there's a bunch of speeches by walz that go longer/exist, period

my favorite sequence that got cut (but it doesn't really add much i just like how it was written)

a sequence about brunnhilde after she and django were sold and separated and how she came into the possession of candie

Antimatter

mensch-o-matic wrote: »

the black community is ruminating, please allow us several gigaseconds to interpret our response to this movie in a manner that can be comprehended by mortal minds!

"THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."

Usagi

Antimatter wrote: »

mensch-o-matic wrote: »

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the black community is ruminating, please allow us several gigaseconds to interpret our response to this movie in a manner that can be comprehended by mortal minds!

"THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."

I love you a whole bunch for this

Antimatter

mwah mwah

mensch-o-matic

its true that was the best possible response

knitdan

Nobody in my showing laughed at inappropriate times, it helped that there were maybe two dozen folks in there and we were all grownups.

What was the blue suit from?

Also, the N word was thrown around like the F word in Scarface.

I think for me one of the funniest bits was toward the end,

When Django shoots Candies sister, she goes flying in an impossible direction based on where Django was standing.

Buttlord

everyone in this movie dies in the most cliche westerns fashion possible

and that was no exception

Usagi

mensch-o-matic wrote: »

its true that was the best possible response

How is your holiday going menschu?

mensch-o-matic

i found my old copy of the neopets ps2 game so i spent most of the day playing that in my pajamas huhuhuuuu

how about you qurrrrrl

knitdan

I knew it was going to be fantastic when in the first ten minutes,

a dude gets blown away with a shotgun and there was an unbelievable amount of blood in the squib.

Usagi

mensch-o-matic wrote: »

i found my old copy of the neopets ps2 game so i spent most of the day playing that in my pajamas huhuhuuuu

how about you qurrrrrl

About the same with the pjs except it's GW2 for me, been a lazy butt all day and it's lovely

knitdan

Trailers were garbage. I got some Russell Crowe/Marky Mark thriller, one with Noomi Rapace and Colin Farrell as a hitman (trailer had a nice Pink Floyd cover though), and the third was so forgettable I literally can't remember anything about it.

Kevin Crist

I got some trailer about The Rock and Mark Wahlberg as Swole kidnappers.

I liked Django, very fun.

The 'D' is Silent, Hillbilly.

Calamity Jane

rick ross song

instant classic

Calamity Jane

jamie foxx rode his own horse

UnbreakableVow

I really loved this movie

There seemed to only be one real spot of tension though which is something I kinda missed

Probably because I just watched Inglourious Basterds again a few nights ago

UnbreakableVow

Also can I talk about Les Miserables in here

Bendery It Like Beckham

I saw "Jack Reach" cause my uncle wanted to see it, haha it was AWFUL

Grey Ghost

Oh hey Les Miserables

I'm going to cross-post my thoughts on it here

First off, I'm not a big musical guy and even with that caveat Les Mis has never been one of my favorites, though it's got a few numbers that I like so I went into this with an open mind

So, I hate hate hate that sung-through style, and I know it's an integral part of this but I just can't stand it
I basically didn't like Hugh Jackman in this at all, which is the first time I've ever said such a thing. He was tied for my least-liked part of this movie. His voice has this weird strained quality the whole time and when he hit the higher registers it was just... it wasn't great. Not a great casting choice.
Russell Crowe. He doesn't have a bad voice! He just doesn't have a great voice for Javert. He carried himself well and he acted well in between the singing, but for fuck's sake I've rarely seen a man look more uncomfortable than when he had to sing and do other stuff at the same time. And again, those big notes... I cringed every time.
Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen as the Thenardiers: singing aside, they were incredibly distracting. I felt like I'd stumbled into a Tim Burton movie. It felt like stunt casting, like haha! look who it is!
Also whoever Tom Hooper's DP is: that thing where you zoom in super close and put the singer's face on the right side of the screen and just leave it there was neat when you did it the first time. But then you did it with every solo after that. What were you doing. What.

Stuff I actually liked:
Having said that about Carter and Baron-Cohen, "Master of the House" was one of my favorite numbers in the film, along with I Dreamed A Dream, On My Own and Empty Chairs at Empty Tables. Eddie Redmayne was great! As was his buddy whose name I can't recall. And the girl who played Eponine was fantastic. I understand she played the part on stage as well.
The sets and scenery were beautiful when the camera wasn't jammed up somebody's nose.
Anne Hathaway, goddamn. That number was just incredible. Kudos for that.

Basically I started tuning out of this movie once Jackman started in on "Bring Him Home." I wanted to like it more but it just wasn't meeting me halfway on that.

Bucketman

This was a really fun and good movie. All the actors were great and I loved the random

Jonah Hill

appearance. Out of nowhere.

Bucketman

Les Mis and I have a long, stained relationship. I will.see it though.

Skeith

Bucketman wrote: »

This was a really fun and good movie. All the actors were great and I loved the random

Jonah Hill

appearance. Out of nowhere.

That whole scene was delightful. And Christoph Waltz is the best. If he doesn't get some sort of award for this I will be pissed.

UnbreakableVow

This was actually my first real experience with Les Mis, though I'd heard a few of the songs elsewhere

"I Dreamed a Dream" because of that whole Susan Boyle thing a few years back
"Master of the House" is the song that gets stuck in George's head in Seinfeld
"On My Own" was in an early episode of Glee

That said though I really enjoyed it, I agree with GG about the Thenardiers being played up a bit too much for laughs but Sacha Baron Cohen can sing so whatever

It was weird though, they both showed up and my mind went to Sweeney Todd, and then it showed them using a meat grinder with a cat tail stuck in it, which, again, Sweeney Todd

So when is that Freddie Mercury biopic starring Baron Cohen supposed to happen?

Look Out it's Sabs!

This movie was pretty damn fantadtic. Leo and Waltz did my favourite performances with Jackson right behind them. Though everyone was great.

Only disappointment was with the theatre I went to see it at. Even though it was opening night the show I went to was in one of the crappy small theatres in the joint. I don't know why they didn't use one of the main bigger theatres for the movie. Though this isn't the first time I had problems with this particular theatre. :P

Gustav

This was the best way to spend a Christmas night.

D'artagnon MOTHERFUCKERS

is seriously the best line.

TheBlackWind

Quentin's death scene had me dying. Just full on quaking with laughter.

UnbreakableVow

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

This was actually my first real experience with Les Mis, though I'd heard a few of the songs elsewhere

"I Dreamed a Dream" because of that whole Susan Boyle thing a few years back
"Master of the House" is the song that gets stuck in George's head in Seinfeld
"On My Own" was in an early episode of Glee

That said though I really enjoyed it, I agree with GG about the Thenardiers being played up a bit too much for laughs but Sacha Baron Cohen can sing so whatever

It was weird though, they both showed up and my mind went to Sweeney Todd, and then it showed them using a meat grinder with a cat tail stuck in it, which, again, Sweeney Todd

So when is that Freddie Mercury biopic starring Baron Cohen supposed to happen?

Also it was bothering me that I felt I had heard the melody of "Castle on a Cloud" before, and I just now realized this is where:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYrRrz2oJg

BlankZoe

This movie was fucking fantastic

knitdan

Soundtrack is great as well.

Bucketman

Look, Les Mis might be, MIGHT BE, an ok movie. But this is the only true adaptation of the musical that needs to exist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQLAXqKa-eE

NeoToma

Favorite part of the movie?

After inappropriate audience laughter when the guy

gets killed by the dogs

The line

"I'm sorry, he's not used to Americans"

My whole theater went silent.

All I could think was, "Nice burn tarentino. Nice burn."

Muse Among Men

Saw this movie today, absolutely loved it. The only thing I disliked was, of all things, the typography, and maybe the flashbacks could have done better. But whatever. The audience was great. Everyone was in a good mood, all jovial, loud in the best way possible. I love how often the word 'squibs' has come up in relation to the film.

Can we talk about Schultz? Lets talk about Schultz. He was completely wonderful, the audience loved him and he had a great many choice lines.

I was real upset he had to die He and Django had such a charming partnership and I wanted he and Django and Brunhilde to ride around and be happy. I want Schultz to be a real person and I want to be his friend. I think he played an interesting role in the film, someone for the audience to relate to, particularly white viewers (at least that was my impression). We all like to think we'd be good people if presented with despicable behavior, such as Candi and the various racists that peppered the film. 'Why I'd be upstanding and I wouldn't treat people so badly'. All fine sentiments. I felt like Schultz was a vehicle to embody and fulfill those sentiments, wish fulfillment you could say. It could have been pandering but Schultz was so charming, so utterly endearing despite/because of his quirks and flaws, it was never an issue.

Was Quentin shooting film or digital? I thought Hollywood was switching to digital but it really looked like film.

Anyone notice that Brunhilde's name was misspelled as 'Broomhilde' in the documents?

Did anyone notice that hilarious woman in the crutches and leg-brace? She was in the crowd that was running away from the saloon. Wtf? I loved it!