Quentin Tarantino's Western movie "Django Unchained"

Irl Django wouldnt have gotten away clean, but hes got the quickest draw in the south and he just singlehandedly destroyed the 4th largest plantation in the state so he should be ok. the genre/wish-fulfillment aspects of django seem to clash a lot more with the authentic-seeming presentation than in Inglourious basterds - maybe because the holocaust is an offscreen horror in the latter, whereas django wants to rub our faces in slavery. and if you're thinking about the reality of slavery, you're also thinking about the reality of django trying to escape

We really feel the pathology of slavery -- how it warps basic human weaknesses like envy and ambition into evil -- in Samuel L. Jackson's perf.

yeah, nicely put. he ended up being the big surprise for me.

if you don't have AIDS throw your hands in the air

― winoa ryder sexes creatures of the night (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, June 23, 2011 5:27 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously fuck that guy

― winoa ryder sexes creatures of the night (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, June 23, 2011 5:27 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's on his first record

― winoa ryder sexes creatures of the night (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, June 23, 2011 5:33 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't read this thread because spoilers. Just popping in 18 months later to point out that He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper was Fresh Prince's SECOND album.

*drops mic*

he still sucks

was Will Smith almost cast as Candie?

I was joking at the end of the movie that the Django story should have been the backstory to The Wild Wild West.

this was pretty good, not great. jamie foxx was excellent, so much better than will smith would've been (i guess it's possible that the role was re-written to play to foxx's strength at underplaying) lil' leo wasn't bad but he was asked to carry half of the movie and just wasn't up to it. i was disappointed that it wasn't tenser, I never had any doubt that the ending would be candie and thomas and candie's men massacred and candieland burnt to the ground. black kill bill. which is def entertaining but it still feels like a missed opportunity.

samuel l jackson was fun. his character felt like a massive troll of spike lee. the biggest laugh for me (but no one else in the theater) was django at the end going "ok all the black folks leave……now wait a minute thomas" as he tries to shamble out the door.

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/27/tarantino_is_the_baddest_black_filmmaker_working_today/

Studios know white audiences will show up for his movies – especially, the twenty- and thirtysomething white males the advertising industry salivates over. So he gets to make “Jackie Brown,” the homage to Blaxploitation movies John Singleton and Spike Lee never could — with the queen of the genre, Pam Grier, no less. (Of course, Singleton did get to make an update of “Shaft” with Samuel L. Jackson, proving the only thing he learned from Blaxploitation movies was to make sure the star was somebody audiences couldn’t stop watching, even if they wanted to.)c

I was always under the impression that Tarantino had a big white audience AND a big black audience? I mean, its hard to get hard numbers on the racial demo of who's watching Kill Bill, but I think the tons of articles saying he's for just for whitey strikes me as a little disingenuous.

But I could have had the wrong impression this whole time too!

esp when black writers like Deggans (Salon) and Cord (Gawker) are telling me otherwise! so, I'm guessing I WAS wrong!

i dont think that para is saying black people dont watch his movies, just that white people do

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/quentin-tarantino-django-unchained_n_2340987.html

Hello, sir.
Boy, I've been waiting to talk to you.

I'm doing about 10 different line readings of this.

I think its real http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspect5es.gif when any writer doesn't put "mandingo fighting" in scare quotes

wow that writer is fuckin shook

quaking in his boots at the possibility of getting told of by a fat 50 year old in a newsies cap and a Wu-Wear sweatshirt

<3 this:

You know this story obviously so much better than I do, so I feel this is a no-win situation for me. But I'm in.
Well, you know, you opened your mouth

A mostly admiring (and largely non-stupid) review from NRO:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/336537/tarantino-just-big-kyd-michael-potemra

My initial reaction is that I didn't like this as much as IB (or even DP). It's long and weirdly paced and esp. in the second half it's not really significantly different from the movies its aping (except for higher production values and better actors, I guess, but I wasn't really thinking I needed to see higher production value version of Mandingo/Drum/Boss Nigger whatever). That said Death Proof really grew on me so I'm willing to give this one the benefit of the doubt and assume it might as well (Kill Bill 1 did not though so...)

but I wasn't really thinking I needed to see higher production value version of Mandingo/Drum/Boss Nigger whatever

i was!

Haha then this is the movie for you def!

I liked this movie without imagining I need to see it again

Yeah I'm not saying I need to see it again necessarily. I mean I could see myself liking more the more I talked/thought it about it whatever.

Double bill with Lincoln imo

i want to run screaming out of my office and directly to a theater NOW. godammit I need to see this

ditto

I've expressed my disappointment upthread at QT doing revenge fantasies over and over — KB-IB-DU; even Death Proof fits — but I will probably go see this.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/quentin-tarantinos-django-unchained-and-the-many-spike-lees

Double bill with Lincoln imo

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, December 28, 2012 12:13 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, and yet surprisingly also otm

Boone piece is very good.

yeah agreed. hes maybe a little harder on lee than i would be, but i get where he's coming from.

quaking in his boots at the possibility of getting told of by a fat 50 year old in a newsies cap and a Wu-Wear sweatshirt

― finally rich, fun-packed, fulfilling (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, December 28, 2012 3:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hrrrm

lol

I didn't like this very much. As I suspected, it's a rehash of his previous movies with a different evil big enough to justify the buckets of guts.

The biggest laugh-getter in Tupelo was probably not the biggest laugh-getter in most other cities nationwide: "I have no intention of dying in Chickasaw County, Mississippi."

Rumor has it Tarantino wants to close out this "revenge" trilogy with a revisionist, Dirty Harry-style cop movie about a gay San Fran cop protecting people and dishing rough justice during the Stonewall Riots

I heard Franco took over that project.

it's not surprising that u ppl pay attention to contemporary pop music

well, everyone should.

gasface

that's yr normal face though:)

http://hecklermemes.com/media/created/adro45.jpg

"should"

i am seeing this today
:D :D :D

We will appreciate your thoughts on a certain appearance near the end of the film when it comes to bad Australian accents.

reporting for duty sir

QT's accent was horrible! He sounded South African, lolol

But. I'm willing to forgive him somewhat knowing he's living out some kinda cosplay fantasy knowing how much he loves the old Ozsploitation movies.

John Jarratt tempered it nicely though, that was a fun touch

Overall I really dug it. Definitely still in his IB mode, though much more of a wish-fulfillment element to it than IB.
Loved the Brunhilde/Siegfried overlay, and the way Waltz' character is so otherworldly beyond just being a *foreigner*, he has an element of some kind of, idk, spirit guide or fairytale character with his funny little dentist cart, like something out of the Wizard of Oz.

The comedy in this though was odd. Not so much in the movie or from QT but the audience. They laughed in a lot of places where i was like, huh? Maybe I wasn't in a laughing mood but it felt like the audience found it way more hilar than it was?. it was strange