Quentin Tarantino's Western movie "Django Unchained"

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

Open letter to Quentin Tarantino:

If you are so concerned about making bad movies in your old age that cast a bad shadow over a filmmaker's complete body of work, you need to take a long, hard look at your most recent production.

zing zang zoop!!!

dug it. more consistent than either IB or DP, but maybe lacking the knockout highs? music was great, especially in the 2nd half. felt long.

much more of a wish-fulfillment element to it than IB

i dunno, think they run neck and neck on that score. jewish marauders mulching hitler and all.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/oscars-django-unchained-quentin-tarantino-jamie-foxx-kerry-washington-christoph-shultz/#more-393682

It felt good to watch this film in beautiful Oakland, CA.

Dennis Perrin ‏@DennisThePerrin
Reading comment threads about Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED gives me hope that white people are a passing fad.

that steven boone article was wonderful, never read that guy before. just wanted to give more kudos to jamie foxx's performance, the more distance i have from seeing the movie the more i appreciate it, he really sold a lot of the humor in the role that no one else could have, specifically thinking of the scene where he's like "i can choose my own clothes?"…cut to him proudly wearing his ridiculous blue boy getup…total pro comedy acting

i would one day like to see jamie unchained like he is in this emmitt smith roast clip, previously linked to on ilx and one of the funniest things i've ever seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-SCxow_2b8

this was pretty rad. i think my biggest beef was with a couple of the newer songs used (something about 'too old to die young' and some other one that kinda blew). thought the Rick Ross and Tupac were fine and fitting, and obv loved all the Morricone and Bacalov stuff, as well as the "Freedom" cover and especially "I've Got a Name" sequence (actually teared up a little at this, but i was p high)

great movie imo

"before settling on Foxx, who won the director over with his Texas roots, cowboy image, and his tolerance of racial issues in the current day South"

What does this mean?

not punching qt when he giggles at the n word

"I Got A Name" was awesome, could not stop grinning at that

not sure if O'Hehir's "three-hour trailer for a movie that never happens" review was posted.

You could claim that he’s “quoting from Sam Peckinpah” with those slapsticky water balloons full of blood, except that that’s not quite it. It’s more like he’s quoting from crappy ‘70s drive-in movies that were quoting from “The Hills Have Eyes,” which was quoting from something else that was quoting from Peckinpah. (I may be missing an intermediate stage there, such as a cannibal film that was dubbed from Italian into Spanish and projected once, with the reels out of sequence, at a downtown Los Angeles theater in 1983.)

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/26/tarantinos_incoherent_three_hour_bloodbath/

I thought this was really good, lol'd a lot

xpost lol QT really brings out the Andy Rooney in him

You could claim that he's quoting from David Denby...

if i closed my eyes i could feel the spittle

Ishmael Reed:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/12/28/black-audiences-white-stars-and-django-unchained/

that wsj let him write that without doing any editing is far more offensive than the flick

The black couple sitting behind me when I saw it yesterday were probably more vocal in their enjoyment than anyone in a theater full of people vocally enjoying the movie.

Oh, THAT couple! They attend the weekly Black Folk meetings where I live, where we discuss what to enjoy for the next quarter.

oh come on. put the troll away

Ishmael and I saw two different movies, both called Django Unchained?

No troll detected. I don't know how else I'm suppose to respond to "But these two black people like it!" as if that's indicative of anything.

i thought this was kinda dumb tbh

and im a inglourious basterds stan

where do you stand on deathproof?

I thought "dumb" was part of what you guys loved about this nitwit.

who's cousin is slappy

cousin slappy, pat finn and boy_slayer walk into a bar

fwiw I think Django is smarter-than-usual Tarantino. Qualified praise, I know, but I think he knew what he wanted to do and why. That Henry Louis Gates interview makes it clear how thought-out the whole thing was. Which doesn't automatically make it "smart," but the movie walks a lot of lines well. Anyway Morbz, people don't like him cuz he's dumb, it's cuz he's fun.

when reed says sam jackson was "playing himself," is he calling SLJ a house slave?

i think it means he was 'playing' himself

I love Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, and half of Pulp Fiction because they're so smart (among other things), so I don't think that's true at all. That's also what's been keeping me away from the last two, though I'm sure I'll watch them at some point.

i think you'd dig Basterds, bro

everyone should dig it imo

this had a better idea of what it was doing than basterds but the thing i liked about basterds was that every scene was some insane ultratense power dynamic discrepancy trap and this was not that. i saw it in portland oregon and i checked and literally every single person in the theatre except my roommate was white and thought samuel l jackson was hilaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarious.

not that he wasn't pretty much the best part.

lol:

After the film ended, Tarantino began the interview with Peter Bogdanovich, the elderly director best known for 1971's The Last Picture Show, when a black woman interrupted their conversation, saying, "A lot of black people are not going to like this movie. I'm about to have a heart attack." Then a few audience members began to heckle Tarantino from the balcony, shouting: "This is bulls--t." (The director invited his detractors to offer their comments during the open session after the interview while admitting that Django dealt with heavy subject matter.)

"That's the thing about this film -- we're dealing with virgin territory with this kind of story and this history," Tarantino said. "It's a rough movie. As bad as some of the s--t is in this film, a lot worse s--t was going on. This is the nice version."

Then Bogdanovich said, in what I imagine was an effort to calm the situation, "It's significant that we have a black president. It shows you how far we've come."

My friend, who is also black, and I immediately looked at each other, shook our heads and resisted the urge to scream, "What does that have to do with anything?"

that's like something bogdanovich would say before orson welles insists that he can't remember who the president is