^ yay! i was getting freaked out lol. i agree with everything you said on the last page.
just saw Django in theatres; i do not personally agree with those who believe it deserves a place on Best Of lists. i thought it was disgusting, morally corrupt, exploitative, incoherent, and generally felt it could get by b/c without plotty effort b/c QT was making it.
Go back to the PC boards then.
basically, it was Inglorious Basterds but with slavers. tarantino so clearly likes to give us disgusting villains so when his main characters savagely murder them (*for justice*) we're allowed to cheer.
I wouldn't even call DiCaprio disgusting in this one. Sure he makes people fight until death, but his general demeanor is that of a nice guy. Of course I know he's a villain, but still it's w/e.
i thought the first half of the movie was fun. christoph waltz is fantastic; it was really his movie, but i stopped caring after
He was my favorite character too, but I felt it continued fine after that event.
i also felt the movie should have ended definitely after the shootout, which felt irrelevant (seriously? we go from "i ain't gonna die in chickasaw county, mississippi" to "sorry...just couldn't resist LOL" you seriously couldn't shake the guy's fucking hand and walk away with your money?")
Oh my GOD so many people ask why he didn't just shake his hand. Did you not see that Candie had hoards of gunmen waiting outside the room for them? The instant they would've walked outside they'd be dead, so when he shot him that was just 1 less to deal with and it meant everyone else was a little shocked. They COULDN'T have just walked away with the money.
plus i didn't get why they were/would have been loathe to give up brunhilde, at all
Waltz's character liked playing everything safe. It would've come off as fishy if they came all the way out to Candieland, one of the largest plantations in the south, to buy an indoor slave.
plus it freaked me out to see/hear the audience cheering like a fucking mob whenever django brutally murdered someone in cold blood. wanna know what the commentary on society is? it's that we're fucked up for laughing at and liking this movie (and yes, i did laugh at quite a few parts...especially the part at the end where he likes to turn his horse around a lot. lol.)
Tarantino has been doing this for YEARS. Tell me you didn't laugh in Pulp Fiction when Vincent "accidentally shot Marvin". I don't think Tarantino's making a social commentary, but with all I know he could be.
i also think sam jackson is a very monotonous and one-dimensional character actor. such an interesting character, and all we get out of him is that he's scary and lethal and loathsome and needs to die? what
made steven? i just feel like there was unexplored territory there.
I'll give you this one, he was pretty flat.
first half 8/10, second half 5/10 (the part where brunhilde sticks her fingers in her ears and giggles as django blows up the house, killing everyone trapped inside? really? are you fucking kidding me? i think you give up your right to "but it's STYLISH" when you literally have 5+ characters audibly screaming in pain after gunshot wounds
Look at it from Django or his wife's perspective. These are people that would enslave either one of them and not give a damn about anything that they wanted and would sell them for profit in a heartbeat.
