Film Comments
‘Django Unchained’
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There are ... a lot of N Bombs. And explosive splatters of blood. However, it IS an excellent movie, if you like Tarantino flicks. Never for the faint of heart.
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Bomb ass movie!! Spike Lee is a crybaby and probably wishes deep down that he made this movie, it is so tight... the Shakur estate didn't seem to mind, much less the numerous other black actors that gave great performances, so who cares what Spike Lee thinks? So much to love in Django Unchained, you are missing out if you get hung up on certain dialogue. Leo blew me away, Jamie Foxx was better than I even expected him to be, and Chrisoph Waltz brought such flavor to the movie. I enjoyed so many references (Scarface), and found the winter scenes and the use of Jim Croce spot on. Gorgeous stuff Tarantino. Don Johnson was also awesome and Jonah Hill drove that awesome bumbling flour sack scene. Four thumbs up (and the middle finger to Spike 'Drama Queen' Lee).
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@7. The movie is not racist (see: the plot). The movie has racism in it because it is set in two years before the Civil War in the American South.
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man.. so many people hung up on what spike lee says or thinks says something. i'm not sure what, but damn people, is that all you got ?
fuck me for not liking it( ( middle finger right back atcha @9 ), but i didn't and not because of the violence or the relentless use of the 'n-bomb'. i won't really waste your space or time going into it, i don't sense there'd be much meaningful conversation about it.. not here at least. but know that i saw it knowing as little about it as possible and found it distasteful in ways that surprised me. and i'd thought it'd be worth mentioning, so i did.
fuck me for not liking it( ( middle finger right back atcha @9 ), but i didn't and not because of the violence or the relentless use of the 'n-bomb'. i won't really waste your space or time going into it, i don't sense there'd be much meaningful conversation about it.. not here at least. but know that i saw it knowing as little about it as possible and found it distasteful in ways that surprised me. and i'd thought it'd be worth mentioning, so i did.
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@7
Your statement speaks volumes about your ignorance.
Django is about as racist as Huck Finn.
I watched it on New Years it is a good film, not Tarentino's best but far better than 99 percent of the rehashed shit Hollywood shoves down the gullets of the masses.
Your statement speaks volumes about your ignorance.
Django is about as racist as Huck Finn.
I watched it on New Years it is a good film, not Tarentino's best but far better than 99 percent of the rehashed shit Hollywood shoves down the gullets of the masses.
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I loved it. Vengeance is my favorite theme - it's Tarantino's as well, it seems - and extreme gore as slapstick is done well here, which is another of my guiltiest pleasures. (I was probably the only person in the theater who laughed when the horse was shot in the face.) Plus, Christoph Waltz pulls in another fantastic performance. The same goes for Jamie Foxx.
Sorry you didn't like it, Riz. There were things I didn't like about this movie, too. (The scene with the Klansmen was far too Mel Brooks for my taste - felt like it didn't belong.) But I was willing to overlook them for the sheer marvelousness of this version of the Django character.
Sorry you didn't like it, Riz. There were things I didn't like about this movie, too. (The scene with the Klansmen was far too Mel Brooks for my taste - felt like it didn't belong.) But I was willing to overlook them for the sheer marvelousness of this version of the Django character.
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N-Word? ... "N-WORD"? WTF?
Since I'm not really white, got lot of foreign friends and beeing just referred as "German" this comes from my deep heart with totally NO MEANING!:
Nigger Nigger Nigger Nigger Nigger Nigger Nigger.
Are you also saying: "V-WORD" for Vagina and "J-WORD" for Jew? Yo over there... you have to work out your past....
I'll keep calling my black friend "Nigger" as he will call me on "Nazi". And to all the real haters out there: Grow up. Words are words. The real racists are sitting in your gouverment.
Since I'm not really white, got lot of foreign friends and beeing just referred as "German" this comes from my deep heart with totally NO MEANING!:
Nigger Nigger Nigger Nigger Nigger Nigger Nigger.
Are you also saying: "V-WORD" for Vagina and "J-WORD" for Jew? Yo over there... you have to work out your past....
I'll keep calling my black friend "Nigger" as he will call me on "Nazi". And to all the real haters out there: Grow up. Words are words. The real racists are sitting in your gouverment.
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Personally I thought the movie lacked the crisp tight pacing that I've come to expect from Tarantino. For me it dragged on too long and too much of the violence became ridiculous in its repetition; it truly felt about 20 minutes too long. So, after really looking forward to seeing this for months I walked away disappointed. However, still a ton of stuff to love: all the actors were great, and the soundtrack was fantastic. As far as usage of the N-word, it would not surprise me one bit if Tarantino, by dint of so much usage, was trying to rub our faces in it, as a way of forcing us to accept it and move past it. But I may be reaching there.
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i enjoyed this movie. i liked pulp fiction better. This movie was entertaining however. it was really cool to have the black guy live and exact revenge. i cheered jamie foxx. my favorite line was when he burst in the door where hilde was locked in that room and she didn't know who it was and django said " it's me baby"... my insides just dropped. i don't think tarantino is racist. i think he really digs that blaxploitation era in movies and wishes he himself could say these lines. But he can't and he doesn't look cool saying them anyway so he invents characters and situations where they kinda can be said but it don't come off so easy cause he's a white guy but he admires that genre. i dug the movie but if you've seen any of the original django movies they were over the top with the blood and gore too. and i think it was cool that quinton dug up franco nero, the original actor to play django for a cameo. cool movie. i would see it again. spike has this long standing feud with qt, if he is so against what the guy does he should attempt to make a better movie. i say see it. don't however if you don't like seeing flesh ripped by bullets. Some of the slave scenes were difficult to watch also. the movie was very pulpy and many scenes were inspired by other movies so it was fun identifying those inspiring movies.
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