The only thing I'm looking forward to more than Django Unchained is all the (white, conservative) people who are going to be really angry about Django Unchained.

Tired of Tarantino hanging stories on the revenge plot and all his characters talking like mouthpieces for him. He'll never do better than Jackie Brown unless he enlists someone who can craft plot and character like Elmore Leonard again. At least Paul Constant didn't review it, but still a crappy review.

I would really like to hear Charles Mudede's take on this movie. I think this movie did a much better job at showing white people as racist then Lincoln did. Lincoln seemed to whitewash the ugliness of racism, with most of it's racism coming from wordy speeches. It also made white people look like the hero and whitewashed Lincoln's own racism.

Django Unchain showed white racists as the horrifying monstrosity that it was/is.

I saw Lincoln in Seattle in a theater of mostly white people, and there was this self congratulatory vibe in the theater. A feeling of WE DID IT, WE ENDED RACISM! Look at Daniel Day Lewis as wise old Lincoln ending RACISM! Man aren't white people great! Everything's going to be sunshine and roses from here!

I saw Django in a theater in Waterloo Canada, mostly filled with white people, and there was just a feeling of disgust for how the people acted. As a white person, seeing that many white people acting like that just makes you feel sick. But at the same time makes you realize that this is what racism is, this is shit that us white people have done to black people just because of their skin colour. Sure Tarantino doesn't show all the complexities of racism, but at least he shows the ugliness of it and makes his audience confront it head on.

Sorry for the rant, but since Charles thoughts on slog on race relations are always interesting I'd love to hear his take on the movie.