wow that was bad

I have to agree on this one. I'm not much of a Tarantino fan (possibly because I'm a woman), and I endured this whole film just to get to watch DiCaprio's stunning performance. It had that old Pulp Fiction style and vibe to it that I did not enjoy.

QT was born & raised in Tennessee. He knows the south.
The ruling petite bourgeois and their white "betters" still speak in that sissified drawl wherein they give a word just as many syllables as is possible, and an end a statement with a vocal uplilt, as exhibited here.

And, regardless of sexual orientation, they often appear to behave in an affected, quite effeminate manner. Not unlike The Lawyer character.

"-hans landa with a beard. talking WAY too much (again). "

Annnndddd... A second Oscar with that! :P So, I really don't think he cares about your pathetic ass.

It was engaging enough as a once-through, even though the standard gimmicks got annoying (and why doesn't QT hire a soundtrack composer? I'm sick of being distracted by movies used in other films, even if QT believes that he is using them ironically or instructively).

May be some SPOILERS






But the worst part was Django himself. He started out with justice on his side, even when he was cold-bloodedly killing people "legally" because they were on the bounty lists. But as he said, the dirty job made him dirty, or at least unleashed all the dirtiness that had been suppressed by his slave years. Schultz could kill in cold blood, but he deliberately restricted the bulk of it (exceot toward the end when he shoots DeCaprio) to legal license.
Not so Django, who simply killed because people were in his way (e.g., the Mining Company employees), or even worse, because he hated them (DeCaprio's sister). A lousy outcome for a "protagonist" who turned out to be a louse himself.

Of course, it's all satire and can't be taken that seriously. Thus at the end, QT/Django both wink at us, where, after Django blows up DeCaprio's mansion, has has his horse do some very cool "fancy steppin'" to impress both girlfriend - and the viewer...

tarantino seems to be the benjamin button of cinema:
the older he gets the more juvenile and immature his films...

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That's an interesting analysis....seems right to me...but I still like what he's doing.

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here is a list of reasons why this movie is juvenile bs:

-the kuklux clan "eyeholes"- slapstick scene. in typical tarantinofashion
they keep on talking and talking...

-hans landa with a beard. talking WAY too much (again).

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To each his own, but I think the absolute key to all QT characters is how they talk and talk and talk and talk. We got this from Reservoir Dogs on. Certainly in the Travolta/Jackson scenes in Pulp Fiction(back when QT was considered God.) And in Jackie Brown(which is really a series of great dialogues.)

Coming back from his six-year break after Jackie Brown, QT seemed to have developed a new-found penchant for long action scenes with the Crazy 88's massacre in Kill Bill and the final car chase in Death Trap -- but he still didn't abandon long talking scenes: David Carradine at the end of Kill Bill 2; the girls and Kurt Russell in Death Trap, etc.

Inglorious Basterds opens with that way long interrogation by Hans Landa of the milk farmer. It runs two stops on the DVD.

And then we get the long talks in Django(principally Leo's dissertation on African American skulls) -- but with a big action gunfight in the middle. And Hateful Eight -- which QT staged as a play -- is pretty much all talk, a little violent action.

So...to not like a QT movie for all the talk in it is to...not want to respond to what QT is all about in the first place: talk. And lots of it. Well written (for this fan.)

Love Tarantino's early stuff. Not so much in recent years. Sorta.

I think what happened is that once he became huge, he is surrounded by Yes-men who never correct him. He wants a scene to drag on for 60 seconds longer than normal? "Brilliant, sir!" His musical choices and pacing have suffered. His movies now seem like they were not edited at all. Like they kept all the "best" takes and just went with it. I think this phenomenon started in between the Kill Bill movies. He is too high on his own 70's reverence. It's a nice flavor but he uses it like an all access pass to go where he shouldn't.

I liked IB but it finally made me see what is wrong with Tarantino. The man has good things in his pervy brain and I want more films from him. But I want someone to wrangle him. A co-plotter or a strong producer. I could see him doing a team up with Miller for another Mad Max movie or let that 007 rumor hatch but let Arronofski edit.

Similar situation with Tim Burton (except that I hate Burton)

I finally watched this and it felt like the movie was made by a 12-year-old boy. As soon as I saw the spring-mounted tooth on the wagon, I knew this movie was a hopeless cause. The travel montage with the Jim Croce song has got to be the worst use of a pop song in film history.

his newer western 8 crazy dudes in the west or whatever it was called was better but this movie was pretty tight