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wow that was bad

posted 8 years ago by mausklicker
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tarantino seems to be the benjamin button of cinema:
the older he gets the more juvenile and immature his films...

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...

-"broomhilda von shaft" tarantino says she is shafts grandmother. thinking like a 12 y old... *eyeroll*

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

-the gun fights. leone and peckinpah would be rolling on their coffin floors laughing if they could see this overdone bs.

-the totally generic and uncool cameo of franco nero. "the d is silent"- "i know"... pffft.

-django riding without a saddle. im not sure what the reason for this is, but every reason i can think of is just silly... is he "unchaining" the horse?
as if the saddle is the burden AND NOT THE RIDER SITTING ON IT?

-the music. hip hop, rap and hippy 70s? what a way to destroy any rest of 19th century mood... the movie was like an old jukebox, playing oldies nonstop.

i could list more but i dont wanna waste any more energy on this.
i have to say something positive too about this film though:

i usually cant stand dicaprio but he was actually the only highlight in this boring chatty comicbookwestern! his performance simply stole the whole show.

he should have done this "evil dandy" thing for the great gatsby too lol.

[–] GotWood84 (384) 5 years ago

Little to nothing that was said in this thread is true. Django is f cking awesome. Anybody with a dick knows that.

[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

Sounds like something a first person shooter obsessed teenage gamer might say. I saw portions of DU yesterday with no sound and it was fascinating at first. I thought I hadn't seen Leo have this much fun in a long time. But things turned grisly and I didn't enjoy seeing so much torture and carnage.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

The torture and carnage fit the story.

[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

Not my cup of tea. I like some other Tarantino, and I wouldn't rule out watching this sometime in the future, but it's a bit much toward the end. Kinda like Scarface. If you enjoy this sort of thing, have at it, but it seems extreme and gratuitous to me.

[–] TaRaNRoD (1579) 5 years ago

Come on, the violence is so over-the-top and humorous that you can't possibly find it extreme. Well, my mother agrees with you so you are not alone. I usually don't like movies that are too violent, but Tarantino's violence has a real artistic touch to it.

[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

I'm glad you see it this way. Perhaps with a re-watch I might get the joke, but I don't want to take for granted QT has gratuitously funny and violent scenes and I have to "get" that. A good and serious filmmaker shouldn't be chuckling up his sleeve when I would have thought Django might have some sort of humanity to it, a story we can relate to. If it's only an exercise to see what might amuse us, then give us bread and circuses.

[–] snepts (11123) 3 years ago

I sort of agree, but also don't. I think it takes a deft touch to portray such material so it's effective but not off-putting. The easiest example is violence can be implied without being seen and still be effective.
And I kind of like QT but if he gets lazy in his staging of violent scenes, then I'm disappointed.
I thought Craig being tortured in Casino Royale was fascinating and well-staged.

[–] GotWood84 (384) 5 years ago

Sounds like something a first person shooter obsessed teenage gamer might say.

Heyyy.....do we know each other?

[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

Hey ! Yoo talkin' to ME? Why do you ask this?

[–] moviechatterer (13382) 3 years ago

Theres no way a "a first person shooter obsessed teenage gamer "
would have the attention span , or ability to look listen at things made after 2005

[–] NGMI (1184) 3 years ago

You'd be surprised. There are so many long winded cut scenes that you can't skip past. The dialog of new GTA's is so cringe, you'd think QT wrote it himself.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

bad ass.

[–] Jones70 (6195) 3 years ago

I disagree, watched it again recently and still enjoyed it a lot especially towards the end. I like how it was split into 3 acting showcase chapters, Christoph Waltz's, then Leo's, then Jamie Foxx's.

[–] NGMI (1184) 3 years ago

You enjoyed it for the performances. That's enough but that doesn't make it above criticism, nor can it save a film for some people.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I could have written this. Thanks for saving me the trouble. Tino is over rated. I think I only like 3 of his films.
Pulp Fiction
Hateful Eight
Reservoir Dogs