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Almost a Great Movie

posted 4 years ago by LiquidOcelot (2300)
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A few things that bring this movie down -

1. The rap music - not necessary at all. Takes you out of the time period setting of the movie and just sounds out of place and goofy.

2. Tarantino himself - that australian accent he puts on was just laughably bad. He needs to stay behind the camera.

3. Cheesy moments that take you out of the movie - Django walking away from the exploding house with the sunglasses and the comical tone of the ending. I'm sure Tarantino is paying homage to something but sometimes its better to just stick to the tone of the movie instead of constantly paying homage to other material.

4. Jamie Foxx as Django - I didn't buy him as a slave at all. His character was just too cocky and sure of himself throughout the movie. There wasn't a believable evolution from slave to hero.

5. Django just gets away with too much. After killing Candie and 10 other slavers he manages to get away completely unscathed by a series of fortunate events? Just too convenient.

6. Movie should've ended after Waltz and DiCaprio died, because until that point the movie was a solid 9/10. It turned into a Tarantino masturbation fantasy after that.

[–] ThrillerTalk (1118) 4 years ago

hmm, yea. You lost me when you said Jamie Foxx as Django was bad. He absolutely killed it in this role. Was amazing.

As for the rap music, it really doesn't bother me because it's just background movie scene music. I'd agree with you if the characters were actually listening to the music some how despite the time period of the movie.

The rest of your points are just dumb. This is an Action/Comedy/Drama movie. You clearly watched the wrong film if you wanted to see realism. The film never once tried to be realistic even as far back as the beginning of the story. Yet you're complaining that Django was unscratched. I'm sure glad you didn't write this film cause it would have bombed.

[–] samoanjoes (50931) 4 years ago

I mostly agree with you. I'd like to add that the movie has way too many comedic moments. I also find killing literally every white character that had at least a few lines, was too obvious of a message that white people are bad.