Django Unchained. 2 Hr 45 Min of ?

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #20 on:** 11 Jan 2013, 09:45 pm »

I really enjoyed the first two hours. Now this may or not be a spoiler, so ************** SPOILER ALERT! ******************* just in case.

In case you've never seen a Tarantino movie, basically everyone dies. In all of them. Django is pretty damned good til about the two hour mark, and that's about where the movie should have ended. But then, typical of QT, everyone interesting dies. Then we're forced to slog thru the last 45 minutes of humorless gore without anyone on screen to care about. Sure, Django is still alive but he's about the only one.

Another issue for me was that while Foxx and Washington are both good actors they have zero chemistry onscreen. Nada. Zip. Of course, her character is just a McGuffin, so underwritten as to just be a sketch of a person. Her existence is just to give Django something to do.

Overall the acting is superb. I generally loathe deCaprio but he's excellent here. Waltz is masterful. Foxx is also really superb.

The movie is fun with a lot of high points, it just labors under the weight of it's own absurdity by the end.

geowak · « **Reply #21 on:** 11 Jan 2013, 10:35 pm »

I think QT movies are very one dimensional. It's violence & gore and a creative story around it. That's it. He'll never be in the league of a Speilberg, Cameron, or any great movie maker because he cannot make a good, imaginative, emotional story. BTW The Coen brothers have made violent movies, but are also very good at making other kinds of really good movies. Millers Crossing, Fargo, OBWAT, Raising Arizona. These guys are in a different league from QT.

QT is very over rated, arrogant for not any good reasons and only semi- talented at best.

S Clark · « **Reply #22 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 06:02 am »

"Django" is available on Netflix and I just finished watching it. Talk about wasting nearly 3 hrs

. If you haven't seen it, don't bother. For the first hour or so, it was like a not quite funny Blazing Saddles, then and hour of blood everywhere, followed by Shaft, followed by more blood. Some time ago on SNL, a funny Garrett Morris sang a song called "Gonna git me a gun and kill all the whiteys I see".... this was the movie version without the humour.

I had to see it, however. In the previous century, Jamie Foxx (aka Eric Bishop) was in a high school chemistry class that I taught in Terrell, TX. Didn't like the kid then, and the Django character has much of the anger that Eric had as a teenager. I've had two famous students, Jamie and Colt McCoy- one of which was a great kid. I have a high regard for some of the roles that Jamie has done, but not this one.

Scott

vortrex · « **Reply #23 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 06:16 am »

great movie, one the best I have seen recently.

S Clark · « **Reply #24 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 06:21 am »

Quote from: vortrex on 29 Apr 2013, 06:16 am

great movie, one the best I have seen recently.

Are you serious???? Wow. I understand different taste, but... "one of the best"????? This movie was just bad.

vortrex · « **Reply #25 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 06:27 am »

not that I base any opinion off this at all, but you know it was up for 'best picture' at the academy awards, right? it also won two in other categories. others must have liked it, even the stuffy oldies who run those award things.

neekomax · « **Reply #26 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 06:56 am »

Jeebus, people, it's called COMEDY. His movies are COMEDIES. All of them. And they're fun, as long as you're not 100 years old and shaking your head, asking, 'What's happened to the world?'

F'r chrissakes, the shit is brilliant if you just let go and enjoy; it's a good time.

And if we're gonna complain about Oscar wins for shitty movies, um, Argo was horrible. Boring, and horrible. NOTHING HAPPENED IN THAT MOVIE. Were there even any characters? I don't know, 'cause that's how little they were developed. The woist.

/endrant

PS. Sorry if you hated Django and/or loved Argo. We probably shouldn't go see movies together, I guess.

Rclark · « **Reply #27 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 07:57 am »

Quote from: neekomax on 29 Apr 2013, 06:56 am

Jeebus, people, it's called COMEDY. His movies are COMEDIES. All of them. And they're fun, as long as you're not 100 years old and shaking your head, asking, 'What's happened to the world?'

F'r chrissakes, the shit is brilliant if you just let go and enjoy; it's a good time.

And if we're gonna complain about Oscar wins for shitty movies, um, Argo was horrible. Boring, and horrible. NOTHING HAPPENED IN THAT MOVIE. Were there even any characters? I don't know, 'cause that's how little they were developed. The woist.

/endrant

PS. Sorry if you hated Django and/or loved Argo. We probably shouldn't go see movies together, I guess.

+1

Early B. · « **Reply #28 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 11:39 am »

Watched Django last week -- Great movie. Funny, interesting story line, well written and directed, and good acting. Yeah, I agree it was too long, but it kept my attention.

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #29 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 02:23 pm »

I nominate Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Bastards as his best two. And, I loved True Romance which he wrote. Some of his other movies seem like filler to me. The Kill Bill's, for example.

ncblue · « **Reply #30 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 03:04 pm »

See, I love the Kill Bills more than his others. But I grew up watching Kung Fu Theatre every Saturday morning as a kid.

jackman · « **Reply #31 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 03:10 pm »

I liked Argo and hated Django. It started out great but took a left turn that ruined it for me. Leo Decaprio is one oft favorites and I thought he was good in this one.

I'm a terrintino fan and loved Resevior Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Res Dogs was my favorite of his films. I did not care for Jackie Brown or the Kill Bill movies. Kill Bill was too cartoonish.

BobM · « **Reply #32 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 03:17 pm »

The part I found funniest in Django was the splashes of blood and the sound effects of that blood when someone got shot. Now I have no practical experience with what actually happens, but this was just bags of red flud exploding all over the place. And sonically they sounded like plops and bloops of splashy liquid. Too comic-book funny to be taken anywhere near seriously.

neekomax · « **Reply #33 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 03:27 pm »

I can see how QT films can not be everyone's cuppa Earl Grey. They are parodies of our noblest, and most violent, fantasies, I think. And some might not be looking for such a, erm, morally hallucinatory experience when they plunk down their debit cards at the box office. For instance, I complain about too-long movies all the time, it's like my pet peeve (Now I'M 100 and shaking my head lol). But in the case of Django, it feels like an artistic choice, and therefore worthy of respect. Or maybe he just can't bear to cut a single beloved shot from the final cut, and it's pure ego (possible). I dunno if it works perfectly, but the overall experience I found absolutely thrilling.

neekomax · « **Reply #34 on:** 29 Apr 2013, 03:29 pm »

Quote from: BobM on 29 Apr 2013, 03:17 pm

The part I found funniest in Django was the splashes of blood and the sound effects of that blood when someone got shot. Now I have no practical experience with what actually happens, but this was just bags of red flud exploding all over the place. And sonically they sounded like plops and bloops of splashy liquid. Too comic-book funny to be taken anywhere near seriously.

The effect was hilarious, I thought.

ajzepp · « **Reply #35 on:** 4 May 2013, 03:31 am »

Quote from: S Clark on 29 Apr 2013, 06:21 am

Are you serious???? Wow. I understand different taste, but... "one of the best"????? This movie was just bad.

I know others who felt the same way, but as others have said, that opinion is very much the minority. The film has an 89% rating on RottenTomatoes, which is very high.

ctviggen · « **Reply #36 on:** 4 May 2013, 12:33 pm »

Quote from: ajzepp on 4 May 2013, 03:31 am

I know others who felt the same way, but as others have said, that opinion is very much the minority. The film has an 89% rating on RottenTomatoes, which is very high.

There's no judging good taste. I personally find QT's movies to be incredibly violent for no apparent reason. I haven't watched any film he's made in years, and won't watch this one, either.

jriggy · « **Reply #37 on:** 4 May 2013, 03:18 pm »

Quote from: jimdgoulding on 29 Apr 2013, 02:23 pm

I nominate Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Bastards as his best two. And, I loved True Romance which he wrote. Some of his other movies seem like filler to me. The Kill Bill's, for example.

+1 I completely agree with you Jim.

fredgarvin · « **Reply #38 on:** 4 May 2013, 04:55 pm »

Far too long for what it brings to the screen. A good edit could probably make something more coherent and meaningful and fun.

Which was the problem with Kill Bill pt. one. Way too long on sequences that would have been much more effective if shortened. Pt. two was better executed. Nothing he has done has equaled Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs.

Folsom · « **Reply #39 on:** 30 May 2013, 08:38 am »

So I finally watched it.

I was about to tear it apart, because it is so inaccurate in like every way, but it just doesn't make sense or deserve that time. What a waste. It offers nothing.