Re: Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

Sure I have, but a script isn't a book. A script is a blueprint for a movie. A book is a self-contained entity that someone may later choose to turn into a film...by writing a script. I would only read a script after having seen a movie to get more insight into it. Never before.

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normally i'd agree but i think with tarantino it's much different. the script for DJANGO is very much like a novel and i'm sure tarantino himself would even agree with that. this is the first time i read a script before seeing a movie and i do not regret it one bit and i do not feel my experience was cheapened whatsoever.

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I actually would have liked it better if

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4.5

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Loved it.

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He would. He said in the director's roundtable that he considers his scripts to be novels and the movies to be adaptations.

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I agree but

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I agree that it would have been the better move strategically but then the movie then would have been "Schultz Does Everything" and had Django be nothing but a glorified Robin. That final part was necessary for Django to come into his own, plus it added to Schultz's character, from "not planning on dying" in this place, to being heavily invested in the situation.

Re: Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

Saw it.

Liked it. Really liked it, didn't love it though.

Something was... off. Sure, part of it may have been losing his long time editor, but there was something else off about it that I just couldn't put my finger on. I suspect the 5 hour cut might be stronger and feel less "off".

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Django is off the chain!

I loved every second of this movie. The story kept me intrigued for the entire 2 hours and 45 minutes, with some scenes that I consider the best of the year. The one that stands out most to me is I can't stop thinking about how awesome this movie is. All of the actors were on their A-game and I completely dug and bought into Christoph Waltz's character. Just a fun, captivating movie with characters I found myself attached to. Many of my favorite films are 2.5+ hours long and keep me engrossed throughout - certainly the case for Django Unchained. This makes my #2 film of the year at this point. 9.5 / 10. In time I may give it a 10 depending on how I judge its re-watchability. Well done, Quentin...well done.

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I agree. If that happened, instead of mostly perfect reviews, it probably would have gotten close to 100%.

The last 20 minutes or so did absolutely nothing for me. There were already plenty of kick ass moments and violence beforehand. Or whatever else those people would've wanted.

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But hey, if they did that then they wouldn't have


Those last 20 minutes were awful

I couldn't feel much more than just uncomfortable throughout this film.

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^ agreed. Sam Jackson was the Big Bad, not James Crockett, not Jack Dawson and certainly not Cletus VanDamme.

Also agree with a feeling of uncomfortableness throughout the movie.
But FWIW, there was a group of older black women at the end of our row, having the time of their lives throughout the whole movie. Take that, Spike!

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That was the whole point. Sam Jackson may have been funny as hell in that role, but I think audiences hated him more than they did Candie. Candie was charming as hell and almost likable (he looked like a little kid with a beard), but Jackson was the fucking devil. He was the one you had to worry about all along. That scene in the library was masterful. That's why I said he was Django's version of Kaizer Soze.




That got a great reaction and it was a funny ass line, too. And I saw it in a mixed crowd screening and I never got a sense of awkwardness by non-black folks laughing at all the right times. That damn KKK scene had EVERYONE hollering. One of the best times I've had in the movies in 2012.

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definitely one of the best overall experiences at the movies this year. crowd was really into it.

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I suspect that a lot of black people watching this identified with Jackson's character or, at the very least, know someone like him. I know at my job there's a black man just like him who sucks up to the white managers and has taken on the role of hatchet man for them, keeping the younger black crew members, the "field hands," in line.

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It's not KKK. KKK is younger than that.

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I bet if Tyler Perry would have said what Spike said those ladies might not have been there.

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Because everybody flocked to see Alex Cross.

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Perhaps, but that's just one part of the component. Stephen (Jackson) played it off like he was the insane, senile overseer of his people, but when he had Candie alone in the library. His speech, composure, was the complete opposite of what we had seen before. That's the main part I'm trying to get across. He went from being bat-shit-insane to completely fucking lucid pretty fast when he saw that Candie was about to get conned. It's a pretty amazing performance in that regard.

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Same shit.

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Having been sidelined with he flu for a few days now, finally summoned enough strength to brave the elements to check out "Django Unchained", and I was simply whelmed by Tarantino's latest film. Just a warning, there are a lot of n-words in the film, so if that bothers you, you may want to skip it.

Christoph Waltz (as a loquacious bounty hunter named Schultz) and Jamie Fox (as slave turned bounty hunter Django) make for a good pair. Schultz needs Django's help to find a trio of bounties, and later helps Django find his long-lost wife Hildy (Kerry Washington), a quest that leads them to a Mississippi plantation, where they find Calvin Candie (Leo DiCaprio, chewing up scenery at an alarming rate) as the owner, and the one who could release Hildy. Samuel L. Jackson (as Stephen, Calvin's lead valet of sorts in charge of the slaves) steals every scene he's in.

The gun-violence on the human body is laughably ludicrous, the amount of blood splatter upon each bullet entering any character's body would lead you to believe all humans are simply blood bags with little in bones or muscle mass. I suppose you have to make it cartoony enough to laugh at the stark brutality of it all. Combine that with blood-curdling screams by those shot, it does interject a brief bit of humor amongst the carnage.

Script-wise, I wish there were more surprises, but it plays pretty straight, even if does contain the patented over-writing excesses by Tarantino in some of scenes, and feels a little long in spots.

I give it 2.75 stars, or a grade of B-.

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Saw it. Loved it, but I think it was probably the most "Hollywood" feeling movie of all of QT's work. Waltz was brilliant as usual. I liked how it played out with Also, Kerry Washington didn't really do it for me through most of the movie, but in the last scene she looked great. Foxx played his role well , but you could tell he was in action-mode.

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Incredible movie

5 stars

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Maybe if he had a wig & makeup???????????

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They made that pretty clear when Foxx called someone like him "the lowest of the low".

Also, totally not uncomfortable in this flick. Seeing the ancestors of Tea Party members get gunned down was a joy.