Django Unchained

[Hemingway Jones]

I like how the gentleman above me stated this, "Please try to stay polite, this is hardly a topic worth coming to blows over.................Just have to accept that some folks have different opinions from you & have as much right as you to express them without being insulted." I hope that he doesn't mind my quoting him!

Tone it down gentleman or a whole bunch of posts are going to disappear. I'd hate to do so. I haven't had to do a heavy-handed edit in a long time...

Thanks.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Tone it down gentleman or a whole bunch of posts are going to disappear. I'd hate to do so. I haven't had to do a heavy-handed edit in a long time...

Thanks.

Will do.............The subject isn't worth arguing over anyway?

 

[carranty]

Tone it down gentleman or a whole bunch of posts are going to disappear. I'd hate to do so. I haven't had to do a heavy-handed edit in a long time...

Sure thing, I was getting a little carried away there too. It is an easy matter to let one's emotions get carried away when discussing films (or any other art form for that matter). Talented or not though, I think we can all at least agree Tarantino isn't getting any less controversial with age!

 

[ButteMT61]

Sure thing, I was getting a little carried away there too. It is an easy matter to let one's emotions get carried away when discussing films (or any other art form for that matter). Talented or not though, I think we can all at least agree Tarantino isn't getting any less controversial with age!

Guilty. But in lieu of that, I decided to watch something less controversial tonight as it just arrived: "Zero Dark Thirty" lol

 

[carranty]

Guilty. But in lieu of that, I decided to watch something less controversial tonight as it just arrived: "Zero Dark Thirty" lol

I wasn't sure what that was, just looked it up on imdb. :behindsofa: Tell me when its safe to come out!

 

[ButteMT61]

I wasn't sure what that was, just looked it up on imdb. :behindsofa: Tell me when its safe to come out!

As soon as it's over
Edit: Well, it's a bit tough to sit through - not because of the content - just not all that grabbing. It's well done, but it's not "entertaining" like The Hurt Locker was. More of a docudrama for sure. And, we have about 30 mins to go. If you want a good movie - see Hitchcock Sorry for the threadjacking...

 

[Italian-wiseguy]

Didn't want to resurrect polemics, but the movie has been released recently in Italy and I watched it two days ago.
Well, I like Tarantino's movies but, except for Pulp Fiction, I was not a real fan: but man, this movie is great.
Probably I'm biased cause I'm italian, and if you grown up here you can't ignore how many are the homages (or steals, as he calls them) he made to old italian movies: I mean, not only names or songs or some idea, he even goes philologic to things, like the movements of Jamie Foxx's horse, that I simply wonder how he could get to know.
And besides all this, it's simply a good movie in itself, an enjoyable story of revenge: and watching it, it appears clearly evident that not the movie, nor obviously Tarantino himself, is racist against anyone... including whites (and Germans ).
Well, I'm white- kind of - and I wasn't minimally offended; on the contrary, I found it funny, moving, provocative, and full of good greater than life action: all I need to see in movie
ciao!

 

[Foxer55]

Uff Da,

Django: "Kill white people and get paid for it? What's not to like?"

Sorry, I find this disgusting and offensive.

Its the politically correct thing these days.

 

[ukali1066]

I was more offended by some of the hats.....nasty modern Country and Western singer Stetsons in pre civil war America.....no chance

But I did enjoy it, Christoph Waltz was hugely entertaining....a superb actor

And Django didn't kill any "white people" who didn't have it coming....

 

[Edward]

I was more offended by some of the hats.....nasty modern Country and Western singer Stetsons in pre civil war America.....no chance

Not seen it yet, but.... I'd have expected that. QT is such a genre fan, I should think that's his nod to the historical inaccuracies of the western film genre rather than a boo boo on his part. Much Like I interpreted killing Hitler and the alternative history of 'Basterds to be a nod to the wild inaccuracies in the Hollywood version of WW2.

 

[amoulet69]

Hi,

Is there any post where somebody says what hats are used in the movie?

I really liked some of them and would like to know brand and model, if possible.

I love collecting movie stuff, and a few hats from Django would be a great addition.

Thank you

 

[Doctor Damage]

It's sort of a shame that Tarantino's only frame of reference for many years has been other movies...

It is indeed a shame and I'm tired of it since it's so obvious in his films. As for Django Unchained, I thought it was a miserable movie with very little to recommend it, and I wished all the characters in the movie would just die, including Django's wife. Tarantino seemed to be trying to combine one of Leone's westerns with Peckinpah's Wild Bunch (badly) and wrote a script that allowed him to use the N-word a million times without being branded a bigot or a jerk. However, Leonardo DeCaprio earned his pay packet once again and showed why he is the pre-eminent male actor of his times. Although I like Christoff Waltz sometimes, I thought his acting too mannered in this film (see him in Gravy Train, if you want to see him pre-Hollywood, and in something good).