[Closed] Django Unchained. (may eventually contain spoilers, but not in the OP)

Good off to c it soonish

Going tomorrow night. Looking forward to it.

Quality. Not as much explicit violence as I thought there might be either. Standard Tarantino trick of letting you imagine most of it yourself. Mucho fun.

I saw it last night. Wasn't that impressed by the advert that i saw beforehand, but it was an absolutely amazing film! one of the best, if not the best film I've ever seen!

Amazing movie. Captivating performances performed by all.

It definitely rivals Shawshank as the best movie I've seen.

Whooa! That is a claim! I do need to see it soon.

It's amazing - gunfights are some of the best ever. Seemed to be almost raining blood at one point!

Very funny too. It's his best film since Jackie Brown

Jackie Brown was shit though.

Jackie Brown was shit though.

I thought so too.

But strangely, some friends who I normally agree with about films, all seemed to love it !?

If it keeps getting all these good reviews, I may have to break one of my life rules and go to the cinema to see a Tarantino film. (tbf it is being received very well, possibly his best in the 21st century?)

I just saw it and loved it. Especially the bit with the aliens...

Looking forward to seeing it. I rather like Tarantino's films, and to my utter astonishment, Tookey, the Daily Wail's movie critic rated it highly as well! Wonders will never cease... 😯

Really really enjoyed it, new favourite film!! Some excellent scenes, some were quite funny too. Think I'll go and see it again on Wednesday!

Saw it last week and really enjoyed it though its maybe 30 minutes too long with some good cameos and some bad.
Agree about the alien bit as well, very Life of Brian, oh, and Samuel Jackson is a tadge creepy.....

What alien bit........?

tlr - Jokey spoiler, don't panic you didn't miss anything if you have just seen it!

Is there a big ****ing gun in a coffin?

excellent film with some very funny scenes (pmsl at the hooded lynch mob)

**not a spoiler** but what was the score with the female bandit?

Oh I heard a review and it sounds alot like Dusk til Dawn. Excellent first half. Not bad second but shouldnt be attached to the first 🙁

Top quality soundtrack too.

Incredible performance by Christoph Waltz, steals the show.

Ive always had mixed reactions to Tarantino's films. Some films were amazing (jackie brown, inglorious b's or awful, death proof, killbill 2.
With django, half of its great, half of it pointless tarantino waffling dialogue, couldnt wait for it to end. Could do with being at least 40min shorter.

Sausage fingers,
If you mean the woman with the bandana over her face, I reckon the salient scene was cut.

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As to violence, whilst the shooting was comedy stuff (accuracy & blood-letting; trajectory of Candie's sister), the Mandingo fighting was uncomfortable. At the dinner table, that hammer looked to bend after use - prop failure?

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thanks drlex,i figured her story/scenes may have ended up on the editing suite floor

agree with schrickvr6 - christoph waltz is fantastic in this just as he is in inglorious basterds

Django was about an hour too long but as least it was better than that trainwreck Inglourious Basterds.

Christoph Waltz, steals the show.

Hes making a habit of that.

but is there a gun in a coffin?

I hate to say I wasn't blown away by It , Its good dont get me wrong but the constant overbearing use of the 'N' word just seemed over the top. Before anyone points out its a movie about slavery , I know that but seems like Tarantino has overdone to get a talking point.
That said great performances from just about everyone In it and Sam Jacksons character must be about the most loathsome ever.
Good but not that good. On the flipside I watched 'Argo' and though it was brilliant.

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bit of an homage or just cant do an original character?

Good but not that good. On the flipside I watched 'Argo' and though it was brilliant.

See, I thought Argo was just about one of the worst films I've ever seen. Didnt seem to go anywhere plot wise - all filler no killer so to speak.

Good film, a little too long, Tarantino films are good

but not the best of all time by a long shot lol,too much out there far superior to this.

Saw it last night (I know, 2 days late!) but loved it.
Best thing about it wasn't the violence, homages to Leone, but just how damn FUNNY it is. So many laugh out loud moments... especially the "KKK" posse (without giving anything away!).

I thought the funny bits misfired a bit and Tarantino's cameo was rubbish, totally broke the tension. I was also wondering about the girl in the bandana. Handshake scene was the highlight, mexican standoff! Overall a really good film.

[i]Tarantino's cameo was rubbish[/i]

Yeah, that whole scene was a bit out of place. But still, who cares? At least it wasn't James shitty Bond.

Saw it again last night. The bag/KKK scene was even better 😆

Saw it last night, what a film. Some very funny bits in it too. Some great acting and some bad acting. Have to go see it again, I must have missed so much.

Pretty good, standard Tarartino fare

Great Tarantino flick. My only criticism is that I didn't the think the final 20 minutes was necessary. It felt like 'super special never before seen bonus footage'. Brilliant other than that and Christoph Waltz, as always, was sublime.

Usually like Tarantino's stuff but jeez that was poor.

Seemed to me to be a typically white version of slavery. Too much joyful shock-use of the N word.
Blazing Saddles type bit was painful.

Samuel L Jackson doing his usual S L J stuff. "Mutha-f*****"'s completely out of context and period.
And ridiculous last half hour.

Woeful.

I enjoyed [i]Reservoir dogs[/i] and [i]Jackie Brown[/i] - but beyond that, I find Tarantino immensely irritating.

Woeful

Ian Jack takes a pretty dim view of it, too: [url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/25/bloody-mayhem-tarantino-django-seriously ]All that bloody mayhem and we're still supposed to take Django Unchained seriously?[/url]

Usually like Tarantino's stuff but jeez that was poor.

Seemed to me to be a typically white version of slavery. Too much joyful shock-use of the N word.
Blazing Saddles type bit was painful.

Samuel L Jackson doing his usual S L J stuff. "Mutha-f*****"'s completely out of context and period.
And ridiculous last half hour.

Woeful.

Do you seriously think a Tarantino film is meant to be a historical representation of the slave trade era?

It was a revenge film for the black American population.

That's it, just like there were no jewish commando's let loose in France to club German officers to death and scalp them in WW2.

Ian Jack takes a pretty dim view of it, too: All that bloody mayhem and we're still supposed to take Django Unchained seriously?

Even though I'm a lefty, I can't take any lefties seriously when they try to draw parallels between a film and a school shooting.

My brain had a blue screen of death when I got to that point in the review.

they try to draw parallels between a film and a school shooting.

Maybe - but his point about the Don Mccullin documentary is, er, bang on.

I really don't like QT in interviews. Gives me the creeps.

Great film, really enjoyed it. A but funny, nicely gruesome and a few clever bits as well. Well worth a watch in my eyes.

Maybe - but his point about the Don Mccullin documentary is, er, bang on.

I really don't like QT in interviews. Gives me the creeps.

Again, the reviewer misses the point of QT. He satirizes violence, the absurdity of the violence is meant to make you feel uncomfortable about it.

Again, the reviewer misses the point of QT.

Nah... I get the "satire" (generally speaking, it bores me) - I just don't like him. 😈 😉

Nah... I get the "satire" (generally speaking, it bores me) - I just don't like him.

You might do but that reviewer didn't. I like high brow Terrance Malick type films but I do like Tarintino films for what they are - totally mental and absurdity personified.

Just how I like Beethoven and eminem. Horses for courses.

Again, the reviewer misses the point of QT. He satirizes violence, the absurdity of the violence is meant to make you feel uncomfortable about it.

Exactly. Summarises QT film perfectly.

QT makes films because he loves film. He loves the art of making film, he rarely sets out to make a political or social point and any reviewer who believes he does doesn't understand QT well enough to take his films for what they are.

He's a passionate film maker who has a desire to tell stories in the most absurdly cinematic way he possibly can. He's had a few misses but generally I think he is a quite brilliant screen writer/director

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In Django, I'd almost separate the violence into absurd (accuracy of shooting, blood fountains, dynamite-explosion) & uncomfortable (Mandingo fighting, dog attack, heat torture, hammer-wielding). The former befell white characters for the most part; the latter the black ones. (substitute "European American" & "African American" if preferred)

Do you seriously think a Tarantino film is meant to be a historical representation of the slave trade era?

No, I understand it's a bit of throw away trash fun and not a historical documentary.
I'd still like to see him use SLJ for more than doing indignant, menacing, Jools-type speeches interspersed with "mf".

The part where "Steven" psychically worked out that Django was connected to his wife at the dinner table was just lazy.
Also, QT's accent went from Dick van Dyke, to Crocodile Dundee in two sentences.

Fantastic film and brilliant western. For me pacing and length were spot on, casting and dialogue perfect.

Definitely want to know the story behind red bandana woman!

And FeeFoo Ben's whole blustering 'out of context' act was just that, an act. Thought it was very much apparent he was pulling the strings of Candie Land a lot more than you'd think from the first impression.

Don't understand the lazy comment either? He noticed the looks between them and Django's reaction when he was intimidating her...?

Enjoyed half of it on the train to work this morning.

Am looking forward to the journey home.

(I usually do anyway though!)

Got to see it at last.

Fantastic so many tributes to Westerns of past, some brilliant characters and some fantastic acting.

Tarantino when he's good is bloody excellent.

Definitely want to know the story behind red bandana woman!

Very disappointing explanation:

http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/django-unchaineds-masked-character-explained.html

Makes you wonder why didn't they just cut her out altogether

saw it the other week on my own. thought "meh". was ok, entertaining but not amazing.

don't understand why QT films generate such hype. and i didn't realise QT was in it... who was he?

The big tall guy where the 4 take Django away after being captured.

I thought I heard his voice as one of the lynch mob complaining about the hoods too.

Good film but the Tarantino scenes were poor and somewhat out of place and overall for me the film was at least 40 mins to long and dragged a bit.

[i] the Tarantino scenes[/i]
I though he was only in 1 scene?

Wife said it was long, but I didn't notice.

Saw it last night.

Typical Tarrantino (which in my eyes is a good thing), but some people looking way too deeply for high brow entertainment on this thread. Tarrantino is one of, if not the best film makers in history at certain types of film... Gritty, Over the Top, Revenge Films. It's what he does better than anyone, and this was a brilliant example of that.

It's very rare I feel uncomfortable watching a film also, but I did in parts in this film. It's not the comedy bloodshed (not as OTT as Kill Bill for certain), or the fact that nobody except Django ever seems to be able to shoot straight, but it's the stuff they don't show you (or at least it's out of focus in the background) that really churns your stomach, cos it leaves the disgustingly brutal info for your brain to process itself. The visual bloodshed is part of the comedy, the real violence gets left to your imagination!

Great film, highly recommended. But don't go to see it if you're easily offended!

There was a very mixed audience when I seen it yesterday afternoon and it was full which is very rare midweek in term time. There was 2 old ladies in the same row as me, they laughed at all the jokes and the most of the violence took me by surprise.

Bought it cheep on DVD. Not his best. I part expected Black Dynamite to do a cameo. It seemes part-parody to me.

Samuel L Jackson was good though.

Meh. I'd rather either watch a serious drama/action film or a straight schlocky B movie. This tries to be both and it doesn't work. Far too long as well. I'd much rather watch Machete or From Dusk 'Til Dawn which are far less pretentious.

Started quite well but it all fell apart from me when Django had a long, boring conversation with Leonardo DiCaprio's character.

He can certainly direct a mean action sequence though, I'll give him that.

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Whenever someone mentions Django, I always think of this.

Oh.

I watched Death Proof recently cos I'd enjoyed Django and fancied a bit more Tarantino. I can imagine people not liking it as it is mostly dialogue and a small bit of cartoonish violent action. I loved it though! A perfect Taratino fix. Incredible women in it too 🙂

Needed more Christoph Waltz tbh. Really enjoyed it, loved the soundtrack. The plot didn't make an awful lot of sense when you stop and think it through but it carried itself along well.