AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 9, 2013 - 09:00pm PT
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I am a big Tarantino fan but was disappointed with Django Unchained. Some very good parts but overall I think it is a low point in his career.
Anybody agree/disagree?
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Hankster
Social climber
Golden, CO
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We thought the same. It tried to be a western Inglorius Basterds and didn't quite make it. Mostly a lousy ending. A rental but not worth theater money, IOO.
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Michelle
Trad climber
Toshi's Station, picking up power converters.
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I loved how it was nearly impossible for the other actors to remain in character when Samuel L talked.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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I am a big [insert name here] fan but was disappointed with [insert movie here]
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I had a chice to see it or the hobbit a scond time the other night. I figured h hobbit gained more on the screen and Django would look just as good on Netflix....
I'm a Tarantino fan but "Not as good as Inglorious basterds" (not one of his best) is not the kind of glowing reviews that makes me want to drop coin.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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t*r,
The same could be said for "Inglorious Bastards."
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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I enjoyed it , you get a hell of a lot of movie for ten bucks.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I gave the gape to Jack Reacher, but I'm reading The Affair by Lee Child as it is, and I can't stand the thought of being in the same theater as the dickhead who's cast in the role of Jack, so Django U. will have to wait till later or until I find some other excuse not to pay body parts to see a film and hear it as loud as it should be heard, which is the only good reason to go to a movie theater any more, unless money's no object...
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Cole
Trad climber
los angeles
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First half had moments of greatness. Second half got self indulgent and went too far over the top which was a betrayal of the great pacing and tone that started the film.
Wasn't a huge fan of Inglorious and I feel the same about Django.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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I beg to differ. I might be biased......I am a fan!
Tarantino loves the genres he captures. He grew up with this sheet just like we did. WWII movies (Inglorious Basterds)....Chinese Samurai (Kill Bill).....Pulp Fiction, you get the picture.
Now he captures the Spaghetti Western, with all its over the top action.
A good role and tip of the hat to Franco Nero.
I thought the dialogue between DiCaprio and the good Dr. King Schultz was brilliant. Not a fan of DiCaprio per se but he brought it!! I am glad Jamie Foxx took the lead role instead of Will Smith. Oh and a bunch of character actors to boot! Enjoyed it......better than Jack Doucher...I imagine.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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thought it was a great movie. Jamie fox did great.
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susu
Trad climber
East Bay, CA
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Jan 10, 2013 - 12:04am PT
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Totally agree w/you word for word Tiki-Ger - and love the poetic justice in a Tarantino film. Christopher Waltz & Jamie Foxx are the best!
Also cool seeing Alabama Hills and Owens range w/ Mt Whitney as the set for many scenes.
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The user formerly known as stzzo
climber
Sneaking up behind you
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Jan 10, 2013 - 12:14am PT
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"django unchained" seems like an excuse for gratuitous use of violence and the n-word... yawn.
"Directed by Tarantino" seems like an excuse for gratuitous of use of violence.
Movie about slavery & racism seems like an excuse for gratuitous use of the n-word.
There were scenes that were hard to watch. But I doubt slavery was pretty by any stretch of the imagination.
The person-of-color who accompanied me was glad that the movie was so gut-wrenchingly "graphic" in the racism category. The African American sitting on the other side of me didn't walk out; I think she was crying at times, but so was I -- sometimes from sadness, sometimes from relief and joy.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Jan 10, 2013 - 12:28am PT
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"django unchained" seems like an excuse for gratuitous use of violence and the n-word... yawn.
+1
It was a first time I went to watch a movie in a theater in 2012. Might skip this activity altogether in 2013. AND it was as long as it gets. Damn, I wish I went to my dentist instead.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Jan 10, 2013 - 12:32am PT
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If the job of a movie is to entertain then it did perfectly. I really liked it, and I'm not much of a Terantino fan.
Saw a behind the scenes thing where DeCaprio questioned Terantino about how graphic it was, but was convinced to play the part as written because it demonstrated the reality of some of the racism back then.
Go see it!
Edit: don't listen to Vitaliy, he thinks trail running is a good idea!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jan 10, 2013 - 12:59am PT
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Tarantino can be simultaneously at his over-the-top best and worst at any point in a film. Both he and Oliver Stone just seem incapable of restraining the worst of their idiosyncratic excesses. With so much ham-handedness this time around the result was dubiously mixed, though entertaining enough in a B-movie sort of way.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Jan 10, 2013 - 01:08am PT
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I didn't see it but hated it...probably won't see it again...RJ
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Jan 10, 2013 - 01:33am PT
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Here's some drift... didn't see it (Django) but did see Le Mis... my girlfriend insisted... thought I'd be bored but absolutely loved it! When Ann Hathaway sang that song I was blown away! I know pathetic romanticism, silly sentimentalism... don't care, what a stirring, sublime experience that movie was even though Hugh sounded just a bit like one of the Gibbs brothers, still, I highly recommend it!
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