Django Unchained

That was me as well yesterday.

It definitely had the spaghetti western feel to it.  My son thought it was Tarantino's bets movie yet.  I would tend ot agree with that.

I don't know if there were any breaks from the slavery theme.

I heard the film is up for an award from the NAACP.  I found that interesting, espeically after watching the movie.  Then again, the movie treated slavery very bluntly.

"Although he hasn't seen the movie, director Spike Lee tells Vibe that Quentin Tarantino's new Civil War-era Western Django Unchained is "disrespectful to my ancestors"."

Um, really? http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/spike-lee-calls-django-unchained-disrespectful-20121227

I just got dumber reading that article. :-P

Django Unchained is definitely next on the list of movies that we're going to see... maybe this weekend!  Yay! 

Spike Lee is a moron. He didn't see it, but he can comment on it? The movie is the opposite of disrespectful. It's an incredibly powerful anti-slavery movie. As was pointed out, it's up for an NAACP Image Award.

"Those who do cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

The cruelty was tough to watch - if anything it put all of those things you knew happened into action. Sort of makes you respect what they went through a lot more.

If I was African-American I'd take my kids to see it and use it to start a dialog. When my kids went to the Holocaust Museum I told them their great-grandmother was in Bergen-Belsen, and her husbands father, my great grandfather's brother, was in the first wave of Allied soldiers to liberate Auschwitz. It's all pretty horrible history, but they need to know that so it doesn't ever happen again.

Just got done watching it and wow... great movie.

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/culture/television/jamie-foxx-receives-backlash-after-racist-comments-during-snl-monologue

Video link to comments. http://godfatherpolitics.com/8508/jamie-foxx-is-one-racist-black/

Yup me too, I keep looking to see Rev Al protesting these racist comments......oh wait I forgot never mind

If you google Jamie Foxx comments you will find quite a few others that found the comments at least as offensive as I did.  You will also see reviews and commetns from a number of African Americans that found the movie offensive.

I am not trying to tell anyone how to spend their entertainment money, and as I said I have enjoyed every other QT movie I have seen, but I will not be spending anything on this one.

Chris Waltz best of the movie,  but not sure about the Rockies,  Lever Action Rifles, sunglasses.  It did have some interesting action....but started to really drag in latter part of movie

Not Academy quality.   Disjointed, hodgepodge.  James Remar does two roles?  Scenes are very unrealistic.  

shoots the white women and she flies backwards at the wrong angle...  Too much Over Hype.

Are you familiar with Tarantino's work? He is well known for having all kinds of things thrown into his movies, over-the-top violence, and sly humor. If you are looking at it as a realistic history, you will be sadly disappointed - it's not Lincoln. The washed colors and 70's era typeface in the credits are the clue it is more of an updated blaxploitation film, similar to Jackie Brown, but set in the civil war.

I saw it this weekend - I liked it . Mrs gearboy opted out, and would have hated it - she strongly dislikes violence (she won't let me watch Breaking Bad if she is in the room; and walked out of the movie Excalibur when we were first dating about 5 minutes into it due to the violence).I saw it as a sort of bookend to Inglourious Basterds - a twist on actual historical events, with a strong revenge fantasy element. I think DiCaprio captures the modern thought process when he asks (though not his answer) "why don't the black people just kill us?"

Hey I agree with Gearboy!

Spence what kind of movie were you exspecting?