"Gentlemen, you had my curiousity. But now, you have my attention."
Calvin Candie

Quentin Tarantino has had my attention since the very first time I saw Pulp Fiction. It was the first film I ever saw where one of the first words that came to mind was masterpiece! It was my first Tarantino, I've seen everything he's directed since and I've been impressed every damn time. In my opinion he simply doesn't make bad films.

So with everything I said in the above paragraph in mind, I went into Django Unchained with very high expectations.

HOLY SHIT! Tarantino not only meets my high expectations of him but he far exceeds them. Simply put he has created another masterpiece that will…

It was only a matter of time before Tarantino tackled the Western directly. His career from the very beginning has openly referenced the genre and the great directors that made their name in it. What surprised me most about Django Unchained, his latest epic revenge fantasy, is that whilst it quite clearly references the likes of Leone, Corbucci and Sollima, as well as obscure and forgotten blaxploitation flicks, it is rarely a slave (if you pardon the pun) to the films it doffs its stetson too. Unlike Kill Bill which was essentially a finely tuned mixtape of homages and pastiches, here the references are background details and in that way this might be Tarantino’s most confident work in over a…

It's not you, Django, it's me. At least I think it is.

First off, I do not like Westerns. At all. I had my hopes pinned on Mr. Tarantino to save the genre for me, but I'm afraid he didn't. Second, I love Tarantino. I have seen all his films and while not all his films are masterpieces, there are some true gems there. I also have no problems with the 'Tarantino universe' and his self-referential, homage/collage style. It works for me. And the ironic thing is that it is exactly that that seems to be this film's biggest flaw. More on that later, first the good bits.

The acting is absolutely superb. The main trio of performances, with the…

love seeing slavery exploitation films made by a white man who made a film where he said the n word to samuel l jackson for no reason and didn't receive any consequences, he's the type of man you want making a blaxploitation homage about slavery, one of the worst things to ever happen in the history of civilisation. maybe making schlocky westerns that stylise black men being forced to beat each other to death, black women being forced into hot boxes and being tortured and show a slow motion shot of dogs running to tear apart a runaway slave, is not the job of a white man who uses the word in his films with increasing regularity, a lot of…

Just like with Tarantino's prior flick, Django Unchained is another sharp-witted and profoundly high-octane revisionist revenge tale that skilfully displays the intertwisted horrors of slavery of which that occurred during this specified period of time set in the United States' pre-Civil War Deep South, and furthermore plays out in an ingenious way that it could on top of that, be a palatable experience for all with the added touch of stylistic direction from the vital director himself, as it amply shows the titular role of Django Freeman go on his route to freedom against everyone including rescuing his wife from a merciless Mississippi plantation owner, and eventually get his vengeance towards those who regarded him unfairly as a person in…

A very bloated ultra-violent slavery revenge exercise with all the blaxploitation and spaghetti western homages you'd expect from Quentin Tarantino.

There is so much controversy over this movie that I don't even want to try to touch on here. Though I will note that, unlike his previous alternate-history revenge fantasy "Inglorious Basterds," there is no attempt made to give any slave-owning villain in this story redemptive or even slightly charming features.

Unfortunately, that makes the movie really fall flat for me. Every character, even the titular Django, is a one-dimensional caricature of a movie trope. That can be done in interesting ways, for sure – just not here, where the director's efforts are clearly hamstrung by his choice of subject matter…

Definitely feels like Quentin's most "Commercial" by a very long shot...there are some rip-roaring bits here, but the convoluted structure just feels disorganized and messy rather than invigorating and creative the way it does in the best Tarantino films. Can't imagine finding OUTAIH meandering and pointless but not the first act of this picture, which takes about 75 minutes to set up pretty much nothing other than the fact that, uh...Django has a wife who he misses very much. All of the bloviating from Christoph Waltz in these opening passages is just...so...tired compared to anything he does in Basterds; an alarming number of these scenes border on self-parody, just endless wordplay without any of the electricity QT can sometimes muster…

Quentin Tarantino might not have made the best movie ever when he made Django Unchained, but he sure as hell made one of the most fun westerns ever. Well, we call Django a western, but its more of a deconstruction of westerns than one in of itself. There are thousands of people who can commentate on the racial and political messages Django is telling, while that does help the narrative it isn't enough for me to GOAT it alone. The rest is just plain good movie start to finish. Plenty of action scenes, with the highlight being the shooutout at Candyland especially that 2nd half. The main track (Unchained) is also probably one of the best hype songs in a…