Just saw Django [MERGED~> !SPOILER ALERT!]

[dtownsfinest]

Man I should've seen this shit in theater. Shit was great. I'm glad I held out on the Screener though.

I see the complaints of the word "nigga". I'm not offended that its being used i'm more offended that its the whole damn script. That shit is just lazy. I know its part of the humor and part of the era the film takes place in but the film would've been even better if they didn't use it so much.

Sam's character was Live Action Uncle Ruckus.

Dicaprio was solid as well but Schultz character is probably the best in the film.

It was a well-made film regardless from who it came from.

 

[hog fat]

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[blackman80]

I just finish watchin the DVD Screener of this movie..Man, this was a good ass movie....The blood and violence in this movie was cazy..

Damn Samuel L. Jackson was that house nigga for real....


Damn Good Movie!!...

 

[Complex]

The movie wasn't even good to me and I like Inglorious Bastards and Reservoir Dogs.

I was like this is the movie you muthafuckas were running to support

 

[ZuluSam]

Downloaded and watched again....even better the second time...

 

[J.E.T.S]

Downloaded and watched again....even better the second time...

Everything's better especially when it's free

Sent Collect from the Fulton County Correctional Facilty using pay phone.

 

[kefta]

Watched it. Downloaded it off BGOL. Ain't paying for a movie done by a racist/white supremacist suspect that downplays the mistreatment of black people. All i have to say is that DiCaprio and S. Jackson did their thing. Much Respect.

All in all the movie was wack and it has its share of the maintenance of racism/white supremacy. Spike is right and Tariq is on point with his analysis. Typical white movie...

 

[Bruh In Law]

Movie was 5 mics from start to finish...
This thread too deep to read all the replies but im sure plenty good has been said.
Dont see it that's on u. Just know u missed out on a damn good movie

 

[Bruh In Law]

sam should win a oscar

You know that nigga? Dont ya
I know u know that nigga

 

[Nobody]

The made Schultz a martyr!

Well played sir. Well played.

I thought Christoph Waltz actually stole this movie. I didn't care much for Leo or Sam.

He and Jaime had a very natural chemistry on screen.

$0.02

He wasn't a martyr because he died for a very selfish reason which could've gotten everyone killed

He was killed because django was the hero.

He had to go that last leg alone to save broomhilda

 

[LSN]

He wasn't a martyr because he died for a very selfish reason which could've gotten everyone killed

He was killed because django was the hero.

He had to go that last leg alone to save broomhilda

The way I look @ it he had to kill Candie anyway...I don't think Candie would've let them leave alive once he shook his hand...I think drawing up the freedom papers was all a ruse sort of like payback for them wasting his time and playing games w/ him...I could be wrong tho...just my interpretation...but ya I just don't buy the German risking all their lives on principle after everything they went thru to get Broomhilda

 

[geechiedan]

The way I look @ it he had to kill Candie anyway...I don't think Candie would've let them leave alive once he shook his hand...I think drawing up the freedom papers was all a ruse sort of like payback for them wasting his time and playing games w/ him...I could be wrong tho...just my interpretation...but ya I just don't buy the German risking all their lives on principle after everything they went thru to get Broomhilda

why not? Schultz went on this quest when he personally had no reason. He had no stake in django getting his wife back at all. So him killing candie for no real reason other than principle is nothing if not consistent.

 

[LSN]

why not? Schultz went on this quest when he personally had no reason. He had no stake in django getting his wife back at all. So him killing candie for no real reason other than principle is nothing if not consistent.

Him putting the lives of Broomhilda + Django @ risk when a cooler head would have prevailed is not @ all consistent w/ his character...disagreeing is one thing but it is no where near as clear cut as you'd have it seem...his personal stake in helping Django was his conscience...feeling obligated to help Django bcuz he was responsible for setting him free + the fateful coincidence of his wife being named Broomhilda and the German legend...him risking their lives flies in the face of him being there in the first place for both their sakes (to protect him + rescue her) imo

 

[Nobody]

Him putting the lives of Broomhilda + Django @ risk when a cooler head would have prevailed is not @ all consistent w/ his character...disagreeing is one thing but it is no where near as clear cut as you'd have it seem...his personal stake in helping Django was his conscience...feeling obligated to help Django bcuz he was responsible for setting him free + the fateful coincidence of his wife being named Broomhilda and the German legend...him risking their lives flies in the face of him being there in the first place for both their sakes (to protect him + rescue her) imo

Nah. I think he just got pushed. With all the shit he saw and stomached to that point. He lost his cool.

Candie didn't seem like a murderer, outside of slavery. He could've had them killed and just taken the 12k if he was a murderer.

I guess he also had enough faith in Django.

 

[geechiedan]

Him putting the lives of Broomhilda + Django @ risk when a cooler head would have prevailed is not @ all consistent w/ his character...disagreeing is one thing but it is no where near as clear cut as you'd have it seem...his personal stake in helping Django was his conscience...feeling obligated to help Django bcuz he was responsible for setting him free + the fateful coincidence of his wife being named Broomhilda and the German legend...him risking their lives flies in the face of him being there in the first place for both their sakes (to protect him + rescue her) imo

translation: white guilt + classic movie quest reasoning=

 

[LSN]

Nah. I think he just got pushed. With all the shit he saw and stomached to that point. He lost his cool.

Candie didn't seem like a murderer, outside of slavery. He could've had them killed and just taken the 12k if he was a murderer.

I guess he also had enough faith in Django.

Ya I saw they used the flashbacks to show him being "pushed" bit by bit...that's the most logical/obvious explanation but I just didn't buy it tho...to me it just went completely against his character...

 

[LSN]

translation: white guilt + classic movie quest reasoning=

To me it just seemed forced to make his character look like a martyr...dying for his principles...kinda cheesy...anyway I'm putting too much thought into it

 

[swipe]

Samuel L Jackson was the Too Big MC of slavery. He was the first hypeman. Every time he repeated Candy I was like

 

[geechiedan]

To me it just seemed forced to make his character look like a martyr...dying for his principles...kinda cheesy...anyway I'm putting too much thought into it

As nobody stated he was killed becuz Qt had to figure out a way to get rid of him so django could do his rampage alone.

there are better ways to going about that but qt is a bit of a lazy writer in that regard.

 

[biggboye5000]

Just d/led the screener and checked it out finally. Was gonna check it at the show but just didn't get a chance to. Great flick. Very entertaining. Typical exaggerrated over the top QT style but he practically invented the genre so what else would you expect.

I kept facepalming when bodies would blow up and bloody squib shots would explode all over the screen. I kept thinking Sam Peckinpah and the Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs. He was all over the map with film and director references.

Wasnt expecting to dig the soundtrack but dude used spaghetti music, 70s pop tunes and a couple well placed hip hop tracks. This was definitely a popcorn movie way better than Inglorious Basterds to me.

Bottom line QT was straight clownin. It even felt like Kill Bill a couple times. Sam, Leo and the Schultz dude should all get oscars or noms at least.

Ya I saw they used the flashbacks to show him being "pushed" bit by bit...that's the most logical/obvious explanation but I just didn't buy it tho...to me it just went completely against his character...

That was kinda wack for dude to just bug out like that but it is a script device for Jamie to triumph and QT likes to throw in sudden unexpected deaths for his main characters.

 

[geechiedan]

Just d/led the screener and checked it out finally. Was gonna check it at the show but just didn't get a chance to. Great flick. Very entertaining. Typical exaggerrated over the top QT style but he practically invented the genre so what else would you expect.

I kept facepalming when bodies would blow up and bloody squib shots would explode all over the screen. I kept thinking Sam Peckinpah and the Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs. He was all over the map with film and director references.

Wasnt expecting to dig the soundtrack but dude used spaghetti music, 70s pop tunes and a couple well placed hip hop tracks. This was definitely a popcorn movie way better than Inglorious Basterds to me.

Bottom line QT was straight clownin. It even felt like Kill Bill a couple times. Sam, Leo and the Schultz dude should all get oscars or noms at least.



That was kinda wack for dude to just bug out like that but it is a script device for Jamie to triumph and QT likes to throw in sudden unexpected deaths for his main characters.

no..he didn't

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Mr. Candie, a man who studied French, but knows nothing of its history.

Sam Jackson and Leo had bad teeth, but there were many other characters that clearly had great white teeth.

 

[geechiedan]

Mr. Candie, a man who studied French, but knows nothing of its history.

Sam Jackson and Leo had bad teeth, but there were many other characters that clearly had great white teeth.

Candie was a francophile a person who admires France, its people, or its culture. But he couldn't speak french despite requiring people to address him as monsieur candie.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Candie was a francophile a person who admires France, its people, or its culture. But he couldn't speak french despite requiring people to address him as monsieur candie.

that is the white man. they study ethics, but when it comes to actually knowing and using it.

 

[Lucky7s]

I didn't understand the French angle (other than to later point out Dumas was a quadroon) and correct me if I'm wrong but southern crackas were not into Egyptology during the 1850s! I'm talking about the fight club being called "Cleopatra" and the Nefertiti bust...

 

[geechiedan]

I didn't understand the French angle (other than to later point out Dumas was a quadroon) and correct me if I'm wrong but southern crackas were not into Egyptology during the 1850s! I'm talking about the fight club being called "Cleopatra" and the Nefertiti bust...

theres a lot of anachronisms in the movie..django wearing 1920s sunglasses for one.

 

[Lucky7s]

Finally saw it today and Id give it 2 stars out of 4, and that's being generous. Easily one of the most overrated movies of the year.

The "comedic" parts weren't funny and the plot made no fuckin' sense whatsoever. Jamie Foxx carried the latter part of the film and if anyone deserves a nomination, it should be him.

Don Johnson should have had more screen time...I don't understand why he was shot, did he have a bounty on him or something? I know its fucked up but that damn raid scene with the fucked up masks was funnier than anything Sam Jackson said. Secondly, if there is a Django sequel, best believe Don will be in it.

To me, Josh Brolin would have made a more believable Calvin Candie...Leo was miscast and so was Jamie Foxx and Kerry. I may be biased because I never found Kerry all that fine. Kerry's current Scandal star power was distracting and she is getting way too much press coverage for saying 10 lines.


The thing you cats don't get about good acting is that the role has to be a REAL stretch for the actor and they can pull it off. To ME Leo failed in this and if you pay close attention to Jamie in interviews, he tells a story about being willing to endure racist jokes just to make a few hundred dollars playing piano at private parties before he blew up. How big of a stretch would it be for him to play a slave trader? Kerry is well educated, went to private schools and shit...how hard is it for her to play a bilingual house wench? Now Will Smith...imagine that shit...or Denzel in his prime, its well known Denzel is not fond of CACs on set. Those actors would have been stretching it...and would have nailed a gunslinger. Foxx was miscast. Broomhilda should have been a no-name actress with sex appeal.


Don Johnson made this shit watchable...Sam Jackson made it laughable. No need to overhype this sphagetti flick.

 

[Lucky7s]

One more thing...Candie's maids and Hildy wore afro-puffs in several scenes.

I also don't understand how or why Stephen was allowed to read, write let alone sign Candie's checks.

 

[Moore]

Tarantino is a boss filmmaker, saw it in the theater and had to watch it again.

 

[biggboye5000]

no..he didn't

Yeah I know he stole and borrowed from a ton of other films. I guess I should say reinvent but he did create a certain mashed up style filled with homages that changed the film game. I mean you gotta admit after pulp fiction and all of that there were many copycats that came out of the wood work biting QT's style although he borrowed heavily from a ton Of other filmmakers. Yeah I get it but you know what I mean.

 

[TimRock]

One more thing...Candie's maids and Hildy wore afro-puffs in several scenes.

a few scenes and names were in homage to old blaxploitation movies.
Fred the fighter (Fred Williamson)
Sheba (clavins main chic)
Goldie (mentioned as a fighter)
von SHAFT, QT said django and broomhilda are the great great great grandparents of John Shaft, which makes no sense at all.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

Man I should've seen this shit in theater. Shit was great. I'm glad I held out on the Screener though.

I see the complaints of the word "nigga". I'm not offended that its being used i'm more offended that its the whole damn script. That shit is just lazy. I know its part of the humor and part of the era the film takes place in but the film would've been even better if they didn't use it so much.

Sam's character was Live Action Uncle Ruckus.

Dicaprio was solid as well but Schultz character is probably the best in the film.

It was a well-made film regardless from who it came from.

There wasn't one instance of the n word out of place in this film.

that is how it really was whether people want to believe it or not.

it ain't stop being like that till about 1970 something.

love this movie.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

To me it just seemed forced to make his character look like a martyr...dying for his principles...kinda cheesy...anyway I'm putting too much thought into it

i didn't even see it as dying for his principles
it was like let's get rid of these white folks so django can take over and really do his thing without their aide

Samuel L Jackson was the Too Big MC of slavery. He was the first hypeman. Every time he repeated Candy I was like

you saw how close he was to him when he was talking
my god man

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

masta why i gotta take lip from dis nigga here.

he gon stay in the big house?

why u lettin a nigga in the big house.

she got like 10 more days in the hot box.

nigga cried when leo died.

omfg

when he tried to creep out when jamie said yall niggas can leave

We got some stevens on this board
that's why more people don't find it despicable and funny at the same time

 

[Complex]

There wasn't one instance of the n word out of place in this film.

that is how it really was whether people want to believe it or not.

How do you know this?

Because the white man told you?

I never knew this movie was supposed to be an accurate portrayal of history. Some of you need to make up your mind. We shouldn't care, because it was fictitious and just a movie, but then the N word brought realism. That makes no sense.