Funny how Spike lee is pissed. I guess he thinks only black people can direct black people to use the N word.
Spike 'I haven't made a decent movie since Inside Man' Lee said:I can't speak on it 'cause I'm not gonna see it,
All I'm going to say is that it's disrespectful to my ancestors.
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American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.
I guess my taste just isn't as refined.
Pulp Fiction is a better movie but I think Django Unleashed is the best movie I have seen this year. I thought it was awesome beginning to end. Great performances by everyone in the movie.
Funny how Spike lee is pissed. I guess he thinks only black people can direct black people to use the N word.
Funny how Spike lee is pissed. I guess he thinks only black people can direct black people to use the N word.
My review posted in the "main thread" a few weeks ago:
SPOILERS WARNING!
Keeping in mind that Inglorious Bastards was a 10.0/10.0 for me, I had high expectations for the return of Christoph Waltz in another Quentin Tarantino film and I was not disappointed. From the Tarantino-style "gore" to Samuel L. Jackson to the humor to the soundtrack...Django Unchained easily fits in my TOP 5 films of 2012. I found myself laughing and clapping many times. Highly recommended!
A few additional impressions will be listed below but with spoiler tags:
-Underneath the surface, I believe Tarantino offers us a commentary on both contemporary and historical white-black and black-black relations. In regards to the latter, think "oreo" vs. not. This is especially emphasized in the relationship between the characters played by Foxx and Jackson.
-While Bastards was a fun revenge epic pitting a group of Jewish gorilla fighters against Hitler himself, Django takes equal liberty in pitting the black man against his slave owner.
-With his typical Tarantino "gore" he offers audiences perhaps one of the most brutal, realistic and sad depiction of mid-19th Century southern slavery ever put on film.
-More subtly, Tarantino also offers audiences a historical and contemporary commentary on "civilized" European versus "uncivilized" American attitudes.
-Tarantino officially has a fetish for the German language.
-Both the first and second "big house" gun battles are some of the best western-style gun battles ever put on film. The rap music certainly made them feel more bad ass.
-Samuel L. Jackson plays a really good villain.
-Leonardo DiCaprio also plays a really good villain; his seething monologue during the "three dimples" speech is perhaps nomination worthy.
-Tarantino once again proves he can push "celluloid" faster than anyone; Django is only 12 minutes longer than Bastards (165 vs. 153) but both feel like much faster films.
-The soundtrack is brilliant. Hit after hit of scene-appropriate music.
Am I the only one that saw that as dingo unchained?
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34419967&postcount=2maybe djingo ate your baby!
So anal is out of the question?Mindless, stupid violence is unappealing to me.