‘Django Unchained’ Becomes Quentin Tarantino’s Highest-Grossing Movie

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• Amazing, cause it’s also his worst! What a self-indulgent piece of crap this movie is. And I mean aside from all the n-words–slow, sloppy filmmaking, jokes totally get lost in the loooooong stretches, where the audience waits for something to happen (oh, and then to make up for the wait, there’s comic-book violence.)

  There is a comedy that successfully makes light of racial disparities, that uses the n-word to comedic effect and more, and that’s situated in the Old West. Its name was “Blazing Saddles.”

  Comment by 689tootsie — Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 10:20am PST  Reply to this post

  • Yeah, right. In no way was Death Proof, Jackie Brown and Inglorious better than the epic Django. I thought the film and screenplay were a bit flawed, but still highly entertaining and worth every bit of the $16 I paid to see it.

    Comment by Oh, okay. — Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 12:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• I agree this was probably one of Tarantino’s worst from a filmmaking perspective. It was just sloppy in spots.

  But it also had the best pacing and is one of his most entertaining. Glad to see it doing so well.

  Comment by Roy — Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 10:28am PST  Reply to this post

• @689:

  Awesome comment to point out “Blazing Saddles” and Mel Brooks’ genius relative to Tarantino. Having said that, whatever your opinion about DU, it HAS advanced the dialogue about antebellum evils (that have been mostly swept under the rug)…

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 10:33am PST  Reply to this post

  • I saw this movie and liked it.

    Any notion that this will spur extended dialogue about slavery is utterly ABSURD.

    Comment by No Slavery Conversation Here — Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 11:58am PST  Reply to this post

• There is absolutely no accounting for taste.

  Comment by PerezSux — Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 11:41am PST  Reply to this post

  • exactly! perfectly said.

    Comment by sacha — Friday January 18, 2013 @ 2:57am PST  Reply to this post

• DU owes 1/2 its audience to the black audience.

  Comment by SallyinChicago — Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 12:52pm PST  Reply to this post

• Great for Tarantino but his best work by far was inglorious basterds– which should have won best picture and director

  Comment by Jake — Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 12:55pm PST  Reply to this post

  • If you think Inglorious Basterds was far better than DJango Unchained then you clearly missed the fact and I think Tarantino’s main point, that Django is exactly Inglorious Basterds, with the genocide of African Americans as the main focal point instead of Jews. I felt like I was watching Inglorious Basterds 2: The African American Slave Experience. The first time I saw it with my entire family including grandparents, the parallels immediately stood out. It’s a film, with all of its silly scenes(much needed relief between the scenes of horrific, depraved brutality of white men over the African American slaves of that time), that’s worthy of Oscar acknowledgment.

    Comment by Marc5 — Friday January 18, 2013 @ 4:50am PST  Reply to this post

    • This film was inspired by spaghetti westerns,so any photoghaphical misconceptions are intentional-example the elongated figures of the chain gang in the beginning,or the spotty film-these so called critics dont know what their talking about.The mental abuses of slavery are also presented in this film , Steven was an unforgetable character -this film has relevence to todays society in America

      Comment by Randy Malone — Saturday January 19, 2013 @ 11:26am PST  Reply to this post

• Who said you can’t fool the American public? (or, at least a decent part of the ticket-buying crowd)

  Comment by JoeS — Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 3:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• What a bunch of haters! This movie was fantastic from beginning to end, and it’s right up there with the Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Inglourious Basterds.

  Comment by MadMax — Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 4:41pm PST  Reply to this post

• Spike Lee own everyone an apolige James Foxx did a great job with the movie Django Unchanged I Saw the move on Christmas Day me and my family of nine member, we all left saying that the movie and James should win an Acadmey Award for this movie, thats how much we enjoy the movie,to me it is the best move James have done.CONGRALATION TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WORK TO MAKE THIS MOVIE!!!
  That is the way thing happen back then, I am a black 71 year old women I remember some of this life style for black in the South.

  Comment by Frances Hefney — Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 7:56am PST  Reply to this post