Last movie you watched......

Loved "Looper" despite a few flaws. I'm a sucker for films with that noir feel to them. I loved how the future wasn't all bright and shiny, but just as shitty as the present. It's a more realistic approach.

 

Because of this board I just watched Gina Gershon give a greasy blowjob to a KFC chicken leg. That sentence would have been so muchnhotter in 1996.

 

Well, what did you think of the movie??

 

Django Unchained is more than worthy of its Oscar nominations. Outstanding flick.

 

Finally saw Cabin in the Woods. Whoo boy.

 

Saw Zero Dark Thirty tonight. Excellent film. Little different than what I thought it would be, thought there'd be a bit more action, but still really enjoyed it.

 

Django Unchained is right up on the top of the list -- of most overrated movies of the year.

First and foremost, the story was boring as hell and lacked any plot twists whatsoever. SPOILER ALERTS AHEAD (hell, it's been out three weeks now so don't blame me).

I thought Christoph Waltz was fantastic and gave Daniel Day Lewis a run for his Best Actor Oscar money. I was surprised at how little a role Jamie Foxx had. He was in most every scene, but played a key role in about half of them. I was also disappointed at how little went on. I thought the winter-spent-bounty-hunting had the potential to be a fantastic montage, since QT had the sense to pattern it after the best montage in movie history, the Butch and Sundance "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" bank robbing montage, but instead, it completely fizzled out.

But I also was disappointed that Waltz' Shultz never proved to have a nasty streak. I was convinced there was a bigger issue going on, that Shultz was using Django to track down the girl, not the Brittle Brothers...like maybe the girl's being able to speak German because she was actually his daughter or something. But, no, nothing as complex as that. Then I was convinced once Shultz bought the girl, he was going to keep her for his own, and then struggle with the morals of that. Nope -- again, too complex for QT. Then, finally, Shultz decides to in essence commit suicide-by-gunman by killing Candie in front of his henchmen for no good reason, all because Canide sic'ed dogs on a slave? Really?

And I'm sorry to say I never laughed once.

Oh, but the frequent use of the word "nigger" was interesting to me in that I guess you can take the boy out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the boy: Although I can honestly say I've never used the word in the disgustingly derogatory manner in which it is still frequently flung, I never cringed when I heard it onscreen because I guess I was raised around its use so much as a kid. That's sad.

 

Django Unchained. Best movie of the year.

 

Good points in here.

The thing about Basterds -- and it *is* QT's masterpiece -- but he said often it took him 10 years to write that script not to mention it took a long time to finally lock in Waltz. Nothing about that movie I don't love.

Django is the same basic movie. The only difference, I felt, is that QT kind of rushed his writing and plotting and didn't put nearly as much cinematic love into it. If it took 10 years to bring Basterds to life, it felt like Django was put together in about 18 months. You can feel the difference.

And Pitt was to Waltz what I felt Waltz should have been to the character DiCaprio plays. Meaning, Pitt was A-list superstar for Basterds, and Waltz was someone we'd never heard of, someone who blew it up in his American debut as Landa. Now Waltz was the big name in Django, so I was hoping that another unknown would blow it up in his debut as Candie. Again, not that DiCaprio stunk, but I don't think this was his thing.

 

Project X. Great tits. Very funny.

 

Agree that the dentist's killing of the plantation owner was to hard to reconcile.
He said early in the movie that slavery was disgusting, and Waltz did a fine job of illustrating his growing hatred of DiCaprio.

The problem is that the character had also been very well established as calm and practical.
His action was needed for the finale, but the action didn't suit the character. Tarantino tried to lay some groundwork for it, but I still thought that action was out of character.

 

Dude, it's a freaking movie. You pay your 10 bucks to enjoy yourself for a few hours. All of the analytical stuff, man that's waaaay over the top. As for the use of the N-word, I thought it was appropriate for the time period. It was what they called African-Americans in the sound during that time.