What with Looper, The Master, Argo, Seven Psychopaths, and all the other must-see movies hitting the theaters in the past month, you may have forgotten all the hype for Tarantino and Django Unchained. Django‘s set for a Christmas day release, and according to reports, may be ready in time to play the Rome Festival next month (I’ll be attending, but between my yacht parties and manservants, who knows if I’ll have a chance to see it?).
Anyway, Jamie Foxx has to become a bounty hunter under the tutelage of Christoph Waltz (a bounty hunter/dentist) so he can rescue his wife Broomhilda von Shaft (yes, that’s her character’s real name) from evil Leonardo DiCaprio, who runs a big plantation where he holds gladiator-style slave fights. Sam Jackson and Don Johnson both have Colonel Sanders hair and fit in there somehow as well. Oh, and Jonah Hill shows up for the first time, appearing to play some kind of Klansman in a scene very reminiscent of O Brother Where Art Thou (am I crazy, or is the guy under the bag who yells at Jonah Hill in this the same guy who played the Klansman/political candidate running against the incumbent in O Brother?). I’m assuming Jamie Foxx eventually gets captured, and all hope looks lost until president Daniel Day-Lewis eventually comes along, frees the slaves, and beats Jonah Hill to death with a bowling pin. Goddamn that would be awesome.
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The second trailer got me far more excited for this movie than the first. That and I had a Sergio Leone marathon this weekend at the crib.
I will hate Leo until my dying day for actually making me like him. I blame Catch Me If You Can for starting this!
I blame
TitanicGangs of New York.Yeah, it was SO easy to hate him around Titanic time. And then he suddenly because a fucking awesome actor and I was, like, oh, shit, would you look at that? I’m all outta Hatorade.
Dude has gone totally method with making me enjoy his work. Departed, J. Edgar, Inception. If this is some kind of new trend I may actually be able to stomach Justin Bieber music in 15-20 years.
I really liked Gilbert Grape.
Leo is pretty much untouchable. I have to like him, even if it pains me. He bangs the hottest tail on the planet, he went full retard, and has saved like 7 polar bear cubs with his bare hands.
He’s good. He made the rare transition from Tiger Beat to Serious Artist. Its pretty rare. I liked Basketball Diaries then he seemed to lose his way until after he filmed the Beach. Probably realized what a turd that was. He’s been solid ever since.
Total Eclipse, The Beach & Blood Diamond
True story. The first thing I thought when I stepped off of the plane on my first trip to South Africa was, ‘everyone here sounds like Leo in Blood Diamond.’ Spot on accent.
Now that is how you make a trailer. And yes, I’m looking at you Prometheus.
Man, this is a good season for movies. Is the crappiness of the summer movie season inversely proportional to the quality of the fall/holiday movie season?
I actually thought this summer was better than most, what with The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Cabin in the Woods, Magic Mike, and Killer Joe.
I feel like the only particularly good movies I saw all summer were Avengers and TDKR. But I didn’t see anything else that you named, so that might be the problem.
TDKR didn’t meet Nolan’s standards, i’d even say it was one of Nolan’s worst movies! Avengers =Decent. But otherwise, this year has been kinda shite SO FAR!
Oh, and a lot of people would say Prometheus was good, too. I’m not one of those people.
The Avengers = slightly above average comic book movie, which is an ok movie at best. TDKR = worst Christopher Nolan movie yet, which is a good movie. Prometheus = shit, really pretty shit, but shit nonetheless. Cabin in the Woods = good. So no great movies and only a couple good ones.
Expendables 2.
I liked Expendables 2, better than the first one! Did what it had to, get our adrenaline pumping and nostalgia’d!
I’m 1000% glad that they dropped the stupid “Django is off the chain!” tagline, too.
Kind of a strange “Sweet and Lowdown” sequel/prequel, but I’ll take it.
I’m still nervous after “Basterds”. I really hope there is less of Tarantino’s bullshit and more story/action.
Tarantino = Action . So don’t worry, it WILL have more action than the rest!
Tarantino also = 30 minute dialogues that only serve to relieve pressure on the director’s prostate.
His dialogue has made his movies increasingly unwatchable. It makes you MORE AWARE that your watching a movie.
In this era of Twatlight and Avaturd, i am happy to finally have a Tarantino movie!
If they don’t have a dead n’ger storage line in this, I will have to GTFO (get the funk out, for those not in the know. Basically for us white folks it means you don’t have to do anything. AWESOME!)
“I’m assuming Jamie Foxx eventually gets captured, and all hope looks lost until president Daniel Day-Lewis eventually comes along, frees the slaves, and beats Jonah Hill to death with a bowling pin”
If that is the case, then ma’am, I will buy all the tickets.
ALL
THE
TICKETS!!!
This looks 100x better than Inglourious Basterds. I’m probably looking forward to this more than the other recent solid films that have come out.
I don’t get all the Inglorious Basterds hate. I thought that was an awesome movie.
The comedy parts of the movie theater scene (Brad Pitt speaking Italian) was worth the price of admission alone.
Lt. Aldo Raine: Well, I speak the most Italian, so I’ll be your escort. Donowitz speaks the second most, so he’ll be your Italian cameraman. Omar speaks third most, so he’ll be Donny’s assistant.
Pfc. Omar Ulmer: I don’t speak Italian.
Lt. Aldo Raine: Like I said, third best. Just keep your fuckin’ mouth shut. In fact, why don’t you start practicing, right now!
It was a decent movie but I felt let down overall. Maybe it was an expectation level thing but I found it kind of dull. Definitely some good comedy bits and over the top craziness. To me it seemed inconsistent though.
Basterds was incredible. It took a while for me to get past the Tarantinoisms, but it’s brilliantly acted, beautifully shot and is a fun story.
I’ve seen Inglourious Basterds 3 times now and still enjoyed it each time.
My problem with the movie is instead of an action movie centered on the Basterds. it was a revenge story centered around a character I didn’t even know was in the movie (based on trailers).
Also, the actress looked like Heidi Montag of “The Hills”, who was everywhere on tv and radio at the time and was one of the reasons I was in favor for abortion leading up to 19 years after date of conception.
She also looked like Sandra Locke, who was the cancer in Clint Eastwood’s life and film career from roughly 1977 to 1983.
Unless he’s uncredited, Wayne “Homer Stokes” Duvall is not in Django.
Pretty sure Jamie Foxx plays a bootay hunter.
Jonah Hill just gave this movie it’s tip of the hat to Blazing Saddles. Which, hopefully, won’t suck.
Here’s my thing with recent Tarantino movies. I feel like he has too much control over them and there doesn’t seem to be anyone who can say, “You knows what, this would work better”. So Tarantino puts out great movies that could be so much better. That’s what I thought coming out of “Basterds” Great movie, really needed someone to say, “We don’t need a 20 minute card game or 20 minutes in a cafe, we need more screen time for the Basterds.” It’s not all about you, no one gives a shit about Leni Riefenstah.
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A plantation? My, this is right up Vince’s alley!
As if Sam Motherfuckin’ Jackson’s normal face wasn’t scary enough, they put up this ludicrous make-up for him!
Leo’s character seems to be based on Leslie Nielsen in Kung Fu.
This is really going to fuck with my not watch anything with Jonah Hill in rule.
There are only really two directors I know whose names I know and films I’ve see all of and still loved, even if tilted ‘Revolver’ or ‘Death Proof’, and Those are Tarantino and Guy Ritchie. And yes, I expect that I’m alone in this. Looking forward to new Tarantino!
Really, you’re the only person in the world who liked Swept Away?
Anyone else hear the “Banjo” theme from Bob’s Burgers for that title card at the end?
Damn that’s a good trailer
I know what gift I’m giving myself for Christmas! A trip to Alamo Drafthouse!
Just finished reading the “10 Most Offensive” things about this movie, and it suprises me that adults with sound minds, can go into a Tarantino film about slavery/Vengeance/Revenge, and be all “He used the N word to many times. They glorified that Jamie Foxx shouldn’t be on a horse. That Jerry must be retarded, and the clan scene was more offensive then hilarious.” Grow up people. First of all it’s more racist to say a white person can’t use a word, because it’s only for black people, then to use the word in a NON derogatory manner, If Sam Jackson approves it, then STFU. You think he woulda done 10 Tarantino movies if he thought he was a giant racist, trying to get shock value from the word.