Member Drunken Monk Posted January 7, 2013 Member Share Posted January 7, 2013 Ranking Tarantino films: 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Jackie Brown 3. Reservoir Dogs 4. Kill Bill vol 1, 2 5. Death Proof 6. Django 7. Inglourious basterds I would go... 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Inglourious Basterds 3. Django Unchained 4. Reservoir Dogs 5. Death Proof 6. Kill Bill vol 1 and 2 I haven't seen "Jackie Brown" since it first came out and don't really remember it that well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted January 7, 2013 Member Share Posted January 7, 2013 I would go... 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Inglourious Basterds 3. Django Unchained 4. Reservoir Dogs 5. Death Proof 6. Kill Bill vol 1 and 2 I haven't seen "Jackie Brown" since it first came out and don't really remember it that well. Dude you should check it out, Jackie Brown is very well made/ great performances all around and I mean everyone.... Good music too!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member andi81 Posted January 7, 2013 Member Share Posted January 7, 2013 I haven't seen DJANGO yet, but my list is: 1. Jackie Brown (i love everything about that film) 2. Kill Bill 1/2 (i hope The Whole Bloody Affair will still be released during my lifetime) 3. Pulp Fiction (too many great scenes...it will always be his flagship) 4. Inglourious Basterds (it's not perfect, but i just love the whole atmosphere and the multilingual stuff) 5. Reservoir Dogs (it's a flawless and timeless film, but i don't rewatch it that often) 6. Death Proof (oddly enough i rewatch it more often than Reservoir Dogs) I hope that DJANGO will take at least place number 4 on my list... ...Tarantino's CSI episode is nice too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member oneskyforall Posted January 8, 2013 Member Share Posted January 8, 2013 Yep like Inglourious Basterds it too drag from place to place and for me doesn't warrant a 2nd viewing at the movies... Maybe when it hit dvd I'll watch it again but seeing it once is enough... At times some of the agonizing pain from being shot was a little overboard.. They were really trying to go overboard in the dramatic side of things... At times the tone of this movie shifted from black comedy to race issues back to spaghetti western action and the Color Purple... To Tarantino I say will you please pick a tone and stick with it???? So glad to hear someone else say Inglorious Bastards was slow. So many people I know loved the hell out of the movie and I fell asleep the first time I tried to watch it Honestly Django was the only Tarantino movie I actually enjoyed other than the Kill Bill movies. His movies just aren't for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mpm74 Posted January 8, 2013 Member Share Posted January 8, 2013 I would go... 1. Jackie Brown 2. Reservoir Dogs 3. Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 4. Basterds 5. Death Proof 6. Django Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted January 8, 2013 Member Share Posted January 8, 2013 I would go... 1. Jackie Brown 2. Reservoir Dogs 3. Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 4. Basterds 5. Death Proof 6. Django No pulp fiction, wow:tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mpm74 Posted January 8, 2013 Member Share Posted January 8, 2013 No pulp fiction, wow:tongue: lol HE directed that? I thought it was Guy Ritchie. Pulp would be after Kill Bill =D I'm kinda going by what I watch most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted January 8, 2013 Member Share Posted January 8, 2013 lol HE directed that? I thought it was Guy Ritchie. Pulp would be after Kill Bill =D I'm kinda going by what I watch most. Hahha, hey did you check out Bangkok Dangerous yet??? Don't say I didn't warn you.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mpm74 Posted January 9, 2013 Member Share Posted January 9, 2013 Hahha, hey did you check out Bangkok Dangerous yet??? Don't say I didn't warn you.... Wait up, does that mean it's good or bad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Kwok Choi Posted January 10, 2013 Member Share Posted January 10, 2013 "Django Unchained" was, hands down, the best movie if 2012. And by a long shot too. It was superb from start to finish and that's a lot considering it's arse numbing run time. Tarantino simply knows how to do films and how to keep people entertained. It simply never lets up and doesn't fail to impress. The UK Premier is being rigged as we speak and man it is HUGE!!! The Empire Leicester Square is screening it not the flagship Odeon; Why? because I think possibly Tarantino is showing a 35mm film print as opposed to digital files." Flagship " Odeon have ripped out their 35mm projection equipment. The square is really buzzing and it seems QT fans are really gonna have a blast cus knownig QT he is really gonna paint the carpet red though it is freezing at the moment. I'm not staying cus I gotta run and I'm not involved in this screening but I'm very happy to have done the press and special invite screening of Kill Bill pt one a few moons ago at The Screen On The Green where I met QT, Michael Madsen and Julie Dreyfuss in person. Hey QT you still owe me my uncut special edition of Kill Bill combo ( 2 in 1 ) Sorry guys I wrote in haste.Forgive typos and grammar.Gotta go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Kwok Choi Posted January 11, 2013 Member Share Posted January 11, 2013 Go QT my man. By the way Tarantino is a really nice guy. If you meet him causally with his guard down you'll be in for a treat especially if you are a Kung Fu,Blaxploitation,Spaghetti Westen,Horror movie etc fan. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/11/quentin-tarantino-django-unchained-channel-4-interview-video_n_2453985.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member popsjnr Posted January 11, 2013 Member Share Posted January 11, 2013 Just started to watch a pukka print of this, for free, but was sidetracked by the use of Bacalov's original Django theme at the start, and all I want to watch is Corbucci's original at moment...no disrespect QT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member David Rees Posted January 11, 2013 Member Share Posted January 11, 2013 Great film, excellent performances and dialog, as you would expect from QT. The only criticism is its a bit too long and Quintin's cameo is awful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted January 12, 2013 Member Share Posted January 12, 2013 Go QT my man. By the way Tarantino is a really nice guy. If you meet him causally with his guard down you'll be in for a treat especially if you are a Kung Fu,Blaxploitation,Spaghetti Westen,Horror movie etc fan. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/11/quentin-tarantino-django-unchained-channel-4-interview-video_n_2453985.html QT was steaming up real fast from just a simple question.. He definitely woke up on the wrong side of the bed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Maybe twenty years of being asked the same question finally made him snap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member teako170 Posted January 12, 2013 Member Share Posted January 12, 2013 Go QT my man. By the way Tarantino is a really nice guy. If you meet him causally with his guard down you'll be in for a treat especially if you are a Kung Fu,Blaxploitation,Spaghetti Westen,Horror movie etc fan. Yeah, it would be something to be in a chilled environment and just talk Shaw and fu flix with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Kwok Choi Posted January 14, 2013 Member Share Posted January 14, 2013 Food for thought Well written ? Django Unchained Film Django Unchained Django Unchained: is its portrayal of slavery too flippant? Influential African Americans have attacked Quentin Tarantino's film for what they say is an inappropriate tone. Author and director Candace Allen explains why she disagrees In the mid-1990s when my sister and I were nursing an A-list star's film project through what I came to term "Hollywood Nightmare No 1" and I, the writer, became daunted by the madness, my sister sought to steel my nerve by quoting sacred text from the La-la Land bible: "Remember, it ain't show art. It's show business." Django Unchained Production year: 2012 Country: USA Cert (UK): 15.. Released: 19 Jan 2013 Runtime: 136 mins Directors: Quentin Tarantino Cast: Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kerry Washington, Kurt Russell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson More on this film As we consider the trajectory of Quentin Tarantino's much-anticipated Django Unchained this is a, if not the, salient thought to keep in mind. Irreverent, B-movie and grotesquerie devotee, n-word bandying, sometimes brilliant, usually outrageous, Tarantino directs his talents towards slavery. Cue the claque and all the usual suspects. From the film's announcement in early 2011, when copies of the 166-page QT-annotated script first began to circulate in the film blogosphere, controversy was guaranteed. Controversy was banked upon, and to the immense satisfaction of its distributing Weinstein Company, box office-generating controversy is just what we have. The story: in 1858, three years prior to the American civil war and five years prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, German dentist turned bounty-hunter Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) purchases Jamie Foxx's Django from a chain gang of half-naked, scarred-back slaves walking barefoot through a bleak winter landscape in order to find the criminal Brittle Brothers. Django, who desires reunion with his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), far more than sight of the next day's sun, shows an uncanny talent for the game, so Schultz suggests a pact: Django helps him collect a season of bounties for one-third of the loot and he will help Django liberate his true love. As punishment for chasing freedom with Django, the proud, beautiful Broomhilda has been sold to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), owner of the notorious Candyland plantation, a devotee/breeder of slave-on-slave Mandingo fighting and an all-round nasty piece of work. Candie's greatest ally, and "house slave" par excellence, is Samuel L Jackson's magnificent Stephen (Stepin Fetchit if he'd ever been very smart and very, very mean). Wagner's Ring cycle is cited. Not without reason. The journey is mythic in its challenges, and very bloody. Spike Lee … 'Slavery was not a spaghetti western. First offence Trash-talking, know-nothing, wannabe-hipster white boy dares focus his sleazy sensibilities on the American holocaust of slavery. Predictably, first to the post is fellow filmmaker Spike Lee, who declares Django disrespectful of slavery. "Slavery was not a spaghetti western," he says, steadfastly refusing to view the film. Close behind Lee stands a phalanx of tried and true veterans of the 20th century's culture wars, who chime in with expected though often highly entertaining tropes, such as writers Ishmael Reed – "[Django] is a Tarantino home movie with all the racist licks that appear in his other movies"; and Cecil Brown – [Django] is "Hollywood's nigger joke" [which unintentionally] "reveals the inner game of how the Hollywood studio and the plantation slave institutions [have] exploited black people". While discomfort with the idea of Django among those who follow and care about such things was multi-generational prior to the film's release, determined distaste for the film after viewing has been dominated by those of a certain age, who fought honourably and with reasonable success to change all aspects of African American degradation, who, out of necessity, pride and territoriality, remain ever vigilant for crimes against African-American dignity. Slavery was not a joke and shouldn't be treated as anything remotely touching on such, especially when the study of history is so pitifully neglected in American public schools, especially by a white boy, and especially by this white boy, who wouldn't know respect if it kicked him in the head … to no avail, for African-Americans of all ages have been attending in droves, with box office receipts exceeding all expectations. Reputable white voices are parsing their words carefully. Second offence The N-word. There are those who count these things and Django's N-word count has been given as 110 (while in the once-notorious Jackie Brown it was a mere 38). Actor Leo DiCaprio has spoken of his discomfort at having to use the word, giving himself over to his character's hideousness when colleagues Jackson and Foxx counselled that only thus could he descend to Calvin Candie's depths, where the word was common currency. Washington describes herself and Foxx creating a psychological "N-word shield" during days of shooting when usage was at its peak. The fact that the word's usage was era-appropriate holds little sway with those who'd rather it be disappeared for all time. Adding-insult-to-injury offence This week's release by National Entertainment Collectibles Association (NECA) of six Django action-figure dolls, for sale on Amazon.com. Eight-inches high, with moveable limbs, fabric clothing and "authentic" weapons, age recommendation 18 years and older. The full set yours for $299.99. NECA has done the same for Kill Bill, Carrie and Friday the 13th. This is fanboy/girl stuff – think the Big Bang Theory's desperate nerds – hitting the marketplace just as, 10-days after release, the furore was beginning to fade; and, like clockwork, attention reignites. A midwestern academic accuses the dolls of "killing what is left of our dignity". "Leaders" organise a boycott. Fans pull out their credit cards. The Weinstein Company smiles. The movie I first learned of Django in Spring 2011 via black film blog ShadowandAct where opinion was divided between tap-dancing excitement and "Lord, save us please ..." Though I'd much enjoyed Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, I'm not a QT fan, primarily because of his predilection for blood. I dearly love a good action movie, but the chop-socky, spaghetti, B-movie viscous cascades so central to QT's film nerd-directed oeuvre are not my thing. My disposition was towards the "Lord, please" camp but as the Christmas release date approached, I decided that seeing the film was a zeitgeist obligation. The Connecticut school shootings prompted several days of hesitation, for I grew up and write now in Connecticut, not far from the tragedy (and continue to search my soul in regards to the entertainment industry's influence on America's addiction to violence). However, as a voting member of the Directors Guild of America (and as a minor black-film pioneer), I didn't think I could post an informed list of nominees without having seen Django Unchained. I went in expecting to be cringing and angry, deploring QT's arrogant ignorance. Hoping to tolerate it at best. Wrong. I found Django wonderful, often thought-provoking and fun. I thought the spaghetti-western references – in music, colour saturation, use of titles, costuming, set design, buckets of blood, mythologising – an entertaining hoot. Though the violence of Django's revenge was grand guignol in its excess, the two places most emotionally fraught in terms of the brutal true nature of slavery, the flogging of Broomhilda and the Mandingo fighting (at the end of which I admittedly had to shield my eyes) were dealt with in a manner far more Coppola than Peckinpah (or Tarantino for that matter). I am the proud descendant of Georgia slaves, and as the director himself states, "the violence of slavery was far worse than anything [he has] put on screen". Amen. I did not find offence in QT's use of the word "nigger". In earlier films one could sense the man's romance with the word was akin to that of a small child taking rapturous joy in being potty-mouthed. That tendency is not present in Django. In 1858 the word was used for black people in both North and South, by both black and white, by "men of good will" like Mark Twain and evil racist sons of bitches. I submit that, given Django's circumstances, the word was used with restraint. A film about slavery with any verisimilitude would be absurd anachronism if the word was avoided to soothe modern sensibilities. To those who fear that any usage of the word confers it legitimacy, I say that those wishing to join their vocabularies and destinies with the likes of Candie are already far gone down the road to perdition and diagnostic tools to ferret them out are always helpful. Presently the word is in the closet, not the grave. Serious discussion and soul-searching demands saying the word. But, most of all, I thought Foxx's Django a film hero for all times, a "one nigger out of 10,000" who transitions from flogged and chained ignorance to avenging angel of withering intelligence. I'd certainly like to see more of him – and Broomhilda, his princess – something I didn't, for the most part, feel about 1970s blaxploitation heroes. (The first film I dropped out of film school to work on was the legendary Super Fly). Following Hollywood Nightmare No 1, I was confronted with a choice: if I wanted more scriptwork in LA I'd have to spend months in a town where the vast majority of produced "black" work was the half-hour comedies I called "coon shows", the stuff of horrible buffooning stereotype. These shows brought a lot of work to a good many African American actors; but I wanted no part of that continuing degradation so turned my hand to the novel and later the essay. There are some who have suggested that the black actors working for QT are part of that sorry, powerless tradition. I don't agree. I was a de-segregator in Connecticut growing up, the one dark face in all my schoolrooms; and when lessons turned to slavery, all faces turned to me. What I wouldn't have given in that day for a Django and his prancing horse (the actor's own by the way) to hold to my heart and shore up my soul? His poster would have been on my wall and – though I took leave of dolls at age six – his action figure on my desk. • Candace Allen is the author of Soul Music: The Pulse of Race and Music, published by Gibson Square Books Page link full comments.http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/10/django-unchained-portrayal-slavery-flippant?INTCMP=SRCH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member popsjnr Posted January 15, 2013 Member Share Posted January 15, 2013 Am halfway thru this awesome movie, beautiful letterbox Oscar vote print to boot!!, and loving it to bits, I always loved Spaghetti Westerns and this captures that mood perfectly, the scene with Don Johnson's posse of men moaning about the eyeholes in their hoods is on Blazing Saddles level of comedy... And Jamie Foxx training his gunplay on a snowman to the tune of Day of Anger/Invincible Armour freaked me out..... Well done QT, you did it again,,,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member popsjnr Posted January 16, 2013 Member Share Posted January 16, 2013 watched the whole movie now.... and... that is an INCREDIBLE movie maybe QT's masterpiece???, wouldnt have thought it was possible, but it was even better than Spielberg's Lincoln which I watched yesterday (and is a stunning movie in it's right)....hey RZA ask QT for directing lessons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member daisho2004 Posted January 17, 2013 Member Share Posted January 17, 2013 I just finished watching Django and I think Kwok Choi review is excellent and said all that really needed to be said about this film. When I first heard QT was making this film and that Jamie Fox was cast as the lead I was like WTF no way this isn't going to be good at all. But I have to stand corrected this was a brilliant movie and I think one of QT's best so far. The casting was superb you either loved or hated each character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member sifu iron perm Posted January 22, 2013 Member Share Posted January 22, 2013 finally got to see it today. QT delivered another gem to his collection. The Nero (OG Django) with current D was a nice touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Secret Executioner Posted January 28, 2013 Member Share Posted January 28, 2013 Saw it today. Just GREAT. While the tone switches often (funny, harsh, disturbing but funny,...), I thought it felt (overall) a lot like a classic western spaghetti (several elements reminded me of Sergio Leone's movies), with some Blaxploitation elements thrown in. The action scenes were epic, the suspense was tense and the character development was of a rarely matched kind: the German doctor is really fun, Di Caprio makes an amazing villain (you love him for being such a bastard), the rest are either really likeable people or (for the most part) bastards you're glad to see getting shot. Django himself however seems a bit lacking in that department, though you quickly get into the character and he gets just BAD ASS at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member vengeanceofhumanlanterns Posted January 31, 2013 Member Share Posted January 31, 2013 The beginning through about 3/4s of the way were great. I was impressed. The ending though, WTF! I never liked how Tarantino ended any of his films. The Lone Ranger 2013looks like it has some promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted February 2, 2013 Member Share Posted February 2, 2013 Just saw it. Tarantino succeeds again. Great direction as well as dialogue and overall performances, catchy music, beautiful sets/locations, and good action. Ranking Tarantino's movies: 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Inglorious Basterds 3. Kill Bill Vol 1 4. Django Unchained 5. Reservoir Dogs 6. Kill Bill Vol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member John Posted February 3, 2013 Member Share Posted February 3, 2013 Every film I've seen of his has been captivating, and Django is no exception. I can't say that of most of the movies I see; it's brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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