# Django Unchained - Tarantino's next flick **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422 "2012-06-07T20:36:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/21 "2012-06-08T23:59:45Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > You had me at blaxploitation spaghetti western Absolutely. A convergence of two of the greatest genres, plus Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Don Johnson, Franco Nero, and Bruce Dern. And a character named Broomhilda and another named Dick Speck? The Mayans may have been right because the universe may explode from its awesomeness. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/22 "2012-06-09T04:38:15Z")
_Inglorious Bastards_ was, IMO, a crappy movie with some stellar performances and excellent characters. Watching the trailer for this, I couldn’t help but feel that perhaps Tarantino feels as though he has found his niche. ---
**Author:** ![FeAudrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FeAudrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeAudrey)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/23 "2012-06-10T01:18:45Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > So I can’t expect any awesome guitar playing in it? Have to settle for PBS. The \*real \*Django was who I was expecting, too. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/24 "2012-06-10T23:17:00Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Yes, that cotton shot is nicely symbolic. Since it is Tarantino, I’m wondering where he borrowed it from. Where the white cotton got sprayed with the red blood? I loved that shot! I’m also glad it’s Foxx, not Will Smith. I wonder if Samuel L. Jackson’s going to make a cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/25 "2012-06-11T00:41:29Z")
Knowing Tarantino, the music will be great and who knows, Django’s music might show up somewhere. For those who’ve never heard Django Reinhardt’s guitar, [here you go](http://youtu.be/VpmOTGungnA). Tarantino’s a god to me, but for the most part I’m staying away from all trailers, clips, stills, writeups and reviews (though not this thread, obviously). I want it all to be fresh and new to me in the theater. I did that with the brilliant **Inglorious Basterds** and was knocked out. I had no idea what was coming. To me he’s never made a bad movie and I’m so excited. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/26 "2012-12-23T15:42:58Z")
This is the movie that is going to get me and my husband back into a theater for the first time in years. We are going Wednesday and I can. not. wait. It is going to be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/27 "2012-12-23T16:45:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > _Inglorious Bastards_ was, IMO, a crappy movie with some stellar performances and excellent characters. Watching the trailer for this, I couldn’t help but feel that perhaps Tarantino feels as though he has found his niche. That film had great dialogue but, except for Waltz, pretty poor characterization. DJANGO is better in that sense, but is far more violent-- both in the cruel, believable sense (against the slaves) and its ultra-stylized sense (against the slave masters). It’s a film fueled by bloodlust, far more than IB even, but the film skirts a fine line between being an homage to exploitation films and being genuinely exploitative itself, IMHO not very successfully. The acting is great across the board, though–except for QT’s absolutely atrocious cameo ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/28 "2012-12-23T21:10:14Z")
I sooo want to see this on Christmas day, but alas I work at 2:PM-2:AM, and doubt that it’ll start early enough to make that. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/29 "2012-12-23T22:41:54Z")
Spike Lee is quoted as saying he has no comment about this movie–because he doesn’t plan to see it. He feels the movie “disrespects his people” and will not legitimize the message. I was wondering; is this a case of Spike Lee being upset about a white director making this movie, or the fact that he himself didn’t get to? I don’t get where the alleged disrespect comes in, so maybe a clued in Doper can explain things? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/30 "2012-12-23T23:21:39Z")
Spike Lee needs to get over himself. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/31 "2012-12-23T23:23:43Z")
Spike Lee being Spike Lee. I must say, I have no respect for anyone’s opinion on something if the gist is “I haven’t seen this movie and won’t see it, but my friend tells me it’s probably terrible.” ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/32 "2012-12-24T00:06:12Z")
[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=98041](http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=98041) The first issue of the comic book - based on Tarantino’s full original script for the movie - came out last week, with art by the same guy who drew Scalped. I thought it was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/33 "2012-12-24T01:07:31Z")
> [@medstar](#): > > Spike Lee is quoted as saying he has no comment about this movie–because he doesn’t plan to see it. He feels the movie “disrespects his people” and will not legitimize the message. I was wondering; is this a case of Spike Lee being upset about a white director making this movie, or the fact that he himself didn’t get to? I don’t get where the alleged disrespect comes in, so maybe a clued in Doper can explain things? Spike has always had a thing about Tarantino, going back to _Pulp Fiction_. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/34 "2012-12-26T23:11:20Z")
It was AWESOME! I loved every minute of it. Spike Lee needs to get over himself. The use of the N word in the film was appropriate to the period and not done just for shock value. There was plenty of Q. T. over the top blood and gore to cover that. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/35 "2012-12-26T23:22:57Z")
Spike Lee doesn’t get to say anything about anybody else’s movie until he makes a decent one to make up for the piece of shit that was _Red Hook Summer_. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/django-unchained-tarantinos-next-flick/624422/36 "2012-12-26T23:47:29Z")
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