Django Unchained

[Otta]

If you're going to try just one film, it has to be Pulp Fiction.

[*Bob*]

MrBen wrote

> Right, well....Bridget Fonda in a bikini and a

> sound track featuring Bobby Womack and Roy Ayers.

> Whats not to like?

Just had a scan through and I do have JB backed-up on the HD drive.

It's a toss-up between that and Flash Gordon. A Peter Duncan cameo, the bore worms, a ludicrous score by Queen and, er, Ornella Muti in tight fitting clothes.

Tough call.

[Jeremy]

Peckhamgatecrasher - if you don't like violent films, Jackie Brown would probably be the one to start with.

Pulp Fiction is possibly his best film (and one of the more accessible ones) though.

[Cassius]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Peckhamgatecrasher - if you don't like violent

> films, Jackie Brown would probably be the one to

> start with.

>

> Pulp Fiction is possibly his best film (and one of

> the more accessible ones) though.

Agreed - Pulp Fiction probably tells you all you need to know about QT and his style of direction. Incidentally the QT section of Sin City was the only one I was able to keep my eyes open during.............

[Otta]

Which section was that?

[Jeremy]

The bit with Clive Owen driving the bodies to the tar pit... after the prostitutes kill a thug, then realise he's actually a cop.

Anyway, saw Django last weekend and really enjoyed it. The violence was unrealistic and didn't bother me. The use of the "N word" didn't seem out of place.

[Dopamine1979]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> The bit with Clive Owen driving the bodies to the

> tar pit... after the prostitutes kill a thug, then

> realise he's actually a cop.

>

> Anyway, saw Django last weekend and really enjoyed

> it. The violence was unrealistic and didn't bother

> me. The use of the "N word" didn't seem out of

> place.

I saw Django last weekend. It was a very good film but he could have EASILY halved the N-word count. Much of the use of the word was just plain gratuitous. Given the subject matter the word needed to be used but he took it WAY too far this time.

[Marmora Man]

Dopamine 1979 wrote: "but he took it WAY too far this time" - surely that's just the Tarantino style - to complain about it is like complaining that nights are dark.

[civilservant]

finally saw Django and thought it was a marvellous return to form - almost as good as Pulp Fiction or Jackie Brown (was the best bit of the latter really BrFo in a bikini? a bit sad, that assessment)

Rosie I do hope you kept your eyes open when QT came on with that ludicrous Oz accent or you'd have missed a brilliant bit of the film. Most of the characters he plays himself get offed in inventively nasty ways.

[Dopamine1979]

Marmora Man Wrote:

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> Dopamine 1979 wrote: "but he took it WAY too far

> this time" - surely that's just the Tarantino

> style - to complain about it is like complaining

> that nights are dark.

I'm a Tarantino fan - the stylised violence, dark humour and obscure film references are all great. I just wonder about the excessive use of such a particularly and uniquely offensive word.

[civilservant]

> a particularly and uniquely offensive word.

he does it on purpose for sure - it's literally the last word in the screenplay!

[maxxi]

civilservant Wrote:

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> > a particularly and uniquely offensive word.

>

> he does it on purpose for sure - it's literally

> the last word in the screenplay!

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