Originally Posted by tore

Django Unchained

I'm not a Tarantino fanboy. Inglorious Basterds was, despite being a reasonably entertaining movie about WW2, really shallow style over substance. The same can be said about Kill Bill 1 & 2, I think. The characters are fake and it was as if he'd just discovered Japanese anime, about a decade after I lost interest in it. Death Proof was mostly just boring dialogue and even Jackie Brown, which actually did have substance, was a bit boring. So I've thought of Quentin Tarantino as a bit overrated past Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs and haven't been that keen on his later work.

But yesterday, I finally got around to see Django Unchained and it had just about everything, substance, humour, great drama. The typical Tarantino dialogue was highly entertaining in this film and not a drawn out bore like it can be in his other films. The excessive violence was great. The characters, although generally still a simple sort of good or evil, were all interesting to watch, especially Christoph Waltz as the German Dr. Schultz. I thought it had some great retro style camera work and I appreciated that it lasted as long as it did. I like when a movie has time to tell its story. Finally, I thought it brought up a potentially slightly sore subject (I'm not American, but I guess they might be) in a daring and highly entertaining way.

This was so much better than Basterds. For me, I think this is Tarantino's finest moment yet.