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Life of Pi (2012) - Started out very charming and promising but got kind of stretched out and contorted, and in the end, it was just okay. Another movie that I have no problem saying thumbs up to, but I also don't see myself wanting to watch it again. Lots of those this year.

6.4 out of 10


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reno why the fok are you so aggressive? That's my schtick pal.

Civil War is the best, it had the coolest uniforms and it was easy to understand.

Though one wonders how much the competitive/economic angle motivated the abolitionists, vs. the moral/equality issue.

Civil War II will pit Team Starbucks against Team Wal-Mart. Can't wait. :popcorn:
 
Django Unchained (2012) - A basically entertaining and enjoyable yarn. Fun. Catharsis for sale!

BUT . . .

Negatives: waaayyyyy too long for a movie with so little to say. Cheesy in parts. No doubt a lot of it was intentional cheesiness and "making a nod" to cheesy things from the past (which I probably wouldn't watch due to the cheesiness). You get into the issue of intentional versus unintentional funny-because-it's-bad. (Unintentional is better IMO). Anyway, the dopey songs and people flying backwards (sideways?) when they get hit by bullets and the fast-zoom-with-sound-effect etc. etc. - somewhat funny or at least tolerable in small doses but overdone in this movie for my taste. Just make a new movie and stop worrying so much about making conspicuous nods to things.

But on the plus side, it really does have some entertaining elements. I would have liked to have seen it boiled the fuck down but it doesn't change the fact that they are there.

7 out of 10.



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I liked Basterds a lot more than Django all the way through - except due to my strenuous objection over the ending of Basterds, they have both ended up with the same rating of 7.

In fact Django kind of illustrated my point about Basterds. They are both running a similar crappy-guys-get-comeuppance formula. IMO you can do whatever you want with that in a fictional world. So Django was fine for that. But you can't just change known history like they did in Basterds. At least it doesn't work for me.

Thus Django ends up equal to Basterds (despite really not being near as good) (except it was) (because of the ending) (but no).
 
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Seems like every Tarantino movie is about revenge. Django and Basterds were way over the top in that regard, but Basterds has some of the best, most tense dialogue I've ever witnessed in a movie. Django has its moments too, especially when DiCaprio is around. But no. Not even close.

I didn't mind the Basterds' ending either. To me it's an instant classic and one of the best movies of all time. It's got everything, action, wit, silliness, gore, misery, loss, lust, visual flair, and a baseball bat.
 
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I was turned off by the ending of Inglorious. Still loved the film but I was like, "coooommmmmmmonnnnnnnn".

Django is a silly movie (in a good way). No one does revenge films like Tarantino.
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Yes Django is a silly movie. It's a turn-your-brain-off, bad-guys-get-what's-coming whacky romp. I don't even feel like I need a spoiler alert when I say that - it is all so simple and obvious.

Something like that has NO business being 2 hours 45.

I know I am repeating myself but that kind of thing has to be under 2 hours.

Basterds had more going on than just the simple journey to catharsis. But that's all Django was.
 
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