Django unchained

[drizl]

Great acting.

However we left early. SO violent. Disgusting. I can't believe I paid 15$ to be traumatized by watching giant men beat eachother to a pulp, and then bash a face in with a hammer.

I felt like everyone in that theatre lost a part of their soul that night. Im done with hollywood for a while.

[Mot]

You go to a Quentin Tarantino movie and are suprised by all the violence? lolz

[Micodin]

Great acting.

However we left early. SO violent. Disgusting. I can't believe I paid 15$ to be traumatized by watching giant men beat eachother to a pulp, and then bash a face in with a hammer.

I felt like everyone in that theatre lost a part of their soul that night. Im done with hollywood for a while.

Did you see Reservoir Dogs? Did you walk out when Mr. Blonde cut off the kidnapped policeman's ear?

Or Pulp Fiction? When Marsellus Wallace was raped by two rednecks?

Or Kill Bill? When The Bride massacres the Crazy 88's with a samurai sword and cutting off many limbs?

I feel like no one in that theater lost a part of their soul. I believe they all went into a Tarantino movie knowing full well what to expect... Except you.

[Dorothy Wood]

I almost expected MORE violence than it had. I covered my eyes at all the bad parts though so I didn't actually see anything.

Anyway, I thought it was an alright movie. I like it when a wide audience is reminded of the atrocities of slavery because people love to sweep that stuff under the rug these days and romanticize the past when it was in actually pretty awful for the majority of people. It's kinda creepy that it's made into a form of entertainment, but I guess that's the best way to reach the mainstream.

[kaiser soze]

You forgot the scenes with the baseball bat and blowing away Hitler's face in Inglorious Bastards

go to a Tarantino flick and expect it

[Helvete]

Great acting.

However we left early. SO violent. Disgusting. I can't believe I paid 15$ to be traumatized by watching giant men beat eachother to a pulp, and then bash a face in with a hammer.

I felt like everyone in that theatre lost a part of their soul that night. Im done with hollywood for a while.

You sound like a bitch.

[Micodin]

You sound like a bitch.

Jules Winnfield: Does he look like a bitch?

[Helvete]

That reference would clearly go over drizl's head.

[Guy Incognito]

just seen this. fantastic. lots of blood but at least is showed people dying properly, my memories of westerns are people getting shot and the only thing you saw move was dust on the floor and maybe a bit of smoke. i definitely think it was a brutal back then as django was. Maybe not the massive gun battle at the end but i didnt have an issue with all the blood.

[Schmeltz]

I can't believe I paid 15$ to be traumatized by watching giant men beat eachother to a pulp, and then bash a face in with a hammer.

It's interesting that you siezed on this image. This was too traumatic for you - but on the other hand you were OK with watching:

- men being manacled and force-marched naked at gunpoint across miles of forbidding desert terrain
- men being stripped naked, bound in iron face masks, hung up at the heels, and threatened with castration
- women having the skin flayed off their backs with leather whips, being locked in iron hotboxes, and made into instruments of sexual pleasure
- human beings reduced to animals on the pseudo-scientific basis of racial phrenology

I think you have missed the point of this film. You were not watching two individuals beat each other into submission with hammers, you were watching one entire racial caste of a past society make another caste of their fellow men into sub-humans. But you were so subsumed by the graphic immediacy of individual violence that you seem to have ignored the larger picture of institutionalized societal violence, which is the ultimate source of the images you found so distasteful. Tarantino's got your number.

You are a voyeur. You are Calvin Candy.