Just a bad movie

Rating: 5/10 (20 April 2013)

I was once a real Tarantino fan. He reinvented old style movies and it was fun and well made. Problem is, that's all he can do (or is wanting to show). His movies got weaker and weaker and even fans could only reply to critic with "It is intentionally bad! It just makes fun of old movies."
Same with this one. Most funny thing her is, that very young people are talking like this. People that never have seen an Italian western before but now defend this movie as an obeisance, a critical examination or an ironic view. It feels just like Tarantino has thrown some episodes together and found no way to combine them. Acting is really bad (yes yes, it's for sure intentionally bad like everything in this movie) except of Jamie Foxx and Leonardo Di Caprio and. Which is kind of funny, because normally I can't stand him and like Christoph Waltz. But Waltz' character was most times completely overacted like in some school play. Tarantions own small role stood out in relation to the rest: like a completely talent less actor. Man, do I miss the Tarantino of "From Dusk till Dawn" or "Pulp Fiction"...
So: Story is a mess, acting is crap... what is there else to say? Well. The music score is a mixture of cinematic themes, pop music and hip hop. Does not fit as good as anywhere in the movie. Cutting was a mess too. Some cuts where extremely hard and just done badly.
Only cam was quite good, there were some really nice pictures. And the overall theme of slavery and how everyone took their side in this dark times (yes, even the white "missus" did take their role of shame) let me give a 6.
This movie is neither a obeisance to the old Italien western nor is it a critical examination nor an ironic view. It's just took some elements and mixed them up quite bad. If it really was intentional it does not make a better movie. It's like making a gross hamburger to make fun of fast food and then expecting people to eat it with pleasure. Which will be done by all the Tarantino fans out there. No matter how bad their idol cooks, how bad the burger tastes or how messy it looks: they will love it because it's made by their idol. For the rest of us: good there are much better restaurants our there. Including the old traditional Italian Pizzeria where you can get a real "Django" if you want to. Without any erupting blood fountains, they are nowhere to be seen in this movie from 1966.