Good for Tarantino Fans

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2013)

I am unsure how someone who is not a Tarantino nerd would take this movie. But if you like him like I and many others do, you will love it. Waltz is the star here and has the BEST dialogue in the first half of the movie. He fades in the second half unfortunately. Same for all of T's movies since Pulp Fiction where EVERY character and EVERY piece of dialogue was golden. In his more recent movies we just get glimpses of it. But it is enough for me! Other than that it is over the top violent which is expected but the gore has been taken up a notch (to a silly slasher flick level). Not sure of the reason for that. It was borderline cartoon-ish and for some reason detracted from the movie. It really pulled me out.
Last. And again typical of Tarantino needed to be about 30 minutes shorter. He needs a good editor. But at this point he can put in whatever he wants for his own amusement. See the whole interlude where he is a character. It almost seems as if he just couldn't bring himself to cut his own scene. It was really self-gratuitous and unnecessary to have Django Unchained twice with that as the interlude.