Django Unchained: The Long Waiting is Over

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2013)

Finally! The movie I have been waiting for since they announced it last year. As a hardcore-cinema-visitor I can say I have seen around 100 movies in the past year. I almost live in the cinema. So I can be a little harsh on criticizing 90% of all the bad movies that come out. I have seen every trick and story to many times. There were only a handful of movies I had really high expectations for. Django Unchained was one of them. I can't go wrong with this. I'm a big fan of Western movies and Tarantino films.
Typical Tarantino:
Django Unchained has typical Tarantino Dialog. And this is awesome as you would except from him. There are some funny scenes and even more funny subtle phrases. The Funniest character for me was played by Samual Leroy Jackson. As a black man hating black man. It felt like the character from the Boondogs. There were some hillbilly's that acted very funny and stupid. The action scenes are crazy and awesome. They are not to careful with the blood. And it's violent. I love it.
The acting was really great and believable. Christof waltz was amazing. But the one that really amazed me was Leonardo Dicaprio. You can almost taste the ego of the man. He is so harsh to black people and talks about it like it's normal to literally trade them like that. And in one scene at a dinner table, he grabs a skull. Then you know stuff is about to get real and aggressive. I was staring at the screen when he grabbed Broomhilda and wanted to hit her with a hammer. I would almost hate Leonardo for it. This is perfect acting.
Dislikes:
But there are some minor critics. First of all the music. I did not care for most of the soundtracks. The only soundtracks I liked were from an older western named Django. Very nice opening for a film, but it went on a little to long. And some classical music that did (almost) fit. There was one particular scene in the mansion of Calvin Candie, where Schultz was waiting for Broomhilda to come to his room. The music at this point made me feel very awkward. It did not fit this scene. Also at the shoot-out between Django and a lot of guys in the mansion. They show some slow motion shots of Django being a bad ass. That's can be cool if they played Ennio Morricone or similar. But no. Some (c)rap music entered the scene. This didn't fit the scene at all. I know that Tarantino has a certain comical style that worked in other movies. But Reservoir dogs and pulp fiction are set in more modern world then this 1850 setting. And that music fitted perfect in those films.
Soundtracks can be very important for movies. Alsmost 50% of importance. But because I liked the Mise-en-Scene very much I can only take away 2 stars from the music. So that's 10-2=8 stars. Maybe I will get used to the music after watching it more times.
I would certainly watch this movie again while it's in the big screen because the shots and dialog are amazing.