What a pile of poop

Rating: 2/10 (8 January 2013)

Never felt the need to write here before but this film has had so much hype and so much controversy for another Tarantino tripe export.
Now don't get me wrong here I am not a cool Tarantino hater, Reservoir Dogs is in my list of top ten films ever made (the list is one of about 100 interchangeable movies.)But after that masterpiece and going to the cinema with a friend seeing this awesome intro for Pulp Fiction and excellent credit sequence and then it all fell apart. (Uma Thurman drawing a square and saying don't be a square, douche.) Funny enough this had the same affect, brilliant start, good credit sequence and a good start Django and Dr Schultz in the bar scene. Alas it goes downhill from there.
The acting was alright for what they had to work with. Christopher Waltz was great but as a character became more of a novelty with no development. Interesting to see Samuel Jackson do something different but his character had no facets really. Never been a big fan of his work only really liking him funny enough in Pulp Fiction oh and Die Hard with a Vengeance. Jamie Foxx had this weird arc of one second being a slave and with no transition becomes a gunslinger.
I love the Franco Nero Django, one of my nephews couldn't wait to see this remembering me showing them the flick with the cowboy who carries around a coffin. The only relation this film has to Spaghetti Westerns is the poster.
I have read stuff about this being really violent and gory it even being more violent than Scarface. What? It was comic violence with no visceral intensity which for me doesn't count as violence, more cheap really.
All the controversy about the use of the N word (IMDB won't let me write the word even though it is integral to the movie.) and its portrayal of slavery. Who cares? It's a piece of trash written by a middle class, white, male westerner who has no intention of informing. He just wants to do what he thinks is cool and set the standard. I agree with him when he says if he was to portray the real brutality of slavery it would be unwatchable and also slavery is actually more complicated than bullshit skin color. If you are going to see a Tarantino piece of trash for a history lesson then that says a lot about you.
I am sorry but I am sick of being disappointed by this dope and angry at myself for always getting sucked in because of the unbelievably brilliant Reservoir Dogs.
I had to give this 2 out of 10 because there are flicks I can't sit through like Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and I did sit through this.
Tarantino is as an overrated US export as Big Macs and The free market.