Good Violent Fun but Overlong and Meandering

Rating: 7/10 (6 March 2014)

After absolutely loving Inglourious Basterds I was excited for this film and while it will certainly had its moments I found the movie overlong and somewhat predictable.
In Basterds, there were multiple emotional stories and an enormous cast that all got beautifully tied and woven together(same goes for Pulp). Django, on the other hand, is a pretty straightforward love/revenge story and the plot turns are surprisingly predictable which kills the suspense in a lot of the scenes.
Nonetheless, the film would have been a very fun and violent romp, filled with colorful characters had it not been for one thing.. The editing. 180 minutes?? For LotR fine but this story did not warrant the run time. Instead its filled with plot meanderings and multi-minute clips simply of people walking in slow motion over rap music...
I simply wish there was a theatrical cut and a director's cut because if I saw a 2 hour version of this movie I would have much higher opinion of it.