Why did folks like this?

Rating: 5/10 (3 March 2013)

boring and baffling..i don't get it...the tone is wrong. is Tarantino trying to be funny? serious? what's he trying to say? there's an odd, if not downright insensitive, dissonance between the historical suffering underlying the narrative and absurdity of django's 'liberation' story...'django' was basically another 'white-boy-fantasy- film,' except this time around Tarantino gets to vicariously be the avenger through 'django.' it's no different than the white hero in avatar saving the planet from the super-evil-eco-wreckers, or kevin costner saving the loud- mouthed, spoiled black girl in 'bodyguard,' or tom cruise going to battle with the samurais saving japan's honor in 'the last samurai...'
it's too bad...this film was just cheap. 'pulp fiction' is one of my favorites of all time. i didn't even mind 'inglourious basterds' because at least with Nazis, they're so universally hated you can get away with irreverence and humor...here, Tarantino was out of bounds...