Comments on: Review: 3 Different Opinions On The Good & The Bad Of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

By: jimmiescoffee

jimmiescoffee — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:07 +0000

i am hearing bad things from many sources. not good.

By: jimmiescoffee

jimmiescoffee — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:07 +0000

2 more things. i love the triple review. and sally menke for sure.

By: Katie Walsh

Katie Walsh — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:07 +0000

I thought the first and third sections were pretty glorious but the middle section could have been accomplished in 20 minutes vs. an hour. Agreed on the pacing issues (some too fast, some WAY too slow). Also, I wonder about QT's intentions… I understand why he made it so brutal (some of the the violence is stomach-turning) in order to pay off the end, but without anything substantive to say, I don't think he gets a free pass for all the issues he plays fast and loose with.

By: QT is

QT is — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:07 +0000

This emperor has no clothes.

By: frank smith

frank smith — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:07 +0000

"Though it might just entertain the shit out of the less discerning." What an arrogant review. YOU didn't like it while others (and no doubt the majority of reviewers) seem to be raving. It's an opinion, not fact.

By: TheoC

TheoC — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:07 +0000

Love that last review, not because I'm a generic hater, but because it's honest and well written. Nice work.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:07 +0000

The fact that Rodrigo Perez prefers The Master (That's not to say films must adhere to the three-act structure "The Master" is a great example of bucking the design), which I disliked quite a lot, to this film makes me want to see Django Unchained even more.

By: patrik

patrik — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

"Though it might just entertain the shit out of the less discerning."

Why don't you stick to reviewing the movie, and not insulting your readership. Please life the flap in the refrigerator box you live in and give the first homeless person you see a blowjob, cockface.

By: patrik

patrik — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

"Though it might just entertain the shit out of the less discerning."

Why don't you stick to reviewing the movie, and not insulting your readership. Please life the flap in the refrigerator box you live in and give the first homeless person you see a blowjob, cockface.

By: Deini

Deini — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

Perez you pompous, so and so, allow me to impart some knowledge from the "less discerning". Trying to insult an thus bully moviegoers into siding with your obviously myopic view of film is as childish as the "I know you are but what am I" argument from the playground. Sometimes entertainment is simply that, and if I need genuine emotion I'll get it from more conventional sources, you know like "reality". If I, the descendant of slaves can find levity in this subject matter anyone can. Find another line of work chump. If you have any real talents to do so.

By: TarantinoFan

TarantinoFan — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

[C-] eh? Just shows what a genius you are.
Even Alison Willmore gave a better rating (6/10) than you (well, she gave Twilight the same rating).

To be fair, I havent seen the moie, but I read the script.
The thing is that I read from this review, its not that the movie is the problem, its Tarantinos style these people dont understand, or should I better say DONT WANT to understand.
People like you jsut dont understand that movies are still art (no matter how much Hollywood tries to make it a business). And it seems that even after 20 years there are still some people who dont wanna accept Tarantinos style.
You remind me of that women in Cannes, when "Pulp Fiction" won the palme d'or in 1994, and she screamed in outrage and disbelieve how this "trash" can win the highest honor.

By: uno mas

uno mas — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

attacking the critic…but of course, don't discuss the salient points, issues raised as one might just see through the smoke and mirrors. Movie biz folks are typically not the sharpest knife in the drawer, unless of course one turns their back, it's just one of those reflex things that goes along w/ degrees of socio & psycho pathological narcissism. Do not…I repeat do not criticize the sleaze, the slithering snakes don't like that. It's all about hero worship and false Gods, got to keep the NRA purring along. Fans, trolls, producer types, agents, or any of those paid schmucks whose job it is to prop it up, keep that baby propped up!

By: Frankie Carmenjello

Frankie Carmenjello — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

"setting up a discursive narrative"?
"it might just entertain the shit out of the less discerning"?
I didn't go to critic school, but ending a review with an open-ended insult has got to be a no-no. Especially from someone who has the critical imagination of an english professor in the 50s, with post-y words like "discursive" sprinkled in.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

Well I worried about the bad review til he mentioned The Master. The Master is an awful stupid film that no momentum and is boring. I guess Django is great.

By: what she said

what she said — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

"at least it's highbrow schlock" says one here in defense. Ha! That says it all, almost. Adolescent, white male retribution for? Not sure I even want to know the no doubt Freudian aspects of QT's psyche, though not sure he has one of his own as he borrows from the worst. I've already seen way more than I ever want to see or will see again of his schlock. KILL BILL a feminist picture? Ha! Bullshit. Recall a very renowned cinematographer in the early eighties, commenting on how Hollywood movies are full of retribution, that word signifies QT more than fascist, sexist, exploitative, hack, racist, etc. He only cares about box office & making the premiere at Cannes so he can flash the V sign to all his adoring hipsters who don't know film history before QT. He is a pretentious hack and a whore. We have enough violence don't ya think? Grow a pair and use the stage you have for giving something of value, rather than adding to the ills in our culture, country, youth, gun sales/lobby, nutcases, extremists, etc., or at least entertainment with some vision and quality, perhaps even a wee bit of sophisticated political, social conscience. But then you'd have to have more to bring to the table than working in a video store and having a case of arrested pubescence.

By: TurdsAndWhey

TurdsAndWhey — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

Is it any surprise that Rodrigo Perez ends his review on a snotty and pretentious note? The guy lives for this stuff, on here and on the Playlist Twitter account. He's the ultimate sneering hipster.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

Rodrigo, I was with you in this review — I thought it was well-reasoned and, while not horribly original (critics have said similar things about Tarantino since Pulp Fiction, and the bloated nature of his work was particularly and painfully evident in Jackie Brown), you bring up points that are nonetheless legitimate criticisms of Tarantino's work. But ending on a comment as snotty and pretentious as "Though it might just entertain the shit out of the less discerning" is an uncalled-for slap at Tarantino's fans and anyone who might happen to disagree with you about this film in particular. There's totally room for dislike, or even loathing, of Django Unchained — I'm reserving my judgment 'til I see it, though I'm still pretty stoked for it — but whatever one's opinion, I find it hard to believe that, mess or no mess, this film would be on the level of Expendables 2 or Transformers or some crap like that. "Less discerning" moviegoers go to see lowbrow schlock. If Django Unchained is indeed schlocky, I'm sure we can all agree that it's highbrow schlock. At least it has ambitions. Either way, that kind of swipe at fans is wholly unwarranted. Judge the film, for better or worse, based on its own merits. That's pretty basic criticism policy.

By: Reilly

Reilly — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

Rodrigo's comment on lack of convetional narrative critical pass woud be better applied to Christopher Nolan's pretentious Dark Knight trilogy. For Tarantino it's more a choice of artistic style that better fits his scattershot scripts. When he does confine himself he ends up with Death Proof. While I wouldnt consider it his worst given it wasnt really meant as a stand alone, its definitely the most memorable of the Grindhouse experience; therein lies the problem. Being forced to stick to one style Tarantinos writing is lost in translation and his directorial limitations are exposed. There are a few directors where there is always some leeway but that's in exchange for a voice to emerge and doesnt require smoke and mirrors, to work unlike other questionable directors.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

This is hands down one of the stupidest lines I've ever read in a film review:
"…squibs exploding as if they were stored in condoms, thrown by frat boys."

What does that even mean? I feel like you're mocking someone but I'm not sure you even have an objective aside from sounding like a pompous dick.

By: Fonso

Fonso — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

Henry Fonda, not Ford.

By: Torgeir

Torgeir — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

This is a movie critic who is great.

By: EMNIS

EMNIS — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

None of the critics talks about my favourite scene. Where the house fulls with employees and you expect to be a blood bath and instead Django surrenders making all the following sequence far more interesting.
About the third review and the haters i'd like to express my experience at the movies. I went to see this with my mother (60). When the movie ended we talk about some scenes we talk about dumas and the fact we was black. We talk about the "medical studies" that certified black people had a thing for summision (both things aren't mentioned in the reviews (??)) And we talk about slavery in general. Then we began to think about ALL the movies ever maid by hollywood that tried to cover up United States or even Inglorius Bastards that shows in a sence that it's ok to go to another country and kill the leaders before they make more evil. Therefor this movie was to me entretained- for the violence characters fun sence of irony- and also make me think about a lot of stuffs any other movie didnt. This was my experience and i think i couldn't have lived it with a lessviolent lesssuperficial movie. Profund characters and complicated plots maybe are overrated, i'm not saying we shouln't have movies like that i'm just saying maybe it's ok to see once in a while a QT movie.

By: Bristar

Bristar — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

Thanks Rodrigo. Django opened last week in the UK and i haven't read a single bad word about it here. But your review articulates perfectly my own view.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

Thanks Rodrigo. Seriously…I now feel less lonely.

By: ken

ken — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:56:06 +0000

rodrigo perez, congratulations on a very apt and insightful review. in fact, i find that much of your criticisms of tarantino's latest effort can be applied to all or most of his films. well done.