Absolutely. Basterds was much, much better in my opinion.

Django was great. It was a very, very fun movie. It just wasn't as Tarantino-y as I hoped. It didn't have the incredible scenes or the clever dialogue as in his other movies.

The humor in QT's movies is, and I don't mean to sound pretentious, hard for the general population to catch on to. For example, I watched Jackie Brown with two buddies and they didn't even laugh at the scene where SLJ puts the guy in the trunk and tells him to pop out. I was in tears, and it was like the 100th time I've watched the movie. It gets me every time. I feel like, knowing who the projected audience was (yswidt), he dumbed down the humor a bit. The laughs came from pretty run-of-the-mill humor, not the clever, quippy writing that we're so used to seeing from Tarantino. My dad is a huge Tarantino fan, and he felt pretty much the same way.

There also wasn't as great a supporting character roundup either. The three characters who were really interesting were REALLY interesting, and the actors did an amazing job. The rest of the characters were pretty cardboard IMO.

It was a very good movie, so don't get me wrong here. It was a blast to sit through. Even though it's at the bottom of my QT Totem Pole, it's still better than any other movie I've seen this year. That's how good QT's filmography is. I do agree that people are raving because they just saw it and it's so fresh and popular right now.

I firmly believe that Tarantino is one of those directors whose movies get better with each subsequent viewing, and Django will be no different. I'm going see it again this weekend.

If you are a fan of Peckinpah's movies, you will LOVE it. There are so many tributes to Peckinpah's work.

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Posted by brewhan davey

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Posted on 12/28/12 at 4:18 pm to Carson123987

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Django was great. It was a very, very fun movie. It just wasn't as Tarantino-y as I hoped. It didn't have the incredible scenes or the clever dialogue as in his other movies.

Damn, that's the one aspect I love the most. The ridiculous dialogue that seems so wrong yet so right for the scene.

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The humor in QT's movies is, and I don't mean to sound pretentious, hard for the general population to catch on to. For example, I watched Jackie Brown with two buddies and they didn't even laugh at the scene where SLJ puts the guy in the trunk and tells him to pop out. I was in tears, and it was like the 100th time I've watched the movie. It gets me every time. I feel like, knowing who the projected audience was (yswidt), he dumbed down the humor a bit. The laughs came from pretty run-of-the-mill humor, not the clever, quippy writing that we're so used to seeing from Tarantino. My dad is a huge Tarantino fan, and he felt pretty much the same way.

I completely agree.. and don't worry, nothing about saying his humor takes some intellect to understand is pompous at all. I love the fact that he can get you to laugh at things that would be considered taboo in normal, everyday life - it really is an unmatched trait that he possesses in his filmmaking.

But, I can understand why he would "dumb down" the movie to cater toward a different audience than what his normal following consists of.

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It was a very good movie, so don't get me wrong here. It was a blast to sit through. Even though it's at the bottom of my QT Totem Pole, it's still better than any other movie I've seen this year. That's how good QT's filmography is. I do agree that people are raving because they just saw it and it's so fresh and popular right now.

This is true.. there are no bad movies in his repertoire.

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I firmly believe that Tarantino is one of those directors whose movies get better with each subsequent viewing, and Django will be no different. I'm going see it again this weekend.

I'll definitely be doing the same.