>ACTING:
>Not a weak performance in the bunch. Standouts imho were
>Kerry Washington (who had the thankless job of making the
>romance of her and Django tangible to the audience with very
>little screentime/lines), Foxx who nailed the transformation
>from slave to hero while keeping his inner rage in check, and
>most importantly Sam Jackson. The technical acting chops he
>showed (the Parkinson's, the old man defeated walk to swagger)
>was a career showcase, he deserves an Academy nom. Waltz and
>DiCaprio swagged it out too, but they had easier roles* Also,
>Walton Goggins gotta stop picking those hick racist roles even
>though he's great at em, talk about typecasting, lol.
>

Wow..because apparently, Washington has a really damn good chance of slipping in as a "dark horse" for best supporting actress for her work as Broomhilda (mainly because "Hitchcock" is kinda not doing well, so potentially, ScarJo is possibly OUT as Vivian Leigh. So, Kerry could slip in...that's the buzz right now. I'd freak if she did, cause I luh huh)

>CINEMATOGRAPHY/ACTING:
>Has QT ever slept in this category? Extremely pretty, and
>extremely bloody.
>
>The N Word:
>LOL. Overblown. During slavery white people were extremely
>shitty to black people, anybody offended by the usage must be
>in some kind of weird denial. The OTHER aspects (Mandingo
>fights, the Lechter masks the slaves had to wear) were much
>more disturbing and NEEDED to properly convey what was
>happening and not be Blazing Saddles 2.
>
>PLOT:
>I can't remember if Jackie Brown had a straight narrative, but
>this is the first time I remember seeing one in a Tarantino
>movie. It suits him well.

Jackie Brown was relatively straightforward. It was an Elmore Leonard adaptation if I believe...

>
>ISSUES
>Here is the 'flaw' that O_E is going to run to the ground and
>whine 'SO THE MOVIE WAS SHITTY!!! ADMIT IT'. The misstep in
>this movie is the deux ex machine that comes in 2/3rd of the
>movie which seemed tonally off. Several times the characters
>paint themselves into corners where through guile and smarts
>they were able to talk their way out of it...except for one
>super convenient and illogical mistake by the baddies. It
>just seemed lazy and took me out of the movie...the subsequent
>appearance by Tarantino the actor because of the mistake
>didn't help it either.
>
>Thankfully after this misstep, the vengeance continues in
>gloriously bloody fashion and leads to a crowd pleasing climax
>into one of QT's stronger endings (something which he's hit
>and miss with). I think this is key to the movie's
>success...while consistent filmgoers are used used to QT
>quirks just because of the motherfucker of a shadow Pulp
>Fiction left on cinema...the popcorn crowd really isn't used
>to long witty dialog with nothing at stake. This is his
>leanest movie; the conversations actually matter...be it comic
>relief, moving the plot along, or to ramp up the tension...and
>his most mature. If DeathProof was Tarantino-ism taken to the
>point where he totally lost his audience, Django is the
>closest he's come to meeting them all the way.
>
>Overall, one of the best movies of the year, and in the better
>half of Tarantino's filmography (definitely better then
>Inglorious).
>
>
>*Why hasn't Hollywood given Waltz a real bad ass role yet
>outside of Tarantino? What a waste. And you can tell
>DiCaprio had fun twirling that moustache and hamming it up
>fully evil.


Wow I can't wait to see this. And, I'm actually going to *PAY* for it and not view the screener a friend sent me over the holidays either.

Even if I was told on FB that I'm not Black if I go and support this, I guess I'm handing in my Black card....