I don't mind the language. We recently got an Alamo Drafthouse in Omaha and they're doing a "The Hateful Great" retrospective on QT so I saw Pulp Fiction in theaters for the first time the following night (last night) and felt far more uncomfortable with that film's use of 'nigger'. Not the Jimmy stuff, but it felt egregious in every other instance. Tarantino sure does like to paint his villains as racists.


I was dragging a little through the monologue by Samuel L. Jackson as well and I'm surprised more people aren't a little bothered by it. It would've been one thing without actually showing us the son sucking his dick, because I was under the impression it was all a ruse to piss Old Man Rebel off and get him to draw that gun on Sam. Re-enacting what I read as a lie just seemed like an odd, Mandingo embellishment that wasn't necessary.


But after the intermission (which was GREATLY appreciated at that point) I was hooked from the jump. I loved the whole "Passengers" chapter, and the violence was spectacular throughout the final chapter. My girlfriend fucking cackled when Señor Dan got his head blown off, that may be my favorite gratuitous violence bit in Tarentino's recent love affair with the form.


Overall, I can see any argument that posits this isn't Tarentino's best movie. It's more grounded than most (in that its dialogue lacks character), heavy-handed beyond reason in its finale (the first thing I said walking out of the theater was that I wished Tarentino hadn't tried to apologize for his use of 'nigger', or whatever he was trying to do, with that final bedside scene) and seemed a bit vapidly in love with itself in a way I haven't felt so strongly from other recent Tarentino films (even Death Proof).


But, like guy above me said, I guess I'm easy. My interest waned at times but I loved the fourth and fifth acts all the way to its somewhat unfortunate ending. The opening was also super gorgeous, Morricone adapted his style to the modern, bass-heavy times effortlessly and the whole ensemble pulled their weight, especially Jackson, Goggins, Russell and JJL.


My last complaint is that they didn't show the effort it'd require those two men to get that woman in a noose, let alone set it up for a hanging, given their condition. I'd have rather they just left that out and implied she was found and hanged at a later date.

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