Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

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Though The Hobbit did not drag at nearly 3 hours, I found Django Unchained really breezed by at that same length. Full of mayhem, horror, violence and black comedy, it's the perfect Christmas Movie!

Quentin Tarantino is back in fine form with this revenge-plot send up of spaghetti westerns. Everyone in the cast was having a ball, and there are great performances by Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Also digging delightfully into the depths of Tarantino's beloved B-movie casts, the supporting players included the likes of Don Johnson, Franco Nero, Tom Wopat, Russ Tamblyn, Bruce Dern, Lee Horsley, James Remar, Michael Parks and Ted Neely! Bwahahah, I missed most of these, and will have to try and spot them on very warranted repeat viewings.


Tarantino did not overdo it on the dialogue scenes this time, which are perfectly interspersed with action bits. The film is brutal in its depiction of American slavery two years before the Civil War, but the violence is by-and-large comic-book gory, and comedy is paired nicely with action and suspense.


I loved it. Not Tarantino's best work, but that leaves it better than many other's. A whole lot of fun. Five stars from me.