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“Django Unchained” Is Typical Tarantino Overindulgence
Jan 6th
“Typical Tarantino Overindulgence”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
Django Unchained was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, and it is a terrific movie for the first two hours.
Unfortunately, the movie is three hours long, and the last hour is full of Tarantino’s self-indulgence at its worst.
Some people would say that all of Tarantino’s movies are self-indulgent.
Jamie Foxx plays Django, he is a slave, and the time is 1858, or two years before the start of the Civil War, as a title so conveniently informs the audience, along with the fact that we are in Texas.
Django is in a group with four other slaves who are being marched on foot by two white men on horses when they are encountered by Dr. King Schultz, played by Christoph Waltz.
Dr. Schultz has been looking for the group, and he asks if any of the slaves is named Django.
When Django speaks up, Dr. Schultz says, “Then you’re exactly the one I am looking for.”
Dr. Schultz buys Django for $125, but the transaction is much more complicated than that.
You see, Dr. Schultz is German, he used to be a dentist, but now he is a bounty hunter, and he is looking for three men known as the Brittle brothers, but he doesn’t know what they look like, and somehow he knows that Django can identify them.
Logic in his storytelling is not one of Tarantino’s strong points, not that he cares.
So, Dr. Schultz tells Django that he will make him a free man if Django will help Dr. Schultz find the Brittle brothers and capture them dead or alive.
After a couple of encounters with the law that have surprise endings that are also humorous, Dr. Schultz and Django are in Tennessee on a plantation owned by Big Daddy, played by Don Johnson, which has another surprise ending.
In return for Django’s help as his partner, Dr. Schultz agrees to help Django find his wife, Broomhilda, whose name intrigues the German dentist.
So their travels now take them to Mississippi and a plantation owned by Calvin Candie, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, whose head slave is played by Samuel L. Jackson.
Here is where the movie falls apart with blood, gore, and excessive length and self-indulgence.
Django Unchained is typical Tarantino overindulgence, and as I said, you can walk out after two hours.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Django Unchained – Movie Trailer
Dec 30th
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave.
“This Is 40” Can Just Be Skipped
Dec 30th
“Can Just Be Skipped”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
This Is 40 is written and directed by Judd Apatow, and some are calling it a sequel to his 2007 Knocked Up, but it is only an elaboration of two of the characters in that earlier movie.
Paul Rudd plays Pete, and Leslie Mann plays Debbie, and she also happens to be Apatow’s wife.
Pete and Debbie have two daughters, Sadie, who is 13, and Charlotte, who is 8, and they also happen to be the real daughters of Apatow and his wife.
But before you start thinking, “Oh, isn’t that nice,” be aware that the language used by the two girls is so profane that they wouldn’t even be allowed to see their own movie in the theater.
Not that they, or anyone else, for that matter, should want to see this movie.
Pete and Debbie are both turning 40 in the week of December 5, and the movie opens with a scene of both of them in the shower, but the conclusion is not expected, and we hear, “That is the worst birthday present you could ever give anyone.”
Yes, the beginning is gross, but supposed to be funny, which could also be said about the entire movie.
Then we get a cliche scene about Debbie’s birthday cake, which claims that Debbie is only 38, and Pete explains to the daughters that their mother doesn’t want to be 40, and so the cake indicates 38.
You couldn’t write this stuff, and if you read a recent story about Apatow, it might not have been written, because the story says that Apatow likes to shoot a lot of footage of the actors improvising the scene, and if Apatow thinks the improvisation is good, he will go back and keep shooting the scene with the new ideas until he has what he wants.
And even then, that scene might not make it into the final cut.
Meanwhile, back to the movie, we see Pete planning his own elaborate birthday party, Debbie having to figure out if one of her employees is stealing money from the store, the girls constantly fighting while being obsessed about watching episodes of the old “Lost” television series, many references to modern celebrities and excessive use of modern technology, and disjointed scenes that don’t really fit together.
This Is 40 can just be skipped.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”