Django Unchained is going to be good sons

[chunticakes]

im not gonna go see django because it's too racist

[BRHornet45]

and i expected white folk to come out in droves to support a spaghetti western slavery movie.

there are critics who have seen the film who share the same sentiments as i do.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,1771716.story

son the theater I was in was about 70% black. most educated people will understand this film. the ignorant bigots like yourself won't.

white bigots will claim - "I ain't watching that black power movie about ni**ers getting revenge and killing us!"

black bigots will claim - "I ain't watching no racist ass white boy movie about mocking slavery"

open your eyes dumbass or else shut the up and go watch another garbage ass e Lee movie to make yourself feel better ... I'm sure his irrelevant ass is crying about it along with you as usual.

[Trill Clinton]

oh look the race card is being played

oh look an irrelevant poster.

son the theater I was in was about 70% black. most educated people will understand this film. the ignorant bigots like yourself won't.

white bigots will claim - "I ain't watching that black power movie about ni**ers getting revenge and killing us!"

black bigots will claim - "I ain't watching no racist ass white boy movie about mocking slavery"

open your eyes dumbass or else shut the up and go watch another garbage ass e Lee movie to make yourself feel better ... I'm sure his irrelevant ass is crying about it along with you as usual.

i don't give a damn how many black folks was in the theater doggie.

just a bunch of shuckin' n jivin' coons grinning from ear to ear laughing at some cac make a mockery of a holocaust of my people.

enlightened brothas such as myself and e refuse to be bamboozled(classic e lee joint i'm sure you haven't seen)

i don't know why its such a surprise that some blacks refuse to fall for the okie doke like you gullable uncle toms.

there was no underlying message to blacks in this film.

all it is is a spaghetti western slave story with the usual QT revenge plot, mixed with humor and witty dialogue to keep coons such as yourself entertained.

[Jacob1983]

This movie is about gun fighting, bounty hunting, and slavery in 1850s America. You're gonna see racism and and hear the n-word. If you can't handle that, don't watch the in' movie and continue to be a sensitive pussy.

[CuckingFunt]

the writer never mentioned anything about basters being okay.

the writer did quote a black film critic who said the following:

Where "Basterds" arguably works as both social commentary and entertainment, he said, "Django" doesn't because blacks as a group are still so compromised by racism. "The surreal liftoff that happens at some point in 'Basterds' doesn't happen here, because of the weight of what's still real," he said. "For example, there's a certain racial backlash to Obama that's still going on. Quentin wants this to be a dark comedy, but with [black] history the way it is, you can't get from here to there in a movie. There's no ill intention on his part, but it doesn't work. The movie can't rest."

The statement implies that the narrative of Inglorious Basterds was less problematic because, unlike racism against African Americans, Antisemitism is no longer an issue. Which is stupid. Oppression isn't a contest. And racism, as well as the general system of power/privilege/oppression, cannot be defined as only one group of people doing bad things to only one other group of people. Just because this one African American critic relates more personally and specifically to instances of racism against blacks in this country doesn't mean it's valid to suggest that Antisemitism is less real or less important an issue.

Finding Django Unchained problematic without seeing the same issues in Inglorious Basterds reeks of intellectual dishonesty.

there were no scenes of concentration camps or jews being killed and punished in basterds.

Why would there have been scenes of the concentration camps? There was no narrative reason to do so. The opening scene, however, in which Landa delivers a long speech comparing Jews to rats and then violently shooting up a whole group of them being hidden by the French dairy farmer shows quite a few of them being killed and punished.

in bojangles unchained, we see slaves being beat, killed and tortured.

Because the main character is a former slave.

And slaves were beaten, killed, and tortured. Pretty brutally. Sugarcoating that fact would (and has historically been) every bit as problematic as calling attention to it.

The treatment of slaves is not played for laughs, however. Not even for a second. I find the comments made by Tarantino and others about the film's important social commentary to be a tad overblown (just as I did with similar comments regarding Kill Bill's inherent feminism), but it's true that the scenes of violence against slaves are at no point meant to be anything other than brutal and uncomfortable and stand out as sobering moments in an otherwise darkly comic film. Tarantino's staging and direction of the action and the violent moments throughout the entire movie make it VERY clear that Django's revenge is intended to be entertaining in a way that the violence enacted upon him and the other slaves is not.

i wouldn't expect non blacks to understand why some blacks find this film disrespectful to our history.

And I wouldn't expect someone who hasn't watched a film to have a clue what they're talking about when they try to list its flaws.

[Trill Clinton]

lol a bunch of white folks telling a black man he shouldn't be offended someone trivialized slavery into a spaghetti western.

i'm done.

[johnsmith]

lol a bunch of white folks telling a black man he shouldn't be offended someone trivialized slavery into a spaghetti western.

i'm done.

You're the biggest racist on this site, and frankly, you come off as a horrible human being. Also, lol at the "irrelevant poster" comment you made....taking the internets a bit serious don't ya think you ?


I'm also questioning based on how stupid your argument has been in this thread if you're really black at all....I mean, we know you're an idiot, we know you're racist, but black????

[Trill Clinton]

i'm the biggest racist on this site?



why do people think black folk don't have internet access? no one wants to believe blacks post on internet forums too lol.

sorry john, but i'm not posting a photo of myself for another male online. you might not even be a man for all i know.

[johnsmith]

i'm the biggest racist on this site?



why do people think black folk don't have internet access? no one wants to believe blacks post on internet forums too lol.

sorry john, but i'm not posting a photo of myself for another male online. you might not even be a man for all i know.

I don't recall asking you to post a picture of yourself you stupid racist .....now quick, log back in and respond.

[CuckingFunt]

lol a bunch of white folks telling a black man he shouldn't be offended someone trivialized slavery into a spaghetti western.

I'm not telling you that you shouldn't be offended. I'm telling you that, without watching the film for yourself, you're in no position to comment on whether or not the film trivializes slavery.

i'm done.

Criticizing a movie without seeing it? You were done before you started.

[leemajors]

I wonder if he will get bored of doing revenge films anytime soon. I would consider maybe seeing another one of his movies if he did.

[Bill_Brasky]

oh look an irrelevant poster.



i don't give a damn how many black folks was in the theater doggie.

just a bunch of shuckin' n jivin' coons grinning from ear to ear laughing at some cac make a mockery of a holocaust of my people.

enlightened brothas such as myself and e refuse to be bamboozled(classic e lee joint i'm sure you haven't seen)

i don't know why its such a surprise that some blacks refuse to fall for the okie doke like you gullable uncle toms.

there was no underlying message to blacks in this film.

all it is is a spaghetti western slave story with the usual QT revenge plot, mixed with humor and witty dialogue to keep coons such as yourself entertained.

Translation: my vagina is so sensitive that I can't enjoy a good action movie without getting up in arms about something incredibly trivial. There are some pretty decent examples of racism in this country, this isn't one of them.

[Creepn]

You're the biggest racist on this site, and frankly, you come off as a horrible human being.

I understand Trill is militant in his views regarding race but you can't possibly think he's the most racist poster on this board.

[johnsmith]

I understand Trill is militant in his views regarding race but you can't possibly think he's the most racist poster on this board.

Honestly, do you see anyone else play the race card more often and more quickly than him?

[Trill Clinton]

Translation: my vagina is so sensitive that I can't enjoy a good action movie without getting up in arms about something incredibly trivial. There are some pretty decent examples of racism in this country, this isn't one of them.

i guess man.

[Creepn]

Honestly, do you see anyone else play the race card more often and more quickly than him?

He pulled the race card about how he feels towards a movie and not about a race in particular. How is that more racist than the usual crop of people who post daily racial slurs and innuendo specifically about a race?

[Koolaid_Man]

Honestly, do you see anyone else play the race card more often and more quickly than him?

let me raise my hand and volunteer myself....

I won't judge the movie per se until I watch it myself...and I thoroughly enjoyed Inglorious Bas s...the reason I enjoyed it is because I was happy to see the Jews getting revenge against the Nazi's....however, given all the racism by white America I doubt white people watched Django Unchained and felt the way I did while watching Inglorious bas s...I doubt whites wanted to see the slave getting his revenge against the white slave evil doers in Django...they wouldn't want to see this because they think it would encourage blacks to seek revenge against the foul white people do to them even to this day...See it's ok for white America to celebrate other human tragedies thorough out history as long as they're not the ones that perpetrated the evil act...but if some other group (Germans) is responsible then by all means build a Holocaust museum and celebrate so that we never forget it...but when it comes to slavery...ohhh well blacks should just forget about it and just move on and stop re-hashing old wounds... I suspect some of the sensitivity in the black community is largely based on white people's nonchalant, lackadaisical, and flat out don't give a a at ude about the historical suffering of blacks...but when it's a seemingly cool movie about slavery and suffering then all of a sudden the subject becomes hip and cool to white people... The problem is America never really apologized for what they did to the African slaves...they simply pivoted to Christianity, along with the industrial and technology revolutions...

I think Tarantino is far from a racist and self hater like BR Hornet and quite a few others that post here are... and I think he's a great director.. I will watch the movie at some point soon...but my view above stands and I'm pretty sure that my hypothesis is pretty much spot on...

[Huey Freeman]

Mistake

[Huey Freeman]

Honestly, do you see anyone else play the race card more often and more quickly than him?

Maybe not, but there are alot worse racists on the board by far imo.

[DeadlyDynasty]

There's really only one tried and true racist on this board.

[rogues]

There's really only one tried and true racist on this board.

who?

[DeadlyDynasty]

Think of the most ignorant person on this board (besides me)--i mean ignorant to everything.

[TDMVPDPOY]

without slavery or colonization by europeans....most of the ethnic minorities on this site would still be living in the jungle, to tell me if ethnic minorities didnt benefit from the white settlers then ur a biggot....even today u still have countries colonize or not by white settlers still live like they are in the jungle or just wouldnt assimilate into western society

[Creepn]

without slavery or colonization by europeans....most of the ethnic minorities on this site would still be living in the jungle, to tell me if ethnic minorities didnt benefit from the white settlers then ur a biggot....even today u still have countries colonize or not by white settlers still live like they are in the jungle or just wouldnt assimilate into western society

Africa was doing fine before the colonizations. How is it now?

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

Africa was doing fine before the colonizations. How is it now?

are you saying you'd rather be living as a hunter-gatherer today?