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Originally Posted by JamesChoopa
D!J!A!N!G!O! The D is silent!
Anyone seen this movie yet? What did you think? I saw a preview for this movie a few months back and I've been waiting to see it since. I have read some really good reviews and I've heard some really bad one. On the local NBC news station the critic said if he wasn't paid to watch movies he would have walked out. Said that Leo's character and the overall theme of the movie was way to racist to find any enjoyment from this movie.
Without giving anything away about the movie and any possible surprises, what did you think? I plan on seeing it this weekend.
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I think anyone who had a real problem with the portrayal of racism in the South circa 1800's probably should take look at themselves -- and maybe wonder why they feel so guilty.
I know the Nword was used like 100 times, and it did seem like a little much, but supposedly "that's how they talked back then". But Tarantino seemed to be trying to get away with something. I feel like the word would have had more power if it was used in specific spots more sparingly, as opposed to being "ni&^@r this and n^&$r that" constantly.
There was black couple sitting next to my wife and I, and we all laughed together in the same spots -- and we all cheered a little when the "evil white people" got blown away epically with fountains of blood, because they were the bad guys. A movie isn't racist just because it shows racism. The racist people get what's coming to them, so that sounds like its opposite of racist to me.
I don't think its a spoiler to say that a black guy shoots big holes in lots of white people in this movie.