Django - a Guilty Pleasure

As a Movie goer, sometimes you are confronted by decisions.  The preview looks good but should I go?  That's hard. For sometimes the trailer shows every great scene and the rest is filler when you watch. Sometimes it looks funny and safe only to find that the language is shocking as are the scenes.  What's a person to do?

For "Django Unchained" I have a questionnaire to assist you:

1. Do you like Quentin Tarantino movies?  If no don't go.

2. More specifically, did you like "Inglorious Basterds"?  If yes this will be a success?

3. Do you like to laugh at crazy dialogue?

4. Since you know that Tarantino likes bloody action movies, do you know that the exploding packets of red are NOT real blood?

5. Have you ever watched a "Southern"?  (A western that moves East)  Do you want to?

Were you a fan of slavery and wished the South had won the war?  If yes don't go.

That was a public service.

As for me, it was a wild ride for a two and a half hour movie.  Christoph Waltz was my favorite as the German Bounty Hunter and frees slave Django to help him find some bad guys.  Django wants to find his wife who was sold to a plantation somewhere in Mississippi.  The adventure begins.  It is a great cast that seems to enjoy their roles and brings there best.  Even the minor characters are major actors.  Actors like Don Johnson and Bruce Dern have great cameos. The director even shows up in the final scenes.  Again, you have to look past the blood (Not constant but effective when it is). Tarantino takes you right up to the edge and I think:  I'm not watching this and then he doesn't actually show the bad scene and then suddenly he does.  Yikes.  The first ninety minutes are hilarious and the dialogue is very witty. The remainder of the movie is the climax of revenge (spaghetti western style).

Actually, the entire movie is a send up of the old Clint Eastwood westerns where  one guy can shoot about 40 bad guys in 5 minutes, with cool music in the back ground.  Leonardo Decaprio is at his ornery best.

Unlike the movie critics, I give it ***1/2 stars.  Not probably in my top ten, but close.

2012 Movie #45.