I have to preface this by saying that I'm not a big fan of Tarentino. I've seem most of his movies to keep my qualifications as a film fan, but I don't see what makes them likable. My least unfavorite one was Inglorious Bastards, and Django seems to be carrying on the trend to righteous revenge movies. This one moves from IB's ironic and fantasized take on the Holocaust to revenge against plantation slavery. Yes, as you would expect, the film is meticulously directed, acted and produced but I was somewhat put off by scenes with the digital equivalent of painted backdrops and one scene where there are digitally rendered fires on the ground and a character obviously steps in a fire without reacting. I don't think those bloopers were intended to be ironic.
That was small, however, compared to the extreme, excessive violence. It was violent even by Tarentino standards. They must have kept a trainload of blood squibs on hand for some scenes. Torture, whipping, cracking bones, brandings, castration, exploding flesh, flying bodies and splattering brains all abound. The plot builds to its obvious climax, which....surprise....is more extreme violence. The characters are mainly comic book stereotypes so killing them by the dozens doesn't really mean much, by really, do we need this?
