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Viewers praise the film as a highly entertaining and well-acted Tarantino western. [1][2][3] The performances of Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, and Leonardo DiCaprio are widely acclaimed. [1][2][4] Some reviewers note the film's violent and disturbing depiction of slavery, but find it cathartic. [4][5][6]
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This is one of the best movies I have watched in a long time. It is a pure Tarantino blast. The somewhat unexpected and quite hilarious start of the movie catches your attention from the start and from then on it is 3 hours (almost) of pure enjoyment. The main actors are playing their roles very well. The Dr. King Schultz character (Christop Walz) is incredibly funny without being ridiculous, Jamie Foxx is excellent …
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When Django is unchained (pronounced JANG-oh, not Duh-JANG-oh) Released in 2012 and directed & written by Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained" stars Christoph Waltz as an ex-dentist who befriends an ex-slave, Django (Jamie Foxx) in West Texas a couple of years before the Civil War; they team-up as bounty hunters once they realize how good they jell. The second half focuses on their attempt to infiltrate a …
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Django Unchained entertained me, for sure, with its taut storyline and its lack of predictability, but it doesn’t rise to the level of my few favorite Tarantino efforts. The trademark violence is present, sometimes to the point of it being cartoonish to me. It would have been easy to present many of the characters as stereotypical, but the script avoided that. The DiCaprio slave owner is vicious and cruel, but there …
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Mandingo. D'Artagnan. Slave abuse. Tarantino's technique of capturing the painful discrimination against blacks head-on and, on the contrary, making it cathartic in the final scene is brilliant. Starting with the impressive theme song, nonstop violence replaces it, giving us a glimpse into the kaleidoscope of horrific American society. Leonardo DiCaprio's monstrous performance and Christoph Waltz's near-perfect …
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A highly entertaining yet disturbing film with superb cast and performances for an audience who would likely never consider watching a film fundamentally about slavery, where Tarantino is masterfully and emphatically navigating and exposing the complex layers of the violent and dehumanizing system of slavery.
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Critics, per Wikipedia
Django Unchained grossed $162.8 million in the United States and Canada and $287 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $449.8 million, against a production budget of $100 million. As of 2025, Django Unchained is Tarantino's highest-grossing film, surpassing his previous film, Inglourious Basterds (2009), which grossed $321.4 million worldwide. It is also the highest-grossing Western film of all time, having surpassed the previous record holder, Dances With Wolves (1990). In North America, the film made $15 million on Christmas Day, finishing second behind fellow opener Les Misérables. It was the third-biggest opening day figure for a film on Christmas, following Sherlock…
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60 of 242 · most liked firstMajor movie roles Will Smith turned down: • 'The Matrix' • 'Django Unchained' • 'Inception'
neutral · AI labelView post →10 Movies to Get to Know Me: 1. Eve’s Bayou 2. The Prince of Egypt 3. The Great Debaters 4. A Series of Unfortunate Events 5. Legally Blonde 6. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World 7. Beyond The Lights 8. SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 9. RENT 10.Django Unchained
neutral · AI labelView post →2025 experience: Being in a theater & a decent chunk of the crowd approvingly cheers the mere use of the word. You can use any word in a film, in context it can be appropriate to do so but imagine going to Django Unchained and hearing people whoop every hard R as if they were on a roller coaster.
negative · AI labelView post →DJANGO UNCHAINED was released 12 years ago this week. The 8th movie made by one of Hollywood’s most famous filmmakers in Quentin Tarantino, and his first foray into the western genre, the story of how it was created is classic QT. Just remember the D is silent… 1/59
neutral · AI labelView post →Mel Brooks, Antifascist Filmmaker. > There are a thousand and one reasons why it would be hard—though, as *Django Unchained* proved, not impossible—to get a movie like *Blazing Saddles* made in contemporary Hollywood, from the declining public knowledge of the Western genre conventions it parodies to the general [demise of big, mainstream comedy movies](https://www.statsignificant.com/p/why-did-hollywood-stop-making-comedies) from the major studios. > But the idea that you couldn’t make…
neutral · AI labelView post →Django Unchained is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Django Unchained (2012) 🎬🤎 Directed by Quentin Tarantino
neutral · AI labelView post →In Django Unchained (2012) actor Jamie Foxx spent decades preparing for the role by being black.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mr Trump that man played the butler from Django Unchained whom we edited the movie down to only be his scenes, for you
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched DJANGO UNCHAINED got me wondering did they use the N word back then? Or how far back does the N word go? When was it attached to black people?.
neutral · AI labelView post →Django Unchained (2012) Directed by Quentin Tarantino
neutral · AI labelView post →Just added! Kerry Washington will join us IN PERSON, schedule permitting, for a career retrospective conversation at our DJANGO UNCHAINED screening this Friday 5/29. Note: the discussion will start at 11:30pm with the movie following at midnight. Tickets: ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/469...
neutral · AI labelView post →A crossover movie starring the heroes of Django Unchained and The Mask Of Zorro has been revived at Sony. The movie, based on Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner's Django/Zorro comic books, is now being penned by L.A. Confidential's Brian Helgeland. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
neutral · AI labelView post →It also semi relatedly makes me think about a bonus feature in Django Unchained about the costume designer for the film & how much thought she put into the costumes as they relate to the films story because of course she did, that was her "only" job. And it improves the film, even if just marginally
positive · AI labelView post →I've never had an issue with reading the n-word, listening to NWA or watching Django Unchained. I do take issue with being told I "should go back to Jamaica", but that doesn't need sanitizing
neutral · AI labelView post →The Mercenary (1968, 1080p) An early Zapata Western featuring Zapatistas in the Mexican Revolution, and a Mercenary who can help - for the right price.. I learned about this from the [spaghetti western wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western). According to that article, Zapata westerns are: >often interpreted as a leftist critique of the typical Hollywood handling of the Mexican Revolution, and of imperialism in general. Which, having an interest in that period of history,…
neutral · AI labelView post →My one critique on this countermovement is, I don’t like saying “It’s not woke!” Of course it’s woke - woke is a *good thing*. Woke means “I GET how shit is.” The implied words by these grifters have been “woke…and being super naggy and preachy about it, and making all white men feel bad.” When I watch a movie like Django Unchained, and see a former slave slaughtering a bunch of slavers, I don’t feel preached to. I don’t get a sense it’s trying to make me feel bad. I just think: Yeah, man,…
neutral · AI labelView post →> hack director I'm not a huge fan of his, but he's certainly no "hack director." Huge on style and violence, sure, but movies like *Django Unchained* for example were riveting and even educational IMO.
positive · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 7/18. Civil War movie. Django Unchained (2012)
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched a bunch of trailers for good movies and you get to vote on which one we watch....again! Django Unchained Black Dynamite Tremors The Killer youtu.be/Z3MMpbbnCck
neutral · AI labelView post →Can someone _really_ be antifa after so gleefully playing Nazis for years?! /s Though using Django Unchained, a **fourteen year old movie,** instead of The Naked Gun (2025) or a few other much more recent funny movies... What the hell?! Blazing Saddles could _absolutely_ be made today. The real question is: why is Hollywood so full of greedy cowards that only want safe bets?
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm thinking about the major differences between Sinners and Django Unchained and how Sinners is the better film. Sinners is unapologetically Black from its conception. Django mightve tried to be that, and maybe in some cases it succeeded. HOWEVER...
negative · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #237 "Django Unchained" (Quentin Tarantino/2012) An awesome Tarantino western that even features a cameo from the OG Django himself, Franco Nero! I love this kind of thing. Check it out. 4K when?
positive · AI labelView post →In the movie Django Unchained, Calvin Candie has a copy of the bust of Nefertiti although the actual bust wasn't found until 1912
neutral · AI labelView post →"We've secretly replaced this movie theatre's final reel of Uwe Boll's Citizen Vigilante with the ending reel of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. Let's watch what happens."
neutral · AI labelView post →Lone Pine Film Festival in Oct #filmsky 🧵 2/4 In addition, you can visit the excellent Museum of Western Film History — which has Bogie’s Plymouth Coupe from High Sierra, Tarantino‘s dentist carriage from Django Unchained, original giant theater poster from Ida Lupino’s Hitch-Hiker, & much more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Django Unchained (2012 720p compressed). Django Unchained is a 2012 American revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson, with Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, and Don Johnson in supporting roles. Set in the Old West and Antebellum South, it is a highly stylized, heavily revisionist tribute to spaghetti Westerns, in particular the 1966 Italian…
neutral · AI labelView post →The ceiling (left) and a picture of Samuel L Jackson (right) from the film Django Unchained
neutral · AI labelView post →"[The film] earns comparisons to boozy genre films From Dusk Till Dawn and Demon Knight, but there's also a Tarantino-esque historical anger à la Django Unchained or Inglourious Basterds." I liked SINNERS! It's got pacing issues and other hiccups, but the ensemble and music are aces. #HorrorSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#4 is one I feel deserves the arrows it's received, but also acknowledge it's an expertly made film. Django Unchained is just an amazing moviegoing experience. Waltz deserved another Oscar, and Jamie Foxx has arguably never been better. But again, should slavery be reduced to a spaghetti western?
neutral · AI labelView post →Waltz was the first actor to win an Oscar for appearing in a Tarantino movie. He was also the second, when he won for Django Unchained 3 years later. 17/48
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 Watched Django Unchained with the discord community! Next to Pulp Fiction, this is probably my favorite Tarantino film. It's just fantastic from beginning to end, has some amazing performances, and also some truly magnificent payoffs. Highly recommend this one to anyone who loves film
positive · AI labelView post →Western town for a feature film at Melody Ranch in Santa Clarita, CA. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/197490 > This is the same place they filmed the western town scenes in *Django Unchained* and *Once Upon in Hollywood*, as well as dozens of other westerns. We shot here for about a week.
neutral · AI labelView post →Pet random movie headcanon is Dr King Schultz from Django Unchained is a 48er. Timeline is right and hating slavery but not shying at all from violence is def in line with radicals of the era. Also the German nationalism (I swear, it was cool back then before Germany was a thing)
neutral · AI labelView post →"Who's that stumbling around in the dark!? State your business, or prepare to get winged!!" (Django Unchained, 2012). My favorite Tarantino movie by a MASSIVE landslide.
positive · AI labelView post →one of the reasons I don't like Django Unchained is because it's a slavery revenge movie made by a White man who refuses to stop saying n*****
negative · AI labelView post →I think he sometimes does. In Inglourious Basterds he has Hitler chortling over a violent movie where his enemies get shot, in a clear "this is you, btw". He has a similar one in Django Unchained, where Candie delights in a mandingo match. I'm still conflicted about what he's doing in OATIH
neutral · AI labelView post →Django Unchained truly is a magnificent film.
positive · AI labelView post →Bislang unbekannte Outtakes aus Tarantinos Django Unchained zeigen einen klischeehaften Plantagenbesitzer, der später im Film rausgeschnitten wurde.
neutral · AI labelView post →Will can't help but be himself in a movie. Instead of... You know... "Act". I don't want the alternate Django Unchained where Will Smith starts rappin and getting jiggy with it.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicalAnswer (2) #MusicChallenge Category: Film 📽️ 📽️ Django Unchained Frankly that's the only Western I know. If Lucky Luke counts, there are two 😅.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jurassic Park. (1,2 and 3) Tremors (1 and 2) Lake Placid (RIP Betty) And Then There Were None The Thing Robin Hood (Disney animated version) Star Wars (Original trilogy + Episode 1) Addams Family Values Django Unchained Inglorious Basterds Pulp Fiction (not a Tarantino stan, I swear) Who Framed Roger Rabbit Aliens Raiders of the Lost Ark Ironman (first one) Pacific Rim Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Big Short Probably more than that TBH. I rewatch a lot.
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmsky #Juneteenth Quentin Tarantino‘s script for Django Unchained at the Museum of Western Film History in Lone Pine, CA
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Quentin Tarantino's film "Django Unchained" obliterated any nostalgia i could ever have for plantations.
positive · AI labelView post →This is why Calvin Candie in Django Unchained was one of the better movie villains in recent years.
neutral · AI labelView post →What was the very first movie you logged on Letterboxd? Mine was Django Unchained.
neutral · AI labelView post →Featuring a story Quentin Tarantino, and art by Matt Wagner, this comic book is the official sequel to Django Unchained & the first comic book sequel ever done of a Tarantino film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Having not watched Django Unchained until this year, I can't tell which is more baffling to my 2025 sensibilities, the movie itself or the cultural commentary around it. I feel like Marty McFly in the 50s trying to react correctly.
neutral · AI labelView post →there's this great story that Tarantino made the Hateful 8 specifically cause he'd see white people cheering at Django Unchained and feeling like they'd DONE something or accomplished something by liking a movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for a movie! Tonight's randomly selected movie is... My favorite Quentin movie. Django Unchained, 2012
positive · AI labelView post →oh for sure. i didn't completely love DJANGO UNCHAINED but i respected that QT shot all the plantation scenes like an exploitation/horror movie. incredibly cursed places
neutral · AI labelView post →Change a movie by adding a word: Django Unchained Melody
neutral · AI labelView post →Here’s my pitch for a Blade movie: Castlevania meets Django Unchained.
neutral · AI labelView post →QT fleshed out the idea and finished a first draft in 2011. Taking inspiration from Italian classic Django (1966), revenge film Angel Unchained (1970), and blaxploitation flick Mandingo (1975), it was a western about a vengeful former slave, called Django Unchained. 3/59
neutral · AI labelView post →3 lines (of many) that are forever stuck in my head: 1) "That isn't Cranberry Sauce, Artie." From the movie Blood Rage 2) "Garbage Day!“ from Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 3) "He broke my collarbone." From Django Unchained
neutral · AI labelView post →Waltz was the first actor to win an Oscar for appearing in a Tarantino movie. He was also the second, when he won for Django Unchained 3 years later. 17/48
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember when people were rightly shitting on Django Unchained because of the white savior elements meanwhile the most uncontroversial part of the movie that slaveholders should die is now controversy?
neutral · AI labelView post →Django Unchained was released on this day in 2012. This might be my favorite Tarantino movie. #movies #film #moviesky #filmsky 🎬 🎥
positive · AI labelView post →Critters: A Four Course Feast! Limited Edition Blu-ray. GUESS WHAT'S ON THE MENU? YOU ARE! The Krites have landed! Carnivorous creatures from outer space! Vicious vermin with very sharp teeth! The beloved sci-fi/comedy-horror franchise makes its UK Blu-ray debut in this special edition box set from Arrow Video. A smart homage to 1950's B-movies, Critters sees a group of small but toothy extra terrestrials escape from an alien prison and land in small-town America with two shape-shifting…
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes. That's his character Stephen from the movie "Django Unchained".
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