Somewhere, Margaret Cho nods in agreement, then realizes someone stole her joke.

The most "boring" character on pieces of work like this usually have one of the tougher jobs. They don't get to lean on being "EEEVILL" or comic or seductive to make their character engrossing. Lincoln has been fine, way before the Lori death scene. Not every show gets to have the trendy evil and or "complicated"…

Pre-Wes Craven genre meta-winking at its finest.

Oprah is a bit more than a simple journalist these days. The Kennedy Centers thing was just clumsily tossed out there to indicate how successful Lana is without showing us why.

Shame. Not just the best show on Syfy (what a stupid branding idea) but one of the better shows on TV. For me the biggest problem was Hicks, the character was kind of a cliche, down to the stubbly beard.

@avclub-c1fe85b855c6d045b827f74a1e2c3fd7:disqus It's pretty sad that you have talked more about slavery in this week than in your entire life. Is that because of the film or because you and your friends have so little interest in 1)history 2) slavery 3) both?

Not meant to be a serious examination of slavery? Ha! Not to hear QT tell it. He believes that watching DJANGO may become a "rite of passage for young Black males."

Well actually Rod Smart didn't invent the term. It was well used within the Black community by the time Smart got the brilliant idea to draw attention to himself with it on the back of his jersey.

I think I got it now

"The only, I mean the ONLY way that most whites, and even some blacks
would see a film about slavery is if it came wrapped in genre trappings,
as Tarantino has done."

@avclub-570170146218082d2ca2544d57a48f1e:disqus I watched half of BASTERDS last night, actually (yeah I hate QT so much I own his films). That segment was a set-up set piece for the punch line of the other soldier being so scared that he gave up the info the basterds were seeking, then we go back to Hitler for the big…

Of course if you add the word "superficial" in front of "revenge movie" you're going to get people to agree with you, including myself. But you're arguing against something I didn't say. I never used the word superficial, or suggested its use re: BASTERDS. For whatever "lot of other things" KILL BILL 1, BASTERDS and…

These things aren't mutually exclusive. You can have a revenge fantasy with an ending that is supposed to make one uneasy and still satisfied at the outcome (the revenge). I don't recall QT EVER saying that he didn't intend for the audience to feel some satisfaction when the Nazis get theirs.

Before you were born?

Go listen to the NPR piece. It isn't necessarily a contradiction to say your film is a love story and is a revenge fantasy, but if that's how you see it then he is contradicting himself. And no I didn't feel particularly weirded out by the end of BASTERDS. That Raine looses control at the end, that's kind of a trope…

Now, if we are simply to ignore QTs defense of his film on social
grounds (it's a catharsis!) and just look at it as a piece of
entertainment, that's fine, its a choice. It isn't a choice that
everyone has to be forced to make, and Spike is certainly welcome to his
choice to place his politics before entertainment. I…

I guess you didn't see DO THE RIGHT THING, you were probably watching Power Rangers, but there was a riot scene in that film. Spike can be inelegant in his word choice but it's pretty safe to say you aren't to take his comment so literally.

Your interpretation is fine but it runs against just about everything Tarantino has stated about these two films. He just flat out said, especially about DJANGO, that he wants us to empathize with (paraphrasing here) historically disenfranchised people who are kicking ass and taking names rather than being victims…

Unfairly maligned in its day. I've shown this to me wife and son. And now they can under stand when I raise my arms skyward and proclaim myself "A dream to some, a nightmare to others!"

Unfairly maligned in its day. I've shown this to me wife and son. And now they can under stand when I raise my arms skyward and proclaim myself "A dream to some, a nightmare to others!"