3 Reasons Why Django Unchained Is the Worst Movie Ever
Quentin Tarantino’s movies are usually held in the highest regard by both critics and the general public. Well, it’s about time someone took the not-so-almighty director down a notch.
Ever since Django Unchained was released in 2012, it has become the ultimate Tarantinoesque love story. Over a decade later, we are over it.
What’s wrong with the movie, you might ask? What isn’t, we might ask you back? Here are three reasons why Django Unchained is overrated.
1. 3D Characters? No Thanks
Tarantino may be a genius when it comes to unexpected plot twists and whatnot, but emotional depth has always been his weakness. Take any major character in Django Unchained – we don’t believe that they are real, we don’t sympathize with them, and their motivations don’t make any sense.
It’s like all the characters are these cardboard cutouts that the writer was too lazy to develop properly. For Pete’s sake, we didn’t even shed a tear when Dr. Schultz died!
2. Style Over Substance? Yes Please
Django Unchained is the perfect example of when Tarantino’s style-over-substance approach doesn’t work. Usually, his movies are stylistic mayhem, and we are fine with that, but the movie about slavery should be a movie about slavery first and foremost.
Tarantino tried to make it spectacular, and it turned into a spectacle in the worst sense of the word instead.
A lot of unnecessary violence, flimsy dialogue, and just an overall obviousness of it all make Django Unchained feel cheap.
3. Let’s Finish on a Ridiculous Note
Django Unchained feels very anticlimactic, and we blame the ending. It is like no one is acting like themselves for the last 40 minutes of the movie, and it has raised a few eyebrows. Why would they not kill Django right away and give him the perfect opportunity to escape?
Is shooting everyone really the best option (and is it even realistic)? That’s not how any of us wanted the movie to end, and we just felt like we were climbing to the top of Everest and when we almost got there, someone decided that the top was closed for today and that we should come back tomorrow.
Do you hate us already for slamming your favorite Tarantino movie? Sorry, not sorry, but you know we are right about this.