Quentin Tarantino makes great movies. There is no denying that. There are few filmmakers that have such a bold and loud voice as him. I get and see the complaints and murmurs about him just being a carbon copy of whatever obscure 70’s movie he’s into at the time. He’s a fan of film. What’s wrong with that? He’s not “ripping off” anything. He’s paying homage to what he himself has been entertained and inspired by. I’d like to see him stray more from the standard fare, but that “standard fare” is who QT is. Some movies turn out great and some don’t. Regardless, they are HIS movies. Luckily for Tarantino fans, his new project “Django Unchained” looks to be great. When it was first announced the casting sounded really interesting. Will Smith was to be the lead, a freed slave going across America with a German dentist. In order to be freed and to save his enslaved wife from her owner he has to work with the dentist to hunt down and kill some bad guys. Will Smith would have rocked, but instead we get Jamie Foxx. I don’t hate Foxx, but I don’t have any interest in seeing him in a movie. Sadly, that’s my biggest issue from getting super excited. I have to rely on the fact that Tarantino knows what he’s doing and the rest of the cast including Christoph Waltz as the dentist, Walton Goggins, Sam Jackson, Bruce Dern, RZA, Robert Carradine, and Jonah Hill will be awesome. Of course I want to see this and so should you.
