Post: #76

Saw Django Unchained recently, and I really like the film.

It is a new twist on the many spaghetti westerns that have been titled "Django" in the past along with some influence from the blacksploitation films of the 1970's.

What I found funny is that despite all the talk about this film on the Right about it being racist for showing Jaime Foxx's character gun down a bunch of white slaver owners and Jaime's remarks about how he "kills all the white folk in the movie," the guy that got it the worst (killing wise) from Jaime's character in the film was the black Uncle Tom played by Samuel Jackson.

Post: #77

(12-15-2012 10:42 AM)Asaxon Wrote:  Citation pls. Asians are a large group. South Asians or East Asians or...? You mean domestically or through trade. If you look at state expenditures and revenues you will see very few Asians on welfare and other aid but paying disproportionate amounts of tax per capita due to their high success rate. I am no Asian btw. I find it astonishing that something as obvious as population differences in phenotype and cultural outcomes is considered taboo. Adoption twin studies are very revealing in this regard.

Asian men are hugely successful so they have been handicapped by "feminine" and "small penis" myths throughout popular culture, they've been receiving the OPPOSITE of affirmative action consideration that other minorities receive - they're literally being handicapped and having their quotas capped at prestigious universities because there's "too many" Asians on campuses already. I'm not Asian but I greatly admire their culture and think it's ridiculous the way they're being capped at the knees at the expense of other American minorities. Why do we get to decide what ethnic groups get huge advantages versus huge handicaps?

I think the main "anti Django" argument is that QT is playing up and taking the opposite "easy way out" in some ways by portraying the stereotypical ultra-ultimate, huge-dicked black male that is automatically cooler than every (southern) white male around. There was literally no true foil to Django - only an incestuous and asexual Leo DiCaprio and an older asexual Christoph Weisz - which is fine... just sayin'. Every other man in the movie was an asexual/cuckolded white male which can be critically viewed as QT taking the "easy way out".

White guys in turn are going to be defensive - they're ridiculed regularly in everything from Southwest Airlines commercials to romcoms to History channel documentaries. Most of us are cool as shit about it - I loved "Django" even though I silently noted all the issues and statements I mentioned above).

A lot of "Mad Men"'s popularity is directly related to it's on-the-surface glorification of white males (even though in many subtle ways it's doing the opposite over the course of the series) during their heyday of the 1950's and 1960's. It's relief for WASPS all over America to finally have a show in which they're not cuckolded, ridiculed, and in which they're finally portrayed in an alpha manner - triumphing over women, life, etc.

Post: #78

So white guys are upset for not being portrayed as "cool" in the movie and commercials, documentaries, shows etc?? Lmao

Post: #79

(01-08-2013 01:45 AM)houston Wrote:  So white guys are upset for not being portrayed as "cool" in the movie and commercials, documentaries, shows etc?? Lmao

This is part of the reason some whites (like Roissy) are mad about the movie:

Post: #80

If Roissy didn't like the movie. He could have easily watched the other 50 movies where the White man is the hero. Jesus.

I watched the movie yesterday. I liked it. I thought Waltz was a cool character. Especially in the Bar scene when he was collecting the initial bounty. He was cool as shit. He had principles all the way to the end of the movie.

How was Leo asexual? He had a black mistress. Why would he act geeked about sex when he literally can have sex anytime he pleases. He played his role well. I wouldn't even say he was necessarily a bad guy. He was running his business and didn't like being lied too. If anything. Sam Jackson was the villain in the movie.

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(01-08-2013 01:50 AM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:  

(01-08-2013 01:45 AM)houston Wrote:  So white guys are upset for not being portrayed as "cool" in the movie and commercials, documentaries, shows etc?? Lmao

This is part of the reason some whites (like Roissy) are mad about the movie:

Is that why Mike is upset?

Post: #83

I saw the movie last night.
Django has nothing to do with race or slavery. Thats just the setting
This the story of a Male who does whatever it takes to get the woman he wants.
Essentially a love story.
I can't decide if he is beta for going through all that trouble for one chick when he could probably be banging mistresses behind closed doors. Or Alpha for going beast mode an laying the smack down on all those people..and taking his chick back like a boss.

Im leaning towards Alpha

Post: #84

(01-09-2013 11:15 PM)houston Wrote:  

(01-08-2013 01:50 AM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:  

(01-08-2013 01:45 AM)houston Wrote:  So white guys are upset for not being portrayed as "cool" in the movie and commercials, documentaries, shows etc?? Lmao

This is part of the reason some whites (like Roissy) are mad about the movie:

Is that why Mike is upset?

Anyone remember the 90s when it was only the leftists that would get all agitated every time someone told an off-color joke that involved ethnicity or gender or clubbing baby seals?

Well, welcome to the future. We're all PC now.

Post: #85

(12-15-2012 10:42 AM)Asaxon Wrote:  If you look at state expenditures and revenues you will see very few Asians on welfare and other aid but paying disproportionate amounts of tax per capita due to their high success rate.

Dude, come to California. Elderly Chinese immigrants have become especially heavy users of welfare, relative to other nationalities.

There's a whole industry of welfare cheats immigrating to the US from China. Except in their language they don't call it welfare checks. They call it "fringe benefits".

Singtao USA, the local chinese newspaper, has a weekly column on how to maintain your "fringe benefits" --ie how to work the welfare system. Because there's an entire industry of importing people from asia with fake paperwork claiming to be old country relatives, then sticking them on the US welfare system. Are they really relatives? No. But for a $50 bribe in their home country they've got all the paperwork they need to jump to the front of the line and start getting those "fringe benefits" from the US fed. And for a $1000 bribe to an existing anchor family on the take, they're in like Flynn.

There are so many Chinese immigrants in welfare housing in San Francisco and Oakland, they have their own placement agency.

Post: #86

(01-10-2013 12:52 AM)Blackhawk Wrote:  [quote='Asaxon' pid='327737' dateline='1355586132']

There are so many Chinese immigrants in welfare housing in San Francisco and Oakland, they have their own placement agency.

It's unbelievable isn't it? My cousin, a poor chick working part-time for one of the SF museums, just got on Healthy SF - the entire waiting room at the doctor's office is illegal (or of dubious legality) Chinese.

Post: #87

I saw Django a few weeks ago, and it was a let down for me. I was a fan of Inglorious Basterds, but this movie was just too cartoonish. However, the acting by Leo Di Caprio was fantastic. For me, Machete was by far the best of these type of movies over the past few years. That movie was ridiculous.

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Saw it yesterday, it was really great although not as great as Inglorious Basterds. The main theme (racial revenge) does get a bit worn out, I have to admit, and there are lots of deus-ex-machina situations. Still, I have no problem with the racial aspect. If anything, it is softened by Schultz being there too and despising slavery from another point of view.

Speaking of which, the movie loses steam after Schultz's departure. It's still good and fun, but he provides such great energy to the film that it's impossible to not feel like a balloon had been popped. The heroism does make things better, though, but I was disappointed that Django and his wife didn't get the idea of going to Germany (where their descendants would be fucked by Hitler a few generations later, but still).

Post: #90

This movie rocked man! Killing, violence and drama what else is needed?

Besides its better than most bullshit films people produce these days. I'm more likely to clap after seeing a lot of people die so that some guy can get his wife back vs a man's wife cheating on him throughout the movie.

No need to analyze more. Cool movie is cool.

Post: #91

Samuel Jackson's character was money, I literally didn't even know it was Samuel Jackson until after the movie

Post: #92

I loved this movie!

Other than Dredd, this was the only great Hollywood film of 2012.

Post: #93

(01-08-2013 01:45 AM)houston Wrote:  So white guys are upset for not being portrayed as "cool" in the movie and commercials, documentaries, shows etc?? Lmao

Exactly. This is just so far from reality one wonders at the mental malpractice required to believe it.