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Django: Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Vengeance

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“The badder they are, the bigger the reward”

Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx Bounty Hunters

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The trailer for the revenge western Django Unchained views as another Quentin Tarantino classic, with all the cinematic trademarks that have become synonymous with the writer/director. Tarantino’s bloody camera lens brought us classics like Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and Reservoir Dogs, and raised the bar of discomfort in Inglorious Basterds by creating a brutal revenge fantasy in Nazi-occupied France. But this tale of vengeance in the pre-Civil War South surpasses any level of shock one would expect to see.

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Cloud Atlas is offensive on so many levels

Cloud Atlas may well be the most disappointing movie of the year. I’ve had the book on my to-read list for several months, and in the lead-up to the release of the movie I had numerous friends tell me this was one of the best books they’d ever read.

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Obviously with any book-to-movie adaptation there will be some changes, and the results will be mixed. But I can’t imagine anyone, having read the book or not, will be satisfied with this film.

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