You guys notice how Smith wont cuss in his music but in the movies he swears all the time. When Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained was first announced, many thought that Will Smith was a shoe-in for the title role. However, Smith has revealed in a recent interview that he turned down the part because it wasn't big enough. "Django wasn't the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead!" Smith told EW.com, referring to Christoph Waltz's Dr. King Schultz. But before he left the project, Smith said he implored Tarantino to give Django a more central role in the film. "I was like, 'No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy!'" Interestingly, Waltz's Schultz was considered the supporting role during Oscar season, while Jamie Foxx's Django was promoted as the lead. In the end, though, Smith said he still enjoyed the film. "I thought it was brilliant. Just not for me."
Django Unchained is the most overrated pile of crap I've seen in years. I know I'm basically alone in thinking this, but whatever. It's exactly the same revenge fantasy flick he had in Inglorious Basterds, which was the same as the Kill Bill movies, which was the same as Death Proof. "Oh, look at me being all edgy. Good person gets fucked over by cardboard cutout 2-dimensional baddy, then protagonist goes to ridiculous lengths to punish baddy. And there's swearing! This time in (insert cliche locale)!" Shit is getting so. Damned. Old. I really, really loved Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. I had no idea where those films were going. I miss that. If Tarantino didn't write good dialogue and have a gift for visuals, he'd be considered a B movie hack. Anyway, I'm not surprised at all that Smith turned it down. He's a marketing machine, and he knows exactly what his brand is. Will Smith owns his brand like no other major actor. He's not going to subvert it to be in a Tarantino film. McDonalds might sell a few pizzas if they started carrying them, but that's just not what McDonalds sells.
I thought Django Unchained is the best film I have seen this year so far. the movie I thought was highly overrated was End of Watch I'm damn glad I didn't pay $10.50 for that movie.
I liked End of Watch... haven't seen Django yet. I thought Zero Dark Thirty was a little overrated, but still good. I haven't seen Argo yet either.
Argo was a fantastic film. I agree about Zero Dark Thirty as it was good but overrated at the same time, Still worth watching though.
It was just so long. You could skip to the last 30 minutes of the movie and not really miss anything exciting.
I liked Inglorious Bastards, but yeah..it was kind of the same "kill" movie as many of his others have become. I don't get why Tarantino is such a 'great' director.
You are not alone! I didn't like Django Unchained either. I love Spaghetti Westerns (I even own a copy of the original Django) and I consider myself a Tarantino fan, but this movie was disappointing for all the reasons you mentioned and then some.
