Climcatic gunfight, half the baddies are killed. Plot is not resolved.
Hero is sent away. Hero escapes.
Hero comes back and kills everyone else.
Supposed to be a climax, but it was just mop-up.
Since the plot had diminishing tension, it needed to be a climax in some other way... but it wasn't.
(Compare to Pulp Fiction... one of the lead characters is actually killed in the middle of the movie, but the scenes are arranged dramatically in terms of character arc, so tension continues.)
Django is pretty straightforward, with an occasional flashback.
I hate when the movies are overly focused on the background events - it gets predictable quickly.
Tarantino won an oscar for his screenplay, but I don't think it's the screenplay that was in the movie; he gutted his screenplay, which is scary since the movie ran about 2:45. Many scenes between characters (especially Stephen and Django) were excised.
Oh, that scene was unbelievable. The guy who seemed fairly reasonable basically got himself killed because he didn't want to handshake a person he hated.
Yeah... and in a way that we already saw earlier in the movie.
I also found the Broomhilda legend to be extremely cheesy. "Oh, in the legend Broomhilda got rescued by Siegfried, so you are supposed to be her Siegfried, now everything makes sense!"
Yup. I'm hoping the screenplay did more with that. In the movie, it was kind of thin.
Yeah, that was a pretty commercial move.
Another blunder: The cutscene with the KKK riders cutting eyeholes in their sacks -- it's edited poorly and I saw at least one published review thinking it was part of the main time flow and not understanding it... and I remember needing about ten seconds to decide it was a flashback.
Just not up to Tarantino's standards. I don't remember Kill Bill having any major editing gaffs like that, despite all the flashbacks and time/scene cuts.