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Johnbobb: fuck yeah fuck you fuck those guys fuck that guy fuck your horse fuck your gold fuck your bottles fuck everything pew pew pew djaaaaaangoooooooooo

KBM: Maybe the most purely badass film on the list. You can definitely see why so many people have been inspired by this character over the years. This movie is a great example of economy of storytelling, telling a fully-fledged story in 90 minutes, the vast majority of which is told visually. The dialogue is just a bonus here. Franco Nero's performance here is amazing (particularly considering he was just 23 when the movie was filmed). And it has a sense of humor, to boot, morbid though it may be. This one's really great.

Inviso: Despite its comparatively short runtime, this movie just didnt do it for me. Dont get me wrong; I burst out laughing when Django finally opened his coffin and pulled out a goddamn chaingun out of nowhere. Unfortunately, the scene happens so early into the film that the plot can really only go downhill from there. Granted, the final scene, with the broken-handed Django taking out six Klansmen, is pretty good, but Ive seen that sort of thing done better in Shoot Em Up. Django himself is a void of charisma, who manages to fill the stereotypical role of lone gunman with all the grace of a block of wood. If not for the comedy stylings of the Mexican army, or the outright pathetic portrayal of the KKK, this couldve been a forgettable film. I will get credit where credit it due though. That credit song is pretty damn sweet.

Poke: Its run-of-the mill Spaghetti western which isnt a bad thing. I enjoyed it, but its hard to say its on par with some of the other films of its sub-genre.

Karo: So a stereotypical mysterious lone gunman and his pet coffin end up at the border where he shoots people and hustles bandits in what seems like some shitty direct-to-video ripoff of the dollars trilogy.
But unlike the nuanced films from the other director named Sergio, this is a bizarre mess of machine gun wielding cowboys, mud wrestling hookers, confederate cultists, quicksand pits and shakeycam bar fights that is only entertaining in how bad it is.
Django's motivations are murky at best, and at worst? well....
He's out for revenge against Jackson except now he's doing a mexican gold heist and now he's betraying his old friends for whatever reason he likes the girl now he doesnt like the girl but now he likes her now Jackson must die at all costs so he let him live twice. Fucking writing how does it work.
Who knows what is going on in Django's head, he doesnt talk a whole lot and when he does it is melodramatic bullshit that tells me nothing other than he is probably high as fuck on peyote.
There really is no redeeming feature to this flick other than the theme song...
...which you can also hear in Tarantinos movie.
This Django should not only stay chained, it should also be sealed in ten cubic feet of solid lead and sunk into the deepest crevice in the mariana trench.

CoolCly: The audio in this movie is very distracting. The dubbing is bad, and the music is loud and overbearing rather than improving scenes. The Dollars trilogy does the same dubbing, but it feels seamless and works out great.

The soldier guys being cartoonishly evil and killing exicans for fun is pretty meh. It doesnt really make me think they are intimidating or anything.

The scene in the hotel where the major and some soldiers try to get Django and he shoots them all from his spot sitting wasnt good. The tension of the scene was really lacking and it just doesnt physically make sense that Django could hit everybody from his spot like that. That really hurts these scenes when it doesnt seem impressive it just doesnt work. It feels like the director things adding more to a shootout like this makes even cooler than a quick draw that would happen in the Dollars trilogy, but it doesnt.
The chaingun to gun down all of the marshalls clansmen felt like a further extension of that mindset. Its just tons of violence without purpose, and wasnt really engaging. The Dollars trilogy even has a similar scene, but the purpose is to demonstrate how fucking crazy Ramone was, not just senseless violence itself.

The movie gets even worse with the interpersonal relationships. The woman trying to thank Django for saving her saying he made her feel like a real woman is CRIIIIINGE. The dialogue when the innkeeper tries to talk him out of fighting the marshall man, its all just horrible.

Django himself, in a charitable view, is a mystery in what he actually wants and what his morals really are. Really, its just unexplored and inconsistent. Does he care about the woman he saved? Does he literally not give a shit? Is he just after the gold? Does he *change* later in the movie? His actions are so back and forth theres really no way to tell. But hes 100% responsible for the murder of all those soldiers at the fort they raided for gold.

This entire movie is exactly the kind of bad schlock I was afraid this entire list would be. Thankfully, that wasnt the case. Ive heard Quentin Tarantino loves this movie, and a lot of his film making is inspired by it. I can see it the worst part of his film making, the obsession with over the top violence that takes away from scenes, must directly come from Django.

The very last scene with the bloody gun in the cemetery with Django walking away and leaving it behind is actually pretty damn good if the entire movie before it was good, that would have been a great ending. Too bad this movie sucked ass.

1/10
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