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couldnt disagree more. tarantino is over. vanity project is all it was.
Shalnt be wasting the bafta vote on django

Django Unchained is of course self indulgent, that's what he has always been about. For example, if you swap the release of Django Unchained with Pulp Fiction, people would be saying the same thing about Pulp Fiction.
Tarantino is probably predictable in his delivery, but to me, he is predictably brilliant. Art is simple, but art is for artists, this is why not everyone can write screenplays an direct good movies.

I have nothing but admiration for Tarantino's ability to bring to life and enhance scenes with his dialogue. Too many writers are stuck writing functional scripts with as least as many lines to get to the point as possible.
When in real life does this ever happen? Never, that's when. When I am out with friends, most of our dialogue is filled with meaningless, over acted and over worded reparte. Tarantino knows people talk like this, and therefore brings a reality to his films that I for one love.

A case in point of Tarantino's ability is the scene of the 'Rat Catcher' at the start of Inglorious Bastards. To even start to write a scene with the premise of making someone give up a family he is hiding in wartime circumstances, under his floorboards, with just a seemingly informal chat is hard as hell. To actually make it believable to the point where you can see that the guy is going to crack and give the family up, is really nothing short of a masterclass.

The problem is that nowadays its cool to dislike Tarantino, so it's nice and easy to brush off his works. I first encountered Tarantino when I watched True Romance and followed his works ever since and to be fair, he has had his dips in form, but to suggest that Django is anything but a return to form, is laughable.