>> Well I still will stand up and say calling for the killing of anyone is NEVER OK in my book.
That’s not exactly true. I haven’t seen Django yet, but I have seen Inglorious Basterds. It was a violent bloodlust revenge flick against the Nazis ... who had it coming. There was certainly no outcry about that one. My understanding is that this is similar, just with slaveholders rather than Nazis.
Revenge flicks are a solid sub-genre ... and, to be honest, I like most of them. Taken, Man on Fire, Death Wish, Dirty Harry, Harry Brown, the last 8-hours of 24, etc.
The problem isn’t the movie. Its cultural. There is a lot of misdirected hatred out there, particularly from liberals.
SnakeDoc
I bet if the same movie was released in 1975 as a spahgetti/schlock western for 100K with no-named actors blowing away no-name euro-actors and twice the amount of n-words in the script, no one would have raised an eyebrow on either side. You can say that for pretty much all of his movies. The same movie is released in 2012 with a modern a-movie budget, modern special effects, famous idiot actors, and modern 24 hour mass media and it’s a big deal on all sides. I suppose it’s good for publicity, if nothing else.
Freegards