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Top Gear: Episode #26.1 (2019)
Utterly cringeworthy
Anybody thinks that watching four talentless idiots destroying trees and countryside is entertainment needs to be ejected off this planet. Utter crap.
Django Unchained (2012)
Violence and swearing (and a bit about slavery)
No spoilers here. Liberal violence and lots of banter, that's the a la carte menu but today's specials include using the phrase 'son of a bitch' so many times it deserves its own drinking game and a script that generally repeats itself rather often leaving it a bit flabby round the edges and less taut than Tarantino classics. The violence, when it comes, seems provoked but unexpected and unnecessary for the characters involved as I could find no empathetic bond with any of the characters to explain their actions although being a QT film you know that unspeakable violence is always a misplaced word away.
Given the serious themes covered it just felt really lightweight and disrespectful. In interview QT seems to think he's dealt with the themes quite sensitively but I couldn't see it. It is caricatured QT and so if there is a spoiler it's that you know exactly what you're going to get.