Django Unchained.

Is it co-incidental that two of my favourite directors came up new releases shortly after one another? First, Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster. Now, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. In his previous major release, the 2009 Inglorious Basterds, QT made it in the veins of old WW2 theme special squad movie like The Dirty Dozen while using Nazism and anti-Semitism as the film platform. In Django Unchained, he is inspired by old Italian spaghetti western genre, this time using the American horrific history of slavery as the basis for the storyline. And typical of QT, there're lots of violence and gore, vulgarity, and the "not suppose to laugh but yet I did" situations and dialogues. It is entertaining, in the way only QT could do it (as well as courting tremendous controversy on the subject matter). And yet, there is an underlying feeling that Django Unchained (and Inglorious Basterds) still lack something when compared to his previous works. I wonder why sometimes. It is kind of, for the lack of better word, cartoonish maybe, much like Inglorious Basterds, which both movies focus too much on, my personal opinion of course, the director's own brand of outright vengeance on behalf of those whom had been wronged in his own imaginative, alternative universe. Perhaps I enjoy, and still do, his previous movies due to different theme? Low life macho gangsters, hustlers, robbers, assassins, stuffs like that? Django Unchained is still entertaining, but I have a feeling that I may not give it a second watch, unlike his earlier works.