Django Unchained or 12 Years a Slave

[pendragon]

I'm a huge Tarantino fan (Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown are both definitely in my top 5 favorite films), so I'm probably a little biased. But I found Django to be vastly more entertaining than 12 Years. There was a reviewer who caught some flack for comparing 12 Years to "torture porn" like Hostel, but I would agree that that's basically what it was to me. Poorly-developed one-dimensional characters being tortured by other poorly-developed one-dimensional characters for two hours. Roots did the same sort of story far more memorably.