10 Famous Movies That Got Away With Half-Assed Plots

3. Django Unchained's Heroes Hatch The Most Convoluted Scheme Ever So The Movie Can Have A Plot

Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's homage to what is perhaps his favourite genre, the spaghetti western, is unique in the way that it plays out in the antebellum south, as dentist turned bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz frees slave Django, and offers to help him rescue his wife from a ruthless plantation owner. The movie begins as the pair spend the winter teaming up and collect bounties, before Tarantino finally gets to the big rescue operation. Django's wife Broomhilda is being held captive at a plantation known as Candieland, see, and the owner - one Calvin Candie - possesses a keen interest in Mandingo fighters. So Schultz and Django decide to pose as Mandingo trainers in order to get a meeting, whereupon Schultz plans to offer to buy Broomhilda from him. Job done. What's confusing about this, however, is that Tarantino helps his characters into an insanely complicated plan that makes absolutely no sense - it doesn't fly that they'd both along with it in the first place. Because, really, all Schultz had to do was approach Candie on his own, and request to buy Broomhilda outright for whatever price he thought necessary. Why bring Django into the plan at all? Remember that Schultz is German, and that Broomhilda speaks the language, giving him an even better incentive to try and purchase her. And yet Tarantino stretches out a razor thin plot that has no real logic to it across two hours and a half hours - a half-assed plot if ever there was one. We barely notice, of course, because the movie is so much fun and Christoph Waltz's turn as Dr. Schultz is undeniably magnetic; he actually convinces us it's a good idea.