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Inglourious Basterds

#23
username n/a said:
Dude, two words. Hogan's Heros!
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That show was more a slap in the fact to anyone with a legitimate french accent. Sort of like Scotty on Star Trek was to anyone actually from Scotland.

I doubt I'll see Inglourious Basterds in the theater. I loved Resevoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction is probably my favorite movie (check my user title) but after that I found Tarantino's movies entertaining but not nearly as good as those first two.

I'll probably see it when it comes to DVD.
 
#24
BillyRay said:
Might try to catch it during a matinee or something. QT's last efforts (second Kill Bill and that ridiculous film with the girl who had a machine gun on her leg) were pretty poor.
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The machine gun leg girl was Planet Terror, directed by QT's close buddy Robert Rodriguez. QT did the double feature companion piece Death Proof where Kurt Russell was a serial killer stunt driver. A lot of folks didn't seem to like that as much but FWIW I enjoyed the heck out of it.
 
#28
Stickk said:
I don't know... I though Jackie Brown was pretty good.
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I liked Jackie Brown but I wanted to love it and I just didn't.

Kill Bill I & II were entertaining but not incredible, Taratino's section of "Four Rooms" was the highlight of an otherwise pretty awful film but not great and I just didn't have much interest in Death Proof/Grindhouse to the point where I declined when a friend offered to loan me the DVD.

I'm sure I'll see this one at some point but my expectations for his films are nowhere near where they once were.
 
#29
Jared Lash said:
Kill Bill I & II were entertaining but not incredible, Taratino's section of "Four Rooms" was the highlight of an otherwise pretty awful film but not great and I just didn't have much interest in Death Proof/Grindhouse to the point where I declined when a friend offered to loan me the DVD.
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I really liked Kill Bill too, but it's certainly no Pulp Fiction/ Reservoir Dogs. After reading the screenplay, I thinks it's the best thing he's done since Pulp Fiction (Inglourious Basterds). I'll have to see, come Friday.
 
#32
German critics lap up Tarantino's Jewish revenge fantasy
Aug 20 07:34 AM US/Eastern

Quentin Tarantino's blood-drenched fantasy of Jewish GIs who slaughter the top Nazis, "Inglourious Basterds," dazzled German critics who said Thursday it ripped up the rulebook for World War II films.

Ahead of the film's international release this week, German reviewers were rapturous over the fictitious squad of Nazi killers who stop the Holocaust and take brutal revenge, with some calling the picture "historic" and "important."

Only a handful expressed qualms over Tarantino's trademark gore-splattering, most relishing the cinematic massacre of the Nazi brass including Adolf Hitler by a band of Jewish-American soldiers, led by Brad Pitt, as deeply satisfying.

"'Inglourious Basterds' is brazen, a declaration of war, a pleasure," the normally staid Frankfurter Allgemeine daily said.

"Tarantino shows the Nazis as they really were: a pack of pompous trash -- thoroughly trivial bad guys."

However the paper had a word of warning about Tarantino's larger-than-life Nazis, led by this year's best-actor laureate in Cannes, Austrian Christoph Waltz as a "Jew-hunting" SS psychopath.

"When evil is presented as well and as elegantly as he does, we can easily be seduced by it," it wrote.

Filmed in part in Germany, the picture is according to Tarantino a "spaghetti western but with World War II iconography" that was also influenced by the French New Wave.

"This ain't your daddy's World War II movie," Tarantino has said.

The title of the film was inspired by Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 movie "The Inglorious Bastards".

In the genre-blurring tale -- with David Bowie on the soundtrack -- Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine who heads the squad of Jewish-American soldiers behind enemy lines in German-occupied wartime France.

Aldo tells his men to bring him the scalps of 100 Nazis each, and vows to terrorise the German army with the "disembowelled, dismembered and disfigured bodies we leave behind us."

A parallel storyline involves a Jewish woman bent on revenge after seeing her entire family being wiped out by the Nazis.

Hitler, Goebbels and top Nazi henchmen appear in the movie which culminates in an outlandish plot to take out the German leadership at the Paris premiere of a Nazi propaganda film.

"Tarantino manages to create great cinema with his cheeky historical concoction -- despite using actual historical figures from Hitler to De Gaulle, he made nearly everything up," the Financial Times Deutschland wrote.

"Because, unlike 'Pulp Fiction' or 'Kill Bill', only the evil are massacred, the audience cheers the violent scenes with gusto," it said in a review headlined "Kill Hitler".

"This isn't camp, it isn't pulp -- you miss the point using such categories with Tarantino -- but rather a vision never before seen in the nearly exhausted world of cinematic images," the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel wrote.

"It took 65 years for a film-maker, instead of bringing Germany's evil 20th century history to life once more to have people shudder and bow before it, to simply dream around it. And to mow all the pigs down. Catharsis! Oxygen! Wonderful retro-futuristic insanity of the imagination!"

Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung said its readers "must" see the picture, and offered favourable comparisons with this year's "Valkyrie" a Tom Cruise vehicle about a failed 1944 plot against Hitler.

"Regardless of whether you then love or hate the film, your reaction will not be lukewarm. There is so much in it to discover," it wrote.

"More than horror, Tarantino fears the conventions that have long surrounded the Nazis and the Holocaust -- these leaden, sepia-toned suggestions of authenticity that a film can never really live up to.

"Tarantino throws gasoline on the fire of the Nazi film to create the big bang to clear the way. A crazy idea. So crazy that it might just work."
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.fdc24718ee84a912c2aa2914ba6c8c60.5c1&show_article=1
 
#33
I've been waiting to see this for a while now. I love his stuff, though I have a feeling there will be gore a plenty, like when they cut out right before the guy gets hit the in head by a baseball bat, I'm sure they'll show full contact in the film.
 
#34
I admit... i am a ginormous movie snob. I've always been kinda indifferent with Tarantino. He reminds me of me when it comes to talking about movies and where he gets his inspiration from. His movies themselves have always, to me, been good-not-great. I think he shines with dialogue. Which is why Kill Bill Vol. 2 is and always will be better than the first one. Also, in regards to Kill Bill... my favorite parts were the cameo's of both Sony Chiba and Gordon Liu.

I'll see Inglorious Basterds for sure, as it will most assuredly be better than 90% of any other wide release movie.

I do think Brad Pitt is a terrible actor(aside from the stoner character he played in True Romance) so i'm not stoaked on that front... LOL war-pun.
 

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