Inglorious Basterds (No Spoilers)

[Brother McDuff]

Just got back from the midnite showing. A real gas. Alot heavier on the dialog than I expected, but that ain't a bad thing either. That's Tarantino's biggest charm, I feel. Christolph Waltz kills it, really impressive performance. I'm trying not to give too much away, so I'll stop there.

Definitely worth seeing, though. Especially over alot of the garbage that came out this summer.

Anyone else have any opinions, thoughts?

[Drederick Tatum]

saw this last night. Waltz is the single highlight.

[Adam]

Read a few reviews - not seen it but this is the first positive one I've read.

[Laver1969]

Didn't see the movie, but heard Quentin's interview with Howard Stern the other day. Q talked about drinking wine with Brad Pitt until 3am and then slicing off a brick of hash to give Q as a parting gift.

[mickill]

Is it better than Up?

[paul jones]

I'm gonna go watch it next week.I read in a review that there's a long boring bit in the middle so I can sneak out for a piss and get another hot dog

[mathcart]

Loved it!
(y)(y)(y)(y)
Thought Pitt was hilarious!

[Audio.]

I'm gonna go watch it next week.I read in a review that there's a long boring bit in the middle so I can sneak out for a piss and get another hot dog

thats seems to be in almost every other movie made by Q.

[checkyourprez]

saw this last night.

pretty fucking sick.

some parts were a bit much for me, but overall it was really sick.


very happy with the last 2 movies i paid to see, this and district 9.

[Drederick Tatum]

wow, most of you seem pretty easy to please. in my opinion this was probably one of the worst films I've seen at the cinema in the past three years.

Tarantino is a teenager.

[roosta]

yeah, i wasn't a fan.

[checkyourprez]

pussies.

[adam_f]

POSSIBLE SPOILER, I DON'T KNOW, JUST COVERING MY ASS

The fact the Basterds were only in maybe 1/3 of the movie saved it, it's completely Waltz's movie and he's brilliant.

[Drederick Tatum]

POSSIBLE SPOILER, I DON'T KNOW, JUST COVERING MY ASS

The fact the Basterds were only in maybe 1/3 of the movie saved it, it's completely Waltz's movie and he's brilliant.

but then Waltz himself is only in about 1/3 of the film. the other 2/3 it's Tarantino making weak references to German culture/cinema in the hope someone will think he's clever, unnecessary violence done without style that only juveniles could find appealing, and extended scenes that drag on and become seriously tedious, ie. in the cellar.

and it's far too long.

saying that I did enjoy the first chapter. Tarantino could've based the film more firmly around the sole survivor of this chapter and prioritised the revenge element of the movie, or even centred it around the Basterds and presented a more linear parody/spoof/homage/whatever he does of WWII films. in both these scenarios Waltz probably gets more screen time and we get a slightly less bloated and boring product.

[checkyourprez]

i dont know about anyone else but i thought that ending was quite suspenseful.



theres nothing wrong with juvenile violence. thats part of what makes pulp fiction so great.

[DandyFop]

I really like it, and I'm in no way a Tarantino fan. I thought the plot was great, amazing acting, and well-shot.

Can't take BJ Novak seriously in it AT ALL though, hahaha.

And Dred, I'm probably one of the hardest-to-please moviegoers there is.

[Brother McDuff]

the other 2/3 it's Tarantino making weak references to German culture/cinema in the hope someone will think he's clever,

I don't think the culture/cinema element was an attempt to gain cleverness points, rather it was QT just incorporating some of his own interests and passion for cinema into a piece of his work. It's only natural for artists to do such a thing, I feel.


unnecessary violence done without style that only juveniles could find appealing,

I don't think the action scenes lacked style at all. they were crafty and atypical, not to mention the speed of the editing added to the realism of the action. I enjoyed it, and I'm surely not a juvenile.

and extended scenes that drag on and become seriously tedious, ie. in the cellar.

once again, these scenes and their subtleties just made them more realistic. one of the strengths of the film, I think. the dialog-heavy scenes seemed like authentic conversations, not rushed and condensed in an attempt to pacify the short attention span of an audience conditioned to be rushed through a film.

furthermore, without following that approach, Waltz's performance/character would never been able to fully develop into the wonderful thing that it came to be.




That's my 2 cents at least.

[hpdrifter]

I saw it this weekend and loved it.

Agreed on BJ Novak and will raise you Eli Roth.

What is it about him that looks so creepy? I think it's his eyes, they appear to be jet black which makes him look perpetually like he's wearing Halloween contacts.

[Tzar]

someone make a .gif of hitler's face getting blasted apart. doooo it.

i really liked it. Waltz was a freak show - he kept me so tense. QT is a fuckin' fruit loop though ie. the intensity of the juvenile violence but that was always going to be the appeal to a movie like this. i'm glad there was fuck all "juvenile" violence in it. i saw it with some mates who have no idea what QT is about with his movies and they left the cinema saying "that was shit, i wanted more nazi bashing.". i loved the movie for that reason.

[DandyFop]

someone make a .gif of hitler's face getting blasted apart. doooo it.

.

This is what some may call a "spoiler".

[YoungRemy]

the Jew Hunter owns on a Anton Chigurh type level.


since Kill Bill 2, I can't help but picture QT at his typewriter laughing to himself how brilliant he is... i definitely felt that when I watched Basterds...

[Brother McDuff]

since Kill Bill 2, I can't help but picture QT at his typewriter laughing to himself how brilliant he is... i definitely felt that when I watched Basterds...


you're probably closer than you think with that assumption. me agrees. (y)

[nodanaonlyzuul]

This is what some may call a "spoiler".

yes. yes it is.

I knew I should have waited until I saw it to click this thread, despite the "no spoilers" addition to the title.

:mad::mad::mad:

[hpdrifter]

Small consolation but that is a relatively minor spoiler. You'll understand once you've seen it.

[Mr Films]

the other 2/3 it's Tarantino making weak references to German culture/cinema in the hope someone will think he's clever, unnecessary violence done without style that only juveniles could find appealing, and extended scenes that drag on and become seriously tedious, ie. in the cellar.

and it's far too long.

So what you're saying is... you've never seen a Tarantino film.

I dug the flick a lot. Those long scenes were entertaining as hell. Yeah, they dragged but right about the time I was wondering "where the fuck is this headed?" it came to a point.

[mate_spawn_die]

i loved it...

but there wasn't enough basterds. we only heard about thir badass reputation. we didn't get to see them in action that much.

my only complaint

[lolkat]

sucks. you pretty much all have terrible tastes.

and that body image thread is some pathetic shit too, btw.

[checkyourprez]

sucks. you pretty much all have terrible tastes.

and that body image thread is some pathetic shit too, btw.

hah yea. everyone has terrible taste but you. riiiiiight.

[Brother McDuff]

sucks. you pretty much all have terrible tastes.

and that body image thread is some pathetic shit too, btw.


we can only hope you will find it in your heart to forgive us, my lord. :rolleyes:

[DandyFop]

i loved it...

but there wasn't enough basterds. we only heard about thir badass reputation. we didn't get to see them in action that much.

my only complaint

Yeah, if you're going to claim that dudes like Samm Levine and BJ Novak can kick some nazi ass, you'd better have some proof. That is my one complaint...just needed one scene of complete Basterd ass-kick-athon.

One of the guys is a comedy dude who I see around regularly, true story. He starred in that POS I love you Beth Cooper.

[Tzar]

apologies for the spoiler, crystal. totally forgot about the thread title when i typed that out. i never mentioned HOW it gets blasted apart though....! if that's helps

[Micodin]

Personally I thought the movie was a instant classic. It's a non-traditional Hollywood WW2 movie with great dialogue and just as great acting. I was on the edge of my seat the entire flick. I had a lot of fun watching it.

I just finished one of the last drafts of the script. It's good as well. It has a couple characters and scenes that were cut (or not filmed). Good shit.

[skra75]

Tarantino is a teenager.

HAHAHAHA (y)

[A. Chimendez]

It was easily the best movie of the summer.

You either get Tarantino's style or you don't. I'm not saying the people who do are smarter then the people who don't but my god, an argument like "it had no style or substance" really makes me think the person was too caught up on the fact that he has a big personality that carries through his film making and less actually watching the movie.


He doesn't fuck around. There really isn't a ballsier film maker.

[Randetica]

one of those movies that i know i will watch sooner or later but it doesnt have to be NOW

[Drederick Tatum]

nobody said "it had no style or substance".

but if anyone thinks the baseball bat scene or the Von Hammersmark strangulation scene were stylish, then the bar for cinematic style and craft has definitely been set a lot lower than when I first began attempting to appreciate films for something more than just a sequenced collection of guns, dames, and explosions.

I think motion picture history will regard Tarantino as a fan rather than as a filmmaker.

[roosta]

It was easily the best movie of the summer.

You either get Tarantino's style or you don't. .

Well...I 'get' his style...i loved Kill Bill, one of my all time favourite films.

But I didn't like this....too slow in parts..narrative was messy.

It had its moments, but they were in the minority.

[hpdrifter]

Those two scenes were so short and tame compared to his usual, I remember thinking at the time "that's all?"

Seriously, have you seen (m)any Tarantino movies?

[Drederick Tatum]

yes, I've seen them all. Jackie Brown is great. this most recent one is not.

[checkyourprez]

yes, I've seen them all. Jackie Brown is great. this most recent one is not.

by not you mean, very good.

[Michelle*s_Farm]

nazi killers are cool ;)

[Brother McDuff]

nobody said "it had no style or substance".

but if anyone thinks the baseball bat scene or the Von Hammersmark strangulation scene were stylish, then the bar for cinematic style and craft has definitely been set a lot lower


nobody said these scenes were particularly stylish. it's not like every single scene has to be some crazy art-house moment for a movie to be stylish.

[Freebasser]

I think Tarantino was just trying to have some fun with a new genre. I don't think any of it was meant to be taken as stylish or serious at all. To me, it came across as an on-screen representation of the ultimate boys' comic book where WW2 culminates in exactly the way you'd always wanted it to with a stupidly win-win ending.

I loved Pulp Fiction, but all his other films take themselves far too seriously. This was a blast, and was the first film he's ever done where I actually thought he wasn't trying to be ubercool, he was just trying to bring a smile to people's faces. The scene with 3 of the Basterds posing as guests in the cinema foyer being a case in point.

Good film (y)

[nodanaonlyzuul]

I definitely wouldn't put this in my top favorite Tarantino related works, but I was entertained.

I am surprised at how many Tarantino fans totally raved over this. I mean, yes, I liked it. But rave about it? Go crazy over it? OMGOMGOMG and such?

Not really.

[Brother McDuff]

You have to admit, it fuckin' kills Death Proof. That's for sure.

[checkyourprez]

You have to admit, it fuckin' kills Death Proof. That's for sure.

o yeah.

that movie kinda sucked to me.

[mathcart]

You have to admit, it fuckin' kills Death Proof. That's for sure.

Death Proof is underrated I think...

total side note while I really liked "basterds" it was the first Tarantino movie that the music did not stand out for me at all- which was a huge part of the experience for every other one of his films. Probably a conscious choice (period piece and all). Its just weird to me.

[paul jones]

I might go and see this today.I said this last week too

[saz]

in my opinion this was probably one of the worst films I've seen at the cinema in the past three years.

you're lucky that you don't have friends who have the shittiest taste in films and dragged you to transformers.

i agree with most of what you said. i liked it, it wasn't mindblowing or anything, but it sure was great to see something like this, as opposed to the usual generic b.s. that hollywood churns out every summer. it also had too many unnecessary deaths, but then again tarantino usually kills off characters in his movies that don't really need to be killed.

[HEIRESS]

I keep repeating:
"Nah, I don't think so. More like chewed out. I've been chewed out before."

[trailerprincess]

Went to see this on Saturday night and really enjoyed it which surprised me. I found the first part a wee bit slow but felt that when it picked up, it really picked up. I'm a sucker for bad accents and the Pitt I-talian scene had me in hysterics (yeah, I'm childish) as did the overcamp British accents (what what old chap etc). Waltz was by far the best thing in it but also found Stiglitz superbly menacing. I haven't seen Deathproof yet (still on my Sky+) but I might check it out this weekend and see what everyone is not talking about.

[Documad]

It was easily the best movie of the summer.

I'm just wondering what else was in the running?

I vaguely remember enjoying one movie but I can't remember what it was. This was a horrible summer.

[Pres Zount]

This film is fucking terrible. Tatum is absolutely spot on here. SPOILERS:L

It was the absolute worst thing I have seen for a long long time. Painfully obvious that he didn't have enough material or dialogue to make an entire movie, so he just works some ol' Tarantino magic and turns drinking a glass of milk into a five minute scene.

3 hours later and I didn't have a clue who half the characters were, and what their story was. I didn't care.

The brutality is meant to shock us, but it's a WWII film (thanks for ruining one of my favourite genres Quentin!) so I think the audience should be prepared somewhat - Germans shooting Jews? Get out of town! - but I know the director thought he was being as cutting edge and IN YOUR FACE as he always thinks he is. Is the disregard for an honour amongst soldiers supposed to be cool and BADASS, or is it scathing social commentary? I don't give a shit anymore.

It's a collection of suspensful scenes, one after the other, and they're really not that suspensful after the first one because the same thing happens. Good guy meets Bad guy, Good guy tries to con Bad guy, Bad guy plays along, but we all know he secretly knows too. TENSION. AGAIN AND AGAIN. AND AGAIN. It's just tedious and it made me wish the scene would just end; not because I needed to know the outcome, just move on to something else, for gods sake.

Chapter titles, bold font, pointing out who Herman Goring is just in case history buffs missed the fat, blond man in the Luftwaffe uniform - fuck off. At least get a decent looking Hitler.

I'm told Tarrantino pops up in his films a lot, so in this one I saw him as Hiltler, sitting in the cinema, grotesquely laughing as his film shows men being killed for entertainment purposes rather than plot direction or storyline.

My memory has begun the process of collecting all known records of this abomination, and is burning them before the Allies arrive.




Also; hey freeb how's it goin'? :<

[checkyourprez]

This film is fucking terrible. Tatum is absolutely spot on here. SPOILERS:L

It was the absolute worst thing I have seen for a long long time. Painfully obvious that he didn't have enough material or dialogue to make an entire movie, so he just works some ol' Tarantino magic and turns drinking a glass of milk into a five minute scene.

3 hours later and I didn't have a clue who half the characters were, and what their story was. I didn't care.

The brutality is meant to shock us, but it's a WWII film (thanks for ruining one of my favourite genres Quentin!) so I think the audience should be prepared somewhat - Germans shooting Jews? Get out of town! - but I know the director thought he was being as cutting edge and IN YOUR FACE as he always thinks he is. Is the disregard for an honour amongst soldiers supposed to be cool and BADASS, or is it scathing social commentary? I don't give a shit anymore.

It's a collection of suspensful scenes, one after the other, and they're really not that suspensful after the first one because the same thing happens. Good guy meets Bad guy, Good guy tries to con Bad guy, Bad guy plays along, but we all know he secretly knows too. TENSION. AGAIN AND AGAIN. AND AGAIN. It's just tedious and it made me wish the scene would just end; not because I needed to know the outcome, just move on to something else, for gods sake.

Chapter titles, bold font, pointing out who Herman Goring is just in case history buffs missed the fat, blond man in the Luftwaffe uniform - fuck off. At least get a decent looking Hitler.

I'm told Tarrantino pops up in his films a lot, so in this one I saw him as Hiltler, sitting in the cinema, grotesquely laughing as his film shows men being killed for entertainment purposes rather than plot direction or storyline.

My memory has begun the process of collecting all known records of this abomination, and is burning them before the Allies arrive.




Also; hey freeb how's it goin'? :<

worst review ever.

[Pres Zount]

Oh, well The Daily Mail didn't seem to think so when they printed it in their newspaper and paid me hundreds of dollars.

[Pres Zount]

Shit, wait, that never happened because it's just a reactionary rant about a movie I hate, rather than a review that I hope people will find helpful.

[Documad]

Ha ha. Zount's review makes me want to see it. If it were only 2 hours long I might.

[Brother McDuff]

This film is fucking terrible. Tatum is absolutely spot on here. SPOILERS:L

It was the absolute worst thing I have seen for a long long time. Painfully obvious that he didn't have enough material or dialogue to make an entire movie, so he just works some ol' Tarantino magic and turns drinking a glass of milk into a five minute scene.

3 hours later and I didn't have a clue who half the characters were, and what their story was. I didn't care.

The brutality is meant to shock us, but it's a WWII film (thanks for ruining one of my favourite genres Quentin!) so I think the audience should be prepared somewhat - Germans shooting Jews? Get out of town! - but I know the director thought he was being as cutting edge and IN YOUR FACE as he always thinks he is. Is the disregard for an honour amongst soldiers supposed to be cool and BADASS, or is it scathing social commentary? I don't give a shit anymore.

It's a collection of suspensful scenes, one after the other, and they're really not that suspensful after the first one because the same thing happens. Good guy meets Bad guy, Good guy tries to con Bad guy, Bad guy plays along, but we all know he secretly knows too. TENSION. AGAIN AND AGAIN. AND AGAIN. It's just tedious and it made me wish the scene would just end; not because I needed to know the outcome, just move on to something else, for gods sake.

Chapter titles, bold font, pointing out who Herman Goring is just in case history buffs missed the fat, blond man in the Luftwaffe uniform - fuck off. At least get a decent looking Hitler.

I'm told Tarrantino pops up in his films a lot, so in this one I saw him as Hiltler, sitting in the cinema, grotesquely laughing as his film shows men being killed for entertainment purposes rather than plot direction or storyline.

My memory has begun the process of collecting all known records of this abomination, and is burning them before the Allies arrive.


there's nothing wrong with disliking a film, but you're clearly just too proud of yourself for it. plus I think the tongue-in-cheek elements went way over your head.

[YoungRemy]

I'm told Tarrantino pops up in his films a lot, so in this one I saw him as Hiltler, sitting in the cinema, grotesquely laughing as his film shows men being killed for entertainment purposes rather than plot direction or storyline.


?? are you re-casting the role of Hitler in the movie for fun or are you saying you thought you saw QT dressed up as Hitler in a specific scene??

[skinnybutphat]

It's funny how so many people talk about how much they dislike Tarantino yet they race to the theater to check out his latest movie.

I haven't seen it yet and I'm looking forward to it.

[Pres Zount]

there's nothing wrong with disliking a film, but you're clearly just too proud of yourself for it. plus I think the tongue-in-cheek elements went way over your head.

Who draws the line on the amount of proudness one can have for their taste in movies? WHO?

Anyway, I'd like to know the tongue in cheek parts I didn't get.

Remy; I just meant that the character of Hitler in that scene reminded made me think of Tarantino

[Freebasser]

I think the whole thing was light-hearted, comic-book fun, Joe :<

[Pres Zount]

I think it could have achieved that had it not been as pretentious as I am, Aids. : <

[Freebasser]

I see : <