inglorious basterds
 

i held off on the midnite showing thursday,.....told myself i should wait to see it with a friend of mine and not be selfish with the tarantino,......

but now i'm gettin kinda nervous about it,....

anyone see it yet? how was it?

I believe it is actually spelt 'Inglourious Basterds.' No idea why. But I also am looking forward to seeing it eventually, would love to hear people's opinions.

It was good...great story line and acting. Brad Pitt was alittle over the top, but funny. I enjoyed it.

Pitt's performance looks campy to the extreme. That being said I still want to see it.

I don't want to see it. Because if it's anything like QT's other films, it's an emotionless, substance lacking, pop culture vulture, sake-of-cool piece of garbage that has absolutely no redeeming value to anyone who isn't sated by played out imagery in a pretentious schema.

Qft

The t of course stands for "tragically wrong".

I know his films aren't truly deep or anything, but I don't think great cinema always has to be.

It's not like he ever pretends to NOT be a pop culture junkie who makes movies for pop culture junkies.

And that's what his films are for, pop culture junkies, like me. Anyone who is expecting Jean-Luc Godard is clearly gonna be disappointed.

I'm afraid it's WON'T be like the usual QT movies ... that movie seemed lacking some blood ... but still want to watch it.

I haven't seen it yet either but hopefully will get to go over the next few days.

9:20 showing tonight with the bestie and our brother,.....

i'm super jazz hands WITH spirit fingers

Each scene in it was hit or miss. Some scenes, especially towards the end add nothing. It seems like Quentin Tarantino was trying to out-do the "ear scene" from reservoir dogs in any way he could. Also, the dude who played the "Jew Bear" was terrible, at least when he talked.

But i did enjoy it. It is a very fun movie if your just in the mood to be entertained.

I saw it opening night at midnight and while I was already having a crappy night to begin with I still managed to enjoy the movie. It wasn't my favourite Tarantino movie (that's reserved for Jackie Brown) but I did feel I got my 12 dollars worth. The blond French actress was easily the best character in the movie.

damn son, 12$ ?

thats outrageous :-/

Hey dude, you know who that is?

It's cinematic genius Eli Roth, the master visionary behind the Hostel series and Cabin Fever.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaah.

I guess awful film directors also make awful actors, no surprise there.

After the Kill Bills and Death Proof, I can't really say I expect anything with real depth and substance, but like Boo Boo I think there are other ways to make good films. Sometimes I just wanna be entertained and Inglorious Basterds looks like it might do that quite well! I'm definetly gonna watch it and even though I don't think it'll be mindblowing, I do believe it'll be worth a trip to the cinema.

Well to be honest I thought Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction had some very fascinating and well written characters which was a big part of their appeal, as they weren't really action films like Tarantino's later work.

Inglorious Bastards seems like it's gonna lack the interesting characters that his earlier films had. Hopefully there will be enough kickass action to make up for it.

I found Uma Thurman's character in Kill Bill to be way too unlikable to really care what happens to her, I found the villians to be not only way more interesting but even more likable than the protagonist, I still thought the first Kill Bill was excellent for it's fight scenes, gory death scenes and the over the top style that Tarantino does best, in fact I consider it to be one of the most brilliant action films ever made. However I felt the second film suffered from spending way too much time on the backstories and trying to get us to care about the main character.

I felt that was a step backwards, why have all the action in the first film and then stuff all the backstory and dialogue into the sequel? I still thought vol 2 was very good though, just a bit of a let down when compared to vol 1.

I know people say it's better because of character development, but who f*cking asked for character development in a retro style kung fu action film? I sure as hell didn't.

Yeah, I agree that those had substance .. my assumption is really more based on his last 3. Well, then there's the trailer as well of course!

i laughed my ass off the whole time, though it didnt help my friend blair would kick me every time brad pitt said something

she was convinced that his character would be the boy form of me,....still not sure how i feel about that, but i've been not sure before

personally, i thought it was great

Did you, or anyone for that matter, feel like there was too much foreign language in the movie. Or did I just get a bad bootleg?

Well... it has a lot of Germans in it.

And yeah, I DO think it's stupid to have a movie set IN germany where every german speaks perfect english.

http://www.topnews.in/light/files/To...e-Valkyrie.jpg

Very stupid.

I have a hard time seeing how characters supposed to be french (f.ex) actually speaking french in a movie is a problem. If you get used to reading subtitles, it shouldn't be an issue.

:bonkhead:

Right, bloody funny indeed mate.

But seriously, the copy I watched was at least 60% Foreign, and the subs were in Russian, so that didn't help any and neither did your bonkhead smiley post for that matter. Guess I will have to shell out the damn 11 bucks to see english subtitles.

I can make out some french and a very little bit of german and I still was confused at times. I guess I can't follow a plot thats based entirely on body language.

correcto

aww, im real put off of this film now cause all this forign language stuff, personally i think subtitles ruin a movie, you concentrate to much on the bottom of the screen & not on the characters etc :(

We don't dub much in Norway - unless it's a film for kids, it really is a horrible thing to do to a movie - and so all movies that are not norwegian (~99+%) have subtitles. Trust me, it doesn't take long before you learn to read the subtitles without focusing on them. They don't really steal attention from the movie for me.

yeah i suppose once im used to them i wont focus as much on just the subtitles, i dont think ive ever seen a film with subtitles :(

If I have the choice of seeing, say, a chinese martial arts movie either dubbed to english or in it's original language with subtitles, I always go for the subtitles option. In my opinion, it's always the best alternative!

Always subtitles, 100%. Dubbing is not only detrimental to the movie, it is a slap in the face to the actors. Subtitled movies are not difficult to follow unless you are poor at reading. Also, if you watch a movie dubbed the you are missing out on the language which, depending on where it is from, can be a wonderful thing. I learnt most of my Japanese by watching Japanese programs and movies growing up. If I can watch a subtitled movie at 5 then I'm sure anyone else can as a teenager and upwards.

Not always.

I mean Godzilla or kung fu movies wouldn't be as fun if they weren't poorly dubbed. :laughing:

i thought it was pretty awesome. i didn't realize that it was 2.5 hours long till after it was over. it entertained throughout. more of a comedy than anything i think. and i concur that the "jew bear" guy was pretty terrible.

Yeah, Eli Roth, I'm pretty sure he's only in that movie because he's buddies with Quentin.

1. The movie was incredible.
2. Brad Pitt was comic relief and comic relief only, the ad campaign was centered around him for the purpose of selling tickets, not because he's the focus of the movie.
3. The main (Foreign, previously unkown in the U.S.) actors were incredible, Eli Roth can't ruin a whole movie...
4. There's no dubbing it's the actors speaking English. I'd prefer subtitles to unexplained universal speaking of English, but there is some French and German spoken and the language spoken never actually detracts from the movie.
5. The movie has 'depth and substance' in spades, it's unlike and other Tarantino movie I've seen.

....good lord.

saw it tonight and loved it.

Just out of curiosity, why did everyone hate the bear jew guy so much? I don't remember a line he said but he seemed good to me.

I think you kind of answered your own question there, he really didn't do anything memorable other than smashing a nazi's skull in with a bat. The fact that you can't even remember a line of his kind of proves that he didn't really add anything to the movie.

I just remember a line where he was supposed to have a new jersey accent. I don't care if the characters are satirical, he still sounded awful.

I liked the opening scene, Hans Landa is definately one of the more original Nazis I've seen portrayed on screen.

Landa stole the show.

ah, now I understand. The bat scene was pretty gruesome though.

Also I agree about Landa being great in the movie.

I finally got around to watching it and after awhile I just started looking for the QT formula

"lengthy dialogue" check
"foot fetish type scene" check
"strong woman character stereotype" check

To me it was just another Tarantino film. The entertaining part was near the end I would say the last hour or so, but that's about it.

Eli Roth didn't have many lines especially compared to other characters so of course you wouldn't remember what he said.