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Inglourious Basterds (Q. Tarantino)

Glad to see some positive or semi-positive comments. The review in the Guardian absolutely demolishes the film and describes it as a 'catastrophic bellyflop'.
 
i'm still vacillating on it, but on balance I think it probably is wank. But as I keep saying, bits of it are pure genius, enough to make me want to forgive the rest. But that's no way to make a film
 
Hammered by Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian: Useless Basterds:

Quentin Tarantino is having what Martin Amis readers might call a "Yellow Dog" moment - something which happens when, following a worrying, mid-to-late period of creative uncertainty, a once dazzlingly exciting artist suddenly and catastrophically belly-flops, to the dismay of his admirers.
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Out of Kill Bill, Planet Terror and Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds seems to be towards the Death Proof end for sure.

I'll be waiting till DVD/dl tbh
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
Cool: I liked Death Proof! :cool:
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Some amazing scenes but not a patch on Planet Terror, which I've just realised is mainly Rodriguez at the helm so scrap my previous list.

Tarantino's first three are great, each in their own complete ways. And even though a tad OTT, Kill Bill is on well along the road towards being a masterpiece.

But when a 'creative' is allowed TOO much freedom the wank can overtake the spank and all you have then is a guy jacking off to his own reflection: which can be interesting sometimes I'll admit but rarely results in a classic.
 
Went to see it last night. Cinema was sold out.

Loved it. There is less 'Basterds' than you might expect, what with them being the title and them taking up most of the trailer, but I liked that.

When Shosanna was running over the hill into the distance in the first chapter it felt pure Kill Bill to me. All she needed to do was pull out a sword :D

I felt the 2 main characters were Shossana and Landa. Aldo Raine (Pitt) I guess was one too, but the fact he got far less screen time than the trailers and title might suggest was a good move. I really liked his over-the-top hammy character. Sensed a touch of Buford T Justice at one point too :D

The burning of the reels was spectacular, and the point behind it spot on. It really was the only way QT could kill the Nazis. That scene and where Shosanna was standing by the round window in her red dress were cinematically breathtaking.
 
Vintage Paw said:
When Shosanna was running over the hill into the distance in the first chapter it felt pure Kill Bill to me. All she needed to do was pull out a sword :D
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her original characer was going to be just that, years ago, but QT got his "female vengeance" stuff out of the way with Kill Bill and rewrote her. Which is exactly the problem - the script has been worked on and fucked with for so long, it's been through so many mutations, that it's not one film, it's at least two (the basterds, Shosanna) stuck together
 
Yeah, perhaps, but I liked that. I liked that there were lots of different agendas at play. It wasn't just one person's story, one person's vengeance, one person's grudge.
 
Vintage Paw said:
The burning of the reels was spectacular, and the point behind it spot on. It really was the only way QT could kill the Nazis. That scene and where Shosanna was standing by the round window in her red dress were cinematically breathtaking.
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That's interesting, because I really disliked the scene with the round window. The music was jarring, and the cinematography was screaming "Look at me!". It made me think of a Flake advert.
 
Also, there were less women's feet than there usually are in QT films. There was a bit of feet action, but not as much as I might expect.
 
missfran said:
Also, there were less women's feet than there usually are in QT films. There was a bit of feet action, but not as much as I might expect.
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i like how even qt's fetishes are ripped off another director's - james cameron digs feet too.
 
Watched it yesterday, I can see why Christoph Waltz gets the plaudits for his character - the introduction scene is probably the best part of the film - the rest is just stock Tarantino quotefest and youtube clip stuff. When SLJ started doing the voiceover, the whole cinema laughed - especially with the big ident on the screen. The continuity was a bit rubbish, seemed like there were large parts of it missing - or rather, that Shoshanna's escape, and the cinema and Marcel was one film (which I really liked the look of, and would have wanted to see more of) and the Basterds was another film entirely, one that didn't have a bit of coherency about it.

Tarantino needs a man with a big stick with a nail in to stand next to him and belt him round the head when he gets overexcited when scripting.
 
i didn't realise it was sam jackson doing the voiceover and it took me ages to recognise mike myers (he was spot on, surprisingly, cos he's normally shit doing that sort of thing). there were some great scenes, but there were some very very dull ones too. there were a lot of characters i would like to have seen more of who were despatched too quickly. as many people have already said, it was a massive cakey mess. brad pitt was awful, really phoning it in. i'm in love with melanie laurent of course and christoph waltz played the only character with enough lines to flesh out a proper character - he did an excellent job and no doubt will be typecast as charasmaric european villain in many hollywood thrillers in the future. the soundtrack was simultaneously great and awful, for reasons stated earlier. qt really needs to sort this out in the future.
 
Didnt like it. Overly long & drawn out scenes, rambling dialogue that tarantino is obviously very pleased with - his audience less so, a strange and at times completely incoherent (not in a cool/clever way such as reservoir dogs...) plot, and Brad Pitt in perhaps his most annoying role to date. A good 1 hour too long, as well.
 
I thought it was utter shite. I just couldn't take any of the characters seriously, which is saying something given the gravity of the situation it was portraying.

Whatever you do, don't go and see it.
 
I saw it last night and I can't figure out if that was the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen or a work a absolute genius.

It really felt like he couldn't decide what movie he wanted to make, but I enjoyed the Film Noir thing he was going for. I wish he'd decided to make that movie and left some of the other. You really can't go wrong by killing Nazis.

But, can you end a movie in such an historically inaccurate way and get away with it?!!! I know it was a deliberate choice on QT's part, but still..... It was so Plan 9 from Outer Space.
 
My local flicks has it on next month, but the thought of sitting in a cinema seat for that much time puts me right off. :(
 
i fucking loved it....tarantino used his 'creative allowance to be as inaccurate as he wants' to the full extent for sure. :D

its a fucking good colossal mindfuck , its absolutely wonderful when people cant figure out if they love or hate something, leaving people confused is one of his forte's and i love that about him :D
 
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