Inglorious Basterds !!!!!!!!!!!
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Ryan Patrick O'Hara
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I liked it alot. The worst part about it was the audience.
They were actually cheering and loving the scalping and etc. I understand the desired effect and over the top graphic nature, but I stopped thinking about the film at times, and started wondering about society as a whole and how I began to slightly distrust my fellow theater patrons.
They were actually cheering and loving the scalping and etc. I understand the desired effect and over the top graphic nature, but I stopped thinking about the film at times, and started wondering about society as a whole and how I began to slightly distrust my fellow theater patrons.
BryantStanton
Well-known member
I hope this isn't a spoiler, but i'll put the warning just in case...
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I think the only thing that really took me out of this movie was that random Bowie song when the premiere night begins. I mean, I know Tarantino always puts some eclectic music in there, but considering all (most?) of the music was Morricone, it just seemed so incredibly out of place and cheesy. It definitely didn't ruin the movie or anything, but it was a bit of a downturn.
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SPOILER!!!!
I think the only thing that really took me out of this movie was that random Bowie song when the premiere night begins. I mean, I know Tarantino always puts some eclectic music in there, but considering all (most?) of the music was Morricone, it just seemed so incredibly out of place and cheesy. It definitely didn't ruin the movie or anything, but it was a bit of a downturn.
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BMFM FILMS
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Replying to the above post about the song..
It felt like a Tarantino song, at first I'm like, well this is kinda awkward, then I realized, I'm watching a Tarantino film. I think it still worked great when all is said and done.
It felt like a Tarantino song, at first I'm like, well this is kinda awkward, then I realized, I'm watching a Tarantino film. I think it still worked great when all is said and done.
Ryan Patrick O'Hara
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I agree. I laughed out loud at the choice of song. It didn't fit at all. It's a good song, but those closeups of her putting on makeup to an 80's ish kinda song, made me think of buffalo bill. lol!
Drew Ott
Wish I were banned.
Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmm.
I loved every scene that was serious and generally disliked the overtly cartoonish scenes (not all of them).
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I also thought the ending could have been a lot stronger. The scene with Pitt and Novak being interrogated wasn't intense. I didn't buy The Jew Hunter's motivations... etc, etc.
I loved every scene that was serious and generally disliked the overtly cartoonish scenes (not all of them).
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I also thought the ending could have been a lot stronger. The scene with Pitt and Novak being interrogated wasn't intense. I didn't buy The Jew Hunter's motivations... etc, etc.
Simon Höfer
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Watched it yesterday and simply loved it!
So many intense scenes. You always want to know what is going to happen next.
But Diane Kruger was definitely miscast. She's just not good. Even though she got better the longer she was on screen.
So many intense scenes. You always want to know what is going to happen next.
Oh yeah, awesome performance! I am always bitching about german/austrian actors, but I think all they need is a good director and a good story/script.
But Diane Kruger was definitely miscast. She's just not good. Even though she got better the longer she was on screen.
Adam J McKay
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Amazing film. One of my top 5 films for sure.
I agree with the bowie. I also think a couple times Eli Roth was...acting.
I also worried about society a bit with the amount of laughter at the violence... Western society life...woot.
BUT...
Amazing film...better than pulp? hard to say. AMAZING
go see it
I agree with the bowie. I also think a couple times Eli Roth was...acting.
I also worried about society a bit with the amount of laughter at the violence... Western society life...woot.
BUT...
Amazing film...better than pulp? hard to say. AMAZING
go see it
Michael Anthony Horrigan
More Cowbell Pictures
Saw both films opening night here in Ottawa, Canada. No cheers for the gore, if anything... the odd moan and groan.
During D9 there might of been the odd.... whoa! ...during a body being blown to bits. No such reaction in IB though. People were squeamish.
Michael Anthony Horrigan
More Cowbell Pictures
Having grown up with that song and seeing the 1982 version of Cat People... I actually loved it. Loved it! No issues here.
I'm ga-ga for this movie though. Might go see it again tonight.
MAH
KyleProhaska
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I felt the same way while watching Transformers 2 in theaters, and the same when I see the cartoons kids watch. It wasn't distrust, but fear for the intelligence of the human race in 20 years...
Adam J McKay
Veteran
Long live the mexican standoff.
ZazaCast
Major Contributor
Enjoyed the film, but still think Pulp Fiction rules. Chapter 1 was excellent. Last scene was just sick (but you knew that was coming). As stated before, I too love the movie Cat People and that song just pulled me completely out of the film with visions of Nastassja Kinski (too hot!).
The crowd up here was a little strange and there were laughs & yells at all the gross parts, but I think people are going into it with the thought that it was meant to be funny....who knows? People were roaring with laughter when Hitler was riddled with gun shots.
Oh...and with a hugh theatre, packed with people....I have to get the guy with the blackberry answering emails next to me. We had words. He stopped!
The crowd up here was a little strange and there were laughs & yells at all the gross parts, but I think people are going into it with the thought that it was meant to be funny....who knows? People were roaring with laughter when Hitler was riddled with gun shots.
Oh...and with a hugh theatre, packed with people....I have to get the guy with the blackberry answering emails next to me. We had words. He stopped!
Batutta
Major Contributor
I liked lots of it, didn't love it. There is stuff in this movie that is as good as anything Tarantino has ever done. Long stretches of it works like gangbusters, but on the whole I don't think it quite comes together at the end. Any scene with Hans Landa in it is fantastic. Both the actor and Tarantino as a writer/director made that character into a classic. Chris Waltz deserves his inevitable Oscar nomination. The first few scenes with the Basterds are pretty great, and Brad Pitt really worked well there, but as the film developed I found his performance, and that of all the Basterds to become kind of cartoony. Not terrible, but it became clear they weren't really going to go anywhere as characters. The sequence in the basement of the bar with Von Hammersmark, the British agent and the SS officers was genius. Some have said it goes on too long but I think it's a masterpiece of suspense. Every beat, every performance and every note was dead perfect. The story with Shoshanna as written had lots of nuance and depth to it, and it felt like all the pieces were there, I just never connected with the actress playing her. She felt dead behind the eyes to me, and some of that is understandable for the character she's playing, but I found her performance a little too vacant and kind of one note. That said, the payoff to her storyline is tremendous and ranks right up there with the Nazis getting their faces melted off at the end of Raiders. That the payback here roused me so much as a viewer was kind of unnerving, but I have to admit I got off on it. The ending though, brings me to my biggest story complaint. The central mission of the movie would have ended the exact same way if the Basterds never got involved. I would've liked to have seen the Basterds get mixed in with Shoshanna's plans, or at least their plans throwing a monkey wrench into hers. As is, the stories never converge in any meaningful way. I guess this isn't purely a guys on a mission movie at the end of the day. It's a pastiche of WW2 genres -- guys on a mission, espionage thriller, doomed romance, jewish refugee story. That some elements ended up being short changed is inevitable, I guess, unless the movie were four hours long, which I actually wouldn't have minded. It is being sold to the public as a guys on a mission movie though, so I expect many people to be disappointed by its lack of action and talkiness. However, anyone who doesn't know what to expect from a Tarantino movie by now probably has no business being in the theater.
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Adam J McKay
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I think the idea of people laughing at the death of Nazi's is an interesting one. I also think Tarrantino new exactly that it would happen as well. I don't think the audience would be laugging if it were Shindler's list watching women and children getting killed for no reason. But since it'skilling Nazi's there is a certain amount of "take that you nazi mother effer" I found it interesting because during the premier when all the nazis were laughing at the death of the allies, the theater wasn't laughing. As soon as the tables turn however, it almost gave the audience a sense of empowerment, laughing at the bully who got his butt handed to him kind of thing.
I also really love that they killed Hitler. I think a lot of people were expecting him not to die because it's dealing with history, all the while forgetting it is in fact a FICTIONAL STORY.
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I think the idea of people laughing at the death of Nazi's is an interesting one. I also think Tarrantino new exactly that it would happen as well. I don't think the audience would be laugging if it were Shindler's list watching women and children getting killed for no reason. But since it'skilling Nazi's there is a certain amount of "take that you nazi mother effer" I found it interesting because during the premier when all the nazis were laughing at the death of the allies, the theater wasn't laughing. As soon as the tables turn however, it almost gave the audience a sense of empowerment, laughing at the bully who got his butt handed to him kind of thing.
I also really love that they killed Hitler. I think a lot of people were expecting him not to die because it's dealing with history, all the while forgetting it is in fact a FICTIONAL STORY.
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Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Really had a good time! Tarantino's best IMO 