Inglourious Basterds

[Space_Monkey]

So new Tarantino flick comes out on Thursday.

Anybody else going to see it?

Looks good!

I went to the premiere at the Forum Thetre in Melbourne yesterday at 4, I didn't have tickets but I stood behind the velvet rope at the red carpet and like the rest of the crowd professed my undying love for Quentin.

When he came out to meet the crowd I was lucky enough to share a few words with the guy and he gave me his autograph.

Good times. :)

[D.C.]

The guy is the biggest douchebag in film today, but Jickle had some interesting things to report about the film (is the embargo lifted yet, man? ;)) So I'll probably check this out, but I'm not expecting much...

[Jickle]

It's not out til the 20th, is it? In any case, I've seen it, but I'm not allowed to say anything about it until the week it's released (so the 17th, I suppose). Which is....killing me inside a little, but I'll wait it out.

[HiredMan]

Yeah, the posters and such say it's out on the 20th. I'm hanging for it pretty badly.

[Slippery]

I'll definitely go see it, I heard it didn't do particularly well at Cannes? (Or was it Sundance? I'm not big on movie festivals) Pulp fiction is still one of my favourite movies so I'll just keep hoping he can re-create that magic.

[UC1]

The guy is the biggest douchebag in film today, but Jickle had some interesting things to report about the film (is the embargo lifted yet, man? ;)) So I'll probably check this out, but I'm not expecting much...

See what I did there?

[aubergine]

Thought this movie sounded crap but the trailer showed some style.

So I guess it's every Tarrantono movie but Death Proof was unwatchable. This seems like something I could watch.

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

No I don't.

[aubergine]

I think he's saying Jickle is the biggest douchebag in film today.

[dinopoke]

Or perhaps the embargo is an act of douchebaggery.

[D.C.]

I have no idea. Care to elaborate, UC1? ;)

[UC1]

LOL, acting all industry insider is a form of douchebaggery imo =P thought it was funny.

[D.C.]

LOL, acting all industry insider is a form of douchebaggery imo =P thought it was funny.
Ah, fair enough. :D

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

LOL, acting all industry insider is a form of douchebaggery imo =P thought it was funny.

It's only funny if people can understand the joke.

The trailer looks entertaining. Should be good.

[UC1]

It's not that complicated you inglourious basterd.

[proofreeder]

The guy is the biggest douchebag in film today, but Jickle had some interesting things to report about the film (is the embargo lifted yet, man? ) So I'll probably check this out, but I'm not expecting much...

See what I did there?

No. No I don't.

Edit: just realised I ripped off Blake nearly word for word. Except for 1.

Sorry UC1, I just wanted to answer that forum cliche question for once. On a sidenote, I'm gonna beat my mate again at SC tonight! I feel bad now coz I always win haha.

I've read the first 90pages of the IB script and it didn't do much for me, but I'm hoping despite this the actual movie will hopefully be awesome :)

THen again, if it does suck, there will be an upside. At least it might take Tarantino down a few pegs now he's lost his "gift". I'm with DC, that guy does not deserve to have made PF and RD! (and starred in FD2D)

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

I think Tarantino's problem is that he's still doing the same thing he did when Pulp Fiction and Reseviour Dogs were made. The movies are still similar, which is what makes them ordinary now.

[Jickle]

LOL, acting all industry insider is a form of douchebaggery imo =P thought it was funny.

Wait, I'm still confused, am I the douchebag or is D.C.? :p

[UC1]

I think Tarantino's problem is that he's still doing the same thing he did when Pulp Fiction and Reseviour Dogs were made. The movies are still similar, which is what makes them ordinary now.

That's pretty much it. Apparently some people don't even think much of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs (if they watched them for the first time recently) since there's been a lot of similar movies since then. Having said that, he's also definitely gone down-hill. So it's a bit of both.

Jickle: It's DC! (jk) Basically I thought the "yo I read embargoed impressions *wink*" was a funny thing to say right after calling someone a douchebag.

[AranchineD]

That's pretty much it. Apparently some people don't even think much of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs (if they watched them for the first time recently) since there's been a lot of similar movies since then. Having said that, he's also definitely gone down-hill. So it's a bit of both.

Hell, I don't know, I only watched both films a few years ago and I still thought they were utterly brilliant, and that's seeing a heap of movies that have taken elements from them and just are generally similiar. Some people are just weird!

[Pauly]

personally i loved kill bill particularly vol2. pulp fiction and reservoir dogs are of course brilliant movies. i never saw jackie brown or deathproof (which looked bad) so i can't comment on those. i'm not hoping for too much with this one so hopefully i'm pleasantly surprised.

[proofreeder]

That's pretty much it. Apparently some people don't even think much of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs (if they watched them for the first time recently) since there's been a lot of similar movies since then. Having said that, he's also definitely gone down-hill. So it's a bit of both.

Hell, I don't know, I only watched both films a few years ago and I still thought they were utterly brilliant, and that's seeing a heap of movies that have taken elements from them and just are generally similiar. Some people are just weird!

I concur. Nobody does Tarantino like Tarantino. Not even modern day Tarantino.

[aubergine]

Jackie Brown is a clever story but I found it difficult to access or something, I think I enjoyed it more on a second viewing years later.

[Jickle]

It's not out til the 20th, is it? In any case, I've seen it, but I'm not allowed to say anything about it until the week it's released (so the 17th, I suppose). Which is....killing me inside a little, but I'll wait it out.

Embargo has lifted. The movie is fantastic. Go and see it this Thursday.

[Second]

I waited so long for THAT? I am disappoint.

[Jickle]

Maybe I'll type out something more substancial tomorrow. Maybe not though, I'm pretty lazy. >_> But if anyone has any questions, shoot.

[TAT]

What's the movie about?

[Jickle]

It's set in Nazi-occupied France during WWII. Without spoiling too much, there's essentially two storylines running throughout the film. One deals with Shosannah Dreyfus, a French/Jewish girl whose family has been killed by the 'Jew Hunter', Col. Hans Landa. She's running a movie theatre, which is chosen by Goebbels as the site of the premiere of the ultimate Nazi propaganda film after the star of the picture falls in love with Shosannah.

The other plot deals, of course, with the Basterds, a group of Jewish Americans whose task it is to collect Nazi scalps and strike fear into the Nazi regime. Eventually they are called upon to meet up with German actress Brigette Von Hammersmark to plan an assault on the film premiere being held at Shosannah's cinema.

To say too much more would be spoiling the film, suffice to say I think it's a film about cinema as much as it's a film about anything else - there are so many little references to various cinematic terms and movies in here. I got the feeling that Tarantino was constantly referencing films I've never (and will never) see. Most of the characters have impossibly cool names, too (Til Schweiger's character is called Hugo Stiglitz, which is possibly my favourite name ever).

[St@ckboy]

I've got free tickets to a preview on Wednesday night, will let you guys know what it's like.

[Space_Monkey]

http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2642583.htm

Now am I truely excited!

Anyone going to see this over the weekend? I've got too much work but are planning on going first thing Tuesday.

[St@ckboy]

Wow. I was really disappointed.

Maybe I had expectations for a really different type of film, than what I got, but overall I was just really unimpressed. It didn't have that Tarintino zing, the dialogue wasn't there and the whole film just meandered on.

Considering Tarintino usually does great talking pieces, this one just fell flat for me.

Will be interested to see other movie fans opinions. Maybe I just couldn't get into it and everyone will enjoy it.

[Dark Wader]

10/10, and with no shadow of a doubt this is his masterpiece. I enjoyed every second of it. . .I enjoyed every character. . .the only flaw I'd give the film is that it's too short.

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

Wow. I was really disappointed.

Maybe I had expectations for a really different type of film, than what I got, but overall I was just really unimpressed. It didn't have that Tarintino zing, the dialogue wasn't there and the whole film just meandered on.

Considering Tarintino usually does great talking pieces, this one just fell flat for me.

Will be interested to see other movie fans opinions. Maybe I just couldn't get into it and everyone will enjoy it.

The dialog was there, it's just that it was in languages other than english, which made it difficult to understand that dialog when you're trying to watch the movie and read the subtitles at the same time.

[Dark Wader]

I agree that the dialogue was there, probably just not as raw as in other Taratinos. . . but to say it's hard to watch the subtitles and watch the movie. . .I dunno, that's a pretty weak excuse to me. Does anyone REALLY have trouble following a movie with subtitles? Seems pretty sad to me.

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

It distracts from the movie itself and splits your attention. How can you pay attention to all the visual clues when you have to read everything that is being said?

[Dark Wader]

Very easily. I mean honestly, how long is it taking you to read the subtitles?

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

With the amount that were in that movie? A considerable amount of time.

[Pauly]

i saw it on saturday night and really liked it. it's nowhere near his best films but still very enjoyable.

[Jickle]

This thread needs more activity.

What does everyone make of Christoph Waltz's Oscar chances (he played Hans Landa, the Jew Hunter)? He was pretty incredible.

[Pauly]

yeah i thought he was great. without his performance the movie wouldn't have been half as good. he should get nominated at least.

[Space_Monkey]

This thread needs more activity.

What does everyone make of Christoph Waltz's Oscar chances (he played Hans Landa, the Jew Hunter)? He was pretty incredible.

Indeed.

I haven't gotten around to seeing this yet, I promised myself I would finish an assessment for Uni first so I could go in with a clear head.

Thinking of breaking and going to see it anyway though. :p

Heard the soundtrack is pretty awesome including tracks by David Bowie and such, whilst this sounds awesome I'm wondering how well it fits into a WW2 film, is it jarring at all?

[Dark Wader]

It threw me at first, but it actually ends up working very very well.

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

A lot of the music just seemed out of place for me. I thought it could have done without a lot of the guitar-based music. For me it needed more typically French music, like the theme from 'Allo, Allo' (which, incidentally, was also set during the Nazi occupation of France).

[Pauly]

i never thought any of the music was particularly out of place. i laughed at the recycled stuff though.

[nintendo]

I thought the music brought a bit of fresh air, along with the story, into a genre that had been done to death already.

Really liked this movie though. I had thought that nothing could top District 9 this year but then this comes along and, personally, it blew it out of the water. Dont get me wrong I love District 9, but what Tarantino has done here is absolutely brilliant. I know some people will always bash him because of the amount of dialogue in his films, I think the best quote Ive heard is that it seems like he is having a wank over his own script, but I couldnt get enough of it. The scene in the basement was IMO the best in the movie. The tension was built perfectly and I was having just as much fun watching the scene as the people at the other table playing charades.

Id give it 5/5 stars.

[casual_pedestrian]

Saw it on Saturday, brilliant movie. Everything else I've wanted to say has been said already. Christoph Waltz definitely deserves an Oscar, he was fantastic.

After watching this film, you can see that the trailers for it do it no justice at all.

[Queenie]

I loved it. Loved it.

I would have loved it more if there were more scenes of the basterds killing nazis.

[casual_pedestrian]

The Jews

* Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus: A young French-Jewish girl on the run. One of the film's main protagonists,[23] Tarantino states that Shosanna was "always a main character".[24]
* Cloris Leachman as Mrs. Himmelstein: An elderly Jewish woman living in Boston.[22] Although filmed, the scenes featuring Mrs. Himmelstein drinking tea with Donny Donowitz (and signing his trademark baseball bat afterwards) were cut from the final film. Tarantino says that he might use the footage in the prequel instead.

I found this interesting.. has anyone heard any news regarding this? Perhaps this could be more of the basterds doing what they do best.

[Citizen Erased]

I am soo not going to see this film, Death proof as put me off seeing any more Tarantino films.

[Pauly]

I found this interesting.. has anyone heard any news regarding this? Perhaps this could be more of the basterds doing what they do best.
haven't heard anything yet but the script for basterds was originally for a trilogy. he cut it down several times, and finally got it down to one movie. so he probably does have a lot more material. as much as i loved the movie, i hope he leaves it at that.

[nintendo]

That does sound very interesting actually. To me it seemed that even though we were introdiced to the Basterds in this movie, they were all ready very real, full and living before we saw them. Its hard to explain. Its as if in this movie what little character development there was with the Basterds themselves was only cursory, as in there had already been another movie that brought them to life....

Not sure if Im really getting across what Im trying to say...

[Jickle]

I am soo not going to see this film, Death proof as put me off seeing any more Tarantino films.

See it. Death Proof was absolutely horrible, but this is an enormous return to form.

[casual_pedestrian]

See it. Death Proof was absolutely horrible, but this is an enormous return to form.

Yeah you'd be silly to dismiss it based on what you thought of Death Proof.

[Tr1gger Vandal]

Am I the only one that actually liked Death Proof? Sure it wasn't his best, but I definitely enjoyed it.

PS. Hopefully seeing this on Saturday.

[Pauly]

That does sound very interesting actually. To me it seemed that even though we were introdiced to the Basterds in this movie, they were all ready very real, full and living before we saw them. Its hard to explain. Its as if in this movie what little character development there was with the Basterds themselves was only cursory, as in there had already been another movie that brought them to life....

Not sure if Im really getting across what Im trying to say...
yeah i know what you mean, and i kinda felt the same way. the two mates i saw the movie with complained about the same thing too.

[Tr1gger Vandal]

yeah i know what you mean, and i kinda felt the same way. the two mates i saw the movie with complained about the same thing too.

I was under the impression that well developed characters are generally a good thing.

[Pauly]

yeah unfortunately we didn't get to see much of it in this movie.

[HiredMan]

Saw it last night. I thought it was great, but I'd just jammed down 2 pints before we got to the theatre and I had another 6 Peronis during the flick, which meant I was pretty tipsy by the end (not to mention 2 lav breaks) and missed out on/don't remember some bits of the flick. I think I'll go see it again on the weekend to plug the gaps, so to speak.

I do remember laughing out loud at several points and almost spraying the row in front of me with beer. Not usually a movie laugher.

[Almighty Beanchild]

Big fat ol' eh at this movie. None of the characters seemed to really be developed at all, to me and while the movie had funny points, and some of the violent points were cool, it never really meshed into a solid film. If it'd just been an amusing, violent portrayal of world war 2 with huge dollops of tarantino style, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. The dramatic bits went on far too long, and stopped the movie becoming...a movie, I think. It felt like 3 disparate elements of 3 different movies moving along together and then desperately tied off at the end.

Probably the best scene of the entire movie was the bar scene, that was perfectly paced and the actor playing the SS Major did a fantastic job. The worst was the last 25 minutes of the movie where a bunch of characters I didn't care about very slowly moved towards a completely predictable and not very exciting ending.

[castr8or]

I enjoyed it quite a bit, but there was definately an issue with the pacing.
Whats weird is that if i break the film down scene by scene, I can't think of a part that I didn't enjoy but when combined into one big film there's something slightly bitter about the whole thing

[Dark Wader]

Saw it for a second time last night and loved it all the more. I've personally not got any issues with the pacing or the length of the film. . .part of me was very disheartened with Tarantino after Death Proof (even though I still don't consider it a proper feature in it's own right) but this film proved to me Tarantino is one of the best out there. I love watching how he tells the story, the way he writes the scenes and characters - the opening chapter and the scene in the tavern are scenes that I'll remember for a long time.

I can't say I've seen many films at 2 and a half hours where I was still left wanting more, and that's always a good feeling with films like these. Also have to add that this felt a lot less self-indulgant than other Tarantino films, though I'm sure a lot of people will disagree.

Sticks out as the best I've seen so far this year.

[Tukenstein]

I just saw this tonight. I don't really have anything constructive to say, I just want to let my love for Hans Landa be known. That man is exactly who I want to be when I grow up.

Also, the movie's consistent swapping between German and French got me hard. =]

[big_b]

I proper lolled when Hans landa asked if he could smoke his pipe and then whipped out this moster of a pipe from his jacket.

Really enjoyed the film. 4/5

[enrique]

I proper lolled when Hans landa asked if he could smoke his pipe and then whipped out this moster of a pipe from his jacket.


I went and saw this last night and the whole cinema laughed at that! :D
I really enjoyed this, Hans Landa was awesome, I would say he was the best character of the whole movie even though he was a pretty nasty person.

Probably the only downside for me was noticing during the scene when you see the basterds in action for the first time (with the prisoners) that there was a very young child wandering around the theatre, she was obviously lost and some lady was nice enough to walk her out of there but a child that age shouldnt be seeing stuff like that. :(

Im planning on seeing this again soon when I have the time.

[Newton]

I loved this movie. I thought the dialogue was awesome (subtitles too hard to read? Good luck to you), the little bits of flair Tarantino threw in were great, Landa was incredible.

My absolute favorite scene was the one in the bar with Von Hammersmark (spelling). It was incredibly intense, and the only thing at work there was well written dialogue. Trying to bluff their way out of a deadly situation, then being given away by something so small. Classic Quentin. Honourable mention to the opening scene too. Tense!

The characters chatting away casually while scalping Nazis was pretty funny. As was Brad Pitt, Eli Roth and Omar Doom being Italians.

Overall a massive return to form for QT. Check it out.

[Tr1gger Vandal]

Thoroughly underwhelmed.

[StorminNorman]

Saw this last week.

Definitely his best film since Pulp Fiction.

DISCLAIMER: I am a raving Tarantino fanboy.

[igotnewsuper8systemWRONG!]

Saw this last week.

Definitely his best film since Pulp Fiction.

DISCLAIMER: I am a raving Tarantino fanboy.

From the perspective of someone who isn't a raving fanboy, I can definitely get behind this claim. Amazing film, the more I think about it the more I like it.

[Gilder]

Watched this yesterday and was thoroughly entertained, however it didn't reach classic status for me. It felt to me like a selection of very good sketches rather than a good movie as a whole. Maybe it lost something in the editing, I'm not sure. It is also completely Tarantino in style so he is not going to win any new fans.

That said I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the film.

[BB2K]

Saw this earlier tonight, it was amazing. Pulp Fiction's still better though.
My only complaits are that there wasn't enough Basterds VS Nazi battles, and the two main groups of protagonists never met up.

Oh, did I mention there was only 2 other people in the cinema? That was awesome :p

[proofreeder]

Haven't seen it yet, despite loving Tarantino Original. Have read the first 90 pages of the script.

However, I have heard rumours the sequel is to be entitled "Glorious Legitimates". Not sure who it will star.