• Inglourious Basterds
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When I first came here, everyone seemed to love this movie. Now people are starting to say that it's "very boring". I still like the film, but I didn't when I first watched it. I thought it WAS boring, but after watching it twice since, it's gotten better, like most Tarantino movies do. Especially Pulp Fiction. I still like it. How about the rest of you?
Liked it
Great Op, I mean there's nothing there but a poll.
I like it, very Tarantio but didn't focus enough on the Bastards for my liking.
Thought it was great to be honest.
I fucking loved it, and people don't seem to like it because it doesn't have enough action. Which is very stupid to ask from a Tarantino film.
[QUOTE=Cl0cK;26623248]I fucking loved it, and people don't seem to like it because it doesn't have enough action. Which is very stupid to ask from a Tarantino film.[/QUOTE] My guess is that the only movie of his they watched was Kill Bill part 1, and just assumed that Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction were actiony bloodbaths without actually sitting down and watching the movie.
Overhyped pos
I only saw it recently and was highly let down by the amount of hype my friends gave it. Thought the dialogue was clever but the plot really didn't make much sense to me.
Absolutely loved it. Allow me to post parts of a review I wrote in English class: Inglourious Basterds is nothing like your average war flick. It has this Spaghetti Western feeling to it. It's very fresh and entertaining, but never borders over to straight-out silly. Its lacking distinction between Germans and Nazis and a plot that derails a bit too much from what actually happened during WWII lead to mixed reactions when shown at the Cannes Film Festival, some meant "Tarantino got lost in a fictional WWII". I myself, however, love it. Inglourious Basterds, just like the rest of Tarantino's films, relies a lot on dialogue. The dialogue is well written and builds up tension throughout the movie. Tarantino's ever so fantastic writing combined with some outstanding performances, especially Christoph Waltz's, will keep your eyes glued to the screen throughout the entire film. I can't remember a single dull moment or awkward line of dialogue. There's not a lot more to say. Inglourious Basterds is another fantastic addition to Quention Tarantino's filmography. [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=johan_sm;26623848]Overhyped pos[/QUOTE] Please elaborate.
I loved it.
I would have liked more on the bastards, but none the less i though the film was excellent.
It was a such a refresh from mindless-violence war films. [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] Broke my automerge
Loved it.
I loved it.
Was amazing like all of Tarantino films.
[QUOTE=kevlar jens;26623972] Please elaborate.[/QUOTE] Stupid jokes, sub par acting, plot that makes barely any sense.
sucked [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] 15 year old orgasm [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] like oooh ooooh it has like violence and like girls that talk like men and the half of the words are like fuck and everyone's getting like a boost from that shit - 90% of tarantino movies [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] huge tools [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] huuuuge
[QUOTE=johan_sm;26624281]Stupid jokes, sub par acting, plot that makes barely any sense.[/QUOTE] What The plot made perfect sense. I think most people didn't like it because the trailers were extremely misleading and they thought it was going to be an action movie.
[QUOTE=johan_sm;26624281]Stupid jokes, sub par acting, plot that makes barely any sense.[/QUOTE] 1. What 2. [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/spotlights/2009/rtuk_feature_quentin_tarantino_05.jpg[/img] 3. If you think the plot makes no sense then your IQ is probably in the shitter man or you have a very short attention span.
Man, some people have no attention span whatsoever. The plot was simple to follow, and wasn't as elaborate as some make it out to be. The movie was very enjoyable, pretty sure I had a smile on my face the entire time.
I loved it. Every fucking second of it.
More Brad Pitt could of made it better, but it was still a fantastic film
God dammit I was typing up the plot but then somehow Firefox refreshed so I'm just gonna copy-paste the Wikipedia synopsis. [quote=Wikipedia]In 1941, SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) arrives at a dairy farm in France to interrogate Perrier Lapadite (Denis Menochet) about rumors that he is hiding the Jewish Dreyfus family. Landa persuades the farmer to confess to hiding the family underneath his floor. Landa then orders the SS soldiers into the house to shoot the floorboards where they are hiding. The entire family is killed, except the teenage Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent), whom Landa allows to escape. In the spring of 1944, First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) is tasked to recruit a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers for a mission to go behind enemy lines and bring fear to all German servicemen. He tells the soldiers that they each owe him one hundred Nazi scalps. They operate with a "take no prisoners" attitude and come to be known as the "Basterds". One survivor of an attack by the Basterds, a soldier named Butz (Sönke Möhring), is interviewed by Adolf Hitler (Martin Wuttke). Butz's account of the attack is shown in flashback: his squad was ambushed and his sergeant (Richard Sammel) was beaten to death with a baseball bat by Staff Sergeant Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth), known by the Germans as "The Bear Jew". Butz then reveals that Raine carved a swastika into his forehead with a knife. In June 1944, Shosanna has assumed a new identity as "Emmanuelle Mimieux" and is operating a cinema in Paris. She meets Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl), a German sniper whose exploits are to be celebrated in a Nazi propaganda film, Stolz der Nation (Nation's Pride). Zoller is attracted to Shosanna and convinces Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth) to hold the premiere of his film at Shosanna's cinema. Shosanna realizes that the presence of several high-ranking Nazi officials provides an opportunity for revenge and resolves to burn down the cinema during the premiere by using a large quantity of extremely flammable nitrate film. The British also learn of the premiere and dispatch Lieutenant Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender) to infiltrate the event aided by the Basterds and German film actress and double agent, Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger). Hicox and two of the German-born Basterds meet with von Hammersmark at a tavern where Major Dieter Hellstrom (August Diehl), of the Gestapo, notices Hicox's odd accent and that he gives the wrong (non-German) three-fingered order for drinks. The resulting standoff erupts into a firefight, leaving everyone dead except von Hammersmark. Raine interrogates von Hammersmark, and upon learning that Hitler will be attending the premiere, devises a plan whereby he, Donny, and Omar (Omar Doom) will pose as von Hammersmark's Italian escorts at the premiere. Landa later investigates the tavern, retrieving von Hammersmark's shoe and an autographed napkin. At the premiere, Landa asks to see von Hammersmark privately, where he makes her try on the shoe. Convinced to his satisfaction that she is in league with the Basterds, he strangles her to death. He then orders Raine and Utivich (B. J. Novak) to be arrested. Landa makes a deal with Raine's commanding officer (Harvey Keitel) to be granted a full military pension and American citizenship, in exchange for allowing Donny and Omar—still seated in the cinema—to kill the Nazi high command. During the film, Zoller goes to the projection room to see Shosanna and confronts her angrily due to multiple rejections of his advances from the beginning. When his back is turned, she shoots him multiple times, but he manages to shoot her dead before succumbing to his wounds. The film is then interrupted by an inserted close-up of Shosanna informing the audience that they are going to be killed by a Jew. At the same time, Shosanna's employee and lover, Marcel (Jacky Ido), who has locked and bolted all the exits of the cinema, ignites the nitrate film stacked behind the screen. Omar and Donowitz successfully attack and kill Goebbels and Hitler, then shoot into the crowd of panicking Nazis until the timers on their bombs go off and destroy the cinema, killing everyone inside. Landa and his radio operator drive Raine and Utivich to the American lines, and according to the deal, Landa surrenders to Raine and hands over his weapons, allowing Utivich to handcuff him. To Landa's shock, Raine then shoots the radio operator and orders Utivich to scalp the dead man. Raine then carves a swastika into Landa's forehead proclaiming, "This just might be my masterpiece".[/quote]
name one character that is not badass [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] just one
I liked it. The way they had the Jewish guys kill hitler was kind of offensive imo. Im Jewish, I took it offensively when they made those Jews bloodthirsty nazi killers. Also I was wondering how they knew about the concentration camps? It wasn't until the liberation of Europe when Americans began to learn of the atrocities that happened at Auschwitz, Dachau etc... Sure its fun to see these Jews go around and kill nazis aimlessly, but why wouldn't they have liberated a camp if they knew of this. If they knew about these camps then that's where they should have been and since they clearly were at no such camps, it made no sense why the Jewish guys had such an overwhelming hate for Hitler since they obviously didn't know about the camps.
[QUOTE=codyscafe7;26624849]I liked it. The way they had the Jewish guys kill hitler was kind of offensive imo. Im Jewish, I took it offensively when they made those Jews bloodthirsty nazi killers. Also I was wondering how they knew about the concentration camps? It wasn't until the liberation of Europe when Americans began to learn of the atrocities that happened at Auschwitz, Dachau etc... Sure its fun to see these Jews go around and kill nazis aimlessly, but why wouldn't they have liberated a camp if they knew of this. If they knew about these camps then that's where they should have been and since they clearly were at no such camps, it made no sense why the Jewish guys had such an overwhelming hate for Hitler since they obviously didn't know about the camps.[/QUOTE] Missed the point of the Basterds entirely.
[QUOTE=Asrue2;26624993]Missed the point of the Basterds entirely.[/QUOTE] which was? [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] if you don't respond I will think the same about you
[QUOTE=codyscafe7;26624849]I liked it. The way they had the Jewish guys kill hitler was kind of offensive imo. Im Jewish, I took it offensively when they made those Jews bloodthirsty nazi killers.[/QUOTE] Why? That's really immature.
[QUOTE=gregvizz;26625060]which was?[/QUOTE] What do you want, plot summary? I'll happily give it to you.
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