Inglourious Basterds

[Aesop Rocks]

Christoph just won the Golden Globe for best actor(or was it supporting). Sorry if I'm late on this news due to being on the west coast.

Aesop Rocks like this.

 

[redhawk23]

yes Christoph Waltz won, which means the foreign press don't have to run for their lives right now.

His speach was odd but very cool

I am very bummed Tarantino won nothing.

 

[Cmill216]

Tarantino will get his due at the Oscars by taking Best Original Screenplay.

 

[xwolverine2]

the golden globes are so predictably lame..

 

[Figs]

the golden globes are so predictably lame..

You don't think Christoph deserved the award?

You can basically say that about all awards shows. I expect Clooney..err, Up In the Air to sweep at the Oscars.

 

[RKO]

This movie should've won definitely. It has one of my favorite scenes ever.

 

[jmc]

You don't think Christoph deserved the award?

You can basically say that about all awards shows. I expect Clooney..err, Up In the Air to sweep at the Oscars.

It's true, they are lame, they're the awards equivalent of the toy you get with the Happy Meal at McDonalds.

 

[Boom]

I'm glad I didn't watch what was apparently a huge Avatar fanwank. Best Drama and Best Director my ass.

Kudos to Mr. Waltz though (one of the few recipients tonight who actually deserved their award). Hope to see this repeat at the Academy Awards.

 

[Cmill216]

It didn't win Best Original Screenplay, nor was it nominated. Up In The Air won Best Screenplay. There's only one screenplay category at the Globes.

And as much as I loved Up In The Air, Inglourious Basterds is the best written film of the year. Bar none.

 

[Boom]

Oh I mistook it for Best Director. My bad.

 

[Cmill216]

In a perfect world, Basterds would win Best Picture and Tarantino would win Best Screenplay. Though, I'd take Kathryn Bigelow for Best Director. Her work in The Hurt Locker is pretty damn remarkable.

 

[jmc]

I'm glad I didn't watch what was apparently a huge Avatar fanwank. Best Drama and Best Director my ass.

Kudos to Mr. Waltz though (one of the few recipients tonight who actually deserved their award). Hope to see this repeat at the Academy Awards.

Waltz is as safe a bet as the previous two winners of the Supporting Actor Oscar.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Avatar won best drama?

Anyway happy to see Waltz win. He thoroughly deserved it.

 

[DACrowe]

Was also glad to see Up in the Air get some small love (though I think IB is better written, it's the GG and Up in the Air deserved some love as Avatar stole the major two awards).

Believe it or not I honestly believe that IB could be the spoiler for best picture at the Oscars, in a dark horse/long shot kind of way. Most likely Inglourious Basterds will win the SAG for Best Ensemble next week (their highest honor) and Avatar will win the Producer's Guild and Bigelow that Director's Guild's highest honor.

So that would still make the major race competition being between Avatar and The Hurt Locker. But my initial expectations for Up in the Air to be up there is fading away as the movie is not winning any major notices or awards beyond screenplay.

So if the battle for the Oscar goes down between Hurt Locker and Avatar, they could split their votes and the distant third candidate, the one that will get an Oscar for acting and original screenplay, as well as win basically Best Picture from the SAG--which influences actors--

that third candidate could come in as a dark horse and win best picture. So Inglourious Basterds has a small, if very distant, chance. And in all honesty I think it is far better than either Avatar or Hurt Locker. So it would be so great if that gets all the hype and then Tarantino picks up the Oscar. A classic upset and unlike say Shakespeare in Love or Crash, it'd be a deserved upset.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Gah, Basterds should have taken home Director and screenplay.

It's time Tarantino gets his do.

Though the Oscars are a funny thing. Scorsese for example. He should have won for Raging Bull and Goodfellas, something he deserved. He won for the Departed. So ****ing great, but he deserved it more for the former two.

Basically, whenever we want them to win and think they deserve it they lose, whenever they don't, they win. And the films usually aren't anything much to sneeze at. Avatar is great but best Picture or director? Cameron has won, give it to Tarantino who deserved it for Pulp Fiction.

You would think I would be on Avatar's side since it's sci fi and it's getting this recognition, but it's not as deserving. Like SW was.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Avatar is a good movie but Basterds is a great movie. The script is fantastic, the ending is incredible, and the acting kicks ass all the way through. Right off the bat I knew I was in for a treat when the English subtitles weren't translating "monsieur" during the first scene. I thought that was a hilarious little touch from Tarantino. And who can forget the infamous "3" scene? That kind of layered script is why Tarantino is one of the best in the business. Waltz gave the best performance of the year in any category.

 

[GEO]

I am very bummed Tarantino won nothing.

Me too.

In a perfect world, Basterds would win Best Picture and Tarantino would win Best Screenplay. Though, I'd take Kathryn Bigelow for Best Director. Her work in The Hurt Locker is pretty damn remarkable.

I agree

Avatar is a good movie but Basterds is a great movie. The script is fantastic, the ending is incredible, and the acting kicks ass all the way through. Right off the bat I knew I was in for a treat when the English subtitles weren't translating "monsieur" during the first scene. I thought that was a hilarious little touch from Tarantino. And who can forget the infamous "3" scene? That kind of layered script is why Tarantino is one of the best in the business. Waltz gave the best performance of the year in any category.

I agree with your IB post.

But I don't even think Avatar is a good movie. I think the special effects are incredible & worth seeing in 3d theatres. But the actually movie was average. It was predictable and we've seen it before. Once people's awe of the 3d subsides, I suspect a lot of peoples views of the actual movie will change. Particularly, a few years from now when more & more movies use this technique & something else comes along. I predict many will look back at avatar, congratulate for it's innovation, but realize the storyline is nothing special.

What happened last night was a travesty. Special effects beat out great movies.

 

[jacobed]

I absolutely hated Inglourious Basterds when i first saw it in theatres, I though it was incredibly boring. I just rented it and its easily one of the best movies of the year. The original problem I had with it is that the trailers all made it look likes this balls to wall awesome action film but its not at all. Knowing that watching it the second its just a great movie. The only films I will accept beating it in the Academys are Up in the Air, District 9, and The Hurt Locker because I think those films are the superior films but Avatar absolutely no way in the hell does that deserve to even be considered for the award more than Inglourious Basterds but I suppose Dances with Wolves won the Academy why wouldn't Avatar.

 

[Cmill216]

I thought Waltz's speech, which he basically devoted to praising Quentin, was bluntly honest. Put yourself in his shoes, and think about where he was. Nobody knew who the heck Christoph Waltz was. He was just another Austrian actor, making local films.

Tarantino found him, put him in the role of a lifetime, and now the guy is a world-renowned actor, cleaning up at every awards show and guild, and is set up to be a familiar face in Hollywood for years to come. And to think, before Tarantino, hardly anyone was aware of his existence. Waltz practically owes his life to Tarantino, and he expressed that so sincerely last night.

 

[danoyse]

In a perfect world, Basterds would win Best Picture and Tarantino would win Best Screenplay. Though, I'd take Kathryn Bigelow for Best Director. Her work in The Hurt Locker is pretty damn remarkable.

And she would be the first woman to win Best Director (and deserve it - Hurt Locker was amazing), so I'm still rooting for her to win it.

Getting annoyed IB is still listed as 'long wait' on my Netflix queue. I still haven't seen it and I don't want to blind-buy it since I'm not always a fan of Tarantino's films. Can't wait to see this one, though.

 

[jmc]

It is great how Tarantino 'discovered' theses greater European actors, not just the likes of Waltz and Melanie Laurent, a lot of the actors in the smaller roles too were great. Seriously, there's an untapped market for Hollywood over in Europe that they've never really looked at, I especially would love to see Melanie get some more work in the States.

 

[redfirebird2008]

And she would be the first woman to win Best Director (and deserve it - Hurt Locker was amazing), so I'm still rooting for her to win it.

Getting annoyed IB is still listed as 'long wait' on my Netflix queue. I still haven't seen it and I don't want to blind-buy it since I'm not always a fan of Tarantino's films. Can't wait to see this one, though.

We all have our different tastes and such. I blind-bought this one after hearing so much praise about how it was his best work since Pulp Fiction. I have to agree with the consensus. Even though Pulp is the better movie, Basterds is a more consistent movie. There is no crappy waste of time like in Pulp with Butch's girlfriend (hate that character...ugh). It was better for me than the Kill Bill movies and Jackie Brown. Death Proof was a piece of crap in my opinion. This is how I would rate his movies...

1. Pulp Fiction - 9.5/10
2. Inglourious Basterds - 9/10
3. Reservoir Dogs - 9/10
4. Jackie Brown - 8/10
5. Kill Bill Vol. 1 - 8/10
6. Kill Bill Vol. 2 - 8/10
7. Death Proof - 4/10

 

[DACrowe]

I would like to see the major awards go like this:

Best Picture: Inglourious Basterds
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges
Best Actress: Meryl Streep
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick
Best Original Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds
Best Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air

....but it will go like this for most of 'em:

Best Picture: Avatar
Best Director: James Cameron
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock
Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique

Sad.

 

[jacobed]

Dacrowe, I completely agree with every single one of your choices there. Though if Up in the air wins best picture, I won't complain either because that movie was quite amazing. Just as long as that overhyped piece of trash aka avatar doesn't win.

 

[Not_Sane]

I'm glad that Avatar won but Tarantino deserved better.