Inglourious Basterds

[luke1234]

Mary Elizabeth Winstead was the only one in that entire cast worth pulling your zipper down for.

someones got crazyyyy standards. I hope you noticed that Rosario "jigglin' boobs" Dawson was in the car right next to her.

 

[Dr. Evil]

someones got crazyyyy standards. I hope you noticed that Rosario "jigglin' boobs" Dawson was in the car right next to her.

Yep. Ms. Dawson is well endowed upstairs.

 

[Kane52630]

You're getting better at this bro!

thanks, check out my thread (@ my sig) ive got tons more GFX

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Its his most underated film.

Definately, its probably his worst movie, thought I dont hold Jackie Brown in that high regard, but to be fair I havent see it in years.

 

[The_Vision]

Really awesome film, lots of scalping action to enjoy . The Samuel L Jackson and Harvey Keitel 'cameos' were a nice touch.

 

[Octoberist]

where was Keitel?

 

[War Party]

where was Keitel?

He was the guy over the radio talking to Landa and then Aldo.

 

[The Guard]

QT usually uses multiple fonts for his captions (credits, etc). I'm wondering why...

They are allusions to the credits, and sometimes titles, of specific films he likes. Some of them also resemble his own movies.

He was also using words in the captions that weren't translated. Even though they were simple words, I thought, "translate them all!!!" I'm being nitpicky, but it was a little irritating.

I think he's doing that on purpose, for a subtle comedic effect.

Like "Oui", because he knows most people know what "Oui" means, and "Wunderbar". Sort of poking fun at the translation elements.

 

[nocomics]

I saw this movie today and overall I thought it was a decent movie maybe not the best movie I've seen this year.
I agree with most I loved the opening sequence and the pub scene and I actually liked the theatre sequence as well(kindof enjoyed the one ladys face projected on the smoke.
He sure liked to kill off everyone of interest in this movie thats for sure I was hopin Hugo,and maye the one chick would live(theatre lady?forgot name).
I loved how they just blew the F....out of Hitler that made me giggle outloud at the movie.

 

[Doctor Jones]

at the same time, it was so unpredictable.

I felt the same way when [blackout] Benico Del Toro's Franky Four Fingers died in Snatch. He died...like a fool.. [/blackout]

I know. When I first saw it I expected to follow this guy throughout the whole movie and then

Spoiler

20 minutes into it shot in the head. Shocking, but that's why it's awesome.

 

[Bunker]

Just got back from seeing this a while ago. ****ing brilliant. Such a masterful work of film. Hans Landa is one of the best movie villains in recent memory.

I loved the humor and the tension-building dialogue scenes that Tarantino does so well. The pub scene was just amazing. I would have liked to see more of Pitt and the other basterds, but that's just a wee lil nitpick.

 

[Dark Victory]

Just got back from seeing this a while ago. ****ing brilliant. Such a masterful work of film. Hans Landa is one of the best movie villains in recent memory.

I loved the humor and the tension-building dialogue scenes that Tarantino does so well. The pub scene was just amazing. I would have liked to see more of Pitt and the other basterds, but that's just a wee lil nitpick.

Pretty much nails my feelings. The best film of the year so far, imo.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Pretty much nails my feelings. The best film of the year so far, imo.

Yup... not that this years films have been any good, but everything else pretty much pales in comparison as far as I am concerned.

 

[Cmill216]

Best movie of the year. No words.

10/10

 

[Cmill216]

So, was anyone else intoxicated with movie love by the experience? So much is made of QT's (great) dialogue that people overlook the fact that he has a magnificent eye and ear. Right from the opening credits we're reminded that QT practically pisses celluloid. Movies are his life blood and I think Inglourious Basterds is right up there with Pulp Fiction. A wonderful opus.

Intoxicated is the right word. I walked out of this movie feeling high as ****. Like, genuinely feeling like I had just been under the influence of the most intense **** ever.

I'm done. I'm friggin' done.

 

[Bunker]

I'm kinda surprised by the universal praise this movie is getting. It's very "talky" and with the recent success of Transformers 2 and GI Joe, I wouldn't have thought the general audience would take kindly to the slow nature of Basterds.

 

[Cmill216]

There's a difference between "talky" and a movie like this, where the slow burn is so deep, you hang on every word KNOWING something's eventually going to happen. In that regard, it's like a horror flick. The tension is built up poetically in the dialogue and the camera work, and then it pays off in spades.

 

[DACrowe]

Finally saw it last night. Amazing. First 10/10 movie of the year and the best Tarantino movie since Pulp Fiction. Bloody brilliant all around. I'll talk more about it tomorrow, but I have not left a theatre this satisfied in close to a year. Well acted, brilliantly written and lovingly directed. A very satisfying movie.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Wow, I just saw this flick. Loved pretty much everything about it. Loved the acting (especially by Waltz and Pitt) the editing (Insert title: HUGO STIGLITZ!) the spaghetti western references, the soundtrack (Putting out fire....with gasoliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!) the dialogue and the extremely well-done suspense, especially in the movie theatre sequence my heart was pounding. Tarantino never made a suspense scene like that before, I was very impressed.

I watched this movie with a group of friends which is probably the best way to watch it, we were literally cheering when [BLACKOUT]Hitler got riddled with bullets.[/BLACKOUT] Which brings me to the fact that I was surprised at how gruesome this movie was, with the scalpings and kills.

Best movie of the year. Hands down. And probably Tarantino's second best or even best.

So, was anyone else intoxicated with movie love by the experience? So much is made of QT's (great) dialogue that people overlook the fact that he has a magnificent eye and ear. Right from the opening credits we're reminded that QT practically pisses celluloid. Movies are his life blood and I think Inglourious Basterds is right up there with Pulp Fiction. A wonderful opus.

Yes! Very well said.

 

[DACrowe]

^^

Indeed this movie was something of cinephile delight. It begins like a dead ringer for Once Upon a Time in the West or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, except very Tarantino and the amount of beautifully crafted dialogue during slow circling steady cam shots. Then chapter two turns into a near parody or more viscous fantasy of the WWII movie classic, The Dirty Dozen. By chapter three we're in a 1930s melodrama that is extremely suspenseful and he shoots Shosanna (I forgot the actress who played her) like a classic movie star, Marlene Dietrich in particular. And just the movie talk and movie love for German films before the war and expressionism as well as the mentions of David O. Selznick (I'm a big Gone with the Wind fan myself, in terms of pure cinema, such as this).

I mean a film critic dies a bloody good hero in this. With a proper glass of Scotch and a smirk as he circumcises a Nazi. But that is really the whole irony of the movie in chapter five. We are appalled at Nazis cheering the deaths of Americans in a movie, but then we cheer their horrible deaths at the hands of the Basterds and later Shosanna. Tarantino is disregarding history because this isn't a WWII movie, this is a movie about how wonderful and powerful movies are. What is the best way we can have our revenge? Cinematically. The movie openly makes the audience question the actions being perpetrated such as making Zoller a seemingly nice guy and having von Hammersmark kill a guy who just had a baby and she promised to let live (after giving him an autograph). The Basterds tactics we would be disgusted by today, what with the executions, scalping, Louisville Slugger massacres.

But those who get bogged down on, were they ethically right missed the point. These are tough questions, but if we live out these fantasies, which let's face it we all have had (especially Jewish people, especially Jews and Holocaust survivors of the 1940s) cinematically we get all of the catharsis without having to face the hard reality of what happened. That is why it has to end in a movie theatre and poor Shoanna the movie theatre owner's face literally comes to life and out of the screen to laugh at the Nazis as they roast. The movie has come for them and the movie is alive and enjoying watching them die so we too can enjoy their destruction while watching our film.

Justice is served the way we always wanted, other than someone we don't like getting away, there were no hard questions asked about morality or history. It was Nazi killing time and revenge time for the Holocaust. And how enjoyable it was to watch.


BTW the actors who played Hans Landa and Shoanna both deserve Oscar nominations IMO. While Aldo Raine is my favorite character in it and I thought Brad Pitt is cult movie star iconic with this role, those two gave truly great performances (the latter being very tragic) and deserve to be remembered come reward season. This movie should as well as it is the first great movie I've seen in 2009, but I'm not holding my breath there, unfortunately.

 

[Bunker]

What were your guys' favorite quotes?

Mine:

"Quite frankly, watching Donny beat Nazi's to death is the closest we ever get to going to the movies."

 

[Kane52630]

this was a funny scene

Lt. Aldo Raine: Well I speak the most Italian, so I'll be your escort. Donowitz speaks the second most so he'll be your Italian cameraman. And Hirschberg third most, so he'll be Donny's assistant.
PFC Gerold Hirschberg: But I don't speak Italian.
Lt. Aldo Raine: Like I said, third best. Just keep your f*****' mouth shut. In fact why don't you start practicing, right now

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, that was great!

"Gratzi!"

Loved Pitt's face when he's trying to talk Italian.

"I can't speak Italian!"

"Like I said, third best. Just keep your ****ing mouth shut. Matter of fact why don't you start practicing, right now?"

And when Landa tries to get them to repeat their names. The look on Pitt's face.

I loved when Landa in the opening scene plays on that he's leaving and says it in French. The tension was just building, expecially with that music.

 

[Kane52630]

Eli Roth hand gesture was freaking hilarious

 

[Carmine Falcone]

The ''Italian'' hand gestures were amon the funniest bits in the movie.

My favourite though?
Hitler asking his guard for chewing gum.

''Kaugummi?''