Inglourious Basterds

[Fanticon]

saw it yesterday finally! 1130am almost sold out crowd...thats impressive for the second weekend and for QT.

Anyway...I just gotta say I loved it! And offer this...seeing a Quentin Tarantino movie in the theaters is an experience. With a suspension of disbelief you can truly appreciate his movies and this is one of the best...

i didn't go in expecting a bunch of war scenes...i wanted something different and i got it!
Some of the characters didn't get enough attention...the basterds i mean...and before anybody jumps on me for saying so...i thought Sam Jackson's narration was unnecessary...especially since it didn't reappear near the end...it was just a clever way of throwing him in there and to give us some exposition that to me...was self explanatory. But again...this is QT's thought process and i always respect that. the only other thing that took me out of the movie was the song choice for shosanna as she got ready for her big night.

9/10...one of the best movies of the year. Brad Pitt was hysterical!

 

[Doctor Jones]

David Bowie was uneccessary? Blasphemy!

 

[Fanticon]

David Bowie was uneccessary? Blasphemy!

no...you misunderstood...it took me out of the movie...as it is a period piece, i was hoping maybe something classical or of the time. thats all...

 

[Dr. Evil]

It's made back it's budget already domestically with $73 million overall

 

[cerealkiller182]

The nature of Inglourious Basterds takes you out of the period

 

[Doctor Jones]

no...you misunderstood...it took me out of the movie...as it is a period piece, i was hoping maybe something classical or of the time. thats all...

But that's Tarantino. He manages to pull the strangest music in the strangest situations yet it always works. It's sounds odd until you try it, and Tarantino proves it. He does things like that all the time. It doesn't matter what time period it was from, it still has the same meaning if they used a song from that time period. Like the blackploitation Hugo Stiglitz and Jackson's 70's like narrarating. It actually enhances the film and makes it stand out. People loved the Stiglitz logo popping up on screen. And my friend asked me who the song was by after the film. And like people have been saying, this isn't a WWII film. It's a cespoole of Tarantino directions like pop culture references that happens to take place in WWII. And it's an alternative history, so who cares?

 

[CelticPredator]

Seeing it again was better imo. I did like District 9 a bit more, but Basterds was just brilliant. Dare I say, QT's best movie....yes better then Pulp. In my opinion.

"THATS A BINGO!!!"

 

[Killer Clown]

Great Film!!!

 

[Dr. Evil]

In a year where a lot of A-List stars have failed to make a dent in the box office, Brad Pitt becomes the exception to that rule.

 

[Doctor Jones]

And he plays a hick to do it. He's just awesome.

"Well, we're just all tickled to hear you say that."

 

[CelticPredator]

Fightin in a basement offers a lot of difficulties. Number one being, yer fightin in a basement.

 

[Bunker]

And he plays a hick to do it. He's just awesome.

"Well, we're just all tickled to hear you say that."

I loved that entire scene. From the witty retorts from Pitt to the Hugo Stiglitz montage. Genius.

 

[CelticPredator]

Now, you point on this here map with that wiener shintzle eatin finger of yours....

lolz.

 

[Bunker]

Your avvy and user title bring the lulz, Pred.

 

[dude stannis]

I can't get this movie out of my head. I haven't bean able to stop thinking about it since I saw it on Friday night. I can't wait to see it again tomorrow night.

 

[bullets]

Fightin in a basement offers a lot of difficulties. Number one being, yer fightin in a basement.

Lol , I loved that scene.

 

[CelticPredator]

Your avvy and user title bring the lulz, Pred.

I'm glad I have given you teh lulz.

Wait for the cream.

...and if you ever want to eat a...sarahkrawt sammich again....

 

[CelticPredator]

He's gonna take that bat, and he's gonna beat your ass to death with it.

 

[Marx]

I finally got to see this last night! Great, great movie!

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

I really loved this film. I don't know what to say about it, if you've seen it, then everything on screen is why I loved this movie. It was IMO QT's best film.

 

[Marx]

He definitely outdid himself this time.

 

[DACrowe]

Pitt was great as usual.

 

[Cmill216]

Pitt was just brilliant. I loved the fact that he wasn't overused, making every one of his appearances that much more impactful and deliriously funny. It got to a point where his mere presence on the screen just gave you a rush of pure adolescent joy.

God, this movie...

 

[Motown Marvel]

i liked this movie. it wasnt quite as satisfying as i expected it to be but it was still quite good.

my issues:

Spoiler

the basterds are all great, particularly the scene where they're introduced. its a grand introduction, but then theres not much follow up with the characters. next time you see each of them they're getting killed. most of the basterds had a beginning and end, but no middle to get to know them (with the exception of pitt). so i would have liked to have seen them fleshed out more.

it was weird that apparently the bastards plan was a suicide mission, but you never knew any of this. like, you'd think that would have been mentioned? it would have given the mission and their pledged sacrifice a lot more gravity. and it was weird that they were unaware of the cinema chicks plan, but was phased by it in the least when it was happening. you'd think they would have been a little "what the ****?"

it was funny though, throughout the whole movie i was wondering how hitler was gonna get out of this situation alive. i mean, we've all been to school, we all know hitler didnt die in a burning down theater at the hands of jews. but then.....in the movie.....he did. so i was pretty amused by the complete disregard for historical accuracy, ha ha.

then at work today, my friend and i wrote songs about the bear jew. we then wrote our own sequel with him as the lead character. its called BJ and the Bat:

Spoiler

so the movie theater explodes, clearly everyone is dead, right? psh, it'd take a lot more than explosives to kill the bear jew. so he escapes, but he's all burned up, no hair on his body. whats a bear without his hair? so the war ends, but he continues a vigilante quest against former nazi's. he scalps them, sewing their hairy scalps to his body, rebuilding his hairy physique with the blood of nazi's. he's a ball of hairy rage, he's angry, he's driven by it, its consuming him. eventually, some former nazi's capture him and tie him to a chair. but he gets so angry that he busts free and just starts running. faster and faster he runs. until he runs so fast that he revers the earth's spinning, turning back time, to the point where WWII never happened!!! millions of jews are saved, his mission is complete. the bar jew is no longer necessary. so he shaves the scalps off his body, redressing himself, slipping gaudy rings on his fingers, while reciting: "the blood of my enemies has been spilled. it hits the floor with a thunderous applause. with it, i must shed my anger before it consumes me. the bear jew is no more. i must re-invent myself, but this time, instead of anger, i can be filled with love." then it cuts to a clip of ringo starr singing how's a little help from my friends. THE END.

 

[DACrowe]

I think it operates on a far grander scale to the point it doesn't need to develop the Basterds. I do think some jumps (the quick cut to the Basterds four years after their introduction and no meeting of the minds of initial discovery between the British movie critic and the Basterds) were a bit choppy, but the Basterds were just a force that put the rest of the movie into motion.