Saw it over the weekend. I was slightly disappointed, but I say that as a big Tarantino fan..........which is to say I still enjoyed it more than any other movie I've seen since............oh........Kill Bill II. I still prefer Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill's, but I'll probably buy it the day it comes out on Blu Ray.
good movie... very entertaining... and will get better on multiple watchings. In fact, I saw more negative reaction/press here after each Kill Bill... and now they're regarded as decent/re-watchable movies. This movie will hold up well over the long haul... and QT did a great job of incorporating foreign dialouge, subtitles, and orchestral music to this film.
well i guess i expected it to be more about the basterds and little bit more action everyone just sits around and has conversations for the majority of the film. that wouldnt be a problem if the characters were actually interesting. the parts that were supposed to be funny, werent funny. i dont think it wouldve been a problem if they could physically do stuff while carrying a conversation like pulp fiction or reservoir dogs, but in this movie there are long conversations while sitting there drinking or standing around .....but i can see why a tarantino fan would like this
caught it at alamo draft house...good movie. Some great characters. Even though it was long, i wanted more. More jew bear, more jew hunter, more aldo, MORE STIGLITZ!!! probably should have been 2 movies.
I can see why some people won't like it, although I love the movie dearly, I was hoping for more basterds and action as well, but then again it wouldn't be a Tarantino movie..
I heard that Pitt's part was initially written for Leo DiCaprio, and that the role of the Jew Bear was indeed intended for Adam Sandler. No matter though, thought it was a great flick. Would watch again.
i think i read that Tarantino had to edit it from 3 hours plus when it was first shown at the Cannes Film Festival. I'm sure there will be more Basterds on the DVD release and maybe finally I can get an answer to my question: Spoiler When and how the hell did the "Little Man" get caught?
Spoiler I don't think there is an answer. I was thinking the same thing though when first seeing it. Maybe it will be on the Bluray. I was also hoping Jewish chick would've gotten her vengeance on the Jew Hunter. Oh well. Overall I liked it. Definitely made up for that $#!+ that was Deathproof. Brad Pitt is awesome and will be remembered for having great roles. The dialogue was good and kept great moments of tension. My only real complaint is, like everyone else, I would have liked to have seen more of the Basterds. I'm hoping for more on the Bluray.
Death Proof was pretty awesome considering he made it in like 35 minutes. Stuntman Mike: Do I frighten you? [Arlene silently nods] Stuntman Mike: Is it my scar? Arlene: It's your car. Stuntman Mike: Yeah, I know. Sorry, it's my mom's car.
Too bad it wasn't that long. There have only been a couple of movies that left me pissed off when I finished watching them and that was one.
This was never explained, though that's par for the course with Tarantino: see, for example, all the intentionally missing connecting scenes in Death Proof, and some of the edits in Pulp Fiction. Spoiler Novak was dressed in a white tux, so he was probably Pitt's & the German actress' driver/lookout? It's not surprising he was captured, though, as the Jew Hunter was aware of the plot. Whoever showed up with the Italian film crew was probably captured. Not including the "Little Man," the whereabouts of by my count three or four other Basterds is never explained at the end of the film. 2 + the Englishman bought it in the bar. 2 bought it in the theater. Pitt & Novak were captured and released. They started with 8 or (I think) 9, then added the German Stiglitz. Probably left on the editing room floor, or it could be a stylistic flourish/choice to switch to the scene in media res. (Will probably end up reading the script if I can find it online.) Spoiler The Englishman held up the wrong three fingers to signal "3 whiskeys" to be consistent with growing up in Germany. I don't think that the waitress was the same as the French farmgirl, though she did look somewhat similar to the middle sister (though I am pretty sure it was a French resistance bar, as I think the bartender used that shotgun he kept under the bar to blow away a Nazi.) I could be wrong: I just assumed all the sisters & the farmer were dead. It's kind of interesting: the question of whether the Jew Hunter honored his deal with the farmer in the opening scene, as a reflection on the way his deal was "honored" in the final reel. I just kinda assumed that the minute his daughters were ordered out of the house, that they were being raped/murdered by the other soldiers: same with the farmer once he gave up the Jewish family. Though there was no way of knowing that. I read that the Jew Hunter part was the one offered to DiCaprio; once he turned it down, Tarantino went looking for an authentic/native speaker. Who knew the Jew Bear, Eli Roth (Hostel movies' director), could act? I kinda think this is why this film qualifies as a masterpiece. Spoiler We spent a few minutes watching the film-within-a-film, "Nation's Pride," and watch all the Nazis in the theater laughing uproariously at the unspeakable violence on the propaganda film. And yet, the actual person who did the killing, the star of the movie, can't stomach the carnage, and begs off watching. Then, two minutes later, the real movie audience is supposed to feel catharsis by watching unspeakable violence, only this time because it is committed against the Nazis (who are people too, as we've been told by the inclusion of the poor sap in the bar who was just celebrating the birth of a son, and the sniper's sad-sack attraction/courtship of the Jewish heroine, and his revulsion to war). There was laughing and applauding when the Bear Jew went to work in my theater, especially when AH bought it. That scene, and the movie itself, is as much an indictment of our culture, movie audiences regularly applauding mindless violence onscreen, as it is actually celebrating Hitler's fantasy death. Though, that was pretty cool too. I think this is one of the best films about violence, at least in terms of film's attempts to reflect its implications, that I've seen. What better way to reflect upon violence than a Jewish revenge story against the genocide-committing Nazis? All the scalping and gore was entirely necessary.
http://www.theonion.com/content/new..._to?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Next Tarantino Movie An Homage To Beloved Tarantino Movies Of Director's Youth September 7, 2009 | Issue 45•37 MADRID—While attending a European press junket Monday for his film Inglourious Basterds, director Quentin Tarantino announced that his next project, Jack Rabbit Slim, will go into production this fall, and will be an homage to his favorite director and screenwriter of all time: Quentin Tarantino. "I've been a Tarantino fan for as long as I can remember," said Tarantino, who repeatedly referred to his hero as "The Master." "Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown—those movies were basically my film school. I mean, the ability to take a genre or a subgenre, embrace it to its core, and then blow it up and make it your own is something that has to be admired." "We're talking about the quintessential writer-director of our time," Tarantino added. A self-described "Tarantino geek," Tarantino said Jack Rabbit Slim was conceived as a tribute to his idol, and is deeply influenced by Tarantino's blaxsploitation movies of the late 1990s, Tarantino's classic multi-volume kung fu pictures, and the grindhouse films of the late 2000s that Tarantino made famous. Tarantino has already cast the once-popular actor Eric Roberts to play Slim, in a role director believes will resurrect Roberts' career. The film will reportedly feature elements and techniques lifted directly from Tarantino's past works, including numerous point-of-view shots from car trunks, and references to Tarantino's favorite cult films, My Best Friend's Birthday and From Dusk Till Dawn. Enlarge Image Tarantino Films Stills from four of the films that inspired the director to emulate Tarantino's style. In one sequence Tarantino called "distinctly Tarantino-esque," Slim delivers an unexpectedly poetic monologue on cheeseburgers while dancing to an Ennio Morricone instrumental with a drug-addled Uma Thurman. And in the film's stunning climax, Slim remembers his training with a martial arts expert in China and then exacts revenge on the film's antagonists: a Nazi colonel, a Hollywood stuntman, and a Los Angeles syndicate of 88 yakuza warriors. As an homage to Tarantino, Tarantino said he also plans to give the famed director a minor role in the film. "If nothing else, I hope Jack Rabbit Slim makes moviegoers want to go back and explore the complete filmography of this great, great American artist," Tarantino said. "I really can't think of another living director who has made as large a contribution to the evolution of world cinema, and I feel it is my duty as a filmmaker to remind people of that." Added Tarantino, "God, I love Quentin Tarantino." The filmmaker, who became more and more excited when talking about the films of Quentin Tarantino, admitted that he has an autographed Reservoir Dogs poster signed by the director hanging in his living room. He also bragged about owning the syringe that John Travolta used to give Uma Thurman an adrenaline shot in Pulp Fiction. "The actual one," Tarantino stressed. Tarantino went on to say he was pleased to see that, almost 20 years into his career, director Quentin Tarantino was still going strong with his latest film, Inglourious Basterds, which Tarantino felt was one of the legendary filmmaker's "very best." "If Jack Rabbit Slim is even a third as good as Basterds, I might just make a movie so good that Tarantino himself will give it a standing ovation," Tarantino said. "You know what, I bet he will.
so i got the blu ray for christmas. i was really looking forward to deleted scenes, possible extended version, and commentary (i have hardly rewatched a movie with commentary but some reason really wanted to with this one). man, what a disappointment. there were only 3 "extended" scenes which didn't really add anything and no freaking commentary. i thought commentary was standard with blu ray. the extras that were on there i didn't care for.
The first part of this movie was so interesting, in the farm in france or something but this movie was TERRIBLE. I think its weak tbh. Just by using the 4943502 anti german movie he guaranteed nice feedback from the public sheep. Nazis are scum, but when it gets to the point to where skull bashing, scalping etc jews are considered badass.....its just sad, b.c we know what is said for the nazis who gassed the jews in ww2. No matter who does stuff like that, it is wrong. Don't misinterpret me though, if it were ww2, the nazis should be killed. But when it comes to a movie, savage acts like scalping and bashing someones skull for ah hour appear to be glorifying it just b.c of the people that are doing it. I am a pitt fan, but he sucked in this movie too. The only good actor was that colonel guy who kept me watching due to the mystery swirled about him.
this story was completely fictional you know that right? Thats not how Hitler died, and Pitt was amazing in this movie.
