It was a good review but that line jarred for sure. I think I need to re-watch IB. Maybe not its fault that it was the first film i've watched since Mesrine, which totally blew me away.
So I saw it tonight. Much, much, better than I thought it would be. Highly recommended. Won't give anything away but Hans steals the show! Tarantino has not lost his touch. Still can't stand Eli Roth though.
It's true that the original 12" single of Bowie's version of "Cat People" was much better than the cheesy "Let's Dance" version. I agree with that.
Just got back and it was a great watch, the only thing I can say was I wish there was more Aldo the Apache screen time. That character was just awesome.
I saw the movie over the weekend and really enjoyed it...QT still has some spark left in him! I look forward to watching it again. Possible spoilers in my comments below, highlight to read: It strikes me as strange in how people react to violent stimuli in the movies...lots of chuckling going on when "the bear" finishes his "interrogation" of the nazi guy in the first sequence of the show...beating the life out of someone with a baseball bat is, to me, decidedly unfunny. Interestingly, the scene at Shoshanna's cinema when Hitler is watching the propaganda film of the hero, Zoller, sniping the GIs and laughing (somewhat maniacally) about it was a direct example of what was going on during the showing that I attended in real life---if this was not planned by Tarantino, it was a hell of a great coincidence. Even when Hitler's face got shot off, there were giggles around the crowd. I admittedly do not get out much, but I found the audience reaction to Inglorious Basterds to be puzzling and a bit troubling---enough so that it was distracting from the action on the screen. Maybe it is just because I live in the "Bible Belt" where people full of repressed emotions roam freely...
more spoilers below: Scotty, you would have hated sitting next to me and my wife then during this movie because when the Bear Jew went in and massacred Hitler and his nazi compadres we gave a huge applause. It as a great moment and one that, unfortunately did not happen in life, but should have. We think we may have been the only jews in the audience, or at least the only ones that showed any real enthusiam toward that part. Also, Tarantino, as I am sure you know, is very tongue and cheek. That is why his movies are disturbing and hilarious. When the "bear jew" killed the nazi soldier and repeatedly hit him with the bat, it was a humouros moment becuase it was so over the top. The movie is supposed to get that type of reaction, because, well, it's a movie. It is meant to be entertainment and taken with a grain of salt. Hell yes, I wish it were a true story and the Nazi's did go out this way. Killing thousands of Nazi's doesn't make up for the MILLIONS of jews, blacks, gays, and others who unfortunately met the bottom of a nazi boot, but at least they would have got what was coming to them. I loved this movie, what it stood for, and what it represented! Bravo Mr Tarantino!
just saw this today great flick definatly worth seeing again though nothing tops resivior dogs and jackie brown
I loved it. The most amusing part though, was when a group of homie types walked out of the theater angry. There was too much talking and reading for them I guess. One guy said "damn I'll go get a book if I wanna read!" The audience laughed. I need the soundtrack!
Totally different, but I agree, not better than Resevoir Dogs... There aren't many movies that are. That is one of the best movies ever, imo! I also love Jackie Brown!
goin' to see this tonight. lookin' forward to it. QT was on NPR's Fresh Aire and I think he gave Terri Gross a coronary from how hyper he was! LOL!
Wonderful movie. The (dare say) only film I've seen in a theater in the past couple of years that I would go back and see again the next day. Seriously. It baffles me how a guy who dropped out of school in the 6th grade goes on to become one of the finest screenwriters of our time. Anyone who disagrees is either jealous, or is turned off by some other element of the movies (e.g., violence, et al). In fact, QT proves his chops are actually improving, as while this might be his best WRITTEN film. The dialogue is incredible--and I rarely use that term. Moreover, considering how lost-in-translation certain words, context, meaning, and even jokes have in other languages, almost half of the dialogue is either in German or French. Basically, a guy who doesn't speak the languages had to "write" so that his content could transfer to two other languages. Brilliant! As a couple others pointed out, Col. Landa steals the show. I would say "Oscar"-worthy, but there is no way an SS "Jew"-hunter would ever get that honor. Regardless, tell me everyone wasn't laughing when he blurts out, "It is a bingo!!" My one other critique is something that impressed, yet confused, me. For having no military background, QT wrote a nearly flawless military script. He got "right" something many people would get "wrong": rank respect, even in a casual setting. Specifically, the bar scene, with the officers not "fraternizing" with the enlisted. He got it even more perfect when the major said, "I am not intruding, unless the [civilian] says I am." Perfect! Seriously, it is like that. You could be anywhere, and if someone out-ranks you, you sort of (even begrudgingly) kow-tow to accepting their presence. Considering the degree of military minutia QT had right, I was a little surprised that he 1) had Brad Pitt playing a lieutenant and/or 2) that the platoon leader was not at least of captain rank. Having served in the officer corps myself, you know that an LT is right out of college...20-something. Now, while Pitt (who is 45 I think) looks damn young (could pass for 30...LOL!), he ain't a lieutenant. Plus, I venture to say that even in WWII an LT would not be the lead on a special ops mission. However, rank him a captain, and it is believable in both Pitt's age, AND the military assignment/objective. Okay okay....I know this is a little much. I just found it interesting. Final note: kudos to QT for having the balls to assert the movie King Kong as a metaphor for the slave trade. Finally someone puts it "out there". It is why Peter Jackson's Kong re-make sucked and had no point or purpose. You take the underlying subtext of the white fear out of the movie and you don't have King Kong. Sorry, but that is the truth.
It's a really Great Movie. Being an avid Tarantino fan, and a follower of his work since I first saw Resevoir Dogs (which is still one of my favorite movies of all time). I was a little skeptical because from the trailer and some short clips I saw, it didn't seem like his usual style but man was I proven wrong! It had pretty much everything that makes a Tarantino movie into gold the well palnned soundtrack, the restaurant scene, the hidden gem and underrated long conversations between his dynamic characters, the violence, the strong female characters, the humor, the well thought out script. In fact the only thing that this movie was probably missing was the little hints of Tarantino's world (such as Big Kahuna Burger, Red Apple Cigarettes), but it makes sense giving that this takes place during WWII, and his trademark Trunk cam scene. One warning I give which didn't bother me but seemed to bother a few people was that there IS A LOT of subtitles due to the various languages used in the film.
@scottygee's spoilers: If it makes you feel better, I didn't laugh at the parts you mentioned...I thought it was a bit too much personally and I'm not even prudish. I've found that movie going audiences have become quite strange recently. I was in another movie (can't remember what it was now), but people were laughing at the worst times. Very serious spots too...like the gravity of the situation was too much for them to process or something and they started laughing. I don't remember the details, but imagine someone laughing when Darth Vader reveals that he's Luke's father or something. Don't even get me started about how many times I've been to the theater now and people are talking loudly in the middle, texting, breathing heavily on me or eating an enormous box of Milk Duds that rattles around in the box. Anyways, I digress...I thought this movie was a very fine piece of cinema. Kudos to Tarantino for always making films where I don't know what to expect, but always come out feeling satisfied.
This was the only real issue I had with the movie. I don't mind a movie with foreign language and subtitles, but the subtitles in this movie moved so fast that a slow reader like myself ended up missing a lot of the dialogue. Usually foreign films will keep the subtitles up a bit longer but in IB, I found them to go by really fast. Another thing I thought Tarantino could have done differently, was at the beginning interrogation scene, when Col Landa asks Perrier LaPadite if he could speak in English, and the begin dialogue in English, this could have been a segway for the rest of the movie to be spoken in English. I found it very tongue and cheek and something that Tarantino could have pulled off... But I completely understand why the movie was predominately German and French spoken. Otherwise, BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!
The only reason he asked to speak in English was because he knew.....well...you know. BTW Chapter 1: Intense as fuck!!
I know, but I found it humorous for some reason. I don't know if it was supposed to be funny or not, but my wife and I laughed... maybe it was a nervous laugh in anticipation of what was to happen next! Great opening scene! Up there with the opening diner scene in Pulp Fiction
That's a bad cinematic device used by films when they just don't make any excuses for the mix bag cast. You are right the subtitles are fast because they go with QTs very snappy dialogue but the tone of the movie would have been lost if they used that as a way to let everyone speak in English. Far too many actors were cast specifically for being fluent in the languages he needed them to speak or with an actor like Christoph Waltz his ability to nail all of the languages he was bouncing in and out of. Take Valkyrie for example of a film that starts in German and uses a device to lead out of one language into another. Not only is it really offsetting it's does pull you out of the film. But no matter what language people speak it's a pretty great film and one of the best he's ever done.
I agree with you on all fronts... I can't wait to get the film on DVD so I can re-read all the dialogue over again and catch what I might have missed.
Please, OOHHHH, Please do not mention the word: Valkyrie. OMFG, if Tom Cruise is not the worst actor in Hollywood. And why, pray tell? Uh, douche-nozzle starts the movie with a Germanic "accent", then suddenly has a British "accent", and if you notice, the last 30-40 minutes of the film, he is speaking in his own standard inflection. I was BEYOND astonished. I really could not believe how terrible it was. And from what I've read, Cruise is a maniacal perfectionist. How did he miss that HUGE detail?
Just saw it and was shocked at how good it was. I really couldn’t stand Kill Bill at all. And still think he's full of himself. But this was really a great film. Except for one thing... Eli Roth is not an actor. Seeing him on the screen reeks of someone who got the role because he knows somebody. Even when Quentin Tarantino acts in his own films, it wasn’t as cringeworthy. But minor complaint. Recommended! I think Quentin Tarantino is complimenting himself too much. It’s honestly “very white of him” to come out and say something like that—and yes, I know he has some Native American blood in him—but as Spike Lee has said over and over again, Quentin Tarantino desperately wants to be black. And when he starts railing on stuff like that, that’s when I want QT to just shut up and make movies. His understanding of the world centers around being an obsessive film fan... Not a social anthropologist. And specific to this King King comment, it really sounds/reads note-for-note like what he said in an interview with Elvis MItchell on “The Treatment.” The Peter Jackson King Kong was excellent regardless of what motivated the fear this time around.
When this spot of dialogue came up in the movie, the white guys next to me were looking over my way "like omg, I can't believe QT would say soemthing like this--are you hearing this?" I'm like "yeah. old news. get a clue already". I don't know what QT said in an interview whenever, but that point is nothing new. When I was introduced to King Kong YEARS ago, that was the FYI that came with it (via my Pops). I don't think I've ever seen the whole thing.
