Inglorious Basterds

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Saw it last night and I think it is a masterpiece. In every other Tarantino film I've seen so far, as good or great as they've been (not seen Deathproof) there's been a point where my mind has started wandering. In this film I was utterly transfixed from start to finish and the use of music which is always brilliant in his films goes to new heights with the David Bowie scene. 10/10 (would have only been 9.5/10 without the Joy Division cinema usherettes )

Off to see Inglorious Basterds at the Weekend. Looks like a brilliant romp.

Don't bother with "Deathproof" though mate. Very odd movie that.

Very odd.

 

[Easy 10]

Don't bother with "Deathproof" though mate. Very odd movie that.

Very odd.

Seconded.

I thought my DVD player was on the blink when it went black and white for ten minutes, for no apparent reason.

 

[house your seagull]

I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for the Jerries after 50 years of rubbing their noses in it. Can't someone make a film where we see them winning for a change?

i agree, and i find the thread starter's they got their comeuppance style reiteration that there are REAL LIFE nazi's in it, a tad odd too.

 

[Touristic_denizen]

They were discussing it on breakfast tv and would not tell the audience what it was called. A Basterd ( Bastard ) is infact a perfectly legitimate word in the English language. It is not a swear word at all.

thats not really giving the public credit , is it ?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Wow! STUNNING film! Just back from Duke of York midday screening. Two and a half hours and it absolutely flies by. Can't take yer eyes off the screen and some glourious set-pieces. Go see!

 

[Easy 10]

I'm getting quite moist for this film now.
The missus is out tonight. I might be a SAD basterd and go on me own.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Saw it at a very empty Duke of Porks last night and I would have to concur with the view that it is a cinematic masterpiece that makes Confessions Of A Driving Instructor look like the steaming pile of horse dung. 9.2/10 for me, the 0.8 lost by Brad Pitt's involvement - a strange choice (imho) for the role and hardly in keeping with the 'cool' of Tim Roth, Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, David Carridine or Pam Grier.... but then again QT did hire John Travolta.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

In years to come Im sure the jeremy kyle underclass will actually believe that the Nazi high command died in a cinema in 1944 and Brad Pitt stopped the war!

 

[Oscar]

Fantastic movie. Went in with low expectations but it was brilliant. Beautifully shot, great acting and superb dialogue. The most gripping scenes are the "chatty" bits some reviewers have moaned about. The actor who plays the Nazi "Jew Hunter" will be Oscar nominated - or should be. 9.0

 

[Garage_Doors]

Anyone seen or going to see this Tarantino effort.

It has got a very decent 8.3 on imdb at the moment and is by all accounts Tarantino's best film since Pulp Fiction.

It sounds quite tasty with a bunch of jews " the Inglorious Basterds " sifgting back against the Nazi and SS scum and enacting all manner of hideous deaths and tortures including live scalpings and cutting swastika'z in the heads of the Nazi scum. Hitler even buys it with his face and body being riddled with bullets. All the things we would have loved to happen but alas did not.

Pulp Fiction is his masterpiece 8.8 but this sounds interesting.

never seen pulp fiction so nothing to compare it with but story line sounds good, what is the "imdb" ?

 

[Acker79]

never seen pulp fiction so nothing to compare it with but story line sounds good, what is the "imdb" ?

internet movie database.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

The actor who plays the Nazi "Jew Hunter" will be Oscar nominated - or should be. 9.0

Yep, his air of menace washed over the entire film. The tension in the opening farm sequence was brilliantly done.

Mike Myers and all that overly camp stiff upper lip Britishness stuff I could have done without.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Off to see Inglorious Basterds at the Weekend. Looks like a brilliant romp.

Don't bother with "Deathproof" though mate. Very odd movie that.

Very odd.

Did you see Deathproof on its own? I understand when they split Deathproof from its original format as part of Grindhouse they stretched it out into a full length film...and it doesnt work well on its own. As part of Grindhouse it sits well as a dumb-ass road movie...and all the other components of Grindhouse help set the tone.

 

[happypig]

People pay money and cheer fatboy slim and his ilk simply for playing records, so why not applaud the projectionist for showing a film ?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Mike Myers and all that overly camp stiff upper lip Britishness stuff I could have done without.

Indeed. An odd and unnecessary bit of casting on the face of it. some kind of obscure QT in-joke maybe?

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Indeed. An odd and unnecessary bit of casting on the face of it. some kind of obscure QT in-joke maybe?

It was just another piece of the excellent farce that peppered the whole film, like the Jew Hunters pipe and the basterds at the film premiere reception.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Fantastic movie. Went in with low expectations but it was brilliant. Beautifully shot, great acting and superb dialogue. The most gripping scenes are the "chatty" bits some reviewers have moaned about. The actor who plays the Nazi "Jew Hunter" will be Oscar nominated - or should be. 9.0

This is my summary as well although I went in with middle to high expectations. The opening chapter dialogue is brilliant. The Duke of Yorks chocolate cake was on form as well. Also, the film totally flies past. I normally get a little restless when a flick goes over 2 hours.

 

[Easy 10]

People pay money and cheer fatboy slim and his ilk simply for playing records, so why not applaud the projectionist for showing a film ?

I went and saw this last night at the Odeon, and OUR projectionist got a slow handclap from the audience. This was because the film BROKE DOWN about 20 minutes before the end, and it took him 15 minutes to get it going again. Bizarrely, this break in the film occurred at the exact moment they were seen changing the reels in the actual film itself, so at first we all sat there thinking this was a bit of buggering about by Tarantino. But no, it was actually the Odeon just being useless.

Anyways, I can only echo the opinion of most of the others on here who have seen it. Absolute QUALITY, and Christopher Waltz (the guy who plays Hans Landa, the 'Jewhunter') is phenomenal, he steals the show even from Brad Pitt.

Nobody writes dialogue quite like Tarantino, they guy is a genius. Will definitely be adding this to my cdollection when it comes out on DVD.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

even from Brad Pitt.

I think you mean even from Melanie Laurent!

 

[Easy 10]

Yeah she was good as well.
Pitt cracked me up though. Specially talking italian in that broad american accent.