Inglourious Basterds

[number8]

Hah, was Hitler wearing a cape?

I want to see this so bad. :)

I know! That is so awesome. I also love how the map behind him is straight out of a Roger Moore James Bond movie.

[number8]

Teaser online. (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808404206/trailer)

This shit is magnificent.

[Amnesiac]

I'm looking forward to getting a glimpse of the movie theater bits of the film and the characters therein. This teaser was obstinately focused on the trigger-happy antics of Aldo Rein's crew, and that was all fine and good, but I still want a glimpse at the other actors. Also, as it stands, that teaser didn't really make me feel any less ambivalent about Pitt's performance.

Good dialogue, though. I'm looking forward to the full trailer.

[Watashi]

Hardly any replies? What's the deal MC?

It looks so awesome. QT is 6 for 6 in my book.

[Sycophant]

I am at work and will watch it when I get home.

[eternity]

I lol'd myself a new asshole.

[Ivan Drago]

NEIN! NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN!

Sooo awesome.

[megladon8]

Ugh...opening on Eli Roth was not a good move.

But I think it looks good. I just hope it doesn't have as much cinematic masturbation as Death Proof and just gets on with the story.

[DavidSeven]

I hope it will be as good as Death Proof, but I'm not convinced.

[MadMan]

Good teaser, although I do want to see more. Not only is that crazy Hitler funny, but Brad Pitt appears to be wonderfully over the top in his performance.

[Sycophant]

Good teaser, although I do want to see more. Oh, my god, it's done its job!

[ledfloyd]

i think this is an awful trailer, but i loved the script enough that i'm not worried yet.

[Watashi]

I'm interested in Davis's thoughts on this trailer.

[Saya]

Teaser online. (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808404206/trailer)

This shit is magnificent.

That rocks!

[D_Davis]

I'm interested in Davis's thoughts on this trailer.

Hated the stupid music, but of course I am anticipating the hell out of this.

It'll be awesome to see Pitt in a QT film, and his speech sounded awesome - I also love his scarred neck.

Based on that teaser, it looks really brutal. I am somewhat surprised at this, as I thought it was more comical for some reason. I have no idea why I thought this, and I don't have any idea what the film is really about. I've seen the original film, but apparently this is a remake in name only.

I don't think QT's made a bad film yet, and from what little I know this one sounds like another winner. Although I do wonder how QT's style will look and sound filtered through a more authentic period lens. This doesn't really take place in his genre-mash up QT-verse; will his style adapt? I'm sure it will, he is a talented filmmaker.

[Bosco B Thug]

I didn't really like the trailer, which partly might be my ambivalence with the premise (although I only know of the premise what the teaser gives away), but despite the much too "Kill Bill"-ish tone and music use in the trailer, I'm still expecting a lot from this. Focusing on shots individually, outside of the rhythm of the trailer, there's some striking ones that can very well comprise moments of gravitas.

And I thought Eli Roth came off really well in the teaser. He is made over to a sufficient degree. The 'The Office' guy, though, I feel as if he'll distract me.

[Ezee E]

I didn't like the Kill Bill trailer, and I don't like this one.

[Watashi]

The Kill Bill trailer is amazing...

[DavidSeven]

The original Kill Bill teaser is one of the best trailers of the decade. This one isn't even in the same stratosphere.

[MadMan]

Oh, my god, it's done its job!:| :rolleyes: :P

[Morris Schæffer]

Not sure yet. Tarantino has yet to let me truly down, but I'm not sure what to make of this one. I guess I was expecting a more famous cast similar to the war movies of the 60's such as The Guns of Navarone, The Dirty Dozen, Escape to Athena (1979) or The Great Escape. Although a case can also be made for relative unknowns benefiting the authenticity of a movie. I'm not really excited about the roster at the moment. And as for the Hitler in the cape, I'm not sure how much comedic mileage can be wrung from that. Feels like a cheap shot. I once saw a video of Downfall with all the lines supplanted by stuff relating to videogames that nearly made me piss my pants. Definitely not what I was expecting. The trailer I mean.

[Sycophant]

The trailer got me excited, if just because seeing footage like this really, truly means the movie actually fucking exists.

But it ain't got nothing on the first Kill Bill teaser.

[[ETM]]

Pitt's accent sounds bad, and he's the godsdamned KING of accents. But this... this looks... unnecessary. Now more than ever. I can't think of a reason to see the film. There seems to be no worthy spin on the atrocious plot, and... I don't know, perhaps I shouldn't crash the party.

[Raiders]

;138369']Pitt's accent sounds bad

He has an accent?

And I guess I will admit I thought it was a terrific trailer though I still don't know how much I really care about this film.

[Mysterious Dude]

That trailer was wretched.

[Pop Trash]

I found it rather intriguing. Keep in mind this seems to be a "pump you up" type of trailer, aimed squarely at action fans. I thought Pitt seemed to be having fun with his role. Granted, based on buzz and stills/trailers alone, this dipped below Avatar and Where the Wild Things Are for my anticipation levels this year. Is this premiering at Cannes? Also, was that Neal from "Freaks and Geeks" as a badass soldier? :eek:

[lovejuice]

speaking of ww II. do we still get magneto versus nazi movie?

[Kurosawa Fan]

That's as bad as I imagined.

[Dukefrukem]

Pictures and stuff and a repost of the trailer. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1147187/Brad-Pitt-turns-Nazi-killing-commando-Tarantino-bloodfest-Inglourious-Basterds.html)

[Scar]

It is good.

[Dukefrukem]

hows the origional movie btw?

[Saya]

hows the origional movie btw?

It's great! See it if you can.

[Amnesiac]

Posters.


http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss218/Jedimoonshyne9/Inglourious-Basterds_e681012a.jpg
http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss218/Jedimoonshyne9/Inglourious-Basterds_87b92eeb.jpg
http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss218/Jedimoonshyne9/Inglourious-Basterds_a596b094.jpg

[number8]

Great as always, Quentin.

[Saya]

Awesome. I must have those posters. :)

[Amnesiac]

Some Inglorious Basterds photos care of Vanity Fair (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/05/inglourious-basterds-portfolio200905):


http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2009/04/inglourious-basterds-0905-pp03.jpg
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2009/04/inglourious-basterds-0905-pp01.jpg
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2009/04/inglourious-basterds-0905-pp05.jpg
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2009/04/inglourious-basterds-0905-pp04.jpg

[Amnesiac]

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/bastersroth.jpg (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/16/inglourious-basterds-photo-eli-roth-and-brad-pitt/)

[Spaceman Spiff]

zomg, Neil Schweiber is in this?

[Watashi]

New poster:

http://www.aintitcool.com/images2009/BasterdPittSm.jpg

[Amnesiac]

Ha. That'll get people's attention.

[[ETM]]

Way to go. Nice take on the "character poster".

[number8]

Genius.

[Amnesiac]

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/zz7f35abfa.jpg

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/roth_basterd-440x653.jpg

[megladon8]

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/roth_basterd-440x653.jpg


Wow, truth in advertising. :lol:

[Ezee E]

I'll guess that Diane Kruger is going to be the best thing about this movie.

[Skitch]

Wow, truth in advertising. :lol:

:)

Should replace basterd with 'douchebag'.

[Lasse]

I love those posters. :)

[Spun Lepton]

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/roth_basterd-440x653.jpg

Anticipation gone.

[Saya]

One more poster:

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4746/81154790.jpg

[MadMan]

I'll guess that Diane Kruger is going to be the best thing about this movie.One of the best things, yes. She's quite a gorgeous actress, and a solid one as well.

Gotta love those posters. I think its truly kickass that Brad Pitt is one of the leads in a QT movie. And I don't mind that Eli Roth is in this, provided he isn't too annoying.

[Saya]

NY Times article on Inglourious Basterds (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/movies/10hoha.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2)


Mr. Tarantino, who was born in Tennessee, said his childhood revenge fantasies centered more on the Ku Klux Klan. “But it’s all the same,” he said. “Once the Basterds get through with Europe, they could go to the South and do it to the Kluxers in the ’50s. That’s another story you could tell.”

Not to mention a shelved subplot about African-American soldiers stuck behind enemy lines. “I have a half-written prequel ready to go if this movie’s a smash,” he said.

[Skitch]

And I don't mind that Eli Roth is in this, provided he isn't too annoying.

Impossible.

[MadMan]

Impossible.I find QT way more annoying than Eli Roth. Roth I could see myself having a beer with. QT would end up making me want to punch him in the face.

[D_Davis]

I find QT way more annoying than Eli Roth. Roth I could see myself having a beer with. QT would end up making me want to punch him in the face.

QT reminds me of a lot of people here and on other message boards. He's just a dude who really, really loves movies and music, and he loves to talk about them.

He lets his passion shine.

I'd do a lot to have a few beers with him. I think it would be awesome to talk Shaw Bros. with QT.

[Grouchy]

The problem with QT is that having a few beers with him could be very cool, but having a line of coke would probably turn him into an unstoppable ranting machine.

[Sycophant]

Nerd-hating on QT for being an excitable nerd is so impotent and so passé.

[number8]

My conversation (http://www.justpressplay.net/movies/movie-news/2779-interview-eli-roth-talks-hostel-part-ii.html) with Eli Roth was very pleasant. We were both sober, though.

[Sven]

I think we should have a moratorium on liking people because you can imagine having a beer with them. Because seriously... that's why you like somebody?

[Sycophant]

That's an excellent point.

[Sycophant]

NY Times article on Inglourious Basterds (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/movies/10hoha.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2)

Also, LOL. I need to start up a comprehensive list on all the projects Tarantino's publicly crowed about that have not happened and never will happen. There must be close to a hundred.

[Dead & Messed Up]

The problem with QT is that having a few beers with him could be very cool, but having a line of coke would probably turn him into an unstoppable ranting machine.

No kidding. Last time he did coke, he felt the sick urge to write about Superman Returns for twenty pages.

[D_Davis]

I think we should have a moratorium on liking people because you can imagine having a beer with them. Because seriously... that's why you like somebody?

How about a moratorium on telling other people why they should or shouldn't like somebody?

[Grouchy]

I think we should have a moratorium on liking people because you can imagine having a beer with them. Because seriously... that's why you like somebody?
I don't talk with teetotalers.

[D_Davis]

It's not the drinking of the beer that is important, it's what such an act symbolizes: just hanging out with someone in a casual, friendly, and unhurried manner, enjoying each other's company, and shooting the shit on all kinds of topics not dictated by PR or an interview agenda. For many people, this kind of thing happens at home or in a bar whilst drinking a beer.

Rather than saying, "I'd like to hang out with QT in a casual, friendly, and unhurried manner, enjoy his company, and shoot the shit on all kinds of topics not dictated by PR or an interview agenda," I could just say, "I'd like to get a beer with QT."

It's about the economy of words.

[MadMan]

I think we should have a moratorium on liking people because you can imagine having a beer with them. Because seriously... that's why you like somebody?I never said that just because I can have a beer with someone, doesn't mean that I like them :|

And after seeing the interviews with QT on the extras for Reservoir Dogs 10th Year edition DVD, I thought he came across as quite annoying and overly excited. I'd rather talk film with someone who would have a passion for film, yes, but not act like an over eager puppy dog who humps your leg.

[Sven]

How about a moratorium on telling other people why they should or shouldn't like somebody?

You can chalk it up to economy, but in the end, the "beer" association is terribly unclear and shallow. It's not as though MadMan would actually pass up an opportunity to fraternize with Tarantino, whether alcohol was involved or not. Plus, the "beer"-line of thinking is the same rationale that permitted 8 years of a terrible, terrible president.

All that kind of talk amounts to is sycophantic celebrity worship. No insult intended, Sycophant.

[Winston*]

I've seen MadMan's picture. Quentin Tarantino could take him.

[D_Davis]

Well, I am a very muddied and shallow dude - so sit on a tack!

[Sven]

Well, I am a very muddied and shallow dude - so sit on a tack!

I'm not saying anything about you or MadMan. It's an irritating expression. Take a chill pill.

[Sven]

Though in all honesty, I'm the one that probably ought to take a chill pill. It's finals week and I've got a nasty headache. My apologies for snapping.

[megladon8]

I get the feeling that having a conversation with QT would be more like QT talking at you for hours, you with your head down.

I think his head's gotten a little big.

That being said, after revisiting his filmography up to this point, I think he's got brilliant writing potential that only comes together in a brilliant way in one film of his - Pulp Fiction.

As a filmmaker, he's exciting and fresh. And again, this is most apparent in Pulp Fiction.

The Kill Bill films were very nicely crafted and visually scrumptuous, with annoyingly masturbatory dialogue.

Jackie Brown was the opposite, giving poor directoral treatment to a great piece of writing.

Death Proof is the ultimate in terrible, terrible QT scripting, but I liked the filming a lot.

Reservoir Dogs is just kind of...blah.

So yeah, I'm no longer the resident QT basher, but I don't think he's Jesus.

[Sycophant]

He's an enthusiast. And he has used his position as a player to push some foreign and vintage films that would've otherwise been overlooked into at least the arthouse, if not the mainstream, spotlight. For that I'm grateful.

[megladon8]

He's an enthusiast. And he has used his position as a player to push some foreign and vintage films that would've otherwise been overlooked into at least the arthouse, if not the mainstream, spotlight. For that I'm grateful.


As am I.

But I still don't appreciate the advertising for Hero.

[Qrazy]

I would really like to drop acid with Jodorowsky.

[Sycophant]

I got to see Hero in a megaplex in Provo, Utah. For that I am grateful.

[Sycophant]

...I would like to go to a strip club with Wes Anderson?

Am I doing this right?

[D_Davis]

I would really like to drop acid with Jodorowsky.

That would be awesome. It might be kind of scary, too.

[D_Davis]

Take a chill pill.

I'm perfectly calm, and looking forward to getting a beer after work with some friends.

[D_Davis]

but I don't think he's Jesus.

I know he's not Jesus.

[megladon8]

I got to see Hero in a megaplex in Provo, Utah. For that I am grateful.


There were probably a few dozen people in the theatre with you, thinking they were seeing Quentin Tarantino's latest movie.

I would be very grateful if my comic book work were promoted and given distribution because of Brian Michael Bendis.

Not so much if his name was plastered all over it, and mine was a little aside at the bottom of the inner cover.

[Sven]

I'm perfectly calm, and looking forward to getting a beer after work with some friends.

"Chill" is frequently meant to include reducing the snarkiness of one's tone along with one's irritability levels.

[D_Davis]

I would do just about anything in the universe for one of my CDs to be presented by Brian Eno.

BRIAN ENO PRESENTS...
Carl Sagan's Ghost's Behind Clounds


That would be perfectly fine by me. It would simply mean that more people would listen to my music. It's a sad but true fact: an artist's worst enemy is obscurity, that and the unwillingness of music fans to take a chance on free unsigned artists ("it's free, it must suck!"). I could release the same exact music, but if presented by someone famous, more people will pay more attention to it. And I would be totally OK with something like that.

[number8]

I would like to race Formula 1 with Kim Ki-duk.

[Sven]

I would like to have sex with Carice Van Houten.

I know I'm doing this right.

[Ezee E]

Hmm... There's really no topping Sven's.

[Sycophant]

Yeah, I was gonna post another one, and then Sven went and won.

[Bosco B Thug]

Yeah, I was gonna post another one, and then Sven went and won.
I would like to have sex with Carice Van Houten with Asia Argento. You've gotta keep to directors, who you can intellectualize about the craft with afterwards!


NY Times article on Inglourious Basterds (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/movies/10hoha.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2) I've been begrudging this film deep down, believe it or not, because jeez, WWII pics - especially Nazi pics - are so passe. What else can you possibly say about it that already hasn't been brilliantly elucidated in the likes of Night and Fog?

But this article relieves me a bit. It seems like Tarantino's taking this to some far reaches of commentary that'll make it fresh. I hope.

Can't say the title made me very happy. "Oh, yeah man, it's my 'guys on a mission' film! Whoo, badass!" Blegh.

[Ezee E]

I haven't read the script, but from the trailer, I think a lot of things can come from the scene where a Nazi is on his knees with a baseball bat about to be slammed into his head.

But maybe not.

[MadMan]

I've seen MadMan's picture. Quentin Tarantino could take him.Yeah, but I fight dirty. I'd hit him with a bar stool or some kind of blunt object.


I get the feeling that having a conversation with QT would be more like QT talking at you for hours, you with your head down.

I think his head's gotten a little big.

That being said, after revisiting his filmography up to this point, I think he's got brilliant writing potential that only comes together in a brilliant way in one film of his - Pulp Fiction.

As a filmmaker, he's exciting and fresh. And again, this is most apparent in Pulp Fiction.

The Kill Bill films were very nicely crafted and visually scrumptuous, with annoyingly masturbatory dialogue.

Jackie Brown was the opposite, giving poor directoral treatment to a great piece of writing.

Death Proof is the ultimate in terrible, terrible QT scripting, but I liked the filming a lot.

Reservoir Dogs is just kind of...blah.

So yeah, I'm no longer the resident QT basher, but I don't think he's Jesus.I can't say I agree with much of your post. At all. The last part brings to mind the :crazy: smily. Blah to describe Reservoir Dogs? Jackie Brown having poor directoral treatment? Really? I can understand someone not liking Death Proof, but I fail to see how Kill Bill had "Masturbatory dialogue," either.

Sven its all good concerning your previous posts directed at me and Davis. I can see your line of thinking from here. Without a telescope. I think :P

[Grouchy]

I would like to smoke a joint with Robert Altman.

[trotchky]

Tarantino's behavior reminds me of my own.

[Qrazy]

I would do just about anything in the universe for one of my CDs to be presented by Brian Eno.

BRIAN ENO PRESENTS...
Carl Sagan's Ghost's Behind Clounds


That would be perfectly fine by me. It would simply mean that more people would listen to my music. It's a sad but true fact: an artist's worst enemy is obscurity, that and the unwillingness of music fans to take a chance on free unsigned artists ("it's free, it must suck!"). I could release the same exact music, but if presented by someone famous, more people will pay more attention to it. And I would be totally OK with something like that.



Yeah but you're obscure. Zhang Yimou isn't it.

[Qrazy]

I would like to have sex with Carice Van Houten with Asia Argento. You've gotta keep to directors, who you can intellectualize about the craft with afterwards!

I've been begrudging this film deep down, believe it or not, because jeez, WWII pics - especially Nazi pics - are so passe. What else can you possibly say about it that already hasn't been brilliantly elucidated in the likes of Night and Fog?

But this article relieves me a bit. It seems like Tarantino's taking this to some far reaches of commentary that'll make it fresh. I hope.

Can't say the title made me very happy. "Oh, yeah man, it's my 'guys on a mission' film! Whoo, badass!" Blegh.

Really? Social commentary is what you're looking for from a Tarantino film?

[Qrazy]

I would like to smoke a joint with Robert Altman.

Apparently when Altman was working in television every day he'd go and get a blowjob from a prostitute.

[Grouchy]

Apparently when Altman was working in television every day he'd go and get a blowjob from a prostitute.
Smart move. I bet it helped him to avoid stress.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Apparently when Altman was working in television every day he'd go and get a blowjob from a prostitute.

But enough about Shelley Duvall.

[D_Davis]

Zhang Yimou isn't it.

Relatively speaking, he was more obscure in the US before Hero.

[Bosco B Thug]

Really? Social commentary is what you're looking for from a Tarantino film? I'm actually not going to contend you here. Tarantino in the past does mine depth purely in personal, emotional territory instead of political or grand social (mind you, he's made for me just one - for the sake of emphasis, I'll use the term - "masterpiece," that being Death Proof [with Pulp Fiction needing a re-watch]... thus, when I cite his "depth," that doesn't mean to say I believe he's proven regularly profound outside of the once... though I do find Jackie Brown a truly affecting work).

But with such subject matter as in Inglorious Basterds, a historical piece and his first, then yeah, social commentary is pretty necessarily what we need to be looking for in this Tarantino film, if we want this to be anything worthwhile, in light of what Tarantino has achieved in the past.

[chrisnu]

I'd like to eat quinoa with David Lynch.

[EvilShoe]

I just want my kids back.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I want Scar to stop making inappropriate comments about my wife.

[MadMan]

I want Scar to stop making inappropriate comments about my wife.


I just want my kids back.

Neither of these things will happen.

[number8]

Photos (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/13/10-new-photos-from-quentin-tarantinos-inglourious-basterds/)

This will be QT's masterpiece. That last photo alone tells me so.

[Qrazy]

I'm actually not going to contend you here. Tarantino in the past does mine depth purely in personal, emotional territory instead of political or grand social (mind you, he's made for me just one - for the sake of emphasis, I'll use the term - "masterpiece," that being Death Proof [with Pulp Fiction needing a re-watch]... thus, when I cite his "depth," that doesn't mean to say I believe he's proven regularly profound outside of the once... though I do find Jackie Brown a truly affecting work).

But with such subject matter as in Inglorious Basterds, a historical piece and his first, then yeah, social commentary is pretty necessarily what we need to be looking for in this Tarantino film, if we want this to be anything worthwhile, in light of what Tarantino has achieved in the past.

I've enjoyed most of his work to varying degrees but it's all pulp cinema. Which is not to say there isn't any depth there, just that something like Basterds isn't that far apart from any of his other outings.

[Qrazy]

Photos (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/13/10-new-photos-from-quentin-tarantinos-inglourious-basterds/)

This will be QT's masterpiece. That last photo alone tells me so.

I'd like to see him make a space western.

[Qrazy]

Relatively speaking, he was more obscure in the US before Hero.

He's still obscure to anyone who didn't already know his name because Tarantino's name received top billing.

[Spun Lepton]

I wonder which character is going to spout non-stop pop-culture trivia about the 30s and 40s.

[Ezee E]

I wonder which character is going to spout non-stop pop-culture trivia about the 30s and 40s.
Artie Shaw!

[Bosco B Thug]

Photos (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/13/10-new-photos-from-quentin-tarantinos-inglourious-basterds/)

This will be QT's masterpiece. That last photo alone tells me so. Hopefully he apes Godard's pedagogy along with his aesthetic.

Fantastic pics, though; this looks to have a grand scale.


I've enjoyed most of his work to varying degrees but it's all pulp cinema. Sure. All except Death Proof. :) I'm sorry. I'm gonna be repeating it til the day I die that that film has such painterly and rich compositions, the story such simple allegorical drive, and a structural build that makes it much more art cinema than pulp, escapist cinema.

[Qrazy]

Hopefully he apes Godard's pedagogy along with his aesthetic.

Fantastic pics, though; this looks to have a grand scale.

Sure. All except Death Proof. :) I'm sorry. I'm gonna be repeating it til the day I die that that film has such painterly and rich compositions, the story such simple allegorical drive, and a structural build that makes it much more art cinema than pulp, escapist cinema.

I don't really agree with you about Death Proof in the slightest, but on a general semantics discussion level pulp can be and is art, that doesn't make it any less pulp (pulp: containing lurid subject matter).

[trotchky]

He's still obscure to anyone who didn't already know his name because Tarantino's name received top billing.

He probably has a lot more money, though.

[Bosco B Thug]

I don't really agree with you about Death Proof in the slightest, but on a general semantics discussion level pulp can be and is art, that doesn't make it any less pulp (pulp: containing lurid subject matter).
But if it can be and is art, should its subject matter (regarded out of the contextualization in the work) really matter? Unless you're not trying to imply that.

There's also the fact that DP can hardly be called "plot-driven," at least in comparison to his other films, which are so muddled in plot machinations, setting this film apart again.

[EyesWideOpen]

I'd like to see him make a space western.

I'd trust him with Cowboy Bebop.

[MadMan]

Photos (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/13/10-new-photos-from-quentin-tarantinos-inglourious-basterds/)

This will be QT's masterpiece. That last photo alone tells me so.QT already made a masterpiece. Its called Pulp Fiction :P

[Saya]

Soundtrack:

The Green Leaves of Summer
(d’après le film ALAMO)
De Dimitri Tiomkin,

The Verdict
(Dopo la condanna)
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par
Ennio Morricone

L’incontro con la figlia
D’Ennio Morricone

White Lightning
(Chanson principale du film LES BOOTLEGGERS)
De Charles Bernstein
Interprété par Charles Bernstein

Il mercenario (ripresa)
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par Ennio Morricone

Slaughter
De Billy Preston
Interprété par Billy Preston

Algeri: 1 novembre 1954
(LA BATAILLE D’ALGER)
D’Ennio Morricone,Gillo Pontecorvo
Interprété par Ennio Morricone,Gillo Pontecorvo

The Surrender
( La resa )
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par Ennio Morricone

One Silver Dollar
(Un Dollaro Bucato)
De Gianni Ferrio

Bath Attack
(d’après le film L’EMPRISE) (The Entity?)
De Charles Bernstein
Interprété par Charles Bernstein

Davon Geht Die
Welt Nicht Unter
De Bruno Balz,Michael Jary
Interprété par Zarah Leander

The Man With The Big Sombrero
De Phil Boutelje,Foster Carling
Interprété par Sam Shelton and the Michael Andrew Orchestra

Ich Wollt Ich
Waer Ein Huhn
De Hans-Fritz Beckmann, Peter Kreuder
Interprété par Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp

Cat People
(Putting Out The Fire)
De David Bowie, Giorgio Moroder

Mystic and Severe
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par Ennio Morricone

The Devil’s Rumble
(d’après le film DEVIL’S ANGELS)
De Mike Curb
Interprété par The Arrows

What I’d Say
Zulus
D’Elmer Bernstein

Un Amico
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par Ennio Morricone

Tiger Tank
De Lalo Schifrin

Eastern Condors
Rabbia e Tarantella
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par Ennio Morricone

[Grouchy]

I was wondering what kind of music QT would use for this one. Anything more contemporary than the period the movie is set in would be awkward.

It looks like he's settling for film scores.

[Morris Schæffer]

That reads awesome!!

[Acapelli]

clips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KldfkE462Bk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qAOUp1YjH0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktwy7FmN4h4

[Bosco B Thug]

Early superficially good word from the Cannes premiere (I'll admit to have been waiting for the flood fervently):

Twitter buzz: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/20/early-twitter-buzz-inglourious-basterds/

Empire review: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24863

Action minimal? Talking, lots? Subverts expectations? Funny? Sounds like it's more what it should be than what it shouldn't be. I'm optimistic.

[Pop Trash]

Early superficially good word from the Cannes premiere (I'll admit to have been waiting for the flood fervently):

Twitter buzz: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/20/early-twitter-buzz-inglourious-basterds/

Empire review: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24863

Action minimal? Talking, lots? Subverts expectations? Funny? Sounds like it's more what it should be than what it shouldn't be. I'm optimistic.

Based on the Twitter buzz, it sounds solid but won't change anyones minds. Tarantino fans will dig it, detractors less so. I'm a fan so I think I'll like it.

[Pop Trash]

Also, if any of you are home right now, Tarantino will be on the Today Show in a little bit.

[Pop Trash]

Also, if any of you are home right now, Tarantino will be on the Today Show in a little bit.
Nevermind, that was a waste of time.

[trotchky]

Really? Social commentary is what you're looking for from a Tarantino film?

It's certainly one of the things I'm looking for. Jackie Brown, for instance, is as astute a commentary on "post-racial," integrationist America as any I've seen.

[Bosco B Thug]

It's certainly one of the things I'm looking for. Jackie Brown, for instance, is as astute a commentary on "post-racial," integrationist America as any I've seen.
Hmm. I like. And perhaps, in its very sensibility. If you've got a specific case for why you think it's a particularly telling commentary on such, I'd love to hear it.

[trotchky]

Hmm. I like. And perhaps, in its very sensibility. If you've got a specific case for why you think it's a particularly telling commentary on such, I'd love to hear it.

The numerous references to chattel slavery, for one, like how the white bail bondsman makes money off black crime and Samuel L. Jackson's character basically being the eponymous contemporary "Uncle Tom." It happens on a more minor level too, like how Melanie just smokes a lot of weed and watches TV but Sheronda is unconscious for much of her screen time and implicitly stoned on heroin or crack or something.

I'll write more later, I happen to be pretty stoned right now, myself.

[Bosco B Thug]

The numerous references to chattel slavery, for one, like how the white bail bondsman makes money off black crime and Samuel L. Jackson's character basically being the eponymous contemporary "Uncle Tom." It happens on a more minor level too, like how Melanie just smokes a lot of weed and watches TV but Sheronda is unconscious for much of her screen time and implicitly stoned on heroin or crack or something.

I'll write more later, I happen to be pretty stoned right now, myself.

Yes... yes, I see... *feeds*

The Rondell character is a regular upward mobile... there is complicated innerworkings of literal business occurring and transacting between all the characters... the Melanie and Sheronda characters do create contrasting illustrations of what is tellingly the same thing...

You go have fun, you deserve it. :)

[Pop Trash]

Interesting news: Tarantino has taken this back to the lab for re-edits. He also said he's going to test screen it, not with audience note cards like Hollywood usually uses, but just to see how it plays with an audience. After that he might make more edits. Apparently he's also going to add a scene he wanted to use at Cannes but couldn't finish in time.

Also, sadly it sounds like Maggie Cheung is going to be cut out of the movie. Another interesting tidbit: Isabelle Huppert was initially going to star in this but Tarantino found her too "divisive" or something. I think knowing this, it seems pretty clear that this wasn't going to win the Palm d'Or unless it was just too damn good to ignore.

[Qrazy]

The numerous references to chattel slavery, for one, like how the white bail bondsman makes money off black crime and Samuel L. Jackson's character basically being the eponymous contemporary "Uncle Tom." It happens on a more minor level too, like how Melanie just smokes a lot of weed and watches TV but Sheronda is unconscious for much of her screen time and implicitly stoned on heroin or crack or something.

I'll write more later, I happen to be pretty stoned right now, myself.

Not impressed by that social commentary.

[Ezee E]

Not impressed by that social commentary.
Sorta reaching, like the types of commentary that are on Kubrick films. I like it though.

[trotchky]

Not impressed by that social commentary.

Okay? I'm not trying to prove to you that you should look for social commentary in Quentin Tarantino's movies, I'm offering an example of social commentary that I found interesting and impressed me. What do you want me to say here?


Sorta reaching, like the types of commentary that are on Kubrick films. I like it though.

I dunno, I find that Kubrick's films have undeniable social commentary, certainly lightyears beyond anything Tarantino has ever "said."

[trotchky]

Oh yeah, Inglorious Basterds: I seem to be losing interest in it by the day. Mike D'Angelo's "60" helped put a damper on my expectations, for sure, but for whatever reason I just don't really care anymore.

[Qrazy]

Okay? I'm not trying to prove to you that you should look for social commentary in Quentin Tarantino's movies, I'm offering an example of social commentary that I found interesting and impressed me. What do you want me to say here?

Ah Ok, I recognize his films have something to say I just don't think that's primarily what they're about or that they have much to say.

[QUOTE=trotchky;168134]I dunno, I find that Kubrick's films have undeniable social commentary, certainly lightyears beyond anything Tarantino has ever "said."

Agreed but I think he means as in certain readings of Kubrick's films like the Native American reading of The Shining which I actually sort of like but which isn't particularly overt.

[Derek]

The numerous references to chattel slavery, for one, like how the white bail bondsman makes money off black crime and Samuel L. Jackson's character basically being the eponymous contemporary "Uncle Tom." It happens on a more minor level too, like how Melanie just smokes a lot of weed and watches TV but Sheronda is unconscious for much of her screen time and implicitly stoned on heroin or crack or something.

I'll write more later, I happen to be pretty stoned right now, myself.

Sweet, and with literal examples from the film, I'm not sure how this is really much of a stretch. I'd love to hear you go into this a little more once you've sobered up. :)

[Dukefrukem]

hot

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/6580/bastarda.jpg

[Qrazy]

Brad Pitt seems like he's going to be playing his character as an idiot in the film.

[Rowland]

Brad Pitt seems like he's going to be playing his character as an idiot in the film.Yep. The impression I'm getting, contrary to the assumption by many that he'll play it as straight bloodlust, is that the basterds will be proven wrongheaded, and it'll spin into another love letter to offbeat conversational discourse and cinema.

[Qrazy]

Yep. The impression I'm getting, contrary to the assumption by many that he'll play it as straight bloodlust, is that the basterds will be proven wrongheaded, and it'll spin into another love letter to offbeat conversational discourse and cinema.

Well what do you mean by wrongheaded? I'm guessing they'll be portrayed as a bunch of idiots but I'm also guessing the Nazis will function predominantly as Crazy 88 throw away corpses.

[Watashi]

Full Trailer. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QgpWjdtBO8&fmt=22)

Oh hell yes.

[Dukefrukem]

holy shit.

I had no idea Mike Myers was in this movie.

[Bosco B Thug]

Oh God, I dont know. Everything involving the bastards looks awful. And that's most of the trailer.

[trotchky]

Yay.

[MadMan]

Sweetness.

[number8]

Hah. Awesome.

[Ezee E]

Better trailer than before, but I just don't know about this.

[MacGuffin]

Yeah, this looks kind of dumb.

[Spun Lepton]

How much you want to bet this thing is anachronism city?

[number8]

How much you want to bet this thing is anachronism city?

I don't have to bet. QT already said so.

[Spun Lepton]

I don't have to bet. QT already said so.

Hrm, now I wonder if I'd already heard that and had just forgotten.

[number8]

Hrm, now I wonder if I'd already heard that and had just forgotten.

He also said that his research of the period is just movies about and from that period, so it's movie-history instead of real history.

I still think Hitler dies at the end. Those of you who read the script, don't confirm or deny.

[B-side]

The new trailer certainly got my attention. I was wholly indifferent before, but I'm kinda looking forward to it now.

[trotchky]

We have all our rotten eggs in one basket. The objective of the operation? Blow up the basket.

[Bosco B Thug]

He also said that his research of the period is just movies about and from that period, so it's movie-history instead of real history. Auuugghh VOMIT.

EDIT: Oh, from that period, too. That's not too dire, then...

EDIT 2: Now if it's all FICTION films he's talking about, then: AUGH *SLAP*.

[number8]

What? Of course he's talking about fiction films.

[Grouchy]

Come on, people, that is one great trailer.

[trotchky]

Auuugghh VOMIT.

EDIT: Oh, from that period, too. That's not too dire, then...

EDIT 2: Now if it's all FICTION films he's talking about, then: AUGH *SLAP*.

I don't see how this is bad, much less unexpected. All of Tarantino's films have dealt with reality (if not history) filtered through a lens of movies and popular culture, and judging by the trailer, this one is even more blatant about it than the others (it looks like the climactic scene will take place in a movie theater).

[Bosco B Thug]

What? Of course he's talking about fiction films. I'm just giving him the credit for using primary source footage of WWII Europe. It's just if this film is him treating WWII as if all it is is a genre of film, then I find that kind of below him.

I'm certainly not saying the film can't be good because of this fact, and that it can't be the revisionist, meta-historical fantasy it seems it is. I'm just saying this little boast of his, in its boastfulness, is antithetical to the social commentary this film could very well provide, which, like I've said (and this is in response to trotchky's comment too) is pretty necessary for an "up-to-Tarantino-standards" historical piece.

He can get away with this kind of comment with Death Proof and Kill Bill, but you shouldn't sound proud about this for a war film. Horror films and kung fu films are conceived upon fiction, but war films aren't.


Come on, people, that is one great trailer. Brad Pitt is becoming less and less convincing in his role (and I liked him in the teaser) - even in a role as purposefully ridiculous. His presence in the promotional material is just becoming kind of irritating.

[trotchky]

You may be right, Bosco, but I almost feel the same way about it as I do about objections to Tarantino glorifying violence in his other movies: that his works are reactions to a media-saturated culture that had already warped and distorted the real horror of violence, or war, long before he got there.

[Ezee E]

Pitt's character just seems like a caricature from the footage I've seen. I can't really think of a similar character in any of his other movies that are like that.

[Grouchy]

You may be right, Bosco, but I almost feel the same way about it as I do about objections to Tarantino glorifying violence in his other movies: that his works are reactions to a media-saturated culture that had already warped and distorted the real horror of violence, or war, long before he got there.
In a world with a movie called Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, I'm not concerned about the shallowness of something like this.

Pitt seems to be playing a George Clooney character.

[number8]

Pitt's character just seems like a caricature from the footage I've seen. I can't really think of a similar character in any of his other movies that are like that.

Pai Mei.

[Ezee E]

Pai Mei.
Good call.

The only difference is that one's the main character while another has 20 minutes of screentime in a 2 hour movie.

[DavidSeven]

Brad Pitt's performance seems completely self-aware -- a problem I've had a lot of his roles that attempt to reach "outside the box." Eli Roth looks like a douche bag, but that might just be a permanent problem. Looks interesting otherwise, I suppose.

[Spun Lepton]

I can't explain why, but I'm tremendously wary of this, since Eli Roth is a lead.

[ledfloyd]

I can't explain why, but I'm tremendously wary of this, since Eli Roth is a lead.
having read the script, he has a big role. but i wouldn't call him a lead. the leads are pitt, walsh and laurent.

[trotchky]

Good call.

The only difference is that one's the main character while another has 20 minutes of screentime in a 2 hour movie.

Wait, first of all, are you saying it's a bad thing that Pitt is playing a caricature? Genuinely wondering; I couldn't figure it out from your post.

But anyway, from trailer impressions, I think the Bride, Bill, and the rest of the assassins definitely seemed like surface-level carciatures (at least in Vol. 1).

[trotchky]

In a world with a movie called Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, I'm not concerned about the shallowness of something like this.

Pitt seems to be playing a George Clooney character.

Exactly.

Going even further back, in a world with movies like Der Fuehrer’s Face, Commando Duck, and Education for Death- The Making of a Nazi--and, in the present, even the first three Call of Duty games--I'm not really concerned with Inglorious Basterd's besmirching the legacy of World War II, through a callous or glorified depiction of warfare.

[MadMan]

Exactly.

Going even further back, in a world with movies like Der Fuehrer’s Face, Commando Duck, and Education for Death- The Making of a Nazi--and, in the present, even the first three Call of Duty games--I'm not really concerned with Inglorious Basterd's besmirching the legacy of World War II, through a callous or glorified depiction of warfare.Plus throw in The Dirty Dozen, which I'm not sure is really based in any kind of reality, either, and is another badass WW II action movie.

Despite the fact I too am surprised to see him in this, Mike Myers kind of belongs in a movie like this. And I fully support Pitt being over the top, as I think it will be a hilarious/entertaining performance.

[Ezee E]

Wait, first of all, are you saying it's a bad thing that Pitt is playing a caricature? Genuinely wondering; I couldn't figure it out from your post.


I'm just wary about it. Right now, I'm not liking it. If it weren't Tarantino, I'd have huge doubts.

I think the best part about the movie will be the actress that is talking to Pitt through most of the trailer. Strangely enough, she's a grounded character.

[Pop Trash]

I've had huge doubts about all of Tarantino's films since Pulp Fiction since I'm always afraid they won't live up to that film's greatness. And while none of them have been as knock-your-socks-off awesome as PF (especially on first viewing) I eventually come around to them.

I was mildly disappointed in Jackie Brown when I first saw it, but have since come to really like it. Kill Bill vol. 1 seemed like it would be a Charlie's Angels knockoff, but was an amazing theatrical experience. I thought Kill Bill vol.2 would be more of the same but was surprisingly more nuanced and heartfelt than the first. Death Proof still isn't great but works if you think of it in the context of Grindhouse (and even on it's own, it's pretty dang entertaining at times and has an interesting structure).

So yeah, I'm definately skeptical about this but even if it proves to be disappointing on first viewing, his track record tells me I will probably warm up to it eventually.

[Grouchy]

Plus throw in The Dirty Dozen, which I'm not sure is really based in any kind of reality, either, and is another badass WW II action movie.
My favorite war movie ever.

Though I'm not sure I understand your comment about it not being based on reality. It's a fiction concept, sure, but what makes it less real than any other story?

[Dukefrukem]

I've had huge doubts about all of Tarantino's films since Pulp Fiction since I'm always afraid they won't live up to that film's greatness. And while none of them have been as knock-your-socks-off awesome as PF (especially on first viewing) I eventually come around to them.

I was mildly disappointed in Jackie Brown when I first saw it, but have since come to really like it. Kill Bill vol. 1 seemed like it would be a Charlie's Angels knockoff, but was an amazing theatrical experience. I thought Kill Bill vol.2 would be more of the same but was surprisingly more nuanced and heartfelt than the first. Death Proof still isn't great but works if you think of it in the context of Grindhouse (and even on it's own, it's pretty dang entertaining at times and has an interesting structure).


Jackie Brown is his weakest film.

[number8]

Jackie Brown is his weakest film.

No. That would be Pulp Fiction.

[DavidSeven]

No. That would be Pulp Fiction.

I could let the Memento comment pass, but... :|

[Raiders]

No. That would be Pulp Fiction.

Heh.

...

Oh yeah, you're being serious. Pulp Fiction is the only movie he has made I ever want to see again.

[number8]

Okay, okay, I like it about on the same level as Death Proof, which means I like it a lot; but Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill are all superior. Is that better?

[Dead & Messed Up]

No. That would be Pulp Fiction.

For me:


Jackie Brown
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Death Proof
Kill Bill

[DavidSeven]

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Death Proof
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Jackie Brown
5. Kill Bill

All worthwhile. Death Proof is his most impressively crafted film. Pulp Fiction just hits on every imaginable cylinder and even on some unimaginable ones too.

[Raiders]

I have liked all except Death Proof to varying degrees, but his pastiche theater, however exhuberant and impressively made, is not really my cup o' tea.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Death Proof
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Kill Bill
5. Jackie Brown

[Grouchy]

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Jackie Brown
4. Kill Bill

5. Segment of "Four Rooms"
6. Death Proof

I guess I added Four Rooms to make even more of a gap between those two and the four awe-inspiring movies above.

[number8]

1. Kill Bill Vol 1
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Kill Bill Vol 2
4. Jackie Brown
5. Death Proof
6. Pulp Fiction

I think.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Death Proof
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Kill Bill
5. Jackie Brown

If I had to split up Kill Bill, Vol 2 would be below Jackie Brown on my list.

[Sycophant]

Sure, what the hell.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Kill Bill, Volume 2
3. Kill Bill, Volume 1
4. Jackie Brown
5. Death Proof
6. Reservoir Dogs

The only one I don't like all that much is Reservoir Dogs.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Pulp Fiction 10
2. Death Proof 9.5
3. Reservoir Dogs 8.5
4. Jackie Brown 7.5
5. Kill Bill Vol. I 7.5
6. Kill Bill Vol. II 7.5

[Pop Trash]

I'll play:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
4. Jackie Brown
5. Death Proof

[Ivan Drago]

3. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

I'm still waiting for that to come out on DVD.

[NickGlass]

Soon-to-be Oscar Best Picture nominee.

[Ivan Drago]

Soon-to-be Oscar Best Picture nominee.

Once was enough.

[Ezee E]

Soon-to-be Oscar Best Picture nominee.
I'll predict, no.

As for Tarantino, love all his movies except Death Proof which as great moments, but also moments of awfulness, such as the 5-minute discussion around the cafe table (which one? har!).

[Spun Lepton]

For me:


Jackie Brown
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Death Proof
Kill Bill


Yay! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Jackie Brown is his best, yet. The only difference between your list and mine, DaMU, is I'd probably put Death Proof at the bottom.

(Death Proof's final 20 minutes is fun and intense, but all the dialogue-wankery prior to that dragged the whole movie down.)

[trotchky]

1. Pulp Fiction - masterpiece
2. Kill Bill - great
3. Jackie Brown - great
4. Death Proof - great
5. Reservoir Dogs - great

[MadMan]

I'm still waiting for that to come out on DVD.So am I, which is why I've refused to buy them seperately on DVD.


My favorite war movie ever.

Though I'm not sure I understand your comment about it not being based on reality. It's a fiction concept, sure, but what makes it less real than any other story?If I recall correctly, I was supporting trotchky's opinion about how war is often glorified or depicted sometimes incorrectly through Hollywood movies, hence my having no problem with how QT plans to showcase WW II in "Basterds."

Oooh, QT ratings. I'd say he's my second favorite director of all time. Eventually I'll get that directors thread posted, after I finish a gazillion other planned lists and stop procrastinating heavily :P

1. Pulp Fiction-100
2. Kill Bill Vol. 2-95
3. Jackie Brown-91 (or 90, maybe)
4. Reservoir Dogs-90
5. Death Proof-85
6. Kill Bill Vol. 1-83

Since I note that he really hasn't lived up to Pulp Fiction since its release, I just expect his latest to be really awesome instead. I'm not sure if its really QT's fault that he hasn't made another movie as brilliant as Pulp Fiction, though.

[number8]

I rewatched Vol 1 and 2 recently. I think it works better as two movies.

[ledfloyd]

1. Jackie Brown
2. Kill Bill
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Death Proof

[MadMan]

I rewatched Vol 1 and 2 recently. I think it works better as two movies.Part of me is torn in that I think it would have worked best as being combined into one single movie and cutting out much of the other stuff involved. But Vol. 1 is so fun, and Vol. 2 is so epic, that I'm not sure I agree with the other half that thinks they shouldn't have been split up. What I do know though is that you can't really have one without the other, although I'm not sure if that really makes sense when measured against my opinions, either.

[Grouchy]

Speaking about that, this doesn't seem like it's cut into two movies anymore, right?

[Dukefrukem]

International Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6WMesq4MXU&feature=player_embedded) >>>>>>> US Trailer

[number8]

Yep. That's fucking awesome.

[trotchky]

Fuck, this looks hilarious.

[eternity]

All the other ones > Death Proof

All the other ones: 8/10
Death Proof: 7/10

[trotchky]

Death Proof is a pretty cool movie.

[Dukefrukem]

Death Proof is a pretty cool movie.

Only because of the dialog.

[trotchky]

I rewatched Vol 1 and 2 recently. I think it works better as two movies.

I agree insofar as it works better as two distinct viewings rather than one continuous one, but I think the whole of the two films is greater than either one's sum.

[trotchky]

Only because of the dialog.

In the first half, sure. The second half is all about the colors, Duke, the colors.

[Spun Lepton]

Only because of the dialog.

*punches Duke*

[Acapelli]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/nationspride/index.html

[Ivan Drago]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/nationspride/index.html

Is this gonna be the movie shown during the climax of Basterds?

Awesome.

[BuffaloWilder]

I just watched Death Proof earlier. First half is almost sleep-inducing, but that chase sequence - damn. The only thing that bugged me was how it seemed that Tarentino couldn't help but cut back to the girls every so often for some silly quip or another.

[trotchky]

I just watched Death Proof earlier. First half is almost sleep-inducing, but that chase sequence - damn. The only thing that bugged me was how it seemed that Tarentino couldn't help but cut back to the girls every so often for some silly quip or another.

i feel oppositely. to me, the first half is compulsively watchable, with poppy, snappy dialogue and the slow, roiling build of menace. granted, the uncut lapdance kind of kills all that momentum, while the added shots in the second half certainly make it more visually scrumptious.

[trotchky]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/nationspride/index.html

thats pretty awesome. im really starting to get a taste for what inglorious basterds is trying to Do.

[number8]

Saw this this morning. It was pretty much great.

[Bosco B Thug]

Saw this this morning. It was pretty much great.
Yay.

[number8]

Can't believe I have to wait 2 weeks to see it again.

Anyway, it was exactly what I expected it to be. Minimal action, 80% of the movie is people sitting around a table talking. Fantastic, funny stuff. It was more about German and French film history than war history.

It's quite misleading because the movie focuses way more on Mélanie Laurent's character than the Basterds themselves, but whenever they are onscreen, it was prety much the movie equivalent of this:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/captain-america/1-2.jpg

[Acapelli]

i was expecting an image of nick fury and the howling commandos

[Ezee E]

Nice. Melanie Laurent looks great in this.

Well, I'm getting excited for this again.

[number8]

i was expecting an image of nick fury and the howling commandos

Ha. Two reasons why I chose that cover.

1) Because the movie abandons history and a guy in a costume socking Hitler in the face is something that would fit right into it. Hitler here is a supervillain, after all, complete with a cape.

2) Because Cap was published as, essentially, American propaganda (it was popular among soldiers stationed in Europe, included in their mail drops). This movie is the same, but in a clever way, because a lot of the movie is about film and the film industry (the film's true villain, Goebbels, is portrayed by QT more as a filmmaker than a politician), so there's a neat commentary about propaganda and the role of movies in a time of war that I'm growing to appreciate more and more in the hours since I've watched it. I'm not gonna say too much more, but the Basterds' "woo-hoo let's go fuckin' dee-stroy some'a them Nat-zis" thing gets a nice meta-parallel through the whole thing. I'm beginning to understand why they're in the title, even though they're not the main characters.

Really want to see it again.

[Ezee E]

So where's it rank in QT's oeuvre?

[number8]

So where's it rank in QT's oeuvre?

#1 right now, but his movies then to excite me. I'm curious to see how I feel 6 months from now or so. But yeah, right now, I think it's his best. It's certainly his best looking. The cinematography and art direction are superb.

Very last line of the movie is:

"I think this might be my masterpiece."

:P

[Watashi]

Does QT have a cameo?

[number8]

Does QT have a cameo?

No.

[Sycophant]

Fucking spoiler text.

[number8]

Fucking spoiler text.

The first one isn't a spoiler!

[Pop Trash]

#1 right now, but his movies then to excite me. I'm curious to see how I feel 6 months from now or so. But yeah, right now, I think it's his best. It's certainly his best looking. The cinematography and art direction are superb.


Wait...what? That would make this the best film of all time for me since Pulp Fiction is probably my favorite movie.

[number8]

Well I think Pulp is his weakest, so...

[Qrazy]

Well I think Pulp is his weakest, so...

So taking your bizarro world scale into account Basterds is his worst film?

[Ivan Drago]

How's the score by Morricone (if he still did it)?

[Pop Trash]

Well I think Pulp is his weakest, so...

:crazy: Your credit with me has just gotten lower.

[number8]

How's the score by Morricone (if he still did it)?

It's not original. He even reused some Morricone he already used in Kill Bill.

[Derek]

Yeah, this was great. It's sitting very well in my mind since seeing it last night. As 8 mentioned, it's mostly dialogue driven scenes, but they are often tense, funny and/or strange. The sequence with Bowie's “Cat People (Putting Out the Fire)” has to be the most bizarrely amusing one Tarantino's shot and the final 20-25 minutes quite possibly his finest period. I might very well end up saying it's his best film since Pulp Fiction, but I'll need another look before I go that far. Can't wait 'til the 21st.

[number8]

Hee, saw it a second time today. It was even better knowing what's going to happen, because you can appreciate just how intricate he made each scene. The dialogue feels much more calculated than anything he'd ever written.

[Bosco B Thug]

Getting antsy!

Gotta revisit Pulp Fiction before this so I can rank effectively.

[Pop Trash]

Getting antsy!

Gotta revisit Pulp Fiction before this so I can rank effectively.

Me too! Me too! I watched Pulp Fiction again a few months ago, so I think I'm good. It'll be weird watching this and GI Joe within a week of each other.

[trotchky]

i started watching pulp fiction a few weeks ago

maybe it's just that the movie is so iconic and ingrained in my memory at this point, but i didn't feel much about it. the opening diner scene, the discussions about hamburgers and foot massages, the scene where where they kill bret...it's all rote at this point; watching it felt like going through the motions.

i think it's safe to say the butch storyline is easily the strongest part of the movie.

[eternity]

Inglourious Plummers trailer. (http://postavant.com/2009/08/quentin-tarantino-has-nothing-on-shigeru-miyamoto/)

[Skitch]

Well I think Pulp is his weakest, so...

Holy crap, someone agrees with me?

[megladon8]

I'm kind of looking forward to this.

Me and Tarantino rarely get along. Heck, I think he's only made one really good movie, and the rest range from absolute crap to totally mediocre.

But this looks fun.

[BuffaloWilder]

i started watching pulp fiction a few weeks ago

I'm never sure what this means.

[Qrazy]

i started watching pulp fiction a few weeks ago

maybe it's just that the movie is so iconic and ingrained in my memory at this point, but i didn't feel much about it. the opening diner scene, the discussions about hamburgers and foot massages, the scene where where they kill bret...it's all rote at this point; watching it felt like going through the motions.

i think it's safe to say the butch storyline is easily the strongest part of the movie.

I think it's safe to say that I don't agree with anything in this post.

[Rowland]

I'm just thrilled that this sounds like it has turned out being exactly NOT the picture skeptics have been prejudging since those early teasers.

[Ezee E]

Didn't mean to, but Pulp Fiction was on TV the other day, and I got hooked into watching it.

[trotchky]

Everything is an allusion, a pose, in the films of Quentin Tarantino, right down to the font and colors he uses for his title sequences—even the name of his production company, A Band Apart (with it, he arrogantly asks us to think of him as our generation's Godard, and how willingly we indulge him says plenty).

guys, ed is being an idiot again :(

(3 stars btw) (http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=4455)

[Morris Schæffer]

I'm just thrilled that this sounds like it has turned out being exactly NOT the picture skeptics have been prejudging since those early teasers.

From the trailers it looked like war as rock 'n' roll. Violent, over-the-top, batshit crazy. All I'm hearing however is long stretches of dialogue, lotsa suspense. Which is great by me.
Cannot wait for this.

[Boner M]

A friend of mine who has pretty much the exact same opinions as me on every Tarantino film saw this a few days ago and called it a masterpiece, so my expectations are now through the roof.

[number8]

Quentin Tarantino's top 20 movies that have come out since 1992 (when he began directing):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4K-Rxx2Bk

I highly approve of his #1.

[Ezee E]

Quentin Tarantino's top 20 movies that have come out since 1992 (when he began directing):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4K-Rxx2Bk

I highly approve of his #1.
Old news Ary. It's had a few pages discussed in the FDT. For shame.

[number8]

I hate the FDT.

[number8]

Okay, I checked all the posts in the FDT concerning this. Why the hell have so many of you not seen Police Story 3 yet?!

[Acapelli]

From the trailers it looked like war as rock 'n' roll. Violent, over-the-top, batshit crazy. All I'm hearing however is long stretches of dialogue, lotsa suspense. Which is great by me.
Cannot wait for this.
is it sad that i would prefer the former and not the latter. i much preferred the second half of death proof to the first (besides the intro)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Okay, I checked all the posts in the FDT concerning this. Why the hell have so many of you not seen Police Story 3 yet?!

That was released stateside as Supercop, yes? Remember enjoying it.

Thing's on Netflix Instant Watch, so a lot of people should be able to rectify.

[Morris Schæffer]

is it sad that i would prefer the former and not the latter. i much preferred the second half of death proof to the first (besides the intro)

As a general rule, summer movies tend to be all noise and overblown spectacle. That isn't necessarily wrong, but I'm down for something more unconventional. Surprising.