Inglourious Basterds: Like, Hate, or Meh?

[Yossarian1507]

I really liked it. Several great montage ideas (smoke covering the movie theater screen with laughing Shosanna on it was my personal best), hilarious dialogs, and great acting to support it (Brad Pitt speaking Italian - priceless).

And of course Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa. Good Lord, it's hard to describe how awesome character he was. I'm a Pole, and by default I hate SS, Nazi Germany and all that stuff, but I just couldn't help myself but love this bastard... IMO Oscar performance, hands down.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Loved it, but I wish there was more of the Basterds in it. Nothing quite like a Tarantino film.

 

[Chewster]

I'm shocked to find that some people have stated there was too much talking.. in a bloody Tarantino film? Just.. I'm speechless, you fellas should just stick to watching the Transformers movies.

Or films that have meaningful and interesting dialogue as opposed to pseudo-intellectual masturbation. I mean, either way, right?

Whilst I agree that most of the dialogue within Tarantino films aren't meaningful (in as much as it has little revelance to the plot). I disagree that it isn't interesting, When I go to watch a film by Tarantino it's about the dialogue first and then the action. There are plenty of films which are heavy on the action and they are meant for audiences who want that. Tarantino films are a bit more then that, self-referential, multi-stranded narrative and irrelevant but well written dialogue. I just don't understand why people in the thread are stating that there was too much dialogue and too little action, when it was directed by a director whos films follow that exact same formula.


...and i take back my statement about Transformers, no-one should be subjected to that, no matter what type of films they prefer.

Fair enough I suppose, though his past few films have been aesthetically pleasing (like usual), but rather bland when it comes to the dialogue. I can't even remember any of the stuff from Death Proof or either Kill Bill to be honest, though I've only seen each of them once. He hasn't really been all that impressive since maybe Pulp Fiction, as far as I am concerned, and that film wasn't especially deep to begin with.

And I wholeheartedly agree with you about Transformers. Both films were juvenile and incoherent (even for films about giant transforming robots), but then again, Bay is a complete hack.

 

[Treefingers]

I thought it was absolutely amazing.

 

[end_boss]

As with most Tarantino movies after Pulp Fiction, they get better the more I watch them. The first time around is usually spent wrapping my head around the "Tarantino cliches" and self-indulgences. Unfortunately, they can be pretty distracting, and so it's usually on the second and subsequent viewings that I get more focused on the story and characters.

Inglourious Basterds was a movie I really like the first time around, and when I watch it now, I really quite love it.

 

[faspxina]

The "historical inaccuracy" of the movie near the end is totally worth seeing... and what makes this movie great is that it's not about making a good history report, it's about making an actual good fictional story with great actors and beautiful scenes.