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And I want my scalps! - Inglourious Basterds (now with SPOILERS)
Wash
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A Basterds Work is Never Done...
Summary, care of IMDB:
Nazi occupied France, and a young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller quickly takes an interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.
The new film by Quentin Tarantino. Most of you have seen his other movies, and most of you know that he is a genre junkie, whose bread and butter is obscure pop-culture references and nods to films we probably never would have heard of if not for him. Whether it be the exploitation cinema of the 70's, Spaghetti Westerns, or Japanese Samurai flicks, Tarantino's taken and paid homage to everything awesome and brutal and brilliant there is in movies. He makes awesome movies that push the envelope.
He has done it again.
So here's a thread to talk about Inglourious Basterds, a movie that exhibits the best of a filmmaker who constantly lives up to his reputation. He has given us a movie that does, in enthusiastic style, a horrifically brutal film about something very few people would object to: exterminating Nazis.
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Fuck that guy.
"Danny! Gots a German wants to die for country! Oblige him."
When that happens everybody just imitate Samual Jackson untill he goes away.
Fucking.
Movie.
Brad Pitt goes into 'Mickey the Pikey' levels of awesome here. Everything he says alternates between 'badass' and 'hilarious'.
Samuel L Jackson's narrations were pretty fun to hear as well.
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Get a new gf.
Tell her its another film and "Accidently" go to this.
It would seem as if one who accepts the atrocities of the holocaust as fact would be too offended to utilize it as a movie setting.
For my part, I think one needs to exercise care in utilizing Nazi references, Holocaust imagery, and the like. But that is just me.
Wait hes the narator? I am going to watch this so hard.
I thought this movie was set in France.
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It still utilizes the backdrop of the Nazis and the Holocaust.
Tarintino doesn't suck, but the guys who are waaaay into him kinda do.
At Comic Con I got up at like 6 to go to a coffee shop. First 200 people in line at 8 at this random coffee shop like 10 blocks from the Convention Center got tickets to see this movie with Tarantino and the stars etc that night. My fiancee and I were 220, but we got posters at least.
The only real bad part was listening to some of the people in line who really seemed like they'd enjoy washing his feet. He makes movies that are often fun, often interesting and he certainly has a style but people act like he makes Shakespeare seem like a hack.
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I think idea of doing movie's like this is to try and "take the piss" out of the nazi's.
Actually from what I know, the Holocaust itself (Stuff like concentration camps and all) isn't in the movie.
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I think there is an argument for saying that brutal slaughter of Nazis brings the brutal slaughterers down to the level of the Nazis. But I can accept that for the majority of the viewers, without any ounce of reflection, the simply premise of "Killing Nazis" is itself self-justifying.
Which is kind of odd.
No.
I would offer that there is a significant difference between rounding up and slaughtering people for for their ethnicity and slaughtering soldier's of a country that is killing innocents and trying to take over the world.
I mean, really, you'd have to be a total unreasonable pacifist to thing one was exactly the same as the other.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
I find it unifying in a way.
The whole thing was like a violent fantasy you might have, starring someone who's upset you greatly. Nothing you'd ever actually do, of course, but in a moment of anger such thoughts can be pleasing. Inglourious Basterds is like one of those fantasies put up on the silver screen, horrifying yet pleasing to see something terrible happen to something you despise. Most people hate Nazis, which makes the movie a joined experience, a shared dark fantasy.
Also, Hugo was the best.
Note: the cinema scene was pretty sweet.
And the foot-fetish gets bigger and bigger, but I don't mind that. I fully expect a feature-length Tarantino film on feet before his career is over.
I agree with Kenneth.
I liked it very much, but I'm a big fan of those movies.
Not something I ever expected to read.
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When I think about it, that plus Dead Snow.... wow, most dead Nazi I'll ever see in one summer :P
Kill Bill's different parts fit together much better than this.
Brad pitt, minor spoiler.
I was more surprised when I heard bowie than anything else in the film.
Don't ever invite me drinking.
Also, I was cackling like a motherfucker when the fire started.
Tarentino is probably not your director in this case. He loves to have characters sit around and shoot the shit. I actually love that about him because his dialogue is a joy to listen to but if it's not your thing then all of his movies are going to have a fair amount of "dead space" for you.
I liked the movie quite a bit. It wasn't any deep meaningful experience but it was well shot, well acted and the story was good enough excuse to watch horrible things happen to nazi's for a couple hours.
Christoph Waltz stole the movie for me. Just an absolute joy to watch him screw with people.