Inglourious Basterds

Colt

The other thread is two months old and the OP sucked, so I made my own. I also don't have a witty tag line for this one.

Inglourious Basterds is a new film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Like his other films, this is going to be about two different, but meeting plot lines. One follows a group of Jewish-American soldiers led by a First Lieutenant Aldo Raine whose mission is to take down groups of Nazis in Nazi occupied France in targeted acts of retribution. The other is about Shosanna Dreyfus, who witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. While this is a war film, QT has said it will be a "spaghetti-western but with World War II iconography", whatever the hell that actually means. The title and premise is inspired by Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 movie Inglorious Bastards. QT is really, really excited about making this movie. He's been writing it for over ten years and viewed the script as his ultimate masterpiece in the making.

So, who do we have playing the Inglourious Basterds? Well...quite a cast actually.

Brad Pitt as 1st Lt. Aldo Raine aka "Aldo the Apache"
Eli Roth as S/Sgt. Donny Donowitz
B. J. Novak as Pfc. Smithson Utivich aka "The Little One"
Til Schweiger as Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz
Omar Doom as Pfc. Ulmer
Samm Levine as Pfc. Gerold Hirschberg
Michael Bacall as Zimmerman
Paul Rust as Andy Kagan
Gedeon Burkhard as Cpl. Wilhelm Wicki

Also in it are...

Michael Fassbender as Lt. Archie Hicox
Mike Myers as Gen. Ed Fenech
Rod Taylor as Winston Churchill
Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus
Cloris Leachman as Mrs. Himmelstein
Christoph Waltz as Standartenführer Hans Landa aka "The Jew Hunter"
Daniel Brühl as Frederick Zoller
August Diehl as Sturmbannführer Deiter Hellstrom
Samuel L. Jackson as The Raconteur
Martin Wuttke as Adolf Hitler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQhTVz5IjQ

So, anyone else think this is going to be awesome? Because I think this is going to be awesome.

Zombiemambo

It's Quentin Taranino, so either it's going to be insane and good or insane and terrible.

Peter Ebel

Man, someone needs to kick Tarantino in the balls so he stops making dumb ass retard genre films.

YaYa

you know, rah rah rah Tarantino sucks and his obsession with genres is dumb hurr hurr and all that

but I don't care

I want to see a whole lot of Nazis get fucked up

UnbreakableVow

The trailer is going too much for "OMG SHOCK" and the whole "You haven't seen WWII till you've seen it through the eyes of Tarantino" made me laugh for a good solid two minutes at how fucking stupid and ridiculous it sounded.

Anyways, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction were good, but damn that was fifteen years ago.

Mister Longbaugh

i didn't like kill bill at all but i might still see this.

Dublo7

I saw the trailer and I thought it looked bad.

Plus it has Eli Roth in it.

Faricazy

yeah whatever, brothers bloom comes out next week!

Mister Longbaugh

correction i'll see this so long as i don't have to pay for it.

The Black Hunter

Looks goooood

UnbreakableVow

The only way I would see this were if Ryan had a gun to a Nazi's head and all the other soldiers were like "TEMP! TEMP! TEMP! TEMP!" until he shot him.

ack

this will probably be pretty owny

the poster is pretty owny

UnbreakableVow

And then when he finally shoots the Nazi everyone looks at him all grim and are like "Was it worth it, Temp?", "Yeah, was it worth it?"

Colt

Mister Longbaugh wrote: »

i didn't like kill bill at all but i might still see this.

I hated Kill Bill but I like the majority of his other movies.

Macro9

Everyone should watch Prince Caspian on Blu-ray with me.

#pipe

Man QT is a incredible tool bag

but he makes badass movies

YaYa

Macro9 wrote: »

Everyone should watch Prince Caspian on Blu-ray with me.

The Chronic-WHAT

Oden

remember how much death proof sucked

Dublo7

There's a chance I might see this, simply because I like the idea of killing Nazis.

UnbreakableVow

I still have not seen Grindhouse.

Mister Longbaugh

Oden wrote: »

remember how much death proof sucked

that was the one i liked.

Macro9

I liked Death Proof simply because it was ridiculous. The car chases and

those chicks beating him to death at the end were great.

FAQ

if I gave a shit about seeing deathproof I might be pissed off now macro

Macro9

I guess I could spoiler it.

#pipe

I greatly enjoyed Death Proof

I haven't seen Planet Terror yet cause I want to watch the cinema Grind House cut

Macro9

It manages to be fun compared to all the zombie clones we usually get.

YaYa

I saw Grindhouse in the best possible circumstances

old theatre, late at night, surrounded by people who knew exactly what we were getting into

Planet Terror was absolutely hysterical just because the audience knew when Rodriguez was being ridiculous to be funny

Tossrock

Colt wrote: »

While this is a war film, QT has said it will be a "spaghetti-western but with World War II iconography", whatever the hell that actually means.

Same thing as The Road Warrior being a western with post-apocalyptic iconography

Mister Longbaugh

the end of death proof made it worth all the stupid shit in the beginning

Coreo

I thought I liked Kill Bill when I first saw it.

Then I watched the first one and the second one together and I just thought it was dumb. I liked Death Proof as a lot of other people have previously said.

Lost Salient

I did not just enjoy Death Proof, I would put it on my list of favourite movies from recent years.

I think as an homage to a certain style of film he did an impeccable job, and although I also loved Planet Terror for the crazy gorefest it was, Tarantino's contribution to Grindhouse was I think a better tribute to the genre and more well-composed in general.

To be fair to all the naysayers, the old road movies it nods at (mostly) aren't exactly regular fare. Obviously Vanishing Point is the big one, since it's the one that he name-drops in the movie. But Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, or Duel or even Two-Lane Blacktop (my personal favourite) - heck, even The Wild One, to some degree - all have a certain weiiird, lone wolf, western vibe. None of them are what you'd call great movies in the sense of Oscar-worthy material. But I love the mood of the action in those movies, and I think Death Proof does an excellent job of recapturing it. (Also I love it for putting Kurt Russell's Big Trouble in Little China shirt on the wall of the bar.)

That said, watching Nazis get the fuckshit kicked out of them makes me happy whether or not it's stylish. I suspect Inglourious Basterds will be right up my alley.

Edit: And then I wrote a small essay about a car chase flick

Mysst

why does this film about american soldiers have a 'u' where we do not put a 'u'? this is not what my grandfather fought for.

also, while you are technically correct, Sali, watching girls talk is still boring as allfuck

Iskander

fuckin' nazis, man...

Drunk Pooro

Lost Salient wrote: »

I did not just enjoy Death Proof, I would put it on my list of favourite movies from recent years.

I think as an homage to a certain style of film he did an impeccable job, and although I also loved Planet Terror for the crazy gorefest it was, Tarantino's contribution to Grindhouse was I think a better tribute to the genre and more well-composed in general.

To be fair to all the naysayers, the old road movies it nods at (mostly) aren't exactly regular fare. Obviously Vanishing Point is the big one, since it's the one that he name-drops in the movie. But Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, or Duel or even Two-Lane Blacktop (my personal favourite) - heck, even The Wild One, to some degree - all have a certain weiiird, lone wolf, western vibe. None of them are what you'd call great movies in the sense of Oscar-worthy material. But I love the mood of the action in those movies, and I think Death Proof does an excellent job of recapturing it. (Also I love it for putting Kurt Russell's Big Trouble in Little China shirt on the wall of the bar.)

That said, watching Nazis get the fuckshit kicked out of them makes me happy whether or not it's stylish. I suspect Inglourious Basterds will be right up my alley.

Edit: And then I wrote a small essay about a car chase flick

This was a good post, and I agree with it.

Also, Two-Lane Blacktop is fucking badass, and anyone who disagrees can go lick a live wire.

Lost Salient

I am so glad to hear that you've seen it and also think it is badass! Although I've had less disagreement with our (obviously correct) opinion than I've had blank stares, and you can't really make someone lick a live wire every time they stare at you blankly.

Mysst, you are fueling my suspicion that female voices resonate at just the wrong pitch to be processed by the male brain 50% of the time.

Apparently the title is a deliberately misspelled wink to this movie, Inglorious Bastards.

Mysst

well, women talk to each other differently than men do.

in the kitchen


ohoho

The Black Hunter

Lost Salient wrote: »

Apparently the title is a deliberately misspelled wink to this movie, Inglorious Bastards.

Not so much a wink and running up and hugging it even though it has no idea who you are and proclaiming loudly that it is your best friend in the whole wide world

Macro9

I fucking love Two-Lane Blacktop. My dad was an asshole growing up but he had a ton of good movies of tape that I enjoyed the shit of. Duel and Two-Lane Blacktop were my favorites.

Run Run Run

While I usually enjoy Tarantino, I am not a fan of WW2 movies.

We always lose.

Douglas

Tarantino is a huge tool and a douchebag, but he has made a couple of good movies. It is not so much his movies that are terrible, but the people who identify themselves as his fans can be pretty awful bunch of pretentious hipsters.

This has potential. Brad Pitt's accent is really weird. I need to see more trailers before I decide when and how I will see this movie.

Mysst

man I'm definitely going to see it, wreaking havoc on some nazis can only ever be classified as a good time