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Author Topic: Inglourious Basterds (2009) Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-27-2009 05:30 PM                        I figured. Though I must confess that I always thought the term "spaghetti western" was pretty retarded as well. Does this involve some sort of racism against Italians?  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 07-27-2009 08:47 PM                     Thinking about it, maybe it's not so PC, but not nearly as bad as an old American Bandstand interview with ABBA in which Dick Clark calls their genre "Kraut Music." Wrong on several levels.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-27-2009 11:56 PM                     Oh man. There has to be a YouTube clip of that somewhere. Funny.  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 07-28-2009 05:56 AM                     LOL Bobby, I'll have to look for it. I have it on VHS somewhere, recorded back when VH1 was running it. That exchange is hilarious, very awkward, like something from "The Office." Dick Clark backtracks very quickly and tries to explain himself!  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-29-2009 03:34 PM                        Absolutely great reviews............................... NOT!  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 08-20-2009 05:18 AM                        Just watched the Basterds. My favorite Tarantino film by a long shot. Of course I'm not generally a huge QT fan. The opening scene sets the stage for the whole movie with delicious scene of dialogue that takes a good 10 minutes to unwind. The whole scene is dripping with impending violence. And the rest of the movie follows in much the same way. Much of the violence is very real and very graphic, but at the same time you can't help laughing at some of it. I would give it 4.5 out of 5, just because it was very long and at times the pace is pretty slow.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-20-2009 06:45 AM                     More superb work from Quentin. My favorite is still Reservoir Dogs, followed closely by Pulp Fiction, but this is right up there with the best of his work. Christoph Waltz (Col. Hans Landa) gave a particularly great performance, and the last couple of reels are edge-of-your-seat goodness. It goes without saying, excellent dialogue throughout that can only come from Quentin as well. 4.5 out of 5 Did anyone notice in reel 2 there was about a 2 second video-type glitch in the 35mm film print? I am curious if it affected everyone's copy, or perhaps just the interneg my print was struck from.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 08-20-2009 06:32 PM                        Brad, our print had that glitch too. I definitely liked the movie ... and the poorly done subtitles. Performances were quite good too. Spoiler Alert - Click to Toggle oh, and nitrate film plays a supporting roll  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-20-2009 09:33 PM                     So so the DCinema "prints" also have the glitch?  |  IP: Logged Andy Bajew Expert Film Handler Posts: 136 From: Bellaire, Texas Registered: Jun 2009 posted 08-20-2009 11:40 PM                     I hate watching long films, but I managed to sit through it. This was a very good movie. I don't see it lasting as long in theaters as other hits as big. Defintely a movie to see. I also like the fact that like 1/3 of the movie involves cinema in some fashion. I even got to show a new projectionist how changeover worked! I had basically everyone in the theater yelling my name when the projection parts were going, plus a text from the projectionist on duty. 4.5/5 for me  |  IP: Logged Sally Ann Burgess Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Queenstown, New Zealand Registered: Apr 2008 posted 08-21-2009 06:59 AM                     I really really enjoyed this. That first 15 minutes are the best for me, and Christoph Waltz is superb. My favourite line..."Blow up the basket" Not as good as Pulp Fiction or Jackie Brown, but one of the few films that I know I want to watch again even as I'm watching it the first time.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-21-2009 07:42 PM                     Where those Ernemann's and if so, what model were they?  |  IP: Logged Stu Jamieson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 524 From: Buccan, Qld, Australia Registered: Jan 2008 posted 08-22-2009 08:08 PM                     ^ Haha, you're such a geek monte! Being a logical (and much improved) successor to his segment in the Grindhouse double feature, Quentin Tarantino brings his trademark exploitation schtick to the WWII genre in a movie which is apparently two and a half hours long but feels like 90mins. The result stands proudly amongst the best in his filmography in terms of dialogue, visual style, music, homage and the ever-present threat of blinding violence. And it's nice to see another picture where the art of projection features so prominently (is Cinema Paradiso the only other one?) Christoph Waltz is fantastically insidious as über villain, Col. Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa, nicely offsetting Brad Pitt's deliciously hammy Lt. Aldo "The Apache" Raine. In many ways, the two characters are very much alike in the way they toy with their prisoners and in their propensity for a letting a victim go so that they might spread the fear for their captors. The only thing which makes Raine less evil than Waltz is the fact that he's on our side! That and Pitt's performance is plainly hilarious. Raine, in the guise of an Italian stunt man, blurting out Eye-talian interjections ("bon jorno", "grattzy", "a river dertchy" etc) in his thick southern hillbilly accent represents one of the more uproarious moments in the movie. Great stuff! Diane Kruger continues to impress as the charming, psuedo-Dietrich double agent, Bridget von Hammersmark. Like Pitt, her acting talents trump her not insignificant good looks. Not so Eli Roth, however, whose dark handsomeness easily outshines his limited acting abilities; a point not lost on Tarantino who wisely keeps his lines to a minimum. Not that it matters, Roth's dodgy thespian skills further add to the films exploitation cred. Similarly, German cinematic favourite, Til Schweiger, clearly does not speak much English. Given very few lines by QT, Schweiger makes the most of his limited part but he is, frankly, a little wasted in the role of Gestapo killer, Hugo Stiglitz. Mélanie Laurent conspicuously stands out as the only major player delivering a subtle, beguiling performance and represents the heart of the film as displaced Jewish orphan, Shosanna Dreyfus. Inglourious Basterds probably won't be the best film of the year but it is solid Tarantino and that's enough. 8.5 out of 10.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-22-2009 11:02 PM                        Liked it. Love how Tarantino carefully "modulates" the tension in lengthy wordy scenes without allowing them to drag. Maybe not the best Tarantino ever, but a good film. I give it 4 out of 5 stars. Today at Cinemark 17 in Springfield, #4, 35mm, SR●D. Excellent image quality, rock steady, clean, etc. The booth staff is still able to put on a good show there despite evidence of lack of $$ being spent on things like maintenance to the exterior of the building (all poster cases with half the lights burned out for example).  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 08-22-2009 11:23 PM                        CINEMA: 13th Avenue Warren, Wichita, KS AUDITORIUM: 14 (from the balcony) PRESENTATION: 35mm/Dolby Digital/THX PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: None RATING: Three stars (out of four) quote: Stu Jamieson And it's nice to see another picture where the art of projection features so prominently (is Cinema Paradiso the only other one?) "Targets", Peter Bogdanovich's debut film, features some great 1960's projectionist footage at Pacific's Reseda Drive-In...starring their actual projectionist. The footage includes a changeover before the poor guy gets killed. THE PLOT: Killing Nazis. Wackiness ensues. I caught up on Enzo Castellari's 1978 low-rent Italian-made Quel maledetto treno blindato ("The Inglorious Bastards"). One of the extras is a conversation between Castellari and Tarantino about the film and the "remake" (they actually called it that) Tarantino was writing at the time. While Tarantino may have lifted the title and thrown some nuggets into the character names (specifically the fake names of the "Italian film makers" in the cinema), these movies have nothing to do with each other. The original was about a group of escaped American military prisoners who accidentally kill everybody in a specially trained unit sent on a secret mission that they end up taking on themselves. The Blu-ray release is a great example of how good a cheap old film can look in high def. The new one is a completely ridiculous tribute to similar movies...cheap war exploitation flicks. Everything is trademark Tarantino. Well shot, good action, and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of dialogue. It's absurdly long, but you hardly notice the time go by. It won't be my favorite Tarantino flick by a long shot, but the guy has yet to make a movie I didn't like. Excellent use of the old "Universal" logo.  |  IP: Logged

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