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Author Topic: Inglourious Basterds (2009) Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 08-25-2009 03:37 PM                     I liked the movie though the title is misleading and will give people the wrong expectations for the kind of entertainment they are in for. The Basterds themselves are just supporting characters including Pitt. In fact, some of the Basterds are hardly noticable. Eli Roth and Omar were good sidekicks, but I wish the other Americans had more personality. The Europeans clearly take over this movie. I too agree that Waltz was so good he makes Ralph Feinnes in Schindler's look one note by comparison. Kruger seem to relish acting in her native tongue. Loved the tavern scene. Is it a rule for Christian Berkel to act in every Nazi themed movie?? Heh. <NOT REALLY SPOILERS, BUT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS MINI SPOILERS> It was a change of pace to see a David Bowie song(especially the Cat People arrangement they used) in a QT movie. My only quibble about the soundtrack was when some of the musical cues were too close to Kill Bill's inspired borrowed cues from Morricone. Also they pretty much reused the same exact musical segment from the House of Blue Leaves during the scene where the two Germans ask Melanie Laurent to accompany them.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-25-2009 04:10 PM                     quote: Joe Elliott Regal believes "starting in frame is not important, thats what the framing knob is for." Quote from one of their regional trainers. No kidding. How sad is that?  |  IP: Logged Andy Bajew Expert Film Handler Posts: 136 From: Bellaire, Texas Registered: Jun 2009 posted 08-26-2009 10:48 AM                     More pathetic than it is sad. I got the idea from this forum and it has been working ever since--remove the framing knobs from every projector and train without them. I forgot who proposed the idea, otherwise I would give them credit for it.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-26-2009 02:10 PM                        The chicky-poo in the movie did the changeover incorrectly. The whore. There were clearly images on the film long before she opened the hand douser. And how did she manage to open than and close the hand douser on the other projector simultaneously? At least it looked to me like she was using the hand dousers.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 08-26-2009 02:34 PM                     If you notice when shes threading it shes threading on image as well.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-26-2009 04:14 PM                     At least she threaded it in frame. I watched this last night. I'd already seen probably far too much of it from the booth. I'd never seen the Mike Myers bit and could only wonder why QT used him. It took me out of the movie for a bit which was annoying. While not as good as Pulp Fiction, it's pretty darn good. I loved the long scenes...knowing from the outset the scene would end badly but not knowing how long that would take. QT seems to know just how long he can go. It's a talent for sure. I do think he may have pushed it too far with the bar scene though. When the German Officer decides he'd like to play the game with the cards I thought to myself "Oh, no." It is extremely graphic in its violence. Spoiler Alert - Click to Toggle The baseball bat to the head and the carving of the guys head at the end in particular In days gone by, even QT wouldn't have shown them in such detail. My memory of Reservoir Dogs is a little hazy, but even though you knew he was cutting the guys ear off, you didn't actually see it (did you) until he held the severed ear up for the camera. How times have moved on. All in all another fine film from QT. out of  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-26-2009 05:57 PM                        I thought it was less violent than most QT films.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 08-26-2009 06:28 PM                     While overall its less violent then the others, when the violence does happen I would say its the most violent of his films.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Pitt Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: May 2007 posted 08-27-2009 01:55 AM                     I thought the film was OK, but was much too long - you could easily cut an hour out of it without compromising the story too much. For example, you could probably remove almost the whole 'card game' scene. Couple of problems in the print I saw; they'd left on 1 second of black leader at most of the reel-changes. Result? The picture goes to black and the sound mutes, there's a beep and then the sound and picture restart. Perhaps the film before the changeover was scrap film, used instead of a countdown leader. I've seen this used in IMAX and other cinemas, so they can thread in frame before it gets to the main countdown. I've never seen bells on a projector before, either! How could a hand-held camera produce such a steady picture on the screen? (penultimate scene of the movie, won't spoil it any more).  |  IP: Logged Mike B. Smith Film Handler Posts: 82 From: Universal City Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-27-2009 06:23 PM                     Many changeover houses had bells or some type of system that alerted the projectionist that the reel was getting close to the end. Did you see the scissors on the front wall between the projectors? I recall when I was trained on changeovers many many years ago, the projectionist told me they would place scissors nearby in case the nitrate-film caught fire, theoretically you would cut the film which would contain the fire in the lower magazine and prevent it from spreading to the rest of the reel. Overall I liked the film but one thing that bothered me which goes along with how steady the image was from a hand held camera, was when the whole front end of the theater was burning you could still hear the soundtrack of her laughing. Not sure where the mono speaker was placed but it should have been toast by that time.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-28-2009 07:20 PM                     Good picture...a bit talky at first but it really moves at the end. Good things: Great performance by Christoph Waltz as Landa Good performances by the ethereal Melanie Laurent and Diane Kruger Always great Tarantino dialogue. No one uses music better than Quentin. Good script that kept you guessing until the end. No So Good Things: Brad Pitt was too cartoony...too much John Wayne and protruding jaw. A bit too long...first section could have been trimmed. Rating: B+ Nice projection job by the AMC Lennox crew. No scratches or other problems. In a few weeks, this room (#12) will become a digIMAX location.  |  IP: Logged Rick Hunter Master Film Handler Posts: 452 From: Melbourne, Australia Registered: Feb 2003 posted 08-29-2009 03:17 AM                     quote: Mike B. Smith theoretically you would cut the film which would contain the fire in the lower magazine and prevent it from spreading to the rest of the reel Yet not a spool box in sight...?  |  IP: Logged Marin Zorica Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 671 From: Biograd na Moru, Croatia Registered: May 2003 posted 09-03-2009 04:25 AM                     I also like movie very much! Yea, no spool boxes, but Ernemann VII and VIIB was made with spool boxes because of fire protection, this should be Ernemann VII, not VIIB, because VII was produced from 1933, and B sterted after WW2  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 09-03-2009 04:14 PM                     Those red plastic clip-on marquee letters seemed to be out of period. While plastic was invented in the 1920's, it did not get into wide use until the 1950's. Before that, Bakelite ruled the day, and they didn't look like Bakelite.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-07-2009 06:28 PM                        My one pop movie of the summer. Inglorious Boredumb. Flame away;>  |  IP: Logged

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