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AUG 30, 2009
'Inglourious Basterds' FILM
'Inglourious Basterds'

Everything you love and hate about Quentin Tarantino films finds a home in his cartoon Nazi thriller Inglourious Basterds: the colorful prattle, the insistent thrills, the horrifying violence, and the long, boring conversations you're manipulated into paying close attention to because at any moment somebody might blow somebody's face off. Most interesting is how the film beckons to the pulpy auteur's detractors: If anything is likely to lure those repulsed by the violence of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Death Proof into an even fleeting hunger for blood, it's the possibility of watching Hitler and his minions get theirs. (See Movie Times: thestranger.com/film.) by David Schmader

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Wasn't the worst movie, but clearly not up to "Kill Bill" standards.
Posted by Flora on August 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM · Report
Bauhaus I 2
I enjoyed IB a lot, couldn't take my eyes off the screen, and I'm not sure why. Can I get back with you on that in a couple of days?

Of course, it could be good only in comparison to what else is out there right now. As always, I'm happy about the summer movie season ending, and I can now look forward to more serious crap from Hollywood.
Posted by Bauhaus I on August 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM · Report
Bauhaus I 3
BTW, I just saw Soderbergh's Che Parts I & II and was very impressed with Part I. Part II was well-crafted, but difficult to watch because it didn't have the spirit that drenched Part 1. I didn't know that Che's Bolivian campaign was such a folly. So in historical terms, it was fascinating..
Posted by Bauhaus I on August 30, 2009 at 12:23 PM · Report
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I look forward to seeing this film the way I looked forward to finally seeing "No Country for Old Men". Not at all.

Both are from filmmakers who had their flash in the pan early in their careers, and have carried an audience with them film by film hoping lightening will strike twice.

Both continue to make films which are not good -- but which "appear" to be good. That is, they put in enough absurd dialog and meaningless plot devices to confuse the average person so that the aesthete can claim its art simply by the number of average people who leave the theatre perplexed.
Posted by The Art of Noise on August 30, 2009 at 11:08 PM · Report
undead ayn rand 6
"I look forward to seeing this film the way I looked forward to finally seeing "No Country for Old Men". Not at all.

Both are from filmmakers who had their flash in the pan early in their careers, and have carried an audience with them film by film hoping lightening will strike twice.

Both continue to make films which are not good -- but which "appear" to be good. That is, they put in enough absurd dialog and meaningless plot devices to confuse the average person so that the aesthete can claim its art simply by the number of average people who leave the theatre perplexed."

You sound like someone utterly unsatisfied with life. Grindhouse was ok, No Country for Old Men was great, and Inglourious Basterds was much better than expected. Set your expectations properly and you'll rarely be disappointed.
Posted by undead ayn rand on August 31, 2009 at 1:39 AM · Report
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Jesus Christ you people think too much. i loved it and I hate QT. I bought the soundtrack.
Posted by omfg on August 31, 2009 at 3:52 AM · Report
michael strangeways 8
IG either needed 40 minutes cut from it (goodbye Churchill/Mike Myers scene and irritatingly too long and not that necessary for the plot basement bar scene) OR cut those scenes completely/way down and add more Shoshana at the theater scenes. The character and the actress needed more screen time.

Also, it didn't make much sense that Landa was presented as being a brilliant and ruthless adversary who turns very, very stupid in the last 5 minutes of the movie.

And, Eli Roth cannot act.
Posted by michael strangeways http://www.seattlegayscene.com/ on August 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM · Report
michael strangeways 9
And...

Death Proof was a mess and a misogynistic one at that.

NCFOM is brilliant.
Posted by michael strangeways http://www.seattlegayscene.com/ on August 31, 2009 at 10:25 AM · Report

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