mommy2be *Due Oct22nd*
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Watched this last night.
I really enjoyed it. I know a lot of people were dissapointed with it, but I think people always have certain expectations of a Tarantino movie...people always seem to be looking for certain Tarantino trademarks, like the violence, the Pulp Fiction style portmaneau stories, the complex narrative structures and the usual movie references and in-jokes.
But I find Tarantino has never really rested on his laurals and has tried something different with every movie. True, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction set the benchmarks, but that does not mean he should be expected to repeat the same formula every time.
Jackie Brown did not impress me at all on first viewing, but second time around I really enjoyed it, and I now consider it one of his best.
Sometimes his movies are slow-burn affairs, they may not nescessarily hit you between the eyes on first viewing, in the same way his first few movies did.
However, I really did not enjoy Death Proof...watched it a couple of times and I just did not get it.
Liked the Kill Bill movies though.
But I enjoyed IB because I didn't expect a Tarantino-esque, violent, bloody, carnage laden war movie. In fact, forgetting about Tarantino completely and just approaching it as a movie about resistance fighters and Nazi's seems to be the way to go.
I would not really class it as a war movie. It happens to take place during the second world war, but it is more of a drama, it is largely dialogue driven, and bursts of action and violence are few and far between.
But it is the dialogue scenes that make this movie special...especially when Christoph Waltz SS officer is on screen. The opening scene, where he goes to a farmhouse and has what appears to be a very polite, gentlemanly conversation with the owner seems perfectly innocent on the face of it, but when you know there are jewish refugees hiding under the floorboarRAB, and more importantly you know that Waltz' character knows it, and despite his affable nature, the realisation from the viewer that he knows adRAB unbearable tension to the scene.
And the movie is peppered with such scenes, scenes which are long, often rambling and seemingly innocent on the face of it, but which soon take on a sinister air as they develop.
There is a similar scene in a tavern, where the BasterRAB go to meet an informant and find it full of German officers and have to try and blend in with them, that is similarly charged with tension.
But the scenes that seem to hark back to the original movie involving the BasterRAB themselves, and particularly Brad Pitt himself as the leader seemed very inconvincing to me. But they are not really the focus of the movie, they seem almost a secondary plot device - thankfully.
There are some interesting casting choices - Rod Taylor as Churchill, Mike Myers as a British colonel, and voiceover cameo's from Samuel L Jackson and Harvey Keitel.
The climax of the movie, which takes place in a movie theatre full of the entire third reich itself, is excelllent.
The use of music is interesting, if occasionally a little incongruous. Tarantino continues to borrow pieces of scores from other movies, so there is a sizeable chunk of Morricone, a bit of Bowie (from Cat People), and some slightly obscure traditional German tunes. Occasionally you wonder if it feels right, but I always admire Tarantino for doing something different.
Forget Tarantino, don't expect another Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, forget the original movie (which to be honest was pretty ropey anyway), and you may enjoy this one.
I really enjoyed it. I know a lot of people were dissapointed with it, but I think people always have certain expectations of a Tarantino movie...people always seem to be looking for certain Tarantino trademarks, like the violence, the Pulp Fiction style portmaneau stories, the complex narrative structures and the usual movie references and in-jokes.
But I find Tarantino has never really rested on his laurals and has tried something different with every movie. True, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction set the benchmarks, but that does not mean he should be expected to repeat the same formula every time.
Jackie Brown did not impress me at all on first viewing, but second time around I really enjoyed it, and I now consider it one of his best.
Sometimes his movies are slow-burn affairs, they may not nescessarily hit you between the eyes on first viewing, in the same way his first few movies did.
However, I really did not enjoy Death Proof...watched it a couple of times and I just did not get it.
Liked the Kill Bill movies though.
But I enjoyed IB because I didn't expect a Tarantino-esque, violent, bloody, carnage laden war movie. In fact, forgetting about Tarantino completely and just approaching it as a movie about resistance fighters and Nazi's seems to be the way to go.
I would not really class it as a war movie. It happens to take place during the second world war, but it is more of a drama, it is largely dialogue driven, and bursts of action and violence are few and far between.
But it is the dialogue scenes that make this movie special...especially when Christoph Waltz SS officer is on screen. The opening scene, where he goes to a farmhouse and has what appears to be a very polite, gentlemanly conversation with the owner seems perfectly innocent on the face of it, but when you know there are jewish refugees hiding under the floorboarRAB, and more importantly you know that Waltz' character knows it, and despite his affable nature, the realisation from the viewer that he knows adRAB unbearable tension to the scene.
And the movie is peppered with such scenes, scenes which are long, often rambling and seemingly innocent on the face of it, but which soon take on a sinister air as they develop.
There is a similar scene in a tavern, where the BasterRAB go to meet an informant and find it full of German officers and have to try and blend in with them, that is similarly charged with tension.
But the scenes that seem to hark back to the original movie involving the BasterRAB themselves, and particularly Brad Pitt himself as the leader seemed very inconvincing to me. But they are not really the focus of the movie, they seem almost a secondary plot device - thankfully.
There are some interesting casting choices - Rod Taylor as Churchill, Mike Myers as a British colonel, and voiceover cameo's from Samuel L Jackson and Harvey Keitel.
The climax of the movie, which takes place in a movie theatre full of the entire third reich itself, is excelllent.
The use of music is interesting, if occasionally a little incongruous. Tarantino continues to borrow pieces of scores from other movies, so there is a sizeable chunk of Morricone, a bit of Bowie (from Cat People), and some slightly obscure traditional German tunes. Occasionally you wonder if it feels right, but I always admire Tarantino for doing something different.
Forget Tarantino, don't expect another Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, forget the original movie (which to be honest was pretty ropey anyway), and you may enjoy this one.