Inglourious Basterds - glourious return of Tarantino

Saw the film last night. Bit long for a school night.

Brilliant. Really enjoyed it. It's a 9 out of 10 from me. Tarantino back on form.
:D
 
War films and Tarantino films are not my normal cup of tea. However given the hype surrounding this and the fact I am a unlimited member of cineworld I decided to give it a watch.

My conclusion is it went on far to long, enough time for me to have a 5 minute sleep halfway through.
I didn't find it lived up to the hype. If I had to rate it I would give it a 6/10 as it just did nothing for me. Ok I laughed at a few bits, but the film did nothing for my dislike of war and Tarantino films.
 
Just got back from seeing this.

Judging by reviews, its either a 'love it or hate it' type of film, and I have to say I thought it was FANTASTICALLY good.

The 2 and a half hour run time just flew by, and for practically ever second I was completely glued to my seat. The whole with nail-bitingly exciting, seriously some of the most exciting and tense scenes I have seen in film.

I was really surprised with the plot, I was expecting it to just be about a group of men who go round killing nazi's in violent ways, but to be honest, there wasn't really much of that at all, and I loved all the dialogue scenes, they were superbly acted, great work from the actors and actresses, and you could really feel the tension. The last 20 minuites or so were fantastic, I was realllllllly suprised at how the ending turned out, I was:

expecting neither of the plots to work, due to the 2 plots being exactly the same, I thought they would clash and go wrong or something

Loved all the styleish touches as well, Tarantino certainly didnt go over the top with all the in your face 'ooo, style, ooo look at this fancy film' camera angles and on screen text and that.

I certainly think this is his best film, I liked pulp fiction but thought it was way too over-hyped, liked jackie brown too, and enjoyed Kill Bill, (death proof didnt work as a stand alone movie, and shouldnt be classed as one, it was a joint film with rodriguez that was great but greedy film companies ruined it in europe) but never thought he could top Reservoir dogs, but I certainly think he did with this. Best film of the year so far, and maybe of last year too, deffinetly considering going to the cinema again to see it.

The 1 little think I didn't like though was:

Eli Roths charcter leaping about in a true sadistic fashion after beating the guy with a baseball bat, I didnt get the impression that they were actually enjoying killing people, simply that they felt they had to and deserved it. He just took it too far and made him look like a psycho, im glad there wasnt that much of eli in it, nor did he have many speaking roles
 
Went Monday night to see this film, the majority of the cast were unknown to me, I found this rather refreshing. I'm afraid I didn't rate Brad Pitt very well though, just didn't come across as a great performance. For me Christoph Waltz was utterly amazing as Col Hans Landa, if anyone deserves a nod from the academy it should be him.
What made the film even more enjoyable was the music, music you'd expect to find in a 70's spaghetti western, the scene accompanied by David Bowie singing was beautiful, intense, made you think whats going through her mind.
I went expecting a cross between Cross of Iron (war aspect) and the humour of Peckinpahs Ballad of Cable Hogue, but it didn't, more original if anything.
 
I watched this in a cinema in Barbados and it was the coldest place i have ever been in. Air conditioning was up full blast and it was pretty empty as it had been out for a few weeks and I had shorts on which made it even colder!Anyway none of this mattered at all as this is one of the funnest and character driven QT films in a while. Lando is amazingly evil and likeable at the same time and Aldo Raine is maybe Pitts finest performance. Even though there is a total disregard for history on show me and my frozen partner absolutely loved it. Welcome back Quentin :D Oh and I am well up for Kill Bill 3!!
 
I loved the film, one of Tarantino's best in my opinion, I'd say it's better than Kill Bill, but that's just me, out of the two, I'd choose to watch Inglourious BasterRAB over Kill Bill any day, I've already seen Inglourious BasterRAB twice at the cinema and each person I've seen it with loved it with only one saying he thought there was a bit too much dialogue in it.
 
Went to see this last night with the missus, I remember Tarantino talking to Empire about IB just before Kill Bill vol1 hit cinemas and thinking to myself "this sounRAB like a great movie".... Now all these years later I can honestly and wholeheartedly say I was right. I loved it!
Hell, my other half doesn't like Tarantino movies (too much dialogue & the twists / backwarRAB story telling usually lose her) and she wouldn't have watched it if she knew it was a QT movie.

It's a pretty straight forward story though with no real story telling quirk like say, pulp fiction or resovoir dogs but thats what made it enjoyable for her.

I agree that Waltz should get an oscar for his performance as Hans Landa, his interrogation (if that's the word) scenes were all great & his strudel scene made me laugh.
I'm sure he recognised her as he ordered milk for her, referencing the 1st time she encountered him & he also told her to wait for the cream - her family where dairy farmers & I'm certain this was a reference to that.

I'm sure Eli Roth wasn't cast for his acting prowess, I reckon Quenten cast him because he's a friend and just figured it'd be fun - plus I have no doubts that Eli had some input on the violence
The bashing of the Nazi's head springs to mind - more Roth than Tarantino if you ask me

I think QT has really got back on track with IB after the dissapointment that was Kill Bill vol2 & Deathproof. It was great to see him getting his old favourites in there too
such as Samuel L Jackson doing the narration & Harvey Keitel speaking to Hans & Aldo on the radio-phone, I think those two have appeared in pretty much every QT movie so far in one way or another.

The only time I wasn't intrested in IB was the scene with Zoller (who I really wanted to get killed off in a brutal way) & Shoshanna where they talked about German directors, luckily that didn't last too long.

I jgive this a 9/10 & I'll definately be buying the DVD once it's released.
 
I've just been to see it tonight with a mate of mine and we walked out after an hour and a half because it was the single most overblown, overrated, steaming great pile of donkey excrement that we've ever seen.

One tediously long, dialogue-heavy scene followed another and nothing happened. And while nothing was happening, they continued to talk about nothing happening.

Horrible film and i'm glad we walked out.

It should be re-named "Ingloriously Boring".

My review for the film poster would consist of the following two worRAB. Re-arrange them into a well known saying.

"Sh*t" and "It's".
 
I agree, i'd rather watch this again than Kill Bill.

Absolutely NOT what you are expecting from the trailer. Although i came out of the theatre and the first comment i heard was "Well that was a load of sh*t". It's true, you will either love it or hate it.

Hanns Landa really does steal the whole film.
 
I saw it today with a friend and we both loved it (my frienRAB a very fussy film viewer and rarely says he "loved" something and he doesn't really like Tarantino either, so coming from him it's high praise indeed, lol). The film is very much Tarantino back on form after the mis-steps of Death Proof and Kill Bill.

At JasonWatkins: have you actually seen any "classic" Tarantino films? (by which i mean: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction or Jackie Brown) They are ALL very dialogue heavy with only occasional action scenes, and it's the dialogue that drives the movies. Fair enough if you didn't find IB's dialogue interesting enough, but writing snappy interesting dialogue is Tarantino's forte.

Personally i'd give it about 9/10 and say it's one of my favourite films of this year! (although that said, Eli Roth is actually a worse actor than he is a director...).
 
Fantastic film. Pretentious film types may not pontificate about this for eternity as they do his early masterpieces, but it equals them in terms of entertainment value.

History is often tweaked and fiddled with in cinema - how wonderful it is when it's completely and gloriously rewritten.

There's a new way to tell if a person is a miserable, tedious turd - ask them whether they like this film or not. If it's a no...
 
I think I was the only one out of my frienRAB to recognise Mike Myers as the General in the British Army. It was the 'Austin Powers' voice. :p

Loved the film aswell! :)
 
I've seen all of Tarantino's work.

Personally, Jackie Brown is my favourite - I loved that film and still do. It's got arguably the greatest opening scene in cinematic history with Pam Grier walking through the airport to the tune of "Across 110th Street".

I love Pulp Fiction and I even liked Kill Bill - both parts.

This film was nowhere near the excellence of Jackie Brown. Brad Pitt was so wooden, it was almost like he'd decided his lower jaw would be permanently set in stone while he delivered his lines.

For Tarantino's dialogue to work - and I absolutely agree the man can write some good dialogue - you need the right actors to make it work.

Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta could make a conversation about Hamburgers work - I doubt Til Schweiger and Eli Roth would even come close.
 
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