Muzman on 6/7/2011 at 16:34
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They are in a massive room. It's empty apart from a huge map, a piano, a little table and a globe. A globe which has a bar in it. Before they start their quintessential British what ho conversation it's bizarre. What's not to like? Meh, different strokes.
Yes it's highly referential to a number of sources. It's perfectly alright, just not particularly funny.
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Their mission was to get the people in Hitler's box, it's not hard. They were to shoot or bomb them. They didn't know that Landa had dropped a bomb in there already, nor that the fire was about to start, and as far as they knew Pitt still had the third bomb.
Yes their motivation is clear. What's not so clear is why I as a member of the audience should give a damn. The film is trying to excite and entertain at this point, as clearly indicated by the music, editing etc, despite me knowing full well that their efforts are meaningless and rapidly show to be of no consequence. I don't care about them, what they are doing or why they are doing it. The clumsy artifice of this particular tangent of the film is very jarring.
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I agree that by that point Landa has ceased being a menace, but his turning tail suddenly changes things (or so he thinks) and we're just watching the consequences of the entire set up. I don't know what else QT could have done with it at that point anyway.
At that point, nothing. Before that there are squillions of things he could have done. Maybe Landa somehow twigs to who Shoshanna actually is. Maybe the Basterds plan on surviving this mission and/or screw up Shoshanna's plan somehow. Maybe there's something like the real security detail most of the Reich showing up to one cinema would demand hanging around to keep things spicy.
I'd like to see Landa not just flip because oh he's a weaselly jerk or something. He's a tenacious and ruthless investigator. He's got to see defeat coming before he sells out his whole way of thinking. There's talk of the Allies on the beach, but no one thought it was over at that point (well a few did) hence a night at the movies. If he sees the writing on the wall somehow and flips the whole conclusion on its head he's an even bigger jerk for walking away while almost everyone else dies.
There's an all time epic farce of a clusterfuck going begging in that ending, instead of the damp squib we got. One that still makes all the little points QT wanted to make and turns out roughly the same.
I can't believe he thinks it's his best work. It so not even close. Some of the scenes might be, but he should have written a movie as well (or instead).
