gunsmoke on 20/8/2009 at 17:23
Not a lot of Tarantino fans here, huh? Personally, I have liked everything he has done himself, as opposed to simply produced, (though Hostel 1 was EXCELLENT). Consequently, I am probably going to fork out the dough to go see this on the Big Screen™
DaBeast on 21/8/2009 at 02:35
Saw it today. It really didn't blow me away, which is what I've come to expect from a Tarantino flick. Maybe that's part of the problem.
The film drags on a bit, surprisingly even at the very start. Usually plot events occur for a reason, like making a big impact on the viewer, here it happens, possibly for the same effect, but fails hard.
Also, I'm surprised I'm actually thinking this, but Til Schweiger was wasted...or at least his character was.
henke on 5/9/2009 at 09:08
Best film of the year so far!* :D
It's just so violent! And funny! Actually it's Tarantino's funniest movie so far, the scene where the Basterds are infiltrating the movie premiere had everyone in the audience howling with laughter. Bongiorno! :laff: And the last 15 minutes had my jaw hanging wide open. It's just such a great over-the-top fairytale-ending after such a tense movie. Of course, the tension also makes the comedy bits all that much more funny. Tarantino is apparently a big Edgar Wright fan and it seems like he's taken some queues from Hot Fuzz/Shaun of the Dead with this one. It's... different from his earlier movies. It's very plot driven(even moreso than Kill Bill). There's hardly any of the fun, idle chatter of his earlier movies. I mean, there is idle chatter, but in Basterds, it's always leading somewhere. It always has a point and drives the plot forward. Some of the conversations do drag on a bit.
I need to see it another 10 times or so before I can make my mind up where it belongs in my Best Tarantino Movies list. But it certainly beats Death Proof, Kill Bill vol.2 and Jackie Brown.
* although I've still to see Big Fan, The Hurt Locker & District 9
Morte on 7/9/2009 at 11:06
I'd have to watch Jackie Brown again to see if it's as good as I remember it, but I'd rank Basterds below his three first movies. Like the Kill Bills, it's him completely geeking out with a collection of set pieces -- mostly very good ones -- that don't quite add up to a satifying whole. The two different story strands, despite arriving at the same place and working towards the same goal, never really connect.
It's a perfectly decent night at the movies, some of the set pieces are extremely good and Christoph Waltz is fantastic as Landa, but I can't help but tarantino really is in need of someone that can rein him in, keep him focused and stop him from putting Mike Myers in his movies.
june gloom on 7/9/2009 at 12:27
With any luck I'll be seeing this today, and again later this week. :thumb: If I can just go back to bed and fall back asleep again after a monstrous thunderstorm woke me up. I sleep like the dead so it's gotta be pretty bad to wake me up.
Rogue Keeper on 7/9/2009 at 12:39
Overall, neither I'm a T. fan. I liked Pulp Fiction and that's it. His range of storytelling and iconography is quite narrow, repetitive and ultimately predictable.
But hey, let's come up with the best Tarantino movie which had NOTHING to do with Tarantino. :thumb:
My champion would be the Fight Club.
henke on 7/9/2009 at 20:12
Hahahah, good one. :)
june gloom on 8/9/2009 at 01:49
Inglourious Basterds was everything I hoped it would be. Tarantino took 10 years to make a new movie I would consider my favourite Tarantino film.
Taffer36 on 17/9/2009 at 02:22
Saw this the other day, it was great.
I noticed something quite extraordinary in this film, actually. I've felt suspense in movies before, but I've never actually felt my heart beating as I did watching this one. I really don't have any gripes with it. It did what it set out to do, and it did it well. It was enjoyable enough that I'll probably be willing to see it a few more times, too. Highly quotable, highly entertaining, blah blah blah.
Haven't seen too many Tarantino flicks, though, and I don't feel strongly either way about his films. Pulp fiction was good shit, obviously, but I thought that Kill Bill was complete trash.
