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#21

Finally saw ‘Inglourious Basterds’ this evening. One of the things I noticed about the film was that QT captured German precision. Every German character was engaged in the situation at hand and always on their guard. They were filled with constant suspicion and psychologically picked apart their prey. This was not only true of Landa but Goebbels, Zoller, and Hellstrom. Even the junior officer in the basement bar picked up the strange dialect the British agent was using.

Usually the violence in a Tarantino film is unsettling. In this instance, every engagement of conversation with a German was unnerving and uncomfortable. There were so many facial cues and body gestures, even the use of language. That was brilliantly done.

I have to admit, the fact that the Heads of the Third Reich were all in one place and completely unguarded took me outta the film.

#22

I revisited this thread since oscars are comeing out this Sunday, to ask this?

Now that we have gotten over the newness and hipness and the fact that it looks good to be a fan of this movie, Do a lot more of you now believe that despite a few BRILIANT acting jobs by actors that aren’t in the majority of the movie, the movie as an overal product is pretty bad?

I don’t believe in looking at what the director is trying to say, or takign period into account when decideing if something is entertaining. I sit in the chair, and I watch a clock. If 1 more minute of my time is spent during 149 mins being un happy than happy, it’s a bad movie: Art be damnmed. The purpose it to make be not bored. I like dialouge. If your gonna be dialouge full… quite doing shitty editing that was outdated in 1970 and make the movie good.

I also will throw out this. Spagetti Westerns were good because Clint F’d guys up in them! That’s what made them great. The shitty tired editing was something that happened to come witht he movie. No film class teaches that style as “what one wants to do”, jsut like noone says shitty earth tones are great for costumeing in the 70’s, it was just an unfortunate byproduct of the time and is hopefully forgotten!

#23

I enjoyed every minute of it. Not my fav Tarantino movie but I had no complaints.