Inglourious Basterds
Any thoughts on the upcoming Quentin Tarantino flick Inglourious Basterds [sic] starring Brad Pitt as a Jewish hillbilly from Tennessee leading a squad of American Jewish soldiers in the targeted and brutal killings of Nazis during World War II?
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| 1 May, 2009, 1:05 am |
My girlfriend actually though this was a spoof, something like the utterly rubbish ‘ullo ‘ullo (BBC 2nd World War turkey). Maybe it was the ranting Hitler bit…
As far as I can tell QT’s serious and surely this is bad taste on a par with wringing out George Galloway’s beard? After he’s had a saucer of milk…
| 1 May, 2009, 4:24 am |
That wiki page is coming up dud for me gene. The trailer put me in mind of churchill - the hollywood years,( which I quite enjoyed tbh)… Again on account of the ranting Hitler.
| 1 May, 2009, 7:12 am |
Sorry, should have been ‘thought was a spoof’. ‘Allo ‘Allo so putrid I seem to
forgotten its wretched name.
I’m a big Kill Bill fan, one and two, but was pretty disappointed in Death Proof.
Apart from the opening of young ladies running around holding their Yonis bursting for a piss…which had me expecting a cinematic masterpiece…
Perhaps QT, the boy, should link up with Peter Richardson from the Comic Strip. He seems to have been quiet lately…
‘Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds did sing.’ dreiundsiebzig
| 1 May, 2009, 11:11 am |
Ha I’ve also just remembered these… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando_Comics
| 1 May, 2009, 4:14 pm |
Allo allo was largely a spoof of the 70’s series secret army (as I’m sure everyone knows) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Army_(TV_series) which I dimly remembered from being a kid and was recently repeated on UKhistory. It was only when I watched it as an adult I realised how great it was, there’s a pervading atmosphere of paranoia, everyone’s got their own agenda and gets forced into uncomfortabl compromised by their circumstances and the story shows the internal politics of the resistance movements and the Germans, almost like a WW2 version of the rightly acclaimed american series ‘the wire’… But sadly with british 1970s ‘wobbly wall’ production values. When you watch great american shows like the wire or the sopranos
And wonder why we can’t write stuff that good in britain it’s worth remembering that once upon a time we could. Sorry, I’m not really talking about the film, I guess one way to go would be to watch this film and Defiance and do a back to back review of films that challenge the stereotype of Jewish passivity in the face of the nazis… Or something.
| 1 May, 2009, 9:04 pm |
The Inglourious Bastards battle bikini clad, machine gun shooting, SS-Helferin. Of course, it’s not a spoof.
| 1 May, 2009, 10:21 pm |
And I thought the bikini was a post war innovation, ’bout the same time the French started vaporising bits of pacific habitat… Guess the nazi military r&d was further ahead than everyone thought.
| 1 May, 2009, 11:49 pm |
SS-helferin - the dark angels - if only they would prong QT’s mouth shut - during his dreadful cameo appearances we pray for Exodus
This will be a Nuremberg Rally for nitwits
| 2 May, 2009, 2:37 pm |
‘Kill Bill’ was bloody awful, Death Proof was sublime. This looks like genius.
| 3 May, 2009, 11:39 am |
I was rather hoping this was going to be a sort of cross between The Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare, and Black Hawk Down. Which would be fun.
It looks like absolute crap.
| 3 May, 2009, 8:34 pm |
High praise for ‘Allo ‘Allo there Jon D 
| 8 May, 2009, 7:18 pm |
Not particularly commenting on the trailer but, it’s Tarantino!
TARANTINO!!!
I think I’d be happy to pay to watch him direct a TV testcard.
Kudos to Jon D for spot-on references - shame Tarantino didn’t mainline ’70s British TV in that LA video shop. The “homage” films - Samuel L Jackson as Avon in Blake’s 7?, Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel as Terry and Arthur in Minder? - would be spectacular
| 9 May, 2009, 2:28 pm |
Bind with Twinings. It’s the finest. Oh James!
Greetings from the Dark Lord. And his fire lady, Miss Moneypenny
| 17 May, 2009, 12:59 pm |
“I was rather hoping this was going to be a sort of cross between The Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare, and Black Hawk Down. Which would be fun.”
I’m just grateful that Tarantino is making this film and not you!
| 18 May, 2009, 5:29 pm |
Looks appalling. Only lickarse QT junkies will be impressed. btw James if you think Death Proof was anything other than dreadful then your opinion on any film is immediately suspect.
| 19 May, 2009, 11:16 am |
It looks like utter shit.
Tarantino thinks that pop culture references (e.g. Lt Aldo Ray - named after the lead in ‘The Naked and the Dead’) disguise the increasingly crap nature of his films. He thinks this is going to be his equivalent of ‘The Guns of Navarone’ and ‘Where Eagles Dare’. More fool him.
| 27 May, 2009, 7:53 am |
Jon d - “And I thought the bikini was a post war innovation, ’bout the same time the French started vaporising bits of pacific habitat…”
Romans had something like a bikini. However at the time, the French were vaporising bits of the Algerian desert. The Americans were turning parts of the Pacific into radioactive dust. They carried out almost two dozen tests in Bikini Atoll between 1945 and 1960. A French (I think) designer named it after one of those tests. Probably Castle Bravo which irradiated some Japanese fishermen.
| 27 May, 2009, 7:54 am |
Oh, and everything Tarantino does or has ever done is sh!t.
It is not that he is getting worse, it is that people are bored.
| 10 June, 2009, 8:11 pm |
‘Ed’, ’sack’, ’so much’ - you watched all his films by the sound of it. And hated every minute of each one. That’s dedication! I bet you’ll ‘watch’ Inglourious Basterds too. And then bitch here and there about how ‘awful’ it is, and about how Tarantino was “always shit” and ‘none of his films were ever worth watching’.
The ‘anti-fan’ - a curious creature who lives for the things he hates.
| 11 June, 2009, 5:49 pm |
No James, just objective. Not sitting there with a hard-on for self-indulgent garbage.
| 15 June, 2009, 12:43 am |
Your resentment towards people with hard-ons is noted.
As I made clear earlier, I don’t like everything Tarantino has done. But I think some of his movies are great, and this one looks to me to be a riot.
I would never claim to be capable of an ‘objective’ review of any work of art. Art appreciation is by it’s nature subjective. I’d also advise against claiming the ability to be ‘objective’ while giving an opinion - “self-indulgent garbage” of a movie you haven’t even seen yet.
| 16 June, 2009, 12:43 am |
It’s a movie about Jews killing nazis. What’s not to like?
| 1 July, 2009, 2:29 pm |
‘‘Ed’, ’sack’, ’so much’ - you watched all his films by the sound of it. And hated every minute of each one.’
I watched ‘Reservoir Dogs’, ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Jackie Brown’. Then his films went to ratshit. I just about managed Part 1 of ‘Kill Bill’, then ten minutes of Part II. I am going to ignore ‘Basterds’ just like I ignored ‘Death Proof’.
‘It’s a movie about Jews killing nazis. What’s not to like?’
The director.
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