Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds"

Im not ranting about the Germans not getting credit, im simply perturbed as we see another movie where a relatively small group of allied soldiers killing off possibly hundreds of German soldiers that have the reflexes of a drunk.

 

Reminds me a bit of a game called Velvet Assassin a spy game based on the life of Velvet Szabo IIRC, came out this year. The promotions according to the developer and publisher were largely "look at how we stealthfully kill all these Nazi's in France", "look, we castrated that f***er!" and so on. The developer was actually German which made me and a bunch of my friends pretty furious, in a studio of nearly 100 people shouldn't some of those people have had relatives in the war?

Anyway, the game releases and turns out it actually humanized the Germans, you kill a soldier only to find a letter on his body to his mother telling her how he hates the war and wants it to end, misses her, and wants to go home. Or one about a soldier remorseful over a killing he had to commit. Even a letter from a soldiers wife telling him about how she misses him and of their baby, your objective? You have to kill the man to proceed, no way around it. You also come across the a**holes who you can't wait to fight, my friend when he played came across letters, documents, etc from officers about concentration camp deportations. I wanted to play more of the game but didn't have time, hopefully I can pick it up again if I can find it for cheap.

The developer shut down shortly after since no one bought the game, maybe if they put some time into polishing it and showing the humanizing aspects instead of the "hey guys, look at these 500 moves we put into the game to make killing Nazi's even more funnier! dur dur dur". =/

 

I'm all for people liking or hating a movie regardless of their reasons, but to pass judgment and having not even seen it, that's just plain childish. If you had seen the original Inglorious Bastards and Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds you would know that Tarantino's is not a remake of the older film. The only things these 2 films really share is the WW2 setting, similar name and both are exploitation films. There are certain musical cues that are similar, but that's down to splitting hairs. You don't want to see it, that's cool, I don't think anyone here will twist your arm and make you watch it. However, to judge the film as if you know exactly what it is about without actually watching it is just plain silly. At the very least read a better review of it or talk to someone different who has seen it, because your current sources simply don't reflect what the basics of the movie is. I don't mean to single you out, but hating something before experiencing it has always been one of my major pet peeves. I may not be inclined to see a certain film because I don't dig the subject matter, but I won't go about calling it trash without seeing it first.

 

The movie does not look appealing and I'm judging it for what it is, a fictional movie made purely for entertaining purposes. As the newbies have reiterated, I do prefer the "pathetic fake 1950s war films" and there is nothing wrong with that. So if we prefer to be serious and criticise the flick, then so be it. It is our opinion and we do not need preaching about it. The previews make the movie look stupid in my opinion. For those who have seen it and like, well kudos to you. I still say it looks stupid enough for me not to pay money to see it. For those that like it and want to convince us to see it, then mail us your copy.

 

It's great if some of you loved the movie, or got satisfaction from the movie in an entertaining sense, but there are others who wouldn't find it enjoyable for a variety of different reasons but that doesn't mean they can't have a opinion of the movie, im sure there are movies we see previews for where we say oh that doesn't look good or that one just plain out sucks but its still an opinion and you can't deny them that.

 

Damn right I am. The original sucked Prune Pits all day and I have seen bits and pieces of other quenten made movies to know this one sucked as well.

In other words, that TURKEY of a remake is much worse than the original-and yeah-this is my opinion based on all the commercials and stuff I have seen on the remake and also based on the original which will inevitably be the much better of the two even though it too sucked.

 

Couldn't agree with you more and left ya 32 reps ;-))

 

EXACTAMENT. My sentiments exactly. Reps left for you.

 

Trouble is, is that I don't NEED to watch this particular piece of gutter trash of a movie, to know it sucks prune pits. The original was lousy enough and tarantino makes garbage-filled BS movies.

Please refer to my other posts about this trashy movie and you might understand why I hate this movie so much.

 

Well said Ike, the same thing here on movies prefered.

 

Completely agree Ike. As a mid-20's kid who grew up on all these newer action flicks, I still contain a movie collection that contains twice as many movies made pre-1960 than I do films made in the last 10 years. I don't know, something about back when actors could actually act and had class.

A film doesn't need to set a record for amount of fake blood used to get across the horrors of war, or massive amounts of cuss words to provide the sence of emotion. All you need are some good actors and an even better written script

 

Ike, you said am mouth full and I couldn't agree with you more than now ;-)) The actors of those older films were definately much better than the weenies-who are the new-age actors.

 

I wasted time and brain cells watching this film. Extremely disappointing.

 

I completely agree with this.

 

Well, what can I say?

Guys, I loved this movie. I was really unwilling to watch this movie - Tarentino/guts/blood/violence, scalping Germans, etc.etc. and all the other preview info I had received.

Luckily a friend of mine had seen it - and told me that I NEED to see this movie.

Oh boy, Christoph Waltz (superb acting) and Brad Pit (mountainman slang) just great and Adolf with a Roman cape, I was laughing my head of at times - I would recommend this movie any time.

Regards
Kruska

 

I saw the movie to judge for myself, and it truly sucked. Its like Hollywood has run out of subject matter for crappy action flicks, so they go back to the reliable old standard of making WWII movies that show German soldiers behaving like incompetent morons while the "good guys" cut them down with ease. This particular movie is a black comedy, of course, and this should be taken into account. That being said, it serves no purpose other than giving the movie industry another opportunity to kick the "Nazis" around and rewrite history for the gazillionth time. Truly disappointing.

 

I am still appalled how the public thinks its all right to make the image of Nazis (Which is essentially what the Basterds are) into a comedy that is morally painful in every way.

 

Personally, I think you guys are taking this movie all a little too seriously. Its purely Fiction in plot (erm, Hitler being killed in a French Movie Theatre kinda gives that away) and I wouldn't say that the Nazis are a pushover in regards to 'killing them' as only two of the 12 or so soldiers in the 'special unit' make it out of the movie alive, and all the other characters end up dead. It's purely a movie that makes fun of the Nazi Era, with its over-the-top decorations (I thought the costumes/scenary was superb) and very in-your-face humor. Its not mean to be taken as a 'serious' movie - you're supposed to laugh and enjoy it.

I just picked it up on Blu-ray today actually. Sure, its not historically accurate in any sense but I thought it was a brilliant movie, much better then, say, Spike Lees 'Miracle at St. Anna' (which I believe is the worst WW2 movie since Pearl Harbor).

 

i just gotta get past the scalping part of it!


my stomach is still turning.. gross!

 

Thoroughly enjoyed it.
It's a live action comic book, and anyone who takes it more seriously than that is making an error. I'll put it on the shelf next to Mel brooks's The Producers as another fine Nazi related P-take.

Maybe not enough scalpings for my taste though.

~A
(Hugely puzzled by such vociferous condemnation by people that haven't watched a particular film, not unlike when a new 'controversial' book is damned by those that haven't even read it .)