Inglorius Basterds

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haven't seen it, but heard an interview on NPR...sounds bizarre...

It was so enormously funny, go see it, and in the end of the movie there happens a NASTY knife-cutting, trust me

It is bizarre. Think of -The Dirty Dozen- on steroids.

ruveyn

i though that was wrong what they did to the Nazi

Come on Nazis got what they deserve after all with their madness (Holocaust survivors are marked for life with the Star of David). I love the movie because there were so many laughing moments with quick battle sequences. Also switching randomly from French and German to English during the movie was funny at times. Plus the acting was superb and much better than Transformers 2 (People cared about the battle sequences and special effects than the acting itself in that movie). The Hitler scenes were so hilarious because he was being silly like in the painting scene.

I give 10 stars in the end!

I am a jew myself, i would beat up Nazis and scare them unarmed, i would try to redeem them from their Nazism.

I would to since I am Jewish myself here as well (and for my dad's family in the Czech Republic during the war). I would make them dance to music that they do not like to bug the heck out of them like Thriller and other songs lol.

I WANT MAH SKALPS!

Very good film. Loved all those long "sitting at tables trying not to be found out" scenes.

Brilliant. This film is a close second with Taratino's masterpiece Pulp Fiction.

Two parts I loved:

- seeing Shosanna's laughing face projected into the smoke-filled theater.
- watching Hitler and the Nazis watching a violent movie, and then watching their comedic reactions... kinda made you feel self-conscious about doing the same exact thing... kinda like looking at a picture of a picture with infinitely repeating dimensions or something.

That Jewish urge to redeem the Fallen is going to be the death of us Jews. Another Jew, Jesus, tried it and it was a complete fiasco.

ruveyn

It was long, but it was clever. So it held my attention.

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Although I can imagine some kid taking it to heart, and ending his history report with : "And WW2 ended when the Inglorious Basterds pumped a round of bullets into dead Hitler and carved a swastika into the charming lieutenant's face".


That, and "Enzo Laurant"'s Italian accent had me in stiches. Even more funny that the Nazi lieutenant actually spoke Italian.

I was greatly upset with this Quentin Taratino film. He's like a film god to me, and I wish I could just unsee it.

Actually Hans Landa is a Colonel not a Lieutenant and he pretty much beats out the Joker for the best villain now with his all talents.

Inglorious Basterds is a very funny movie. It was quite strange watching it because normally when i watch people suffer i feel a little bit of synpathy but because it was these heartless nazis getting tortured i found it pretty funny. I liked what tarantino done when he decieded to make the jews look like the stronger people in comparison to the nazis because in most world war II movies the jews are often made to look quite weak

If the strong survive and the weak perish, on balance, Jews are in fact stronger. Who is left after the smoke dissipates and the rubble stops bouncing.

It is very instructive to visit the Titus Arch in Rome. On it is inscribed Judea Capta. So I ask where are the Jews? Answer: all over. Now where are the Romans? Answer: nowhere.

ruveyn

I just saw it, last night. I may go back and see it again tonight, ( at local "arts" cinema which shows films in Original Version, and is cheap ), because I thought it was very good.

I like the way the arch-villain is a charming, smiling, "friendly" person, whose smiles and charm have nothing to do with what they actually do. That is def my idea of a villain. Like the medical "friend" in Gilliam's "Brazil".

I think Tarantino is like an american kind of Almodovar, ( like a mix of Almodovar, Lynch, Jane Campion, and Danny Boyle in fact ), and this film makes me hope very much that he will carry on writing and directing films.

I thought it was extraordinarily original/fresh, and also inspiring/"liberating". Humans regularly rewrite history; the past is changing all the time, and this apparently unrealistic rewrite is not that unrealistic compared to some which have actually happened. It's not that I think they're going to find that Hitler really did ... ( not going to spoil it for anyone ) ... , but that the difference between the two versions is no more exaggerated than some real life "rewrites" ( of history ), have been.

It was also beautiful. As "gorgeous" visually as Lynch can be, ( eg. "Mulholland Drive" ).

Strange/interesting how almost all the scenes are in very small/enclosed spaces. And the climax is to explode one, ( and an earlier climax is ended by a flight away/out of a small space ). History ( including the one of our own life which we each tell ourselves ) is a very small space maybe! ?

The film made me think of a child's fantasy, of that kind of heartfelt desire to enter into a storyline which seems set in stone and "fix" it, alter/escape/"explode" it, ( I had the same kind of fantasy about the Arthurian myth, wanted to save Arthur, from the whole Morgane-le-Fay entanglement and its fatal result; Mordred, and in the same way save Robin Hood from the treacherous nun ). Suddenly realised where some "steam-punk" might be coming from.

And maybe time-travel too has "simply" been the sci-fi ( scientifically "justified" ) expression/embodiment of this urge, attacking/dissipating the illusion that "the past" is something solid. We "create" the past, with our thoughts/beliefs, over and over again.

As with "Pulp Fiction" I loved the larger than life, but still "real" and "alive", characters.

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