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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
"We're going to be doing one thing and one thing only. Killing Nazis. SOUND GOOD?"
"Quentin Tarantino's blood-drenched fantasy of Jewish GIs who slaughter the top Nazis, "Inglourious Basterds," dazzled German critics who said Thursday it ripped up the rulebook for World War II films.
Ahead of the film's international release this week, German reviewers were rapturous over the fictitious squad of Nazi killers who stop the Holocaust and take brutal revenge, with some calling the picture "historic" and "important." Only a handful expressed qualms over Tarantino's trademark gore-splattering, most relishing the cinematic massacre of the Nazi brass including Adolf Hitler by a band of Jewish-American soldiers, led by Brad Pitt, as deeply satisfying.
"'Inglourious Basterds' is brazen, a declaration of war, a pleasure," the normally staid Frankfurter Allgemeine daily said.
"Tarantino shows the Nazis as they really were: a pack of pompous trash -- thoroughly trivial bad guys."
However the paper had a word of warning about Tarantino's larger-than-life Nazis, led by this year's best-actor laureate in Cannes, Austrian Christoph Waltz as a "Jew-hunting" SS psychopath.
"When evil is presented as well and as elegantly as he does, we can easily be seduced by it," it wrote.
Filmed in part in Germany, the picture is according to Tarantino a "spaghetti western but with World War II iconography" that was also influenced by the French New Wave.
"This ain't your daddy's World War II movie," Tarantino has said.
Brad Pitt is starting to take on a strange resemblance to both both Clark Gable and Howard Hughes.
ReplyDeleteI have never been a fan, but it looks like he might be good in this film.
I probably won't see the movie - if someone else does, let us know what you think.
Ro
We will :)
ReplyDeleteMike Myers as a brit genl?
ReplyDeleteA gliding familiarity with Dirty Dozen?
Killinnazis?
All we need now is the soundtrack by Mel Brooks ..
Don't be stupid
Be a smarty
Come on
join the .... .....
Sure winner ..if not as a flick then a cult dvd
Shabat is Friday, and I can think of no better way of celebrating the coming of the Bride of Shabat then watching a film about KILLING NAZIS.
ReplyDeleteAnd, just to make it ironic, this Friday ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE BEGINNING OF RAMADAN.
LOL
Epa,
ReplyDeleteI predict this movie will be HUGE.
I do not think it will be a cult movie.
I have already heard some comment that it may be Tarantino's best movie ever.
I swear to God, as strange as it might seem, watching that trailer brings a tear to my eye.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of killing Nazis, the new Wolfenstein came out yesterday. I've been waiting 8 years for it and it's awesome! :)
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see the Basterds.
Total,
ReplyDeleteI've been wanting that game for a while as well.
Ramadan already? Where did the year go.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't have a thing to wear.
Guess I'll have to get out that old boa again. . .
Yeah, and you and I can roast Mohammed on a spit like the pig he is.
ReplyDeleteYes Yes Yes
ReplyDeleteAre we still fighting Nazi's in Hollywood?
ReplyDeleteThey should get gutsy and fight themselves some Jihadi's!
Hey, I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that this is Tarantino's way of making exactly that point.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I think 300, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight were also restatements of that idea.
ReplyDeletere still fighting Nazi's-
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought of that...you may be correct Pastorius. Still, Hollywood is a coward.
Tarantino always seems to deliver fresh ideas, awesome films, and shocking visuals, so I'll rush out to see this one!
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteFrank Miller, the guy behind Batman and 300 is not a typical Hollywood leftie.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=6560
Tarantino never talks about his political ideas, which, given the nature of Hollywood, probably means he is more Conservative.
By the way, I work way on the fringes of Hollywood. I am always instructed by my people to keep my mouth shut about my political opinions in meetings.
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That's the way it is.
"Quentin Tarantino's blood-drenched fantasy of Jewish GIs who slaughter the top Nazis, "Inglourious Basterds," dazzled German critics who said Thursday it ripped up the rulebook for World War II films.
ReplyDeleteAhead of the film's international release this week, German reviewers were rapturous over the fictitious squad of Nazi killers who stop the Holocaust and take brutal revenge, with some calling the picture "historic" and "important." Only a handful expressed qualms over Tarantino's trademark gore-splattering, most relishing the cinematic massacre of the Nazi brass including Adolf Hitler by a band of Jewish-American soldiers, led by Brad Pitt, as deeply satisfying.
"'Inglourious Basterds' is brazen, a declaration of war, a pleasure," the normally staid Frankfurter Allgemeine daily said.
"Tarantino shows the Nazis as they really were: a pack of pompous trash -- thoroughly trivial bad guys."
However the paper had a word of warning about Tarantino's larger-than-life Nazis, led by this year's best-actor laureate in Cannes, Austrian Christoph Waltz as a "Jew-hunting" SS psychopath.
"When evil is presented as well and as elegantly as he does, we can easily be seduced by it," it wrote.
Filmed in part in Germany, the picture is according to Tarantino a "spaghetti western but with World War II iconography" that was also influenced by the French New Wave.
"This ain't your daddy's World War II movie," Tarantino has said.
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OY
VAY
IZ
MEER
can't wait
Yes, I don't want to get pumped up for a let down, but this may become my favorite movie of all time.
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