Inglourious Basterds

[ZEE]

are there snipers in the film?

[Wezil]

Really enjoyed this movie

Trademark of Tarantino was that it was hilarious...

Did it have his obligatory "trunk shot"?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Actually this one did not. Though it did have something a bit similar (I like to call it the "identification as a Nazi shot").

[Wezil]

I like Tarantino's movies but I need to wait for the DVD (theatres aren't receptive to my bad habits).

[Provost Harrison]

I like Tarantino's movies but I need to wait for the DVD (theatres aren't receptive to my bad habits).

Do you pick your nose and flick it at people?

[duke o' york]

I like Tarantino's movies but I need to wait for the DVD (theatres aren't receptive to my bad habits).

Just buy her a ball gag and return to the fray.

[Wezil]

Do you pick your nose and flick it at people?

Worse. I'm a smoker.

[Provost Harrison]

Ah yes, of course.

I like the misspelling of basterd. Makes it easy to violate the censor

And a bit like Frankie Howerd too

[molly bloom]

Let me guess, you prefer the works of Jakob R. Neilson and Marcus Swede Olufsen?

Nope.

I'd just prefer a director who knows when to stop and has some notion of what longueur means.


You can look that up Asher-it's similar to the feeling induced after reading the first word of one of your posts.

[molly bloom]

Lemme guess, you aren't fond of any postmodern directors/films (well, unless they are super duper artsy)?

I like a lot of modern cinema. I just never raved over Tarantino-for the reasons given.

Is postmodernist the new way of saying plagiarist now ?

"I have sibling rivalry with Orson Welles," Tarantino tells Tracy Smith. "I don't think he's that good. All right? I have sibling rivalry with him and Stanley Kubrick."

Interview with CBS Sunday Morning.


Oh my- anything goes for publicity-shy Quentin. Perhaps he just needs a bit of a lie-down and a rest before getting the idea for his next film (oops, meant to say homage) from a Korean/Japanese/Italian film of the 70s.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Are you simply not aware of postmodernism in film? Seriously? Homages and direct references to other movies and movie tropes are part and parcel of that (among other things designed to reiterate the artificial nature of story and prevent the viewer from being emotionally attached to the subject matter as in conventional film).

A simple plargiarist would hope you don't get where the inspiration is coming from. Those who are engaged in homage or pastiche are expressly hoping that you DO understand where it is coming from and think about those works (it is no accident that Enrico Morricone does a few songs in "Inglorious Basterds") while watching their work.

Regardless, Tarantino is absolutely brilliant (and hence why he's been rated so highly as a director).

[Asher]

Nope.

I'd just prefer a director who knows when to stop and has some notion of what longueur means.


You can look that up Asher-it's similar to the feeling induced after reading the first word of one of your posts.

Classic that you'd drop a word like longueur after a post where you are skewered for being a hapless, pompous snob.

You must be so proud of yourself. I'm quite certain that you just don't get his films. Not that they're deep in any way, it's just clear to me you are not in his target audience and are incapable of being in the right mindset to enjoy this kind of film. It's not intellectually superior enough for your insecure self.

[molly bloom]

You must be so proud of yourself. .

Compared with you- who wouldn't be ?

[Imran Siddiqui]

It's not intellectually superior enough

Actually, in certain ways, it may be. Just depends if you are looking at it from an film-as-artform point of view.

[Asher]

Compared with you- who wouldn't be ?

It's interesting that you use me as a benchmark in your life.