Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

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Tarantino?s Inglourious Basterds Prequel?

Quentin Tarantino?s Inglourious Basterds has yet to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, but the director is already planning another film in his potential world war 2 franchise. Apparently Tarantino had shelves a huge subplot involving African-American soldiers stuck behind enemy lines, which he hopes to make that part of a prequel, that is, if the first film is popul

?I have a half-written prequel ready to go if this movie?s a smash,? Tarantino tells the New York Times .imes .

Of course, Tarantino is infamous for talking about projects and ideas that never come to be anything more than just that. You might remember the Pulp Fiction / Reservoir Dogs prequel/sequel The Vega Brothers, and the potential sequels to Kill Bill. In fact, when Quentin announced he was directing Inglourious Basterds last year at Cannes, I really didn?t believe him and predicted it would never happen. Thankfully, I was wrong. So what are the chances that we?ll see a Basterds prequel? I?m not quite sure.

Also of note, Tarantino assured the Times that Basterds ?will be in the original category at the Oscars.? Wow, it?s as if Babe Ruth pointed to center field before nailing one home. You have to admire someone with that much confidence.

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Those who say QT doesn't disappoint -- has Deathproof been forgotten? Damn that movie was mediocre. Annoying characters, a story that was simply reset to zero halfway through, and most disappointing of all -- the dialogue, which was something QT always delivered big time before, simply sucked. The car chase at the end was really good though.

But I'm looking forward to this.

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Those who say QT doesn't disappoint -- has Deathproof been forgotten? Damn that movie was mediocre. Annoying characters, a story that was simply reset to zero halfway through, and most disappointing of all -- the dialogue, which was something QT always delivered big time before, simply sucked. The car chase at the end was really good though.

But I'm looking forward to this.

I have said earlier in this thread that Death proof is the worst movie of QT.

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Tarantino's movies to me don't provide a clear storyline. A movie isn't supposed to leave you lost scratching your head. I was watching Kill Bill and I liked the action scenes but I scratched my head 'til it was raw and bloody in doubt as to wtf the movie is about.

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Total Film?s Sam Ashurst:b> ?Not only did I love every minute, if the French projectionist wanted to cue it up and roll it again from the start, I would have sat through the whole film again, with the biggest grin on my face. This is Quentin?s best film since Jackie Brown. It might even be his best film since Pulp Fiction.? ?[Eli Roth is] the only weak link I could spot? ? ?Tarantino dialogue at its best? ? ?QT?s magpie eye has never been sharper, swooping down on Italian cinema and plucking the very best shots, framing and music to create a deserving homage to the spaghetti Empire?s Chris Hewitt :mpire?s Chris Hewitt : ?Rather brilliant. Every bit as idiosyncratic as the spelling of its title, it?s a wonderfully-acted movie that subverts expectation at every turn. And it may represent the most confident, audacious writing and directing of QT?s career.? ? ?The performances are superb across-the-board.? ?[Christoph Waltz] may be a shoo-in for a Best Supporting Oscar nom? ? ?Some of his Grindhouse flourishes ? large captions stamped on screen, the usual flirting with structure and chronology, offbeat musical cues (a David Bowie track shows up at one point) and the sudden introduction of a hip narrator (Samuel L. Showbiz411?s Roger Friedman:?certainly very talky,?

Showbiz411?s Roger Friedman: ?a big sprawling entertainment

that?s less violent than you?d expect and a tad more intellectual, too. ? ?Tarantino fans won?t be disappointed but they may be challenged? ? ?Brad Pitt is excellent? ? ? feels sometimes di>Total Film?s Jonathan Dean ion than expected? ? ? IB is a fairy tale at heart.?

Total Film?s Jonathan Dean : ?Much of Basterds felt flat, with a schizophrenic spaghetti western style that blasts Ennio Morricone at the start and then David Bowie later on.? ? ?Enjoyable? Sure. But for 2 hours and 40 minutes it?s a big ask to keep brattishness exhilarating.? ? ?well worth watching and admirably ambitious and single-minded,? ? ?Inglourious Basterds will split viewers.?

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'Inglourious Basterds' divides Cannes crowd

It's fascinating to look at the blog postings Wednesday from the Cannes Film Festival of the premiere of "Inglourious Basterds," Quentin Tarantino's WWII Nazi-scalping action fantasy (he has the Reich apparently coming to an end not in Hitler's bunker but in a Paris movie theater). To me, the postings reflect each blog's rooting interest in the film and the director, whose PR campaign is orchestrated by the Weinstein Co., which will release the film later this summer.

In other words, the bloggers who tend to like Harvey Weinstein are posting good reviews; the bloggers who loathe him are gleefully accentuating the negative.

For example, we have New York magazine's Vulture blog playing up the snark, writing off the film as "boring," bolstering its verdict with a host of negative reviews, including one from Movieline's David Bourgeois, who writes: "By the end of the film -- almost two-and-a-half hours later -- its hard to care much about what happens to anybody on screen."

On the other hand, Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke was helpfully touting the movie, running a trio of favorable reviews from the British press, which she introduced with the claim that "Inglourious Basterds' " Cannes debut had been greeted with a "great reaction from the general audience with a huge ovation even with no talent in attendance." She only posts positive reviews, including a critique from Empire magazine that calls the film "rather brilliant," saying it was a "wonderfully acted movie that subverts expectation at every turn."

But even Finke's readers were skeptical about her review choices. The first post on her comments page was from a reader who asked, "Why not include the Guardian's review too?" The reader helpfully supplied a highlight from the Peter Bradshaw review: "Quentin Tarantino's WW2 schlocker about a Jewish-American revenge squad intent on killing Nazis in German-occupied France is awful. It is achtung-achtung-ach-mein-Gott atrocious."

The reviews keep coming in from all media outposts, with Variety mixed, the Hollywood Reporter largely negative and Time magazine's Richard and Mary Corliss declaring the movie "a misfire." My colleague Kenneth Turan, who was also at the screening, calls the film a "self-indulgent piece of violent alternate history."

However, my favorite assessment of the film comes from director Eli Roth, who plays Sgt. Donnie Donowitz in "Basterds." He defends the film's narrative conceit about tough Jews getting revenge against Hitler, describing it as "kosher porn. It's something I dreamed since I was a kid."

It would seem that most, if not all, of the reviews are biased and just Entertainment politics because some people may or may not like the Producers behind the film. Shame :( Hope it doesn't hurt the film.

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REVIEW Inglourious Basterds

"I THINK this might be my masterpiece," Lt Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) declares after carving a swastika on a Nazi's forehead towards the end of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

The film might not be Tarantino's masterpiece but it is his most entertaining and exhilarating effort since Pulp Fiction.

As ever, this is a film about other films as much as it is about its ostensible subject -- vigilante Jewish Nazi hunters during the latter part of the Second World War.

It should be noted that Tarantino's treatment of the Second World War is resoundingly superficial. Don't look for nuance or depth here or for sophisticated analysis.

Nor is this really an action movie. There are great action sequences along the way. What really propels the movie, though, isn't the gun-toting but Tarantino's wise-cracking, brilliantly inventive dialogue.

The violence is often extreme -- the Nazi hunters have a habit of scalping their victims and one hunter likes to batter in his antagonist's head with a baseball bat -- but it comes in bursts and has a comic book element.

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Not your typical Tarantino

Film writer Alex Billington of FirstShowing.net called Basterds "the pinnacle film of the festival." The movie was "the one everyone was looking forward to and the one everyone had really high expectations for. That's why there was so much positive energy coming out of it."

No movie has caused such a stir during the festival, except perhaps Lars Von Trier's art-house horror film, Antichrist, though it inspired more contempt than admiration for its blend of explicit sex and violence.

The overall Basterds reaction was more closely aligned with Variety critic Todd McCarthy, who wrote: "By turns surprising, nutty, windy, audacious and a bit caught up in its own cleverness, the picture is a completely distinctive piece of American pop art with a strong Euro flavor."

Billington's review reads: "It's as awesome as Tarantino's first two films and as entertaining as his most recent few. It's the WWII movie we've been waiting to see."

McCarthy and Billington also see flaws, however. McCarthy points out that the film takes a while to find its footing; Billington found it too talky.

"Maybe I just felt like I wanted a little more action," Billington said in an interview. "I loved the Basterds so much, I just wanted to see more of them."

Baz Bamigboye of London's Daily Mail seemed to agree: "Not enough scalps. ? While it's good and there are fun elements, it's rather dialogue-led than jam-packed with action."

Some, however, found it refreshing that Tarantino has taken a step back from the gore of his Grindhouse contribution, Death Proof, and the Kill Bill movies.

Among them was critic Sarah Steinberg-Heller, who said she went in with low expectations. "I got really tired of the 'poetry of violence' thing. But this was clever and surprisingly funny. As a Jew, it was especially fun to see, though I'm sure my older relatives would say it's offensive. But anyone who says that is trying too hard to be uptight. It's just fun."

For longtime critic Emanuel Levy, it's pure fable. "It's 'what if ? .' What worries me is some of my colleagues were walking out saying, 'It's not real, it's not a realistic combat film.' But it doesn't need to be real. It's more about the role of cinema in shaping our perspective. And it's about real war filtered through Tarantino's vision."

After reading more reviews, I've decided that most of them are just bull****. They hate the film, not because it was bad, but because of who produced the film. I'm not worried anymore.

Plus, over at Yahoo! Movies, there's an absolutely awesome clip from the film that had me roll:laugh:ugh:

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Those who say QT doesn't disappoint -- has Deathproof been forgotten? Damn that movie was mediocre. Annoying characters, a story that was simply reset to zero halfway through, and most disappointing of all -- the dialogue, which was something QT always delivered big time before, simply sucked. The car chase at the end was really good though.

But I'm looking forward to this.

He only did that movie to lower everyone's expectations of him. It was all part of the plan to make his future projects so much more impressive :p

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