looks fun. violence, nazis, what else you want?

I'm skeptical, but will of course give it a chance. Brad Pitt's accent is awful.

Looks really bad. Will wait for a dozen reviews and then decide randomly.

some reviews from cannes:

• “Today” Show anchor Ann Curry couldn’t keep her hands off the Hollywood hunk during an interview at the Cannes Film Festival, where Pitt is promoting his latest film, “Inglourious Basterds.” Curry, who has anchored NBC’s “Dateline” and “Nightly News,” playfully patted the actor on his chest and even grabbed his chin during the 7-minute interview, which aired Wednesday morning. “Women who watch the ‘Today’ show are really envious of me right now because I get to stand here in Cannes talking to you,” Curry said to the actor before asking him if he had anything to say to those said adoring female fans. - from NYDailynews *

• Quentin Tarantino has made an eye-catching return to the Cannes Film Festival with Inglourious Basterds, an epic World War II movie set in Nazi-occupied France. Tarantino swaps fact for pulp fiction in Inglourious Basterds, a comic revenge fantasy about Jewish freedom fighters bringing down the Nazis in 1944. Brad Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of a gang of Jewish-American soldiers operating in occupied France whose self-proclaimed mission is “to kill as many Nazis as possible”. - from BBC *

• Empire has just seen Quentin Tarantino’s eagerly-awaited WWII flick, Inglourious Basterds, and it’s 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. -** from Empire ** *

apologies if my formatting is a fuck-up.
i'll def. give the film a chance but i'm not sure if it's meant to be serious or just a giant piss-take with glorified violence. the end hitler hissy fit makes me think the latter.i dont kno how to to feel about it.

Looks like fun. Why the strange spelling though I wonder?

I'm sure there was already a thread, but obviously I can't find it. Anyway, this looks like shit.

The ridiculous spelling was to side-step the censor issues of the word Bastards. Look forward to Carntsmersher 2: Farktoberfest.

I dunno, I'd quite like it if the movie was called Inglorious B#$%ards or similar.

i don't know who Ann Curry is, but she sounds like an annoying fuckhead. even if she's related to Tim Curry.

I'll be curious to see this...hope its better than that piece of shit Deathproof.

aw, i liked deathproof... but thats a grindhouse film, they're meant to be like that. whatever that may be.

Deathpoof was rad. too much talking. but the car porn was off the scale awesome.

Peter Bradshaw shit-cans it for the Guardian:

here

whatever.. i'm gonna watch it! Yay..

That review makes it sound abominable.

bah, missed out.

DARK AGE + Q&A HOSTED BY QUENTIN TARANTINO
It's his 35mm print, It's his favourite Ozploitation film - Let's have a party!

7:30pm
Tue 04 Aug, 2009
Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace
380 Military Road, Cremorne

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But you can still see Quentin at the
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Quentin Tarantino & Popcorn Taxi
proudly present the 1987 Ozploitation classic
DARK AGE
Hosted by
Quentin Tarantino
(Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs,
Jackie Brown, Death Proof)

LIVE ON-STAGE Q&A
with John Jarratt
and Nikki Coghill!

Tuesday, August 4th 2009 – 7:30pm SHARP!
Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace.

To celebrate the great Aussie genre films of the ’80s, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS director Quentin Tarantino presents his own personal 35mm print of Arch Nicholson's 1987 killer croc epic DARK AGE for a special one-off screening at Popcorn Taxi.

DARK AGE is a kick-ass combo of giant monster movie, ecological horror and Ozploitation at its finest.

Quentin Tarantino will be in attendance to introduce the screening and also moderate a lively Q&A with DARK AGE stars John Jarratt (Wolf Creek) and Nikki Coghill (Time Guardian) after the movie.

This is one event you cannot miss.

POPCORN TAXI:
DARK AGE + Q&A
hosted by
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Time: 7:30pm SHARP!
Date: Tuesday August 4th.
Where: Hayden Orpheum: 380 Military Road, Cremorne.

It's recommended you arrive at the venue by 7pm at the latest to ensure a good seat as this will be a popular event and owing to security we reserve the right that latecomers may not be allowed entry.

(Dark Age courtesy of A.I. Ginnane)

dam dam dam I want to go to the Dark Age talk....bah....

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I can't tell which Cremore that is.

k2 said about 2 months ago:
looks fun. violence, nazis, what else you want?

Yeah I'm sold. I'm sure it will be an enjoyable diversion if nothing else.

What a horrible movie. An absolute failure and proof that Tarantino has completely lost it.

some of youse are tough to please. i really enjoyed basterds.

I thought it was a brilliant film. Nuts to all you haterz.

It was fucking lousy. Nuts to you tasteless fanboys.

Nah, I'm not a fanboy. But I do enjoy good cinema and my favourite kind of cinema is the stupidly self-referential type that reflects on the meaning of the medium. Basterds has this in spades. From the playing around with genre expectations to the relationship between film-history and real-history to the reflections on the act of looking I found it a meaty, chewy film. It wasn't the film we all expected it to be but that's kind of the point and pretty much par for the course with Tarrantino anyways.

It wasn't the film we all expected it to be

No, I expected Tarantino to make an egotistical piece of shit, and he delivered. Top points for speaking for other people again, though. You know how I love that.

Top points for speaking for other people again, though. You know how I love that.

Let me re-phrase that then:

''In some ways the film was promoted and presented as a WW2 action piece and while those elements were certainly present they were not part of the main focus of the film itself . A primary example of this would be the titular ''Basterds'' who, while they serve a major role in introducing important themes and promoting major characters into the action, are not actually a part of the film's central narrative. I believe this to be a deliberate fake-out on the part of Tarrantino and part of his trademark play on genre conventions. This surprise meant that the film wasn't everything that I expected it to be and it appears that many people, ranging from my personal friends to published film critics, appear to agree with me (at least in part)''.

The Wikipedia article points out that it was stitched together from three separate scripts and had, at one point, been planned as a mini-series or series of sequels. That's probably a much more practical reason the Basterds don't take up as much screen time as you'd expect titular characters to. It would also explain why the narrative was a dog's breakfast, and, dare I say it, largely incoherent.

I'm not sure I agree that the narrative was a dog's breakfast. Not exactly straight-forward but I found these elements fitted in well with what I read as the film's reflections on cinema. The major themes of the film were certainly coherent thorughout the whole script which probably indicates that Tarrantino spent a lot of time thinking about what he was trying to do when working on the final shooting script. But, hey, to each their own and one of the great things about the kind of cinema that Tarrantino makes (in my reading anyway) is that it is designed to support multiple interpretations of the text.

Anyhow, i enjoyed the film but I can see that it's not for everyone. Then again, no film ever is.

pfft

Aladdin

INTERNET ARGUMENTS ABOUT DIFFERENCING OPINIONS OF FILMS!

EVERYBODY WIN!

how can you not melt at ''a whole new world''

one of the great things about the kind of cinema that Tarrantino makes (in my reading anyway) is that it is designed to support multiple interpretations of the text.

So if I think the film is shit and you think it's not that a multiple reading of the text? What if I think the film doesn't allow multiple readings? Isn't that a paradox? Isn't this just post-modern rubbish designed to reduce and author's responsibility to their work?

And so on.

INTERNET ARGUMENTS ABOUT DIFFERENCING OPINIONS OF FILMS!

I hereby apologise for taking someone's opinion seriously enough to engage with them about it. I hereby renounce the importance of debate and will instead kiss the arse of anyone capable of owning an internet connection and being able to type.

''Good work, sir or madam! Let us celebrate our ability to cogitate at the most basic intellectual level by the posting of some internet memes! LOLOLOL''

i'm sorry you didn't enjoy the film, noneabove. do you mind if i disagree with you?

Actionralf said 30 minutes ago:

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i never get that ''arguing on the internet is dumb'' why would you do that etc but i mean, this is a discussion forum

i never get that ''arguing on the internet is dumb'' why would you do that etc but i mean, this is a discussion forum

Arguing about different opinions is dumb in general...not just on the internet.

no it's not. not at all. it's one of the best ways of arriving at deeper understanding. i for one am glad that jrb and noneabove bother to argue. i can't be fucked myself but i like reading a well argued point.

Thanks rigid.

Slothman - of course, but I prefer it if you tell me why. And then I tell you why. And the, maybe, we wrestle, but not necessarily.

agree rigidij

The screenplay for Django Unchained has leaked.

Anyone downloaded it?