Inglourious basterds (4 Viewers)

[Ragnar]

I thought it was ok........did anyone pick out some of the music?.
The opening credits was the Dimitri Tiomkin music from John Waynes Alamo.
Tarantino also sliped in some music from Kelly's Heroes.

 

[mikemiller1955]

I finally watched this...

it's been in my Netflix queue for 2 months...

listed as...."very long wait"...

a friend I play golf with (also a Netflix member)...

has had a copy sitting at his house for 3 weeks...never returning it...

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......................................

guess that's why it was marked..."very long wait"...

anyway...

I enjoyed it...

good script, dialog, cinematography, acting and plot...

the worst actor in the movie was Brad Pitt...but I don't think he was to blame...

the role he played was difficult to pull off...especially that silly accent...

Christopher Waltz as Hans Landa stole the show...brilliant...

it was a good plot...

a little gory...but I'm okay with that...

that the 4 top leaders of the Nazi party "only" had two armed guards protecting all of them...

no guards inside the lobby of the theater or outside the theater...

that was a little hard to believe...

Tarantinos use of "animated blood spurts" a staple of his movies...I find distracting and it takes away from his movies to me...but it's become popular in Hollywood (Spartacus on Starz...300...etc...)...

after all the bad reviews I read on here...I'm surprised it was much better than I hoped...

a lot of the dialog is in German...and the subtitles move a bit too fast for me...so I had to stop and rewind a few times...

okay...so I liked it.

 

[Wraith]

I finally got to this one and overall I was very underwhelmed. There were some fun scenes with humor and tension like the tavern scene and the lunch scene but they were few and far between. It actually was not as bloody as I expected but rather the violence was mostly just silly. The Hitler scenes were simply absurd, which I know is a Tarantino inclination but I just don't think he pulled in all together. It is worth seeing once just for the novelty but barely 2 stars for me.

I'm afraid 'underwhelmed' kind of sums it up for me also.
I didn't find it particulalry gory, certainly not as much as I was expecting, and there wasn't a huge amount of action or violence. Some interesting parts, but overall, doubt I'll be watching it again.

 

[Scott]

I finally saw the DVD that my neighbor has. I took it off my Netflix queue. Bad show Netflix for having this for weeks on "Very Long Wait."

That was fun. Good suspense. Nazis are STILL the "Gold Standard" of evil. I watched the "Nation's Pride" extra film with the DVD with the German Audie Murphy.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Wow...I was surprised how many people thought this film was just "ok." I was not impressed by the trailers, so it took untill last week to see it...but...there are so many things I loved about this film. In true Tarantino style, there was very little you could anticipate anywhere in this film, so lots of surprises...and just when you thought, it couldn't...it did. Tarantino wasn't afraid to kill off important characters...and these are some of the most credible and imaginative characters I have yet to see in a "war film." Christoph Waltz deserves every film award they can dream up this year, and by the looks of it, he has many of them already. I will never think of "Bingo" the same way again.

I give it three thumbs up! Most memorable film I have seen in a long time.

 

[Scott]

Nice to see Rod Taylor as Winston Churchill. Tarrentino does that with older and now obscure actors. Bo Svenson from the original "Inglorious Bastards" movie as well was in the "Nation's Pride" film. The plot development of Pitt's men taking over the mission comes from that 1970s film.

 

[lancer]

just saw this today. It sure wasn't what I expected. I was a little surprised that there wasn't more combat and blood and guts. I did like the bar scene quite a bit. It was a rather unusual ending but everyone got what they deserved, for the most part. It certainly was entertaining and didn't bore. -- lancer

 

[Spitfrnd]

Wow...I was surprised how many people thought this film was just "ok." I was not impressed by the trailers, so it took until last week to see it...but...there are so many things I loved about this film. In true Tarantino style, there was very little you could anticipate anywhere in this film, so lots of surprises...and just when you thought, it couldn't...it did. Tarantino wasn't afraid to kill off important characters...and these are some of the most credible and imaginative characters I have yet to see in a "war film." Christoph Waltz deserves every film award they can dream up this year, and by the looks of it, he has many of them already. I will never think of "Bingo" the same way again.

I give it three thumbs up! Most memorable film I have seen in a long time.

Well that just goes to show how opinions can vary. I was appalled at how many nominations this B movie effort got. I don't know but I thought the surprises were mostly silly and the characters were mostly contrived. I now have even less respect for the Academy.

 

[Rutledge]

Inglorious Bastards deserves all the accolades it gets in my opinion. No, it wasnt a classic war movie with lots of shoot 'em ups. And it didnt adhere to actual history.

But it delivered, big time, in just about every other way that a fun movie can. Clever dialogue, nail biting suspense, unpredictable outcomes, humor, great lines, good characters, tremendous acting, creative story line, just all around very entertaining. I give it a solid A.
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Tarantino does what few movies, or movie makers, do anymore - truly engages you. He knows how to create natural tension that boils just below the surface without unrealistic developments. Yet he is also a master at creating scenes that, if done by others would be far fetched, but from him are somehow believavble.

Ill take IB any day over another "been there, done that" war movie.

 

[Grognard]

Finally got to watch it on DVD from Netflix yesterday evening. Overall entertaining with great roles/acting from Melanie Laurent and especially Christian Waltz. The plot is a little far fetched from a historical and realistic standpoint though (no SS guarding the theater doors and even shutting down Gross Paris when Adolf and his buddies are visiting??).

 

[bradleyl30]

I was definitely surprised the first time since I was expecting more of a historical war movie. I thought I was prepared for it to be Tarantinoed up, but I wasn't. Watching it a second and third time, I enjoyed more each time and saw some of the real brilliance.