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--- Quote from: Lise on 23 Aug 2009, 22:16 ---PS: Random Mike Myers cameo, wtf? It's a shame the scene with the Brits wasn't more comedic like I was hoping.

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I dunno about you, but I giggled through most of that scene. The scene itself wasn't "funny", but Meyers just has that effect I guess.

Reed:
I actually thought the scene wasn't hilarious. It wasn't so much that there were great lines, or any physical humor. I just found something really amusing about how absurdly stereotypically British the two of them were. Maybe I'm just seeing something that isn't there, but I think it was much better than if they had gone for something more overt.

Inlander:
It took me a while to realise that the English guy in the basement scene was the same as the English guy in the scene with Mike Myers, because between those two scenes he lost his moustache.

(Incidentally, he was played by an actor named Michael Fassbinder, who was absolutely amazing as Bobby Sands in an extraordinary film called Hunger earlier this year. I wish he'd been in more than just two scenes of Inglourious Basterds, even if one of them was a really long scene and one of the best in the film.)

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--- Quote from: Lise on 23 Aug 2009, 22:16 ---However, if you walk into the theater expecting an non-stop action/comedy Nazi-killin' fest like the trailer implies, you'll probably be disappointed. I could tell several members of the audience were fidgety during the long dialogue scenes, including myself at certain points.

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I definitely agree the trailer is grossly misleading in that area. Watching that, you get the impression the narrative is more tightly focused on Pitt and his merry band of Nazi exterminators. I was pleased to see the plotting is more complex than that, but ultimately the film just fell apart over the last hour. Still, I found the long dialogue scenes to be the high points of the film. I look forward to revisiting this on blu-ray in six months, perhaps I'll see it in another light.

I thought Duralde (film critic for MSNBC) summed up the film perfectly: If you’re OK with Tarantino’s habit of standing between the audience and the screen and waving his arms about, then you’ll be thrilled by “Basterds.”  That might've been my problem with it, because even though I've liked the three Tarantino films I've seen, I found it difficult not to roll my eyes at the Hugo Stiglitz logo, the brief scene of Goebbels banging his French interpreter, et cetera.

Yayniall:
I think either the Basterds or the Jewess storyline could have made a film in themselves, two entirely distinct films mind you.
But together it was just a mess.
I enjoyed the theme of language through the film with the switches between German, French and English but other than that and the obligatory foot scene it wasn't a particuarly amazing film.

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