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Inglourious Basterds
Inlander:
The trailer is a terrible representation of the movie. The movie is built around very long scenes full of rich dialogue that slowly winds tighter and tighter until the tension is almost unbearable. The trailer, as is the nature of the beast, is built around short sound-bites of amusing lines taken out of context and edited into something flashy and baubly and attention-grabbing that won't take up too much of your time.
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 31 Aug 2009, 08:13 ---full of rich dialogue
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Wait, did Tarantino write this movie or not?
Chesire Cat:
I get that it is vogue to hate on Tarantino (to have always hated on Tarantino, to hate him before it was "cool") but he has had some amazing movies, Ill admit backing his bum-buddies movies Hostel 1/2, or his own Kill Bill and Grindhouse were either total shit, or just not my cup of tea. But Pulp Fiction is one of the top ten highest reviewed movies of all time, and Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown were both powerhouses in their own right, and Basterds has earned a spot right up there with them.
I do however find it incredibly ironic that people of this forum can say the dialog was painful as lets face it, (a re-read of everyone here's comments showed you did actually appreciate the dialog, its just everyone else who didnt) this forum is built upon witty dialog, well that and inside jokes. Though me personally as a talker, thirst for witty dialog in every facet of my life, so perhaps I have the pedigree to enjoy his dialog more than most.
Though as far as the end of summer movies so far, this is 3/4 the movie that District 9 is, even if on subsequent watches Basterds will improve, District 9 was an amazing powerhouse of somewhat of a sleeper hit, well sleeper to me who has been "off the grid" for the last two months but hadn't heard about it prior to about two days before seeing it.
Bastardous Bassist:
I like witty dialogue, but I had to force myself through Pulp Fiction because everyone I knew said it was such a great movie. What I see that movie being is 95-99% totally forgettable garbage, and 1-5% of the greatest lines ever written. It's just not worth it, to me. I couldn't make it through Reservoir Dogs, because I remembered that I could be doing something else. Judging by most people here, Basterds is quite similar. Clearly, many people like him, and I don't care if it's vogue or not, but I don't. I try to keep my opinions to myself, because he's clearly quite popular among people who's opinions I otherwise quite agree with. However, if he's brought up, I will speak my mind.
KvP:
--- Quote from: axerton on 31 Aug 2009, 07:14 ---ok, is the trailer a fair representation of the movie, because the trailer left me thinking it would be the most painful thing in the world to watch.
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The trailer makes the movie out to be a war film, and it's not. The Basterds are barely characters, the movie's really about a French theater owner / survivor of Nazi persecution. It's really not a war film, it's a Tarantino film, which is to say, it's about movies. There are some really tense scenes, but at a certain point they all stop being suspenseful in the "what's going to happen?" way, and they start spinning their wheels and sliding toward an inevitable end.
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