movies

[haltz]

Not to be a spoiler, but I just realized the line where Brad Pitt says, "It's the closest thing to television we've got..." is a joke within the joke, TV wasn't widely available until 1946.

I'm pretty sure he said movies. But I could be wrong.

Completely outrageous and incredibly entertaining. Just saw it in a theater with about 20 other people that I'm not sure found it as funny as we did. Or they felt bad about laughing or something.

Oh, and the dude who plays Hans Landa pretty much stole the show IMO. turns out I don't hate Eli Roth as much as I thought (though the Ted Williams bit really fell flat), and Brad Pitt was hysterical, but whoever the hell that guy is was outstanding.

"Make it yourself like a good chap, will you? The bar's in the globe." ... I think I'm going to see it again tomorrow.

[MrSaigon]

Tarantino's dialogue can bug the crap out of me. Will it in this movie?

[dangerous]

haltz is right, it was "closest thing we ever get to movies."

[clevername]

Tarantino's dialogue can bug the crap out of me. Will it in this movie?

I don't think it's typical "Tarantino" dialogue, other than it's excellent. The dialogue here is more built towards building tension in each scene (and boy does it start off with a bang from that standpoint). It all makes sense from the characters' perspective, which is something Tarantino sometimes struggles with. I read someone comment that it seemed like for Basterds Tarantino wrote what the characters wanted to say instead of writing what he wanted to say through the characters.

The closest to stereotypical Tarantino dialogue is spoken by the Basterd's themselves, but Pitt and Co. do such an awesome job delivering the lines that I don't think you'll mind. And they're honestly not really in the movie that much.

[cpebbles]

Brad Pitt's undercover routine was the hardest I laughed in a movie theater in roughly a decade. I also have to echo clevername's acclamation for the Hans Landa character and the actor who played him. Apparently Leonardo DiCaprio lobbied for that role, and as interesting as that casting would have been, he'd have had to play it too straight and there is no way that DiCaprio could have pulled it off the way Waltz did.

[dexter]

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[haltz]

Brad Pitt's undercover routine was the hardest I laughed in a movie theater in roughly a decade.

Yes. Although I may have gotten even more of a kick out of the back and forth during Mike Myers' cameo.

[SHOW]

What should we drink to?
Well, um.. Down with Hitler.
All the way down, sir.

[PujolJunkie]

This may be insanely obvious, but Shaun of the Dead really is a fabulous film. I've watched it thrice this week.

[G. Keenan]

This has been a week of movies about killing nazis. I very much enjoyed Inglorious Basterds. Tonight I saw Flame and Citron, a Danish movie based on a true story about two guys in the Danish resistance during WWII who also go around killing nazis. It's kind of a thriller/espionage/noir film. Very good.

[PujolJunkie]

I echo all sentiments. Inglorious Basterds was incredible.

[SHOW]

The entire end bit literally made everyone in my theatre applaud and cheer like crazy. The fire. The shootings. Novak and Pitt taking out the two at the end. It was strangely sadistic the way everyone celebrated all of the Nazi's burning alive.