AussieReaper wrote:
I didn't like Inglorious Basterds.
It was a stupid movie.
Agreed. I saw it when visiting the USA and I was speaking English all the time, so it was a nice opportunity to practice my German while I was away from Vienna for so many weeks. Didn't have to look at the subtitles once. If it wasn't for Waltz, the movie would have been even worse. If it wasn't for Brad Pitt, it might have been better.
Superior Mind wrote:
I was always skeptical of film majors whose favorite director was Quentin Tarantino. I enjoyed all of his films, but his style reminds me of anime more so than in any other films. I like anime so that's not an issue with me. The excess gore is not meant to be serious. I interpret it as being a kind of exaggerated dramatics, a vaudeville style of performance. What this style achieves is over-stimulation in whatever emotion is being grabbed at. This opposes to the general logical complication of a film which draws on that to achieve more subtle, but more powerful, emotional grabs. Of all the directors that do pure entertainment, Tarantino does some of the best.
QT is about violence for the sake of violence. It has no place, no meaning, no sense. I agree with Uzique when he said the bounty hunting scenes were when the movie was at its best. Certainly it had its violent moments, but it all made sense. After that, it just seemed to be blood and guts because he felt the scene didn't have enough. I don't know. I liked Django much more than Basterds, but it certainly isn't the Holy Grail that so many are hailing it to be.