Quentin Tarantino is a Basterd

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The comments on that video are priceless. 

Also, why are Russian wannabe nazis so much hotter than American wannabe nazis?

[Doktor Howl]

ATTN: DOK HOWL

          http://www.wntube.net/play.php?vid=1968

WHERE

          Exactly do we run these trains to?

EITHER 
 
          EEEEEEEEAST

OR

          DISNEYWORLD

Dok,
It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a smm....<scratch> WHAT'S UP?

RAUS!

RAUS!

RAUS!

[Doktor Howl]

The comments on that video are priceless. 

Also, why are Russian wannabe nazis so much hotter than American wannabe nazis?

I didn't see them as hot.

I saw them as wannabe murdering swine.  I wouldn't fuck any of them with Bea Arthur's decomposing dick, to tell you the truth.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I realize that "everything is funny, nothing is sacred" gets old, but I find neonazis hilarious. At least, I find them hilarious when they're not actively setting churches on fire, murdering people, or beating anyone up.

Hilarious, and kind of pitiable. Most of them aren't too bright.

[E.O.T.]

I realize that "everything is funny, nothing is sacred" gets old, but I find neonazis hilarious. At least, I find them hilarious when they're not actively setting churches on fire, murdering people, or beating anyone up.

Hilarious, and kind of pitiable. Most of them aren't too bright.

NIGEL

          They already ran those trains east, which is why we have Russian Nazi girls now. I draw the line at burning churches too. Unless it's a historic medieval stave church and the arsonist takes photos of it, then puts those on the cover of their new album and cops come across the records and bust the guy, previously having had no leads. Cause that's a special kind of funny.

AND YEAH,

          I was thinking more along the lines of trains running to every major city, then dispersing Russian Nazi girls via shuttle buses to barmitzvah's. But then, I've been hanging out with your racist having pussy all the time and now I'm probably morally desensitized as a result. Maybe that Waffen SS flag hanging above your bed betwixt the Nixon paintings made me think it was kinda hot.

[Maria]

I like you guys.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

          I was thinking more along the lines of trains running to every major city, then dispersing Russian Nazi girls via shuttle buses to barmitzvah's. But then, I've been hanging out with your racist having pussy all the time and now I'm probably morally desensitized as a result. Maybe that Waffen SS flag hanging above your bed betwixt the Nixon paintings made me think it was kinda hot.

I can't imagine what young Jewish boy wouldn't be delighted to be given a hot russian nazi for his 13th birthday...

And hey, just because my pussy's racist doesn't make it a Nazi. Jews are white too!



Maria:

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

This thread may contain SPOILERS, so read at your own risk



I just saw INGLORIOUS BASTERDS.

I will say, for the record, that I really did enjoy it. It was engaging, through provoking, and evocative. It's been two days and I'm still thinking about it.

It's very much a typical Tarantino movie. I have mixed feelings on Quentin Tarantino - I love some of his films (pulp fiction and reservoir dogs are two of my favorite movies). Others make me feel like he doesn't have a lot of respect for his audience. He knows exactly what the American Cinema audience wants: sex, violence, and a feeling of righteousness all bathed in cinematic ultra-style. Leave the nuance at the door.

I'm amazed at how Tarantino manages to get completely two dimensional characters to deliver excellent, compelling dialogue. And that's my biggest complaint about Tarantino - there really aren't a lot of characters in his movies. Just caricatures. All the Basterds are just names and about three sentences worth of description. Who is Brad Pitt's character, other than a brutal nazi killer? We don't know. Does the Bear Jew have a life outside of killing nazis? Why does that german officer kill 13 soldiers and then defect to join the Basterds? The only hint is a two second flashback in which he recalls being whipped by nazis.

What I found so odd about the movie was the use of brutality. There is no moral relativism here - nazis are continually presented as evil to the core. (The only exception in the whole movie is the german soldier who doesn't want to fight because his son was just born - he's only "innocent" in the whole film.) And the most brutal violence in the movie - the really sickening gut wrenching close-ups of people's head being carved up or bashed in - it's delivered by the good guys.

Tarantino knows that you went to the movie to have your guts twisted in a knot. So he serves you just what you want, but the trick is that it's not something you feel bad about. The violence is not being done to anyone you sympathize with. You feel that the good guys torturing the bad guys was righteous justice. World War II is wrapped up very neatly by a bit of the old ultraviolence. I thought it was an odd feeling.

When I was watching Deathproof, I thought: Damn, Quentin is so obsessed with writing slick dialogue that he forgot where the movie was going! He does write really beautiful dialogue. So beautiful that his movies get lost in them.

I think Basterds is the most black-friendly movie he's ever done. I get the sense that the interracial love story was thrown in there specifically for Spike Lee, who thinks Tarantino's been locked into niggermode for a decade now.

The ending to the movie took me by surprise. I mean they actually killed hitler? hahahah what a great anachronism!


anyway, I wanted to hear what you guys think of Inglorious Basterds -----& Tarantino.

You ought to start a movie review site Cram.

[Iason Ouabache]

I realize that "everything is funny, nothing is sacred" gets old, but I find neonazis hilarious. At least, I find them hilarious when they're not actively setting churches on fire, murdering people, or beating anyone up.

Hilarious, and kind of pitiable. Most of them aren't too bright.

Several centuries of inbreeding will do that to you.