Quentin Tarantino is a Basterd

[Doktor Howl]

HFLS, that was fucking amazing.   

[Richter]

I like the angle about moral absolutes in this.  The sense of "nazis are horrible, so doing horrible things to them is OK." seems to come up a lot recently.  With demons and zombies too.  Sure there are games and films featuring the anti - heroes, the moraly ambiguous, or the outright EVIL as a fund departure, but without a doubt, without guilt, it's OK to be amused by footage of, or be amused by simulating the murder of Nazis, zombies and demons.  (Play any of the recent "Wolfenstein" games, and you get to do all three, at once, with cunning WWII setting, occult magic and Tesla super - science.)

Says something, that those are the three iconically de - humanized groups.  As a country, the way the USA has conducted its affairs since the get - go, I can only say we are a minority of demons, populated by a majority of zombies, and have pulled the same tricks as the Nazis, but with a SMILE.

(As a tangent, Bioshock's Fisher Price "My First Moral Quandry" ^tm, about whether or not you want to evicerate children to acquire resources.)

[P3nT4gR4m]

DINGLE DINGLE DINGLE DINGLE! what's that kids? It's the evil van! yaaaaaaaay!



evil comes in more flavors than ice cream. you want some insidious sneaking evil? oh yeah, they have that, you want brutal systematic by the numbers evil, they have that but its a little bitter. you want some hot burning evil sauce on that? they have that too. they have so many damn flavors, that if you took a little lick of each of them, y'know, the free samples they leave out to tempt you in, you'd be puking for a week. genocide ripple is always a good seller, rapey road sure is popular these days. corporate greed sunday was in for a while, but then they stopped making that one, as well, the bankers ate it all up. peado & nut is quite popular as well.

Don't ask me why.

if you want the low fat option, you could go for a nice spousal abuse & raisin. a nice methamphitime choc chip? crack with a side of aggravated battery? whats that? you want dark unforgivable evil, oh they have plenty of that. its like a cone made of sour ashes of the fallen, and well, fuck me, you do not even want to know what's in the sprinkles.

and the cherry sauce.

my god. the sauce.

there's so many, many flavours its enough to give a man brain freeze, just even thinking about it.

I am bathed in AWE!

[Doktor Howl]

I like the angle about moral absolutes in this.  The sense of "nazis are horrible, so doing horrible things to them is OK." seems to come up a lot recently.  

That's a different kind of evil..."I want to hate and be on the side of the angels while I do it."

[P3nT4gR4m]

(As a tangent, Bioshock's Fisher Price "My First Moral Quandry" ^tm, about whether or not you want to evicerate children to acquire resources.)

Those weren't children - they were fucked up, creepy, horrific little abominations that had to be destroyed at any cost!

[Doktor Howl]

(As a tangent, Bioshock's Fisher Price "My First Moral Quandry" ^tm, about whether or not you want to evicerate children to acquire resources.)

Those weren't children - they were fucked up, creepy, horrific little abominations that had to be destroyed at any cost!

Also, they didn't have the right values, so it's okay to kill them for their stored gene splice material.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Must admit I never thought it through as deep as that. I took one look at the first one I saw and the safety was off. Or it would have been if she hadn't been standing over me with creepy glowing eyes, waving a huge fucking syringe. And all the while I'm screaming "Fuck off cutscene I need to kill this little bastard right fucking nao!"

[Richter]

I like the angle about moral absolutes in this.  The sense of "nazis are horrible, so doing horrible things to them is OK." seems to come up a lot recently.  

That's a different kind of evil..."I want to hate and be on the side of the angels while I do it."

Yeah... closet sadists with a church fetish.  I've yet to hear of anyone claiming that playstation told them to stomp neo-nazi's or Klan.

(As a tangent, Bioshock's Fisher Price "My First Moral Quandry" ^tm, about whether or not you want to evicerate children to acquire resources.)

Those weren't children - they were fucked up, creepy, horrific little abominations that had to be destroyed at any cost!

Also, they didn't have the right values, so it's okay to kill them for their stored gene splice material.

Replace "right values" with "special tax status", or "Shares a nationality we're at war with", and compare to modern politics.   

[Doktor Howl]

Replace "right values" with "special tax status", or "Shares a nationality we're at war with", and compare to modern politics.   

I don't have to replace it to mirror modern political thought.

Go to a conservative board, and see what they say should happen to "progressives" and "liberals".  Seriously, do it.  You'll laugh until your spleen shoots out of your ass.

SEND ZEM EEEEEEEEEEEAST!

[Thurnez Isa]

I liked the original, but didn't like Tarantino's version. I just chop it up to im not a Tarantino fan. Not that I hate his work, or i think its crap. He's just a director like Jodorowsky or Burton. You either like his stuff or on the fence.

[Thurnez Isa]

Its been a while since I seen the original too, but on a side note the US release under Deadly Mission is not as good as the Italian release. Also the German versions is supposedly cut to crap (never seen) and the UK reversion is cut as well. Dont know the release titles for those ones

[Dimocritus]

TENSION! Tarantino's bread and butter! This movie was full of it. The opening scene was very compelling, and I still almost break out in a cold sweat thinking about it. The scene when the girl that escaped is faced with the man who murdered her family and he offers her milk. Whoot! Talk about edge of your seat, with out action at that! And, to top it off, it was a very bold move to make it as challenging of a movie as it was. Most film-makers wouldn't even think about dealing a with foreign language in a main-stream hollywood film, let alone, what, four languages? I liked it. I think the extreme brutality was just part of the films over-all extreme stylization. As far as the basterds themselves, I feel like it was less about them and more about the girl.

[E.O.T.]

ATTN: DOK HOWL

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

WHERE

          Exactly do we run these trains to?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I like the angle about moral absolutes in this.  The sense of "nazis are horrible, so doing horrible things to them is OK." seems to come up a lot recently.  

That's a different kind of evil..."I want to hate and be on the side of the angels while I do it."

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

WHERE

          Exactly do we run these trains to?

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