Comments on: Inglourious Basterds: Enjoying a movie I wanted to hate

By: MelMaguire

MelMaguire — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:43:47 +0000

“The Devil’s Own” would have been a fantastic film if it hadn’t been for Pitt’s complete inability to accurately mimic an Irish accent. His facial expressions and body language were great but his accent was such a horrid put-on that I couldn’t enjoy his performance in that movie. In Inglorious Basterds, though, he was a riot.

I have to agree, Tarantino isn’t much of a storyteller. And he behaves like a 13-year-old on crack when in public. I continue to be very surprised at how much I end up liking his movies, though.

By: Draybee

Draybee — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:30:52 +0000

I had the exact same feelings about Mr. Tarantino until I saw Kill Bill Part 1 on TV (I’m too squeamish to watch a movie that bloody in the theater). Again, very much a series of vignettes, but the final vingette at The House of Blue Leaves culminating in the hand-to-hand battle between Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu was nothing short of astonishing. That and his incredible ear for music made me a fan.

By: ILoveCapitalism

ILoveCapitalism — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:19:08 +0000

Dan – That’s good news. Watching _Seven Years in Tibet_, I could think of nothing but his “accent”. But that film was 1997; some actors may get better.

By: heliotrope

heliotrope — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:16:21 +0000

Tarantino sounds like a cheap adulterated Italian wine that the natives won’t touch.

Inglorious Basterds appears to be a cheap adulterated Hollywood drug trip that features the revenge of the Jews as a fanasty plot in place of the magnificent bastards (Patton) of all origins who took real bullets and died in real missions.

By: Ashpenaz

Ashpenaz — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:05:12 +0000

Has anyone else seen the movie Cache? It is one the best movies I’ve seen with hands-down the best closing shot ever.

By: B. Daniel Blatt

B. Daniel Blatt — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:57:50 +0000

ILC, I never really thought of Brad Pitt’s accent; I was just so entertained by his character!

By: ILoveCapitalism

ILoveCapitalism — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:45:26 +0000

I always thought Tarantino’s bit in _Reservoir Dogs_ was the weakest bit in the movie.

You didn’t criticize Brad Pitt’s accent. May I take it, then, that Pitt finally did a good job with an accent?

By: Earl T

Earl T — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:28 +0000

Col. Hans Landa, best multi-lingual villian ever! That scene in the cinema, just after Pitt’s character was told Germans “don’t do Italian well”………..Too funny!