Inglourious Basterds (2009): Daily Paul Movie Opinions
My daughter loved it -and- I think I will like it once I'm done processing it.
This movie did not pull you into the Tarantino Mindset like Kill Bill or Pulp fiction -- you cared less about the characters.
The worth of the whole movie is the theater scene towards the end -- It was pure art.
None of the typical exquisite development of character or dialogue in this movie -- It's Tarantino-Lite and some might not like that. I appreciated it - I feel as though I regained my lost $5.45 from Duck 'till Dawn (the average cost of a movie ticket in the mid 90's).
The opening sequence details (without complex dialogue) the cruelty of the SS "Jew Hunter" so well that one wonders (almost cringing) when will Tarantino throw it to hell. The suprise is he doesn't and it sets the tone for the rest of the movie.
Likewise - The first scene with Brad Pitt "The Apache" (Leader of the "Basterds" - Nazi Hunters) was balanced in the same manner -- I'm thinking of the "build-up" training scenes in Rocky contrasting Apollo Creeds camp with that of Rocky's.
The movie stealing performance, I thought (less the humor-glorific scenes with Pitt) should go to Mélanie Laurent who played Shosanna Dreyfus (a young woman whose family was killed by the SS Jew Hunter -- played by Christoph Waltz as "Col. Hans Landa")
Shosanna was the only character we "felt" a connection too - humanistically. She did not have the training Pitt or Waltz did, yet she seized the moment - in typical Tarantino revenge plot fashion, to exact her lb of flesh.
This film is Tarantino's first "real" attempt at emotional depth and shows his maturation and promise.
For those who love his trademark "sudden violence" you wont be disappointed in Basterds (yes that's how its spelled).
Pitt and Waltz (Lt. Aldo Raine and Col. Landan respectively) superbly portrayed characters had similar flaws (a rush to violence - a love for remorseless conclusions); however, Pitt's wins out in the end owing to a realization that his was a noble savage while Waltz hid the defect of selling out his seeming one-pointed SS purpose. Waltz was an opportunist while Pitt was un-wavering and resolute.
I'd love to pull this movie into a pro-libertarian or anti-libertarian debate; but Tarantino was not building the typical Hollywood-Left Political re-visionism de historique; rather, his goal was far more simple: Revenge is sweet and sloppy (and never to plan).......but "what if" the directors of Spagetti Westerns collaborated with Godfather One style vendetta plot while meditating on the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan.
All-in-All I thought its worth a full price ticket and a tub of 3000% margin marked-up popcorn.
To say there will be a lot of pumped young jewish boys leaving the theater tonight, might be an understatement -- not quite as pumped as the young Italian men leaving Rocky 1 in 1980, but close.
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It was interesting....
I know all revenge movies do this (and I am a big fan of QT) still I thought it was a little too much death worship.
Death worship celebrating the death of death worshipers.
Did anyone feel really creepy when Brad Pitt had that black hood thrown over his head ala CIA, rendition, Gitmo?
Let's face it, we have become them. They won.
"terrorists"
The one interesting point is how they two of the basterds blew themselves up to kill Nazi's. They are portrayed as heroes. But if they were Muslim they would be terrorists.
Totally
Great irony by QT and I believe intentional...also the irony of creating nazi like lust from his audience as nazi's are killed (even as the movie is portraying the exact same lust from a movie audience of nazi's enjoying the cinematic slaughter of Americans).
OK I take it back it is intellectually brilliant.
But we should not leave the theater pumped up (like Brave Heart) but rather slinking out ashamed.
Which come to think of it...everyone at my viewing last night kinda did. Great job QT.
(Someone now needs to overdub this movie with the Jews being the Nazi's and the Palestinians being the heroes exacting revenge...let's continue the mind f.)
Saw the movie. It is very
Saw the movie. It is very well made I must say, too bad Hollywood keep getting this propaganda out. Hitler did not only disslike jews because of what they looked like it is much more than that and if you are denying this you are denying an important piece of history. Hollywood has twisted thinks around so much that people go with that.
But if you try to find out anything about what really went on in Germany that are not published in the mayor books then you are racist and anti-semite.
If a movie was made where palestinians took a baseball bat and beat the sh*t out of an israeli then you would never have seen it on the big screen. But keep hitting Germans so their childrens children know what murderers they are.
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Teach a man to phish and he'll clean out your bank account.
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The Hollywood version of the Holocaust
has been deeply indoctrinated in America. At least if you question it here it is not a crime.....yet. As it is in other countries. I've researched it and 2+2 does not = 6 million. I've always considered myself a critical thinker not a racist but I guess there are those that would say otherwise.
You sound a little soft on Hitler.
And what is wrong with Germans being reminded of their murderous leader? Would you object to movies showing other tyrants killing people, or is it just Hitler you don't like seeing portrayed as evil?
As said by Devon earlier..
"the Holocaust already happened in America. 12 million Native Americans to 750,000 Native Americans = genocide."
Does America need that jammed down their throat at every opportunity.
I'll answer that:
No, because it doesn't serve an agenda
Better film suggestion...
Instead of the daily grind of Israeli propaganda...go see District 9 and compare to Palestine.
exactly!
good movie.
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It never ceases to amaze me
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths people will go to hate others, or to blame them for all the ills of their society. What difference does it make if the "zionists" were converts or not? There have been many converts to Judaism over the years. Christ's lineage includes Gentiles as well. Ultimately, the holocaust was wrong, no matter what excuses are used to justify it. One guy goes in and shoots someone, and that justifies the brutal captivity and murder of millions? Give me a break! All this about Hollywood, and bankers simply sounds like jealousy, and greed. "Zionists declared war on Germany" indeed! The truth is, likely there were actions on the part of both sides in Germany that were wrong and immoral, if only just sitting by and letting it happen. This is always true in history. Things never start without provocation, including the attack on Pearl Harbor. However, there is NO JUSTIFICATION for what happened during the holocaust, nor is there any justification for those who twist history to support their hatred! It takes great arrogance to deny the holocaust or to dismiss it by saying they deserved it. Am I a zionist Jew? No, I am an American citizen without a drop of Jewish blood, other than what was conferred upon me by the Savior of the World, when he saved my soul, and adopted me into his kingdom. Thus, I too am a converted Jew, in so much as I have been "adopted as sons" by God. Wanna make a lamp out of my skin?
http://www.holocaustpictures.org/pictures/holocaust-pictures
Little Bit Farm
Do you want to scalp me??
or destroy the morality of our society to make us easier to control or perhaps own America so that you can dictate it's foreign policies or maybe even take away all of our freedoms because Communism is so much better than Capitalism???????? I could go on and on BECAUSE our country has been hijacked. But YOU keep feeling all self righteous and pretend it's not happening, OK.
P.S. The lampshade thing is total BS propaganda.
Lamp Shade is not bs
I am becoming a bigger fan of the film by the moment...this is not about Nazis, Germans, Jews, Zionists, Americans or Buffalo Soldiers.
The point is all humans are sadists if given the opportunity.
The key to the Constitution and the Founder's vision is that you need a structure in a society where these opportunities are minimized.
BS Propoganda because you refuse to believe it?
Would you have a different opinion if you believed it were true? Your response is somewhat comical, as you assume that I am a liberal, when I am a constitutionalist. If anything, the very lesson to be learned by the holocaust is to prevent that kind of thing from happening in America. Nazi Germany was a Socialist state, just like the United States is currently a socialist state. Communism, is the sister of socialism, and neither work. Our country has been hijacked by the very things that created the holocaust in the first place, and the very things that Stalin used to murder his share of people, as Germany's sister in tyranny. They are the same. Its no accident that Cain and Able tried to kill one another and erected the Berlin wall in effigy. Germany and the USSR were like the pot calling the kettle black. Neither of those methods can protect American liberty. Instead, both methods lead to one place, death under tyranny. Tyranny always uses racial, religious, and intellectual differences to divide and conquer a nation. It worked in Germany, and it is working here, as the racial hatred here so clearly exemplifies.
Actually, the ONLY thing that turns back tyranny is liberty and justice for ALL, whether Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, black or white, etc... In fact the very model our country was built on disputes the racial hatred that spawned the holocaust. Should our forefather's have extended that model, as they should have, to black and white, many problems in this country would have been alleviated in later years.
For the greatness of America was not in denial of status to anyone. Nor has the greatness of America been her socialist handouts. What once was the greatness of America, was her gift of the opportunity of ANY citizen to reach beyond their circumstances, and through blood, sweat, and tears to be able to EARN themselves a life, without race, property, or wealth being a factor at all.
And in fact, it is the fact that we have turned from what made America great, and instead are pursuing the very things that brought Germany, and the USSR, and all other tyrannies to their knees, that will make the United States follow in their footsteps. It will make our children, and our children's children suffer, and yes, perhaps even have their skins turned into lampshades, because we have not been vigilant. We have instead chosen to leave our love of liberty, and seek hatred of race, and class, and made government our God instead of our servant.
Little Bit Farm
Missed something...
the Holocaust already happened in America. 12 million Native Americans to 750,000 Native Americans = genocide.
Now, to make things equal, we are waiting for Native American Genocide memorials in Germany.
BTW.. we are not holding our breath.
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Nothing like ...
a self righteous long winded blow hard on a soap box.
Nothing like...
a jackass ignoring all the points of an argument because they can't formulate a coherent response.
No..
I could tell the farmer to research this or that and it would fall on deaf ears. The truth is not what is valued. The value is in the chest thumping.
Well said Little Bit - Hear Hear!!
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*&^ Constitution --- Constitutional Rationality
Excellent
statement.
Less Fiction, more Brown.
I am an enormous Tarantino fan. I felt disappointed upon first watching Jackie Brown but loved it after subsequent viewings. I think it will be the same for Basterds. Some scenes are classic QT, but the movie lacked the frequent moments of genius seen in Dogs, Fiction and Kill Bill.
Loved the Movie. Tarantino
Loved the Movie.
Tarantino took alot of Artistic liberties with history which helped remove this movie from reality. But the setup and execution of the movie was great.
Sequel: Inglourious Basterds go to Gaza
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OH MY... i thought this post
OH MY... i thought this post was about a movie... maybe it is my age or the way i grew up but what i relate to the most in all octobox and others have written here is the importance of judging an individual by the content of their character, that is what is most important and just.
Google Benjamin Freedman....
Google Benjamin Freedman (a Jew) and listen to his famous speeches on World War I/II. Once you do, this movie and its gross distortion of facts become irrelevant. What becomes VERY relevant is what the Zionists did to the Germans to provoke the wars. Wake up people. Google him and listen to the speeches. I guarantee you'll never be the same.
Here it is
Like he says you will never be the same after you hear and understand this! Wake up people these Zionists psychos are planning another war for us all!
http://www.iamthewitness.com/audio/Benjamin.H.Freedman/Willa...
My karma ran over your dogma~
And never forget that the Bolshevik Jews killed 60 million in Russia, this is mainly what the Germans were fighting against, also to rid themselves of the Rothschilds money scams that held their banks hostage. http://www.iamthewitness.com/doc/Jews.and.Communism.htm
Also keep in mind that Jews own and operate every single movie studio and news outlet, (except Iran, and partly Russia) http://www.realzionistnews.com/?p=194
And they own and operate the US Fed, any similarities between Germany of the 30's and the current US situation?
My karma ran over your dogma~
rather than put myself on
rather than put myself on another watchlist, can you just TELL us what he says? I will compare it with my relatively extensive knowledge of the conflict.
Ventura 2012
Okay, here ya go:
Here's the really short version of what Freedman said to a packed house in 1961:
Germany welcomed the Jews into their land with open arms at the turn of the century. They lived in perfect harmony until 1917, when the emerging Zionists cut a deal with the British Government that became known as the Balfour Declaration. This document announced the support of and the creation of a country for the Jews, now known as Israel. Literally overnight, the press (which up to this point wholeheartedly supported Germany in World War I) turned against Germany with ferocious zeal. Public opinion swayed and the Wilson administration pressed for an entry into the war. We all know what happened - Germany lost the war. Enormous reparations were leveled against the Germany government, who only one year earlier had offered a peace deal to Great Britain with no strings attached. When the fortunes reversed, Great Britain pounced on Germany relentlessly (Side note: wonderful tribute to the generosity of the Brits).
Shortly after the war ended, Germany's economy plundered big time. Many Jews bought up real estate, businesses and other lucrative investments at rock bottom prices. As the reparations were being doled out to the Germans, it became very clear who had sold them out - their very neighbors, the Zionist Jews. Naturally, the Germans resented what had happened to them. But they did nothing (Side note: true to the spirt of all Germans). Many years passed and eventually Hitler came to power. He advocated German Nationalism and support of German industries. Eventually, the Jews began to realize that they were getting shown the door. In the early 30's they had a meeting of the minds (I believe it was at the World Jewish Congress Conference) and decided that they needed to cripple the backbone of the Germany economy, its export business. They formed protests worldwide against German sold goods and found great success in harming their export business. Many newspapers even emphatically declared "The Jews Have Declared War On Germany!"
Yet despite all this (circa 1937) not a single Jew had been harmed. Then a Zionist Jew walked into a German Embassy in France and shot a high-ranking German official. The Germans were fed up and all hell broke loose.
What's most amazing about all of this is that it's told by a famous Jew, Benjamin Freedman. To hear his full speech is absolutely incredible. He was a real insider with the Zionist movement of the time and he cites many individuals that he met privately with (including President Wilson, whom he calls "clueless").
I've researched this guy a good deal and he is the real deal. Perhaps he may be incorrect about a thing or two but I doubt it. Given how Zionism works today, none of what he says surprises me. Most disturbingly, what about the German people? I have been to that great country and met many of its wonderful citizens. They have an overwhelming sense of guilt and disgust for how they are viewed by the world. And as it turns it out, they were baited into the whole horrible mess. And for what? For that ridiculous "country" that kills Palestinian kids at will.
You begin to see the world differently after hearing his speech, so I encourage you and others to listen to it. I could say more but given how the state of Israel operates with impunity these days, I don't think it's necessary to dive any further to prove my point. What's even sadder is the fact that their essential strategy is to foster anti-semitism and to promote the memory of the Holocaust, as they serve as the backbone for emigration to Israel (which makes them, in their mind, more powerful).
And just so it's been said, I love Jews and Judaism. Zionism - that's for clowns.
I've bought produce in the German market areas
Which were the Jewish parts of town burned down centuries before. You can't say there was "perfect harmony."
thanks for the history input
quote: "But they did nothing (Side note: true to the spirt of all Germans)"
The side note is of course ridiculous.
But it seems generally accepted here in the States to call "all Germans" some N-word or "do-nothings".
See, I am a German woman, do You know my spirit?
Hell no.
Well those generalizations actually don't deserve an answer.
But anyway, thanks for the history.
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Clarification
Point taken. What I was really getting at is that most Germans weren't out on a witch hunt, like the Brits were after WWI. What the Brits (and the international community) did to Germany after WWI definitely set the stage for WWII.