Tarantino has long spoke of doing a film in the mold of The Dirty Dozen or Magnificent Seven and while Inglourious
Basterds took that idea to World War II, maybe The Hateful Eight will finally see Tarantino take his band of misfits idea to the Old West.
Not exact matches
Watching Django Unchained, it's easy to imagine that Quentin Tarantino had such a blast making his last picture, the ebullient Holocaust fantasia Inglourious
Basterds, that he decided to
take his whole blood - spattered historical tent show on the road, this time putting down stakes in antebellum Dixieland.
For Best Supporting Actor one would have to assume Christoph Waltz will
take it for Inglourious
Basterds.
Inglourious
Basterds is truly glorious, so much that he even
took the liberty to misspell its title.
«Inglourious
Basterds»
took top honors at the SAG Awards and shook up the Oscar race.
I can see Best Director, because Cameron did
take a lot of risks and did some things no one has done or seen before, but Best Picture should have gone to Inglourious
Basterds.
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• The whole bar scene in Inglourious
Basterds set up in terms of complex conversational dynamics, winding from silver - screen trivia into linguistic unmaskings and bloody massacre; even the coda
taking the form of a touching, if unconvincing, speech...
While his naughties» output occasionally hinted at an old genius, most particularly with Inglourious
Basterds, it has
taken a film like Django Unchained to collate his messy strands of filmmaking back into an entertaining movie.
This summer we already have a handful of R - rated movies lined up including Tony Scott's remake of The
Taking of Pelham 123, Michael Mann's Public Enemies, and the Todd Phillips comedy The Hangover, plus I'm assuming Halloween 2, Inglourious
Basterds and Bruno will all fall into that category as well.
Starring Diane Kruger and Lea Seydoux, both former stars of Inglourious
Basterds, this is a beautiful - looking film with an art - house feel due to all of the scenes
taken from the point - of - view of the young maiden.
The Hurt Locker, the intense war drama about explosives experts in Iraq,
took top honors in the 13th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards, winning Best Picture against fellow nominees Inglourious
Basterds, A Serious Man, Up, and Up in the Air.
The Blind Side is an embarassment to the voters who have decided it is worthy to compete with such brilliant films as The Hurt Locker and Inglourious
Basterds — this has «Midday Movie» written all over it, but is dressed in Hollywood finery such that people are inclined to
take it more seriously than it deserves.
Still, one can't help but shake the feeling that the
Basterds, with that sprawling cast, has to
take the prize.
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Although most of the movie - related awards were virtually identical to the Golden Globes (and a lot of the TV ones were the same too), the
Basterds did
take home the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Leaning heavily on the irreverent over-the-top blackly humorous tone of Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious
Basterds, the game lets you
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