Are you pleased to
see the Basterds get their due?
I saw Basterds and Up and The Hurt Locker twice this year.
Not exact matches
What I expected is what I
saw, except unlike Inglorious
Basterds, Django didn't rewrite the Civil War to the extent that Inglorious rewrote WWII where Adolf Hitler was actually....
(1966) is fine (it's a catchy ditty), but Franco Nero's cameo is disappointingly perfunctory, as are the ostentatious midfilm intertitles that feel like the director reminding himself to be «playful» (
see also Jackson's voiceover intrusions in
Basterds).
After
seeing Brad Pitt star in «The Inglorious
Basterds», I'm not at all surprised that he has sunk this low.
It was no surprise to
see Christoph Waltz win Best Supporting Actor for his turn in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious
Basterds, but I think more than a few eyebrows were raised when The Hangover scored the trophy for Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)!
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.
There is potentially a play to be made by The Weinstein Company to position 2 - time Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Inglourious
Basterds and Django Unchained) to be pushed to this category even though, by all that have
seen Big Eyes, he is clearly a co-lead.
With Inglourious
Basterds being the feel good movie for the vengeful Jewish type, Quentin Tarantino could
see the potential success in this new vindictive genre he helped pioneer.
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.
This will be a rare acting turn for Mike Myers, who hasn't been
seen in a live - action role in a non-documentary film since his small supporting turn in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious
Basterds in 2009.
From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never
seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious
Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.
Playing the bad guy works in Supporting as we've
seen with Christoph Waltz in «Inglourious
Basterds» and Javier Bardem in «No Country for Old Men» but those had charismatic elements to them.
«Inglourious
Basterds» might very well be the most overrated, really good film I've ever
seen in the Oscar race.
After the peaks of «Inglourious
Basterds» and «Django Unchained,» it's disappointing to
see Tarantino return to pointlessly bloody form, especially given the film's promisingly fertile post-Civil War setting.
We have to admit we're a little concerned about Tarantino returning to the revenge narrative yet again («Kill Bill,» «Death Proof,» «
Basterds»), but with its racially charged and sure - to - be-controversial subject matter, «Django» has the potential to be an epic unlike anything we've
seen from the filmmaker before.
I sometimes find Brad Pitt to act principally with his lower - jaw (
see: «Inglourious
Basterds,» «The Tree of Life «-RRB-.
The two - disc release of «Inglourious
Basterds» isn't quite as heavy on bonus material as fans would probably like, but it's still better than we're used to
seeing from a Quentin Tarantino film.
Quentin Tarantino
saw this when he cast Fassbender as the gentlemanly Lieutenant Archie Hicox in Inglourious
Basterds, where Fassbender held his own in a cast filled with charismatic personalities.
His latest film, the Western Django Unchained, is set to debut Dec. 25, but that's still a long way off for people waiting to
see if this new film lives up to the director's Inglourious
Basterds.
An unflinching psychological thriller set amidst the underbelly of New York City's «Gilded Age,» The Alienist follows Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl, Inglourious
Basterds, Rush, Captain America: Civil War), a brilliant and obsessive «Alienist» in the controversial new field of treating mental pathologies, who holds the key to hunting down a never - before -
seen ritualistic killer murdering young boys.