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[takmarierah]

Wooooooo, New York! \o/

In other news, the boytoy and I watched Inglourious Basterds tonight.

Um, yeeeaaaaah... It was pretty terrible. The worst movie I've seen in a long time, actually. The biggest offense was perhaps that it kept hinting at being good, only to plunge straight back into its grisly morass of murder-porn. Even Michael Fassbender

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[speccygeekgrrl]

What, seriously? Shosanna Dreyfuss became my favorite woman in film the first time I saw that movie. And Hans Landa was so perfectly creepy. It's not my favorite Tarentino movie, but only by a narrow margin.

Really, you didn't catch your breath at all when that sequence was happening to David Bowie? My heart was in my throat the entire time. She was so gorgeous.

I don't know, what's your opinion of other Tarentino movies? If you called this murder porn then I'm going to guess it's not very high. Although minute for minute I believe Kill Bill's significantly bloodier than Inglourious Basterds, it's also got more of a steady plot and a likeable protagonist. Pulp Fiction is a work of art, I really believe that. And Reservoir Dogs has been one of my favorite movies since I was like fifteen (tragic love story! in suits! with guns! young gorgeous Tim Roth! AHHHH.).

But, if it's not obvious already, I'm a Tarentino fangirl...

[takmarierah]

I liked their characters, and I'll admit that I loved the scene where he was interviewing her in the restaurant, and the David Bowie sequence - it's just that those scenes sort of made it all the more disappointing? I dunno. I had high hopes for this movie because I do like a number of his other films - I've seen Kill Bill a number of times, Pulp Fiction is fairly amazing, and Reservoir Dogs is still high on my list of movies I want to watch soon - but the violence in those was either ridiculous (in Kill Bill) or meant to illustrate a point (in Pulp Fiction). It's not even just that it was violent, either - I think that Pan's Labyrinth is probably more gruesome in its depictions of violence, but I still loved that movie because it wasn't about the violence.

Basically I was prepared to love the movie until the conclusion of the basement scene, not because the Fassbender character got killed or anything that shallow, but because up until that point it looked like it was going somewhere, like all of these threads were slowly coming

[fatal_drum]

The first preview I saw for Inglorious Basterds made it look like just a Nazi exploitation film (with Brad Pitt demanding as many scalps as humanly possible). I went, "Oh. Tarantino wants an excuse to show as much violence as possible, and nobody would sympathize with Nazis, so he's using the setting as an excuse for a slaughterfest." I was curious if Tarentino could pull it off without making it too nauseating. The film tried to be more than that, tried to pull off serious plot, but it didn't seem to manage either the plot or the slaughterfest that well.

I was considering rewatching it to see Fassbender and maybe find out it was better than I remembered, but yeah, probably not. XD I do plan on hunting down some of his other movies mentioned on Wiki, though.

I'm glad for New York. Next I hope they strike down DADT, since I'm considering joining the public health service when I graduate, but refuse to hide my identity (openly belonging to queer organizations, etc.). That an it's frankly stupid, but that's another issue.

[takmarierah]

Yeah now that you mention it, it really doesn't deliver on either front - it's too gratuitous to be appreciated for plot, but its violence really isn't all that bloody despite all the murder. Certainly mixing the two couldn't have helped.

Totally not worth it for Fassbender. I mean, he's still cool in it, but he's there for so briefly and then has just the most unsatisfying death - ! I hear you though, I've been eyeing up all those movies as well. XD

Really, I thought they did already? Suppose they must have gotten a stay or it didn't go into effect yet then or something. That's all just so dumb, aaaarrrgh.

[fatal_drum]

I believe he's Mr. Rochester in the latest Jane Eyre. Tasty, and I bet it leads to delicious brooding. >:3

The law was repealed by Obama, but the repeal doesn't go into effect until the top leaders of the army all agree it won't hurt, and then there's a two-month waiting period. Since they've gone back and forth on it for so long, I'm not sure I trust them.

[takmarierah]

Oooh, yes, he is. I have yet to see it and I suspect that no theaters in the region are showing it any more, but once it comes out on DVD~!

Aww, I guess I heard about that, yeah. :( Uuugh why must we let straight white old Christian men decide everything??

[chaos_harmony]

Oh, thank god, someone who doesn't love that movie. A lot of my friends are obsessed with it, and I don't hate it, per se, but it didn't particularly impress me. Tarantino's usually not really my cup of tea, with the possible exception of Kill Bill, which I largely liked for Lucy Liu and her crew. But yeah, I was a bit flummoxed over why everyone was all over Inglourious Basterds. There were some good moments, but they were just that - moments.

[takmarierah]

Yeah I was sort of expecting to be eviscerated for posting a negative opinion of it on here. I love Pulp Fiction so I definitely expected more from it, especially with, as you said, everyone else being so into it at the time.

I feel like I should re-watch Kill Bill - I was really into it as a teenager, but we've already established that teenagers are dumb, so I'm curious whether it still holds up well.