Inglorious Basterds: A review of QT's self-wank fest and American war propaganda

[limers]

This contains spoilers about the movie "Inglorious Basterds". Have you not seen it and want to, please don't read. Don't see it at all

Comments

[i_am_at0m]

its a fun kind of exploding though.

[minima_de_malis]

I thought the first third of the movie was great. I should have walked out of the theatre at that point.

[limers]

I totally should have walked out of the...livingroom. :D

[killer_raincoat]

It's hard to sum up what happened, but basically the germans spread themselves too thin, the americans joined in, the allies consistently gained ground, won in Normandy, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered

[limers]

I actually have seen people mix up the facts. A British guy I know thought that Canada's only involvement with WW2 was the air force. He had no idea that we had land forces and we liberated The Netherlands, etc. I guess that really got my goat, especially because he's British and I just kind of figured he should have known more about history like that! Anyway, to be fair, I adore the guy but he's really not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree

[killer_raincoat]

But do you think he thought that because of the movie?

Actually, news of the extermination camps reached allies in 1942. On December 17, 1942, the Allies issued a proclamation condemning the "extermination" of the Jewish people in Europe and declared that they would punish the perpetrators.

I dunno, I thought it was plenty respectful. I guess it's not really for either of us to say though, since we weren't there.

[limers]

You're right. We will agree to disagree on this point. ;)

[shotsa]

I too was quite surprised that he changed the ending. I think he peaked with Pulp Function and the Kill Bills. And even the Kill Bills weren't as good as Pulp. Meh. QT's severely overrated.

[ainsomni]

This movie would have been entertaining if it didn't happen in WWII or if they didn't have to bring in Hitler, Goebbels, etc, etc. It made the Nazis look like cartoon villains. It had some fun parts but the nagging feeling in the back of my mind "this is just so wrong" ruined the movie... big time.

[i_am_at0m]

It made the Nazis look like cartoon villains.

Wasn't that the point of the whole movie? I mean...seriously?

[ainsomni]

That just makes it worse...

[i_am_at0m]

Its QT though. You've gotta keep things in perspective. None of his movies are supposed to have a deep philosophical point, really,