my favorite basterd

[bitterfig]

In lieu of a carefully constructed and well thought out review (I have to write one at some point) a few random thoughts on my favorite basterds….

I’ve really never found Brad Pitt attractive. Maybe it’s because I associate him with dark, goofball roles in films like Seven Monkeys and Kalifornia. Even in Fight Club he stuck me as more

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[etrangere]

it's because Brad is goofy that I find him sexy.

[chelseagirl]

Have to admit that I was more interested in the Shoshanna & Marcel characters than any of the Basterds.

[bitterfig]

For me the movie was really about Shoshanna. I need to write a full length review because I'm fasinated by this film, I just have a lot of mixed feelings about it. I feel sort of like Tarantino's juvenileness kept it from being truly great.

[chelseagirl]

I agree. My husband loved it pretty much wholeheartedly, but I had a more complicated response.

Among other things, I really *like* the idea of Hitler and Himmler and all getting blown up, and how it works as revenge fantasy, but . . . considering that many, many more people died because this *didn't* happen, it leaves a funny taste . . .

[3goodtimes]

Brad Pitt's never appealed to me either. He seems generically pretty. Fight Club did have someone sexy in it and that person was Edward Norton. :P

Ugh, Hostel. The only movie that literally made me throw up. Couldn't get through it.

Still need to see Inglorious Basterds. My mom and I will probably check it out this weekend.

[bitterfig]

I love Ed Norton. I just rewatched "Primal Fear" a couple weeks ago and I was absolutely dying every time he was on screen.

I've never watched "Hostel", I'm honestly afraid. I would however recommend Basterds. It has flaws but is really extraordinary in so many ways.

[3goodtimes]

Yeah, I've heard good things about it, and I never miss a Tarantino film. I'm relieved to know Eli Roth's acting has improved since Grindhouse.

[gribouille]

I have to admit I am actually looking forward to read your review of Inglorious Basterds. It is a very interesting and fascinating movie indeed...

I love Hugo Stiglitz as well, and the way his story is told. He's absolutely brilliant.

I'm not a huge fan of Brad Pitt, but he can be a brilliant actor (especially in The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford - even though to me Casey Affleck stole the movie... but I guess I was already biased towards him even before seeing it - and also The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). This role may not have been his best, but he was funny, especially with his accent (the use of accents and languages in this movie is one of the things I really, REALLY enjoyed).

As for "The Little Man", I have to admit I was more paying attention to Landa than to him in that scene...