Inglourious Basterds!
So the roomies and I went to see Inglourious Basterds on Saturday.
Oh. Em. Gee.
It was. So. Good.
I've only seen a couple of other Tarantino movies (Kill Bill, Death Proof and Planet Terror, to be specific), so I have a small spectrum with which to compare, but Inglourious Basterds is really rather non-bloody compared to much of his other stuff. I mean, there's lots of fake blood and it goes everywhere, but there wasn't really any scene that I just couldn't watch.
It's full of the usual Tarantino quirks, of course, like weird moments where there's suddenly just BIG TEXT and then a plot-halting backstory and stuff, but it's funny and it works within the movie. There are moments where the suspense is just unbearable, but I'm pretty sure that's him trying to make it like movies he saw when he was growing up. And it's okay, because a movie about Nazis that didn't have at least a little suspense wouldn't be right.
The plot is way more complicated than the trailer implies. There are several different stories going on, and all of them are good. The female characters are suitably badass, and the male characters are... well, awesome. Brad Pitt is great. I think it made me like him way more than I ever did. And Eli Roth (who is a horror director himself and this is the most I've ever seen him act EVER) is... okay, here's where I launch into a complicated explanation of how much I loved him. He beats someone to death with a baseball bat. And he's hot. He is so inexplicably hot that I cannot even begin to explain why I am attracted to someone who beats someone else to death with a baseball bat. I'm just lucky that I have a roommate who is essentially the same person as me, and therefore does not give me disbelieving looks when I talk about how much I want to marry Eli Roth and his hairy chest and his crazy-eyes and his baseball bat. Because she feels the same way. He's hot. Hot. Hot.
Ahem. I swear I'm not insane.
Anyhoodle, the villain is amazing. He is so adorable. You want to hate him, but he's just so likeable that you love him too. And the British guy who appears for a brief spell in the middle of the movie is Hottie McBritishAccent. And he's awesome. Really awesome. There are so many good characters. I'm actually amazed at how many trilingual actors they managed to find for this movie. They're all so good at it, too. And the British guy must have had to actually fake his English accent while he was speaking German, because we looked him up on IMDB afterward and German is actually his first language. That takes skill, man.
Obviously it's not at all close to the reality of history, but I'm okay with that. I really am. It works well.
In conclusion: really, really good movie. Not as bloody and disgusting as Tarantino's other works. I am a complete freak and am hot for someone who makes unconventional use of a baseball bat. Brad Pitt and the villain of the movie are amazing. It is not at all how history went, but that's okay. And I really recommend it.
For those of you who haven't seen it, but want to, here's my spoiler-free conclusion: go see it! It is mega-good! You won't even mind that it's not at all historically accurate! Although I'm pretty sure that my roommate (who is a history major) said that it's based on an actual band of Jewish-Americans who killed Nazis during WWII.
But be careful of the theater you go to! In the theater we saw it in, several complete dumbfucks kept getting up and going in and out of the theater, and that is not something that is taken kindly by other viewers, because the majority of the dialogue is in German or French and you really need to pay attention to the subtitles. Still, that makes it extra awesome, because German is such a cool (although somewhat scary) language, and they spoke it really, really well.
Inglourious Basterds, now in a theater near you!
Oh. Em. Gee.
It was. So. Good.
I've only seen a couple of other Tarantino movies (Kill Bill, Death Proof and Planet Terror, to be specific), so I have a small spectrum with which to compare, but Inglourious Basterds is really rather non-bloody compared to much of his other stuff. I mean, there's lots of fake blood and it goes everywhere, but there wasn't really any scene that I just couldn't watch.
It's full of the usual Tarantino quirks, of course, like weird moments where there's suddenly just BIG TEXT and then a plot-halting backstory and stuff, but it's funny and it works within the movie. There are moments where the suspense is just unbearable, but I'm pretty sure that's him trying to make it like movies he saw when he was growing up. And it's okay, because a movie about Nazis that didn't have at least a little suspense wouldn't be right.
The plot is way more complicated than the trailer implies. There are several different stories going on, and all of them are good. The female characters are suitably badass, and the male characters are... well, awesome. Brad Pitt is great. I think it made me like him way more than I ever did. And Eli Roth (who is a horror director himself and this is the most I've ever seen him act EVER) is... okay, here's where I launch into a complicated explanation of how much I loved him. He beats someone to death with a baseball bat. And he's hot. He is so inexplicably hot that I cannot even begin to explain why I am attracted to someone who beats someone else to death with a baseball bat. I'm just lucky that I have a roommate who is essentially the same person as me, and therefore does not give me disbelieving looks when I talk about how much I want to marry Eli Roth and his hairy chest and his crazy-eyes and his baseball bat. Because she feels the same way. He's hot. Hot. Hot.
Ahem. I swear I'm not insane.
Anyhoodle, the villain is amazing. He is so adorable. You want to hate him, but he's just so likeable that you love him too. And the British guy who appears for a brief spell in the middle of the movie is Hottie McBritishAccent. And he's awesome. Really awesome. There are so many good characters. I'm actually amazed at how many trilingual actors they managed to find for this movie. They're all so good at it, too. And the British guy must have had to actually fake his English accent while he was speaking German, because we looked him up on IMDB afterward and German is actually his first language. That takes skill, man.
Obviously it's not at all close to the reality of history, but I'm okay with that. I really am. It works well.
In conclusion: really, really good movie. Not as bloody and disgusting as Tarantino's other works. I am a complete freak and am hot for someone who makes unconventional use of a baseball bat. Brad Pitt and the villain of the movie are amazing. It is not at all how history went, but that's okay. And I really recommend it.
For those of you who haven't seen it, but want to, here's my spoiler-free conclusion: go see it! It is mega-good! You won't even mind that it's not at all historically accurate! Although I'm pretty sure that my roommate (who is a history major) said that it's based on an actual band of Jewish-Americans who killed Nazis during WWII.
But be careful of the theater you go to! In the theater we saw it in, several complete dumbfucks kept getting up and going in and out of the theater, and that is not something that is taken kindly by other viewers, because the majority of the dialogue is in German or French and you really need to pay attention to the subtitles. Still, that makes it extra awesome, because German is such a cool (although somewhat scary) language, and they spoke it really, really well.
Inglourious Basterds, now in a theater near you!