Inglourious Basterds

[LK]

Seeing Mike Myers be what I can only describe as cheeky was a trip. I can't remember the last time I saw him acting and didn't even recognize him at first.

[Ashamanchill]

Ya that was a really fun performance he gave in that. I had to restrain myself from doing a facepalm in that scene though when my gf leaned over to me and asked if the old man with the bowler was JFK.

[schild]

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/next_tarantino_movie_an_homage_to

That right there? The best commentary on Tarantino ever. I'm particularly fond of this passage:

As an homage to Tarantino, Tarantino said he also plans to give the famed director a minor role in the film.

"If nothing else, I hope Jack Rabbit Slim makes moviegoers want to go back and explore the complete filmography of this great, great American artist," Tarantino said. "I really can't think of another living director who has made as large a contribution to the evolution of world cinema, and I feel it is my duty as a filmmaker to remind people of that."

Added Tarantino, "God, I love Quentin Tarantino."

They could not have nailed that jackass more perfectly.

[stray]

I don't really see how. That guy talks non-stop about everyone but himself. His whole schtick is to talk about, promote, live through, and even help distribute the work of his influences. The only thing irritating about him is that he looks funny and talks like a fag.

[schild]

His whole schtick is to talk about, promote, live through, and even help distribute the work of his influences.

I lolled.

[stray]

That's all he does! I listened to an NPR interview just the other day, and that's all he did. Talk about film history, and this or that story when he saw this, or how he likes such and such, or why it's a tragedy people don't know this. And he's been known to promote other people with his own cash. So there's that.

And it's obvious that's all he does in his own work. I mean, you can't have it both ways. Either he's an egomaniac who incessantly talks about himself as an "original", or he's a guy who cops various styles.

[schild]

You can be an egomaniac and pass others peoples shit off as your own, guy. You can, in fact, have it both ways. He doesn't actually have to talk about himself, his movies are a shrine to The Man, Quentin Tarantino. I'm pretty sure you missed the point of the onion article now.

[dusematic]

Quentin Tarantino makes fucking fun movies to watch.  Don't over-analyze it.

[angry.bob]

Fk Tarantino and fk anyone who gives him any sort of support. Defending or supporting assholes who are all style with no substance along with defending complete shit by saying "it was a fun popcorn movie, blah, blah, blah" is the reason why shit is all we get anymore. You are the reason Michael Bay and Joel Schumacher have a career. You people who are defending Tarantino, you're in the trenches with the guy who's stated several times that Tom Cruise is the finest actor of his generation. That should tell you something about your taste and judgement.

I haven't bothered to read the thread because they're always the same whenever he releases a movie, but here's the ultimate, final truth: all that needs to be known. If you think any movie made, or that will be made, by tarantino is anything other than a disjointed mish-mash of shit he's lifted from other sources and then strung together with shitty dialogue that would bore post-adolescents if it wasn't so  stupid and annoying... well. You just have horrible taste, poor judgement, and you should keep your mouth shut regarding any sort of creative or artistic anything.

[Phildo]

Tom Cruise was a pretty good actor, IMO.

[angry.bob]

Tom Cruise was a pretty good actor, IMO.

Indeed. I will admit that he was excellent at portraying a non-batshit crazy version of Tom Cruise on screen. Other than that he's never played another character.

A good actor would be someone like Gary Oldeman or Daniel Day Lewis. They're completely different characters in every movie they're in and are believable if not supurb. Tom Cruise is the opposite of that.

[lamaros]

Acting isn't just about being believable.

[Sheepherder]

Acting isn't just about being believable.

Except Tom Cruise isn't anything except Tom Cruise.  The most emotion I've seen out of him is him yelling "SAKE!"

[schild]

Tropic Thunder would say otherwise. But I'm not about to claim Tom Cruise is some paragon of acting.

[Velorath]

I thought he did a pretty good job in Collateral.

[Phildo]

A good actor would be someone like Gary Oldeman or Daniel Day Lewis. They're completely different characters in every movie they're in and are believable if not supurb. Tom Cruise is the opposite of that.

Maybe the reason they're always playing someone different is because they haven't found their niche yet?

[schild]

A good actor would be someone like Gary Oldeman or Daniel Day Lewis. They're completely different characters in every movie they're in and are believable if not supurb. Tom Cruise is the opposite of that.

Maybe the reason they're always playing someone different is because they haven't found their niche yet?

lol

[stray]

Tom Cruise plays a superb douchebag.

That doctor scene in Vanilla sky..
Most scenes in Jerry McGuire
Tropic Thunder
Rain Main
etc

[Mattemeo]

How could you forget Magnolia?  Ladies love Frank T.J. Mackey!

[stray]

Yeah, what the hell.. I knew I was forgetting something. Probably him at his best (rather, at his worst).

[gryeyes]

He was a superb boy of the woods in Legend.

[Sir T]

I can't believe no-one remembers him as Lestat in Interview with a Vampire. Say what you will, that performance rocked.

[Endie]

Cruise is a fun matinee actor but has only one (1) truly brilliant performance, in Magnolia, and in the light of leaked Scientology promo material it turns out that the director just said "hey, be yourself..."

Bringing this back closer to topic: "Destiny Turns On the Radio."

[stray]

What about it? It's not a Tarantino film (although it might have been better if it was). Tarantino isn't a good actor though.

[HaemishM]

Bringing this back closer to topic: "Destiny Turns On the Radio."

Uggghhhh. I saw that in the theater shortly after Pulp Fiction thinking Tarantino was going to be funny. That was when I still liked him. Fuck did that movie suck monkey balls.

[Phildo]

Must not have seen From Dusk Til Dawn.  Or any of the movies where he cast himself.  Or Sukiyaki Western Django.  Actually, go watch that last one.  Not for Tarentino, but for everything else.

[Endie]

I thought that one of the hopeful signs for Tarantino about Inglourious Basterds was the fact that he didn't cast himself.  Maybe someone around him is honest enough to say to him "Quentin, you're an apalling actor.  At least keep it to Hitchcock levels and just walk past in the background."  That bit in Reservoir Dogs in the diner was ok, because he wasn't really acting, just talking about movies enthusiastically.  Even by Pulp Fiction it was just cringe-inducing.  And a shame, because the lines were great.

[Tebonas]

Tom Cruise plays a superb douchebag.

I doubt that.

[stray]

I thought that one of the hopeful signs for Tarantino about Inglourious Basterds was the fact that he didn't cast himself.  Maybe someone around him is honest enough to say to him "Quentin, you're an apalling actor.  At least keep it to Hitchcock levels and just walk past in the background."  That bit in Reservoir Dogs in the diner was ok, because he wasn't really acting, just talking about movies enthusiastically.  Even by Pulp Fiction it was just cringe-inducing.  And a shame, because the lines were great.

Scorsese on the other hand, should have acted more.

[lamaros]

Necro-ish, but:

I watch this last night and I really quite enjoyed it. I found Pitt it be a bit boring but otherwise it was really quite funny. I think it had a better flow than the other Tarintion films I've seen.

[Vision]

I quit giving Tarantino credit after I saw Death Proof and sat through that 10 minute dialogue sequence where girls bitch about boys and their nails. If there was any type of subtextual message in that movie, it wasn't worth reading into to find out. I found Inglorious Basterds to be much of the same. Too much dialogue puts me to sleep.

Kill Bill 1/2 on the other hand were really fun to watch.

[lamaros]

Oh, and I watched Pulp Fiction again the other week. Inglourious Basterds is a smarter, more entertaining, better, film.

Still too long, though.

[stray]

I quit giving Tarantino credit after I saw Death Proof and sat through that 10 minute dialogue sequence where girls bitch about boys and their nails. If there was any type of subtextual message in that movie, it wasn't worth reading into to find out. I found Inglorious Basterds to be much of the same. Too much dialogue puts me to sleep.

Kill Bill 1/2 on the other hand were really fun to watch.

I think all the ranting for extended periods was actually "un-Tarantino" like. I can't recall anything specific, but there seemed to be a lot of those grainy slasher pics back in the day where they just did that (until people got killed, of course). You know, like kids out having fun.. You might get 45 minutes of them bullshitting, drinking, beer, and swimming at some lake or something. Tarantino is dialogue heavy, but usually not to that extent. I think it was just "tribute".

Anyhow, I'd agree, it's not easy to get through. I didn't like it at first, but Stuntman Mike shocked me and I was hooked.

[Vision]

I feel a lot of us have our "how we would painfully torture Hitler" fantasies after seeing films like Schindler's List and The Pianist. And I guess that since Inglorious Basterds is really just Tarantino's own "murder Hitler" fantasy, I was a little let down. The guy just gets shot in the face. He doesn't even burn to death. Thinking back, I would have enjoyed seeing something way more terrible.

[stray]

Correction, he gets machine gunned in the face by a Jewish American.