Perhaps I was confused in thinking that Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds was a remake of Enzo G. Castellari’s schlocky 1978 Inglorious Bastards but looking at the descriptions for the two films, the only things that seem to jive are the titles and the settings.
Though the initial script reviews seemed overwhelmingly positive, I’ve not been following the film all that closely – likely because of the war setting, something which does very little for me. Yet, with a cast that includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender and Maggie Cheung, it’s hard not to get a little excited.
The trailer didn’t start off particularly well but it does save itself nicely thanks in part to the awesome inter cards (seriously awesome) and Martin Wuttke’s Hitler throwing a tantrum. And expect violence, lots of violence. We are talking Tarantino and the scalping of Nazis. This could be awesome or not. At the moment, I’m leaning toward awesome.
See the trailer below!
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Well, i can’t lie when I say it looks absolutely, absolutely terrible. hopefully this will be the movie that will get people out of tarantino’s ass for once
but hey, maybe it’s just me. maybe everyone else thinks it looks incredible. but after the atrocious ‘Kill Bill’, not even Tarantino’s 3 good/great movies can save me from thinking he’s a joke.
Roy, it is better to remain silent and have us suspect you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
One thing I liked about this trailer is that now the weird cast at least sort of makes sense. I couldn’t believe he cast that little shit from Freaks & Geeks but seeing him stand there in line I can at least glimpse what this film has in store.
I hope the movie doesn’t use a soundtrack like what we hear in the trailer.
I thought this was awesome and really laid down a feel of what it will be like – don’t expect a real war movie, this already has the full Tarantino bizarre exploitational feel, they’re just hunting Nazis.
I don’t know what to expect (please, no one start spouting from the script. I’ve intentionally not read it) but I hope this is a “real” war movie.
We’ll see.
So it is at all a remake or is he just playing on the title of the original?
Well I have been out of Tarantino’s ass since Kill Bill, and I don’t know, this trailer did nothing for me. This might as well have been Crank 2.
Digging the speech, as I wrote over a Twitch, this does feel like a kooky-modern Grindhouse trailer, and there is noting wrong with that. The hitler bit felt a bit dumb, but it was totally out of context, or maybe it was that rash of DOWNFALL parodies…not sure…
I think Pitt doesn’t work AT ALL. Unless it is supposed to be sort of a caricature role – then maybe. The rest of it feels like a Kill Bill version of WWII. Instead of samurai, it’s American Nazi hunters.
Hard to tell from the trailer what this will be like. I’m neither excited nor turned off. I give QT the benfit of the doubt because I, unlike all of you, pretty much like all of his films; so I doubt this will be any different.
Considering I can’t stand Tarantino, and I think I’m the only straight woman on Earth that would run the other way if I saw Brad Pitt, this movie looks like two hours of torture.
“I think Pitt doesn’t work AT ALL. Unless it is supposed to be sort of a caricature role – then maybe.”
I think it is. Tarantino often employs caricatures. I think this looks interesting though.
I do agree that the sun doesn’t shine out of Tarantino’s ass. Kill Bill was shit and so was Grindhouse.
WHAT!? Grindhouse was shit you think? Are you serious? That was close to my favorite movie of last year? What is shit about it? I’m close to firing your ass.
Death Proof was pretty awesome and put Tarantino back on the map for me, but this looks a wee bit too exploitational to really get me excited. I mean a slasher film is one thing, and violence-galore is one thing, but exploiting world war 2 for it, doesn’t excite me at all. At least he is going for a comedy feel with it, rather than all the films that exploit ww2 to tell some bullshit love story or sappy sufferagepiss, so he’s being fucking honest about it, but it’s not a worthy cause, and this film will try and reach the height of Death Proof in the moments, but will never achieve anything beyond a moment or two. I guess that’s what Tarantino became.
Certainly the promise of Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown has disappointed a number of people when he chose to take his directorial efforts in the direction of From Dusk till Dawn. I happen to like both sides, but actually would have no complaints if he chose to continue to make more stuff like Brown and less stuff like Kill Bill. The blaxploitation hommages were more buried in Jackie Brown, and the characters were more in play than the plot. He is definitely going the other direction with Basterds.
All that being said, I like me a good exploiter so Bring. It. On.
I would definitely like to see Tarrantino go in a new direction. Only an imbicile would argue that he’s not a great director but he’s at a point in his career (similar to where MNS was at a few years ago) where he’s in danger of growing repetitive.
Hmm, If I’m being perfectly honest with myself I prefer repetitve Tarantino over Repetitive Kevin Smith (both started in and helped build the House of Miramax in the 1990s). Yes, Tarantino is a far better director, but his genre-indulgences are still pretty swell.
Of course I’d love to see him strike in bold new territory. I’d love to see a David-Gordon-Green-esque or Man-On-Wire-ish Tarantino, but I don’t think that is the way he rolls.
“Only an imbicile would argue that he’s not a great director”
That depends though. He is responsible for all aspects of the films he directs, and if somebody doesn’t like the films because they lack insight into the human condition, they could argue that he’s a pisspoor director, and they would be right.
Direction is not photography. It is creating the film. You are responsible for every syllable, every lightbulb, every haircut… and first and foremost, the content.
@ henrik
I stand by my remarks.
So you reject my reasoning then?
On Tarantino: http://www.avclub.com/articles/reservoir-dogs,16744/
Well, I liked Kill Bill Volume 1, but I thought Kill Bill Volume 2 was a bit of a let down. I also liked Death Proof, although it could be talky at times. Both those movies and Jackie Brown were a bit of a let down after Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. At any rate, I would submit that Tarantino’s record is a bit mixed, although he has yet to make a movie I have absolutely abhorred.
That having been said, it is hard to tell how good or bad Inglorious Basterds will be from this trailer. It is true that Brad Pitt’s character is a caricature, but then as Jonathan pointed out, Tarantino often employs caricatures. I don’t think it can be used as a gauge of how good or bad the film will be unless one simply does not like the caricatures Tarantino uses, or simply doesn’t like caricatures at all.
Ross over at Screenrant has some new footage from Basterds.
http://screenrant.com/american-idol-footage-inglorious-bastards-ross-6789/
“We ain’t in the takin’ prisoner business, we’re in the killing business…and business is Booming.” -> Awesomeness from Mr. Pitt.