'Inglourious Basterds' Teaser

[Lonemagpie]

I love Tarantino's stuff, I love war movies, I don't mind Brad Pitt one way or the other.

I am looking forward to this, but the trailer itself is stunningly bland and uninformative about how it's going to turn out...

 

[Captaindemotion]

I never saw the 70's "Inglorious Bastards", which from what I understand isn't that related to this version...plotwise.

No it is not. The original is almost like the A-Team taking on a Nazi train.

I like Tarantino so this is a no-brainer for me. Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp are two mainstream stars who are always involved in very interesting projects and roles, I don't think anyone could accuse them of always taking the easy road.

Johnny Depp isn't in this one, though.

Not sure what to make of this. I'm a huge fan of Tarantino's first couple of movies, I like Jackie Brown, but I think he's been wasting his potential ever since. He seems caught in a B-movie rut, simply making tributes and nods to the movies of his youth, not maturing or progressing. The man has probably as much talent as any movie-maker out there, but I can't help but feel that he's wasting it. Where is his Raging Bull, his Schindler's List, his Heat?

Jackie Brown showed some increased maturity and character development on his part, but I don't think Grindhouse or Kill Bill are worthy of him, frankly. Fun but hollow. Even the dialogue isn't as quotable as before. In JB, he wasn't trying to write quotable dialogue, whereas in the more recent movies, I had the impression that he was trying to write better dialogue, but simply failing. This movie looks no better. I'm sure it will entertain, but if you had told me in 1993 or 1994, what Tarantino's CV circa 2009 would look like, I wouldn't have believed you.

Got to say also, that much as I like Brad Pitt and even though he delivered Tarantino's dialogue so well in True Romance, I'm not convinced on his reciting of the lines in this trailer. It's hard to judge from a trailer, but I can imagine someone like Nathan Fillion selling those lines so much better.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'm not really entirely sure what to make of it yet.

He's taking everyone's expectations and exploding the living fuck out of them. Probably has something to do with the fact that our understanding of WWII has been filtered thru Hollywood anyway, so this is the anti-Spielberg approach, a kind of antidote.

And since my understanding of WWII is filtered at least partly through actual history books , this approach doesn't look the least bit invalid as a counterbalance. People have an incredibly sanitized view of history. Not that Tarantino gives a shit about "correcting" anyone's view of history - he's most likely just trying to stir up shit and have some fun.

No, it's not anything like that for me, I just wasn't feeling it here with this trailer. It's kind of hard to put into words, but his other movies gave me a good vibe after seeing the trailers and this one is just sort of "meh" so far. It's nothing concrete though, and it could very well turn out to be great.

You wouldn't think that as far as Hollywood goes...According to Hollywood WW2 ran from 1941 to 1945

Look bud, if you choose to deny that FDR faked his own death in order to infiltrate Hitler's bunker and assassinate him with a gun built into his wheelchair, making it look like suicide, that's fine by me, but I just don't see what any of that has to do with this movie where they're clearly not doing anything beyond participating in the war, which I'm pretty sure the US did. Also, do you find a lot of foreign films focus on the American aspect of the war or more on their nation's particular role in it?

 

[Evil_Kirkneivel]

I like the Tarantino films that mix stylized violence with clever prose and interesting characters (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown). But this one looks like it's going to focus on the violence.

The Nazis were cold-blooded killers, so these guys are going to pay them back by doing the same thing to them? That's so wrong; is it supposed to be funny? 'Cause it isn't (to me).

 

[Dar70]

Looks like its going to be a good satire.

 

[TheArsenal]

I rather think Tarantino is a B-Movie director who believes he's a B-Movie director and revels in it. All of his films have an odd sense of fun behind the almost cartoon violence and pop culture dialogue. The last thing he is is pretensious.

Exactly. And he made two of my favorite films: Kill Bill 1&2. Not high art by any means, but well constructed, highly entertaining melding (or ripping off of, matters not to me) of styles and other films.

As much as anyone can judge a two hour film by viewing less than two minutes of it, it does look to be another fun hyper-violent Tarantino romp.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

It looks like a load of fun. I'll be there.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Where is his Raging Bull, his Schindler's List, his Heat?

It was called Pulp Fiction, widely considered a masterpiece, and often called one of the greatest films ever made.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ I agree on the masterpiece comment and that it's one of the greatest pics ever made (though I personally prefer Reservoir Dogs). But by citing it, you're saying he peaked with his second movie. Scorsese made Taxi Driver, then an arguably greater movie in Raging Bull. Coppola made The Godfather, then Godfather II, then Apocalypse Now. Has QT made anything remotely as good as PF in the last decade? Has he made anything with any character development, apart from Jackie Brown or Reservoir Dogs? He's not moving forward, I'd say if anything he's regressing.

Oh, for anyone interested, the man himself talks about the trailer in this link. Some of it might be considered to be spoiler-ish for the movie, though.

http://www.empireonline.com/features/tarantino-talks-inglourious-basterds-trailer/

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Ok, I see what you're getting at now. Forgive me for not getting it at first, and I would have to agree. Yeah, his last few films have not even approached the greatness of his first two. He has regressed with his last couple films (though none of them bad) but Spielberg, Scorcese, and Coppola all made films of lesser quality after their masterpieces. Tarantino's problem seems to be that he likes to muck about getting films made so that whenever a new film does come out, it has to be compared to Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction because his cannon is so small for a director active almost twenty years.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ I wouldn't have thought it serious enough to warrant forgiveness. But cheers anyway.