Saw it yesterday and boy talk about QT unleashed.
Great entertainer from start to end and excellent casting by Tarantino.
If you aren’t a sensitive sissy who in this day and age gets offended by the ‘n’ word, I would highly recommend it.
Thought the german did a better job. Dicaprio was good but the german was better.
Since its a Tarantino film, I don’t think anyone will be winning any awards.
Well, the Oscars have been loosening up in recent years. They gave Best Picture to Return of the King and Best Actor to Heath Ledger for Batman. They will probably still think Quentin Tarantino movies are too offensive, but who knows.
i dont get this guy.i really don’t
reservoir dogs was nonsense.
inglorious was ok at best.
will be taking a look at this though.going to have to download it prob
Not sure if you will like Django. It’s geared mostly towards Americans (Not trying to offend you, but anyone outside of the US will find a hard time relating to this)
I believe the ‘N’ word was uttered at least 500 times in the movie and not in the ‘Huckleberry Finn’ way either.
I liked the movie a lot. I’m not sure what the deal was with zoe bell’s character (the girl with the red scarf), though. she seemed out of place, which was clearly intentional.
i don’t mind.if the story is reasonably gripping and fast paced ill enjoy it.
but his other movies haven’t done it for me.don’t get the hype around him.
I agree. I hated inglorious. Couldn’t get through the first half. If you’re going to set a movie historically under a premise, make it accurate. The allies didn’t know about concentration camps until after the war, and most nazis were fighting for their country and unaware of what was occuring in the camps. Plus, I just didn’t like the concept of brutality for brutality’s sake and rampant gore, all made okay because these were the “bad guys”.
Hated the book, couldn’t bring myself to see the movie.
I also thought Inglorious Basterds was pretty stupid, but the acting performances were awesome.
According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the allies knew pretty well what was going on in late 1942.
Ah, Black Swan is always good for a little WWII historical debate. Let the games begin.
inglorious sucked to me…i turned it off half way through…
The Simon Weisenthal Center (which is a far cry from an unbiased source) only states that one copy of a plan for mass exterminatino was smuggled to the Allies in 1942. However, this potential plan turned out to be largely innaccurate in comparison to what finally occurred and is not nearly the same as knowing what was occuring (from their FAQ page).
Many of the “death camps” we’re familiar with did not come into play until the very late years of the war as they became overcrowded, supplies for prisons ran out, and prisoners were transported via forced marches to overcrowded camps in the face of the allied advance. The first camps were not discovered until the Russians encountered one in 1944 and the first death camp was discovered by the Americans in 1945 and was widely viewed with shock. I’ve never read a single account from a US officer or politician saying they expected what they discovered at the camps in 1944-1945.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/liberation_camps_01.shtml
Yes, the death camps came near the end of the war, first came deportations, pogroms and firings, but when they realized that there were just “too many Jews”, late into the war, they ran the concentration camps. Remember, it was called the “Final” solution.
What I also found interesting when learning about this was that most of the Jews killed were in Poland, about 3M of them, and not Germany, which didn’t really have that big of a Jewish population at the time.
Poland got had it the worst. For such a small country, they were terrorized by the Germans, but only after being attacked by both Germany and Russia at the start of the war and Russia massacred 30,000 officers via execution in the katyn woods after the military surrendered.
I’ll agree that the Simon Weisenthal Center is not exactly unbiased, but the first report which spoke of a plan for the mass murder of Jews was smuggled out of Poland by the Bund (a Jewish socialist political organization) and reached England in the spring of 1942. The details of this report reached the Allies from Vatican sources as well as from informants in Switzerland and the Polish underground. (Jan Karski, an emissary of the Polish underground, personally met with Franklin Roosevelt and British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden). Eventually, the American Government confirmed the reports to Jewish leaders in late November 1942. They were publicized immediately thereafter. While the details were neither complete nor wholly accurate, the Allies were aware of most of what the Germans had done to the Jews at a relatively early date.
On 12/17/42, the US and British governments jointly released a statement condemning Nazi atrocities against Jews. It was published by the New York Times on 12/18/42. Here’s the text:
"The attention of the Belgian, Czechoslovak, Greek, Jugoslav, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norwegian, Polish, Soviet, United Kingdom and United States Governments and also of the French National Committee has been drawn to numerous reports from Europe that the German authorities, not content with denying to persons of Jewish race in all the territories over which their barbarous rule has been extended, the most elementary human rights, are now carrying into effect Hitler’s oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe.
From all the occupied countries Jews are being transported in conditions of appalling horror and brutality to Eastern Europe. In Poland, which has been made the principal Nazi slaughterhouse, the ghettos established by the German invader are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few highly skilled workers required for war industries. None of those taken away are ever heard of again. The able-bodied are slowly worked to death in labor camps. The infirm are left to die of exposure and starvation or are deliberately massacred in mass executions. The number of victims of these bloody cruelties is reckoned in many hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men, women and children.
The above-mentioned governments and the French National Committee condemn in the strongest possible terms this bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination. They declare that such events can only strengthen the resolve of all freedom-loving peoples to overthrow the barbarous Hitlerite tyranny. They reaffirm their solemn resolution to insure that those responsible for these crimes shall not escape retribution, and to press on with the necessary practical measures to this end."
Haven’t seen it and probably won’t in the theater. But QT is pretty awesome. True Romance and Pulp Fiction are top 10.
I saw true romance yesterday…it sucked…