This movie was fantastic, contending for the number #1 film this year.
Quentin Tarantino is really getting his own game, and his honing his craft.
Now here's the thing, this movie is NOT better than Pulp Fiction (which would be impossible), but it's damn close. In other words, I get this funny feeling watching this movie that he will soon make the next Godfather or Ben Hur or Citizen Kane. He's getting back to what he knows and he's doing it well again. It's only a matter of time before he makes his coup de grace.
It's like Pulp Fiction with subtitles in Nazi-occupied France.
BUT here were the three biggest problems with the movie (and not the fault of the actual movie or creators of said movie)
1. EVERYONE before the movie's premiere was expecting Kill Bill, which it was not. The violence was graphic and horrifying, but very few times did it actually occur, and not in highly stylized ways (much like Pulp Fiction).
2. EVERYONE expected a lot of involvement of the actual "Basterds", just genuinely their romping around killing various people and whatnot. FALSE. The Basterds only take up about 1/3 of the movie. You WANT them to exist more and more but don't (much like Pulp Fiction), and you like the torture!
3. EVERYONE I talked to who had seen it before I did kept expelling their anguish for Brad Pitt's role. They thought it was obnoxious and too much and over the top. I'm telling you right now, Lt. Aldo Raine (Pitt's character) was the adhesive. He was so damn funny with every line he had, as few as their were (rather, not as much as I wanted). He was obviously not the smartest character, but it was obviously intentional to glue all the obscure pieces together.
Soundtrack was a great score of spaghetti western themes, Edith Piaf-esque vinyl, and 70s b-movie songs (and a David Bowie song as well???)
Dialogue was great. Cast was amazing. Setting took nonsense and made it work.
Oh and it has many subtitles.
Hugo Stiglitz!
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