[Movie] inglourious basterds

[Pharnakes]

Originally Posted by Tomcat_ha

i wonder what happens if you jump and fire a mg42 at the same time

You do backflips.

[SiC-Disaster]

Originally Posted by Pharnakes

You do backflips.

I lol'ed at the picture in my mind of that happening.

[Bluehawk]

Well the MG42 can push a prone man backward and give him a belly rash, so I could only imagine you'd fall on your *** if you tried to fire in midair.

[husbert]

imagine using a jetpak!

[Mormegil]

Just saw it. Oddly, not as bloody as Kill Bill.

Completely silly, but a fun flick. Tarantino himself called it a "Spaghetti Western" set in WWII.

I was slightly annoyed the guy in the propaganda film, in this film was a scharfshutze without a scope. BTW: He was a German version of Audie Murphy.

[PUTZ]

Originally Posted by Tomcat_ha

i wonder what happens if you jump and fire a mg42 at the same time

ro2.

[fOgGy]

Possibly the worst WWII film ever made

[BlackLabel]

Really liked it. The performance of the german actors was on point. The basterds where ok, through i hoped for a bit more action on their part. Really liked the basement scene and the overall performance of "the jew hunter".

Good Movie !

[Mormegil]

Originally Posted by fOgGy

Possibly the worst WWII film ever made

You made the mistake of thinking this was a "WWII film."* Easy mistake, since it's set sort of in WWII. It's a Tarantino fantasy revenge movie heavily influenced by Spaghetti Westerns and to a lesser extent Macaroni Combat (Italian WWII exploitation movies from the 70s).

That's like watching Kill Bill and complaining about the anime style action being too fake (gallons of blood spraying out of one skinny woman like a fire-hose).


And, yeah the guy playing "Jew Hunter" was really good. He won best actor at Cannes.


*I guess if you're judging it on historical accuracy, it may very well have been the worst WWII film.

[fOgGy]

The swastika on the guy's forehead are they gonna change it to an iron cross for the German audience ?

[KrazyKraut]

In fact yes. In the German verson, instead of a swastika, it reads "I write random troll posts on internet forums to stir up country vs country debates that everyone got tired of back in 2001" on the guy's forehead.

But yeah, seeing as how I never saw a movie here with a censored swastika, I doubt it. They did censor part of the trailer though, namely the title. I guess they thought it (the title screen) could be interpreted pro-nazi by people who only glanced over it. That was the company's choice.

[Murphy]

Originally Posted by fOgGy

The swastika on the guy's forehead are they gonna change it to an iron cross for the German audience ?

Contrary to games, movies count as art and art is not censored. Except for the art that doesn't count as art...

[Mormegil]

Originally Posted by -[SiN]-bswearer

also the subtitles....OMG were those annoying. french guy #1 says "Oui" and his subtitle in english says "Yes". french guy #2 says "Oui" and his english subtitle says "Oui"??? same thing happened for "Merci" and "Thank you". there was also one part where people were talking in german, but there were no subtitles??

all in all still a decent movie.

I guess that's a case where it was best for the story telling the audience didn't understand what was going on. Like in Kill Bill vol I, where Beatrix's name was bleeped.


About the censorship, according to Wikipedia:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia, the ultimate authority

The German publicity site by Universal Pictures has been censored as the display of Nazi iconography is illegal in Germany. The title has the German Swastika removed and the Stahlhelm helmet has a bullet hole instead of the Nazi symbol.[71] The download section of the German site has been revised to exclude wallpaper downloads that feature the Swastika openly.

[husbert]

i think he knows it
but he thought that more than 90% of the ppl watching this film dont know it


imagine how crasy german government is:

this cancelled swastika is banned too!!!!!

http://www.gruene-thueringen.de/cms/...gestrichen.png

[worluk]

Originally Posted by husbert

this cancelled swastika is banned too!!!!!

http://www.gruene-thueringen.de/cms/...gestrichen.png

If you ***** about stuff at least TRY to educate yourself before.
The BGH decided in March 2007 that this variant is not forbidden.

[PUTZ]

I thought this was about a movie.

[=GG= Mr Moe]

I just saw the movie, and it was not what I thought it would be. It was worth seeing, but I probably won't be buying the dvd. I definitely DID NOT expect the ending. Nowhere near as much blood or gore as I was expecting, and the basterds were only a part of the movie. The German colonel was the most entertaining. Lots of almost goofy western type music, but I did appreciate some of it, especially what I recognized as also being in "Kelly's Heroes" which is a classic.

3/5

[REZ]

I thought it was a really good movie. The writing was terrific. The bar scene being one of my favorites. Sooo much tension in a lot of the scenes. Col. Landa is the best character this year. He was perfectly cast. Great job by Christoph Waltz.

It seems people want gore when they see a Tarantino flick.. the friends I saw it with made the same 'lack of gore' comment after it was over. They also wanted to see more action scenes with the Basterds, but all of that and more gore would have seemed unnecessary to me and would have taken away from the movie. It was still incredibly violent, just not gory.

I dunno.. I was into it for the writing and it delivered. I'll be buying the DVD.

..and the sniper nitpickers - scope = sniper, no scope = not a sniper. You guys are playing too many video games if you ask me.

[Zetsumei]

loads and loads of stuff for the theatre version was cut.
All the characters had backstories etc.

I'm not going to buy it on blueray unless a directors cut edition showing the full footage will come.

[Klaus]

Saw it in the cinema in Israel, in the final scene the entire audiance was cheering as if it was a soccer game.