Rypro 525

now that i think about it, anyone else think that Sandler wouldn't fit in as Donnie (since he was supposed to have that part, but it went to Eli Roth, who was actually quite good)

Tarantino

I thought Eli Roth was very good, and definitely played the part well.

Loved the movie. The only thing that I would have liked to have seen more of was .

Easily my top of 2009 so far.

outcastja

I really liked the film, didn't expect most of the movie to be subtitled, which is why I need to watch it again to catch things I may have missed. I thought Christoph Waltz was the best thing in the movie, probably one of my favorite characters from Tarantino.

Robot Rock

I had the WORST time I've ever had in a movie theater because of this movie. The audience was loud as hell and kept laughing at stuff that wasn't funny. It didn't help that there was a heckler who yelled during a lot of the quiet scenes and everyone laughed at causing me to miss some of the dialogue.

Other than that, great movie. It was a slow burn to an excellent ending.

Superboy

Saw it again. I felt even more tepid about the movie this time around. I kept getting the feeling that the movie was rushed. It was almost as if every scene couldn't wait to get itself over with. His pacing is dramatically off here; sometimes, the movie rushes through something we'd like to see more of, and sometimes the movie grinds to an almost complete stop at the most inopportune moments.

The Bus

I didn't think the movie ground to a halt at all but as Ebert mentioned in his review, Tarantino made great use of dialogue as a build-up. The beginning scene at the LaPadite home was excellent: you knew something was going to go down, but the movie wouldn't get it to it quite yet. I'm a huge fan of Kill Bill but I thought it was too slow when I first saw it in theaters: I had no such issue with this film.

The German performances are excellent even the

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The Bus

This is one of the reasons I went to a midnight show: the theater would be filled with an appreciative audience. My audience was loud as hell too, but we didn't have a heckler and they didn't laugh inappropriately.

Zen Peckinpah

Well, stop the press, this was as fucking stupendous as I thought it would be from reading the script, and more. I think this WILL do well at the box office, crowd COMPLETELY ate up and got a HUGE applause at the end at a suburban central NJ theater. It's essentially a spaghetti-style WWII picture with Tarantino pulling the strings of signature elements from his best films. And I think it's the first time since Pulp Fiction where I can just run down a huge list of fantastic scenes in this, and I'm a HUGE fan of his stuff. Aldo Raine, Hans Landa, and Shoshanna are all iconic characters IMO.

I will do terrible things to see Christoph Waltz get an Oscar this year. Landa is a completely different villain than we've seen before, charming, genuinely funny, charismatic, repulsively arrogant, and sadistic all at once, whereas Nazis are usually portrayed as only having the latter quality. And his mood swings throughout were just seamless, jarring for the right reasons. Also, Brad Pitt might be the only person who could have done Aldo Raine justice (I think Clooney would've done well with it too), it's the craziest turn he's had since Fight Club. His "Italian" disguise...priceless.

So yeah. Best movie of '09. No question.

Robot Rock

Oh, don't get me wrong. I love loud audiences as well. But when you have some guy randomly yelling "fuckin' nazi spic" at Hitler when he first arrives on scene, it's hard to keep yourself in the movie.

Tarantino

Forgot to add, I loved the last line in the movie as well.

The Bus

Robot: I thought the film-within-a-film was a great joke on anyone in our audience who was expecting constant bloodbath versus the long stretches of dialogue we actually got.

I also liked the reference to The Searchers near the end of Chapter One.

VinVega

The trailers for this actually looked pretty stupid in my opinion, but since you guys are giving it really good reviews, I probably will see it. I doubt my wife will go with me, so I'll probably go by myself.

MBoyd

I thought the movie had many laugh out loud scenes personally! It's very over the top. I loved it and Landa is the greatest screen villain to come along in years.

The Bus

The trailer made it seem over-the-top in a weird, campy way. It's not. It's over-the-top in the way Tarantino movies are.

Giles

, as for the second spoiler - yes, the visual nod was quite apparent.

On the whole I was generally impressed, but it's definately a movie that will grow on me, since 'Death Proof' didn't wow me immediately, but I've grown to like it immensily.

Giles

yeah, I agree, I wonder what the rough cut clocked in at, wonder if any deleted scenes wind up in the supplemental section of the eventual DVD/Bluray or if an extended cut of the film might appear.

Supermallet

Saw it last night. Fucking fantastic! Only Tarantino could have made this movie. Long stretches of absolutely riveting dialogue leading up to one of the most cathartic climaxes I've seen in a long time. It's a smorgasbord of great scenes and film influences, but I have to say that the sequence where Shoshanna gets ready for the premiere is perhaps Tarantino's best filmmaking to date. I'll be seeing this again ASAP.

mdc3000

It's rare for me to see a movie this long and walk out of the theatre saying "Damn, I wish that movie were 30 minutes longer" but that's exactly what I did - I wanted to spend more time with The Basterds. It's not that we get shortchanged or anything, but there are so many interesting characters that we barely get to know, I was longing for more...and that's the mark of a great movie. I loved the shit out of this one. It is easily up there with Tarantino's best (if not at the top) and has become my favourite movie of 2009.

I thought the dialogue was fantastic, the story moved along at a decent pace and there were many of QT's signature style shots. This seems like the movie he's been warming up for - you can see bits and pieces of his earlier work here and there but it all comes off so polished yet effortless, that it just WORKS. LIKE FUCKING GANGBUSTERS. Brad Pitt was terrific and got lots of laughs. I love that the movie walks a fine line in tone between deadly serious and Tarantino's twisted brand of humour. As many have mentioned, Christoph Waltz gives an oscar worthy performance here and really steals a lot of scenes. Eli Roth was better than anticipated and Hugo Stiglitz may be one of my fave characters ever - loved his introduction.

I have to see it a second time to take it all in, but it exceeded my expectations on all fronts and just blew me away. 5/5

MBoyd

Good interview on NPR today with Tarantino.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...05&sc=fb&cc=fp

jrsl76

Saw it last night at the midnight showing. Fucking loved it. Everyone was great, but particularly Melanie Laurent and Christopher Waltz. It was so much funnier than I expected. I was constantly taking in all the references, from Morricone's Un Amico to what I feel was a nice ref to Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black. Fantastic, I think I'll be seeing it again this weekend!

Superboy

I did like the first scene, and it really got me excited for the movie. I just did not like subsequent scenes.

Mondo Kane

MUCH better than I was led to believe (The ranking might shoot up a notch when I see this again---Hopefully this weekend)

Like mdc3000, I wouldn't mind an extended cut one bit. Extra scenes that were shot: (That I know of)

-Cloris Leachman scene (Involving Donnie's character and the origin of the baseball bat)
-Maggie's scene (More proof of Shosanna obtaining the cinema)
-Aftermath of the rest of The Basterds
(The trailers/TV spots show Samm Levine's character (Hirschberg?) running,screaming,and shooting a machine gun. Where did this scene go?)

Too bad that Enzo Castalleri didn't make the cut (BTS footage shows that he's in the front row of the theater in Nazi attire) and it was great to see Julie Dreyfus again Plus it was a good thing that I didn't finish reading the rest of the script online. There was some (Additional) surprises that occured that I did NOT see coming. Two words, "Un Amico". Jaw-droppingly stunner of a sequence.

LOTS still to be said.....

Schloob1

LOVED IT!!! Amazing how 2.5 hours felt like much less, also the sign of a great film when I am not thinking is it over yet, etc. Agree with most of the comments and sorry to hear about the person in here who had a heckler, that would suck. Can't wait to get this on dvd and add to my collection.

Wow, coming from a guy who has Batman as his avatar. This performance already made you forget about Ledger as the Joker? Still for me personally one of the best in a while. Landa was definitely great and pulled me in like Ledger, but I was definitely more engrossed with Heath's perforance. my opinion of course

MBoyd

Well sure Heath as the Joker is great. But I think we all knew what we were in for when we walked into the theater to see Dark Knight and the regular movie-going public discovered later.

I was knocked for a loop by Waltz's Landa. Complete and utter cinematic surprise for me. It's rare for me to walk into a film and be just amazed with what I see. That happened today! I'll be there for another showing.

Throwing Copper

I rarely ever go see movies twice in theateres these days, but this will probably be one of them.

Just WOW is all I have to say.

This was a hell of a film.

The subtitles went a little too quickly for me at times, but I'll catch it all the second time around.