Inglourious Basterds

[potatobroth]

loved it.

[grady]

The first viewing of the film I had was in mid July with an audience of 5 people. I didn't enjoy it so much.

The second viewing of the film was opening weekend on a Saturday with an audience of around 185. I enjoyed the film more.

The things I didn't like from the first viewing still were there, but the addition of 180 or so people did improve it a bit, reaffirm my likes and dislikes and more importantly confirming my liking of Christoph Waltz(Hans Landa, aka 'the jew hunter.').

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Does anyone get naked?

[King of Snake]

I felt that some parts dragged on way too long. The whole film could have been half an hour shorter and be better for it.
In some cases the drawn out scenes did work very well building tension though like the opening chapter and the bar scene later on.
The Jew Hunter was easily the most enjoyable character in the whole film and it actually felt like the Inglorious Bastards themselves were more of a sideshow sometimes. I don't know, I guess I expected a bit more of an action movie with more focus on the Basterds ( sorta like Dirty Dozen).

[IsiliRunite]

I found it hard to really appreciate the wits of the charaters because they were speaking a language I don't, and I too felt the film was dragged out.

Pitt and Waltz were always good, though. Scenes with them were auto-memorable.

[Dirty0900]

Scenes were long, but they were building to something, especially the first one where you knew something was going to happen after the Jew Hunter slowly built up his nice introduction before going down to business.

Amuses me that people complain it was subtitled and mainly in French/German. Seeing the film was set in those countries, it kind of made sense to do so. Very brave move I thought, but it paid off. There was still enough action going on to set the emotion of what was going on e.g. the tense/fear in the cafe when they are thinking of changing the cinema venue.

Think the Basterds were meant to be portrayed as utterly stupid and to give themselves the impression/believe they were responsible for the final outcome when it was actually the victim of the original Jew Hunters work.

[myrrh]

I finally caught this one too. I think it is my favorite of his films. But this is because I like the long dialogue scenes.

My only complaint was that I didn't want it to end. I thought that they should have showed a scene of them returning to the USA, or in the USA. I don't feel that the movie had a resolution, even though it did. It seemed to end abruptly.