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Not enough scalps. While it's good and there are fun elements it's rather dialogue led than jam-packed with action.The film is by no means terrible but those things we think of as being Tarantino-esque, the long
 stretches of wickedly funny dialogue, the humor in the violence and outsized 
characters strutting across the screen, are largely missing. It fails as conventional war movie, as genre spoof, as trash and as pulp.

My mom just saw it and she loved it so that makes it suspect already. Coupled with your short review I think I might just wait until it hits the shelves at the local rental.

I did enjoy this line,

It fails as conventional war movie, as genre spoof, as trash and as pulp.

mo reb

ORIGINAL: bairdlander

It fails as conventional war movie, as genre spoof, as trash and as pulp.

What exactly are the prerequisites to qualify as trash? Or pulp? *grin*

Kind of like right and wrong, you know it when you see it.

It may "fail" as a "conventional" war movie, but that wasn't what he was trying to make, now was it? That's like saying Pearl Harbor and Gone with the Wind fail as conventional war movies...[8|]

Planning on seeing this Thursday night. I had someone agree to this as a date movie. Does that make her a keeper?

IDK,

Everything after "From Dusk Till Dawn" has been pretty mediocre IMO.

Kill Bill was probably the best thing he has made in the 21st Century.

I guess "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" just set the bar too high and everything since has been a letdown.

If I wanna hear a bunch of phony war heroes, I can go to the American Legion and listen to a bunch of drunk lifers' wives lying about their husbands exploits, (and other things).

Hollywierd has been taken over by flash in the pan snake oil salesmen and has replaced true acting with pyrotechnics.






Long live John Ford.

ORIGINAL: Mus

IDK,

Everything after "From Dusk Till Dawn" has been pretty mediocre IMO.

Kill Bill was probably the best thing he has made in the 21st Century.

I guess "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" just set the bar too high and everything since has been a letdown.

Never ever take a woman to a movie on the first date.You will be sitting there,not talking for 2 and a half hours.I suggest a nice walk a quiet drink.The best is invite her to your house make a nice dinner and watch a dvd.Also this movie has no action whatsoever,all action is seen in the trailer.Woman get most horny watching action flicks studies have shown.

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

Planning on seeing this Thursday night. I had someone agree to this as a date movie. Does that make her a keeper?

You will argue about anything.In the middle of the night you would argue its actually day time.[:D][:D]You would say it is daytime somewhere else on Earth

Don't go to see it with the expectation of seeing a WW2 movie. It's more like a movie about the cliches of WW2 movies.

It's an alternative history that's so alternative it's almost anti-history. It may be true that those who don't remember their history are doomed to repeat it, but for Tarantino remembering movie history compells him to repeat it as well, only not as tragedy but as a self-conscious farce. Needless to say it's a bit uneven.

I haven't even heard of this movie, but if it's worse than Kelly's Heroes and The Movie that Shall Not Be Named (see AE Thread for Further Information and Derogation of this Flick), it's gotta be downright horrendous.

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I haven't even heard of this movie, but if it's worse than Kelly's Heroes and The Movie that Shall Not Be Named (see AE Thread for Further Information and Derogation of this Flick), it's gotta be downright horrendous.

Kelly´s Heroes?
Kelly´s Heroes?

Are you saying, you actually think Kelly´s Heroes to be a BAD movie?
You gotta be kidding me!

It is hillarious! [:D]

PS.: I especially like when the scouts on the churche tower say the germans are up to something, ´cause the Tigers have started their engines and the mad tanker, whose name escapes me right now, calms them down stating it is SPO for them to run their engines every few hours to keep them warm and ready to go.

Now here you have someone doing his homework. I´d wish something like this could be said for some newer so called "warmovies"

I also like a Tiger, that actually looks like a Tiger [:)]

Tarantino has been involved in two good pieces of film-making. The first was Pulp Fiction (fair's fair) and the second was Desperado, because he takes a bullet in the head.

All the rest of his stuff has been bad.

I liked Reservoir Dogs and the first half of Kill Bill as well. Jackie Brown...atrocious. And Death Proof was bad enough that I actually became angry while watching it.

Anyway, I probably will see Inglorious Basterds because I like the genre.

Yeah, can't forget Reservoir Dogs !! That's what set up Pulp Fiction for the success it had : a lot of movie afficionados had spotted him with RD (I know I did) after having rented it on VHS tape

He did not direct From Dusk Till Dawn, only writing the screenplay and iirc, being one of the producers. He wasn't involved with the sequel(s ?)
If we tally in  his writing, From Dusk Till Dawn is part of his crap work, as it does not stand up to the standard set by RD, PF or Natural Born Killers (officially, he only wrote the story, but there was a "feud" with Stone back then on how much the story was really a complete scenario, and barely reworked for the film)

Reservoir Dogs is his best work. Then Pulp Fiction, then Kill Bill, albeit a distant third. Very much so.
Should have stuck to what he knows : parody of film noir brought back full circle
The rest is crap, and I fear Inglorious Basterds is line with the latter.

ORIGINAL: RHoenig

Kelly´s Heroes?
Kelly´s Heroes?

Are you saying, you actually think Kelly´s Heroes to be a BAD movie?
You gotta be kidding me!

It is hillarious! [:D]

PS.: I especially like when the scouts on the churche tower say the germans are up to something, ´cause the Tigers have started their engines and the mad tanker, whose name escapes me right now, calms them down stating it is SPO for them to run their engines every few hours to keep them warm and ready to go.

Now here you have someone doing his homework. I´d wish something like this could be said for some newer so called "warmovies"

I also like a Tiger, that actually looks like a Tiger [:)]

Lauding Kelly's Heroes for one historical accuracy amidst a sea of inaccuracy and distortion would be like praising Phyllis Diller's looks because she had a nice belly button.

I read the "screenplay" a few months ago.  It must have been the second draft as I swear the first had to have been written in orange crayon it was so bad.   Nope, definitely waiting til the DVD emerges from the dark depths of Weinstein Inc

hmmm, never heard of it and don't really care.

Oh, you care alright. Drop the facade.