Early Twitter Buzz
FirstShowing : Inglourious Basterds was frickin’ awesome! This is the WW2 movie we’ve all been waiting to see!! Lots of talking scenes, but still great! Diff than I was expecting, but I think Tarantino is back in action, hell yea!! The action is kind of minimal, but that’s Tarantino for you, lots of talking, but great story, I loved it!
Alison Willmore (abridged): INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS: Soooooooooooooooo Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch Taaaaaaaaaalkiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!
empiremagazine: Glorious Basterds, as it turns out… very, very good, subverting expectations at every corner. Should make Michael Fassbender a star – C It’s utterly unpredictable. When it looks like going one way, it twists the other, & the ending… so audacious it provokes giddy laughter. Christoph Waltz, as Jew Hunter Hans Landa, is a revelation. Shoo-in for Best Supporting Nom. Looks like evil Rob Brydon too. All performances are uniformly grand. Pitt’s hilarious. And the film has two or three scenes that rival anything in QT’s career for tension.
BBCEntsTeam: Surely Tarantino’s best film since Pulp Fiction. Goody!! Brad Pitt is superb… It’s flabby in parts… And (spoiler?) Tarantino has produced an alternative ending to WWII
Nadianeo : Inglourious Basterds was almost 3 hours long but a good watch-lotsa typical Tarantino moves
monggaard: [Strange] film, Inglourious Basterds. [In a good way]. Tarantino pulls no punches. Revenge, Jewish style.
joakimt: “Inglourus Basterds” as expected. Quite funny and violent, and far from Tarantinos best workNo sustained applause for “Inglourious Basterds”. No boos either.
Hyams: INGLORIOUS BASTERDS: a light comedy about killing Nazis. My low expectations were met.
owfilm: Just came out of Cannes screening… Inglorious Basterds – Absolute F**CKING quality! “It gets a bit silly for ten minutes at the end and the brit characters are a bit shit”.
djmecca: just saw Inglorious Basterds in Cannes. […} the movie works and is the best competing film Ive seen at the fest so far.
Jesseblanco: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS ( Cannes ), steadfast and strong, a linguistic’s dream, not historically acurate in a GREAT way.
gkilday: Basterds turns out it’s the grindhouse version of “Valkyrie”
KarinaLongworth: Who knew a Holocaust revenge fantasy could be so boring? #Cannes #iwokeupat6amforthis?
Empire’s quickie review:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24863
TVCalling: Bottom line of Basterds: entertaining but nothing ground-breaking
Empire video reaction
http://www.empireonline.com/features/cannes2009/Post.asp?id=536
Nuts to ‘twitticism’!
Well put, D-Kaz!
Twitter. Hate.
“Surely Tarantino’s best film since Pulp Fiction.”
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Wow
The review here on the auteurs isn’t very positive. As much as the fan in me would like to think this movie is going to be really good, I can’t help but feel that as some point Tarantino’s style is going to collapse on him – unless he evolves. Anyone else?
Will be nice to see Pitt doing something fun, though. I really enjoyed him in Burn After Reading.
Trunk Shot has been on the steep downward slop of self parody for some time.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/2009/05/20/falling_short_of_tarantinos_own_high_bar_inglorious_goes_bubblegum/
Doesn’t have much good to say.
This excerpt from the BBC was telling.
“This is not an American movie. Rather, it’s Tarantino’s homage to the European cinema he adores.”
Huh? Why is Tarantino’s phony homage to European cinema of any interest? Adores? There are people posting on this forum who have forgotten more about the New Wave than Trunk Shot is going to know.
What does Trunk Shot think about say, Andre Bazin’s Christianity? That’s germane to the New Wave, does Trunk Shot have something to say?
Alain Resnais is going strong near 90 and has a film at Cannes. Has Trunk Shot shown his adoration for European cinema by putting some of the attention on Resnais? Of course, not.
Trunk Shot does have his heroine appear as a theater owner in Paris. Must be his obligatory riff on Truffaut. Can’t wait to see what he does with Rivette.
I love this quote — “Lots of talking scenes, but still great!” Put it on the poster.
Rotten Tomatoes currently has critics split 50/50.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inglourious_basterds/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/20/cannes-film-festival-tarantino-inglourious-basterds
It’s not going well for Trunk Shot.
"Like the loyal German bourgeoisie in 1945, trying to keep patriotically cheerful despite the distant ominous rumblings of Russian tanks, we Tarantino fans have kept loyally optimistic on the Croisette this week. We ignored the rumourmongers, the alarmists and defeatists, and insisted that the Master would at the last moment fire a devastating V1 rocket of a movie which would lay waste to his, and our, detractors. But today the full catastrophe of his new film arrived like some colossal armour-plated turkey from hell. The city of our hopes is in flames.Quentin Tarantino’s cod-WW2 shlocker about a Jewish-American revenge squad intent on killing Nazis in German-occupied France is awful. It is achtung-achtung-ach-mein-Gott atrocious. It isn’t funny; it isn’t exciting; it isn’t a realistic war movie, yet neither is it an entertaining genre spoof or a clever counterfactual wartime yarn. It isn’t emotionally involving or deliciously ironic or a brilliant tissue of trash-pop references. Nothing like that. Brad Pitt gives the worst performance of his life, with a permanent smirk as if he’s had the left side of his jaw injected with cement, and which he must uncomfortably maintain for long scenes on camera without dialogue."
And this is from a fan who might be pulling his punches.
The script is dumb, but I could see it maybe being a fun time. I’d feel a lot better if that one guy who directs the stupid horror movies and the guy whose in The Office weren’t in the movie. I have a hard time tolerating either of them. I find it hard to believe the French New Wave scenes aren’t going to be incredibly stupid as well. We’ll see, though.
I hope Tarantino decides to cut the film down. Many reviewers agree that 20 minutes could be cut without any real interference with the overall story. The film could be more cohesive and less dull. I hope the Weinsteins put the pressure on him. Box Office will plummet after the first week if the dull and boring word of mouth spreads. He needs to understand that not every bit of dialogue he writes is brilliant.
Always had reservations about Tarantino and his love for his own voice, very much the same way with Kevin Smith. They’re no Woody Allen or David Mamet. Must admit I’m curious about this one, though. Hope it lives up to its hype.
I guess Twitter feed is not a good indicator of a critical consensus. lol
Anthony N
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