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Is a fantastic movie you will go see it.
Honestly a cracker, its not action packed, historically accurate or full of blood.
What it is, is a well written, sometimes funny, beautifully shot (like all Tarantino films) piece of "what if" fantasy.
But dont go looking for a fast paced action movie, as it aint that, heck most of the "action" takes place around various tables, the beauty is in the script and the slightly over the top acting. It does have a few violent moments, scalping scenes and a strangulation scene come to mind but these arent gratuitous.
It was one of my most enjoyed movies so far this year so i recommend you get to that outside place and visit a cinema ;)
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Is a fantastic movie you will go see it.
Honestly a cracker, its not action packed, historically accurate or full of blood.
What it is, is a well written, sometimes funny, beautifully shot (like all Tarantino films) piece of "what if" fantasy.
But dont go looking for a fast paced action movie, as it aint that, heck most of the "action" takes place around various tables, the beauty is in the script and the slightly over the top acting. It does have a few violent moments, scalping scenes and a strangulation scene come to mind but these arent gratuitous.
It was one of my most enjoyed movies so far this year so i recommend you get to that outside place and visit a cinema ;)
What he said :)
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He used the "O" word...
<Hides under the bed with his imaginary laptop>
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Heh, I myself was quite disappointed by it.
The only character that really shined was the SS-officer Landa (or wazzisname), the rest was a bit meh imo.
But maybe I was influenced by the very negative review I read one hour prior to seeing the movie and us being late, which got us seated at the 2nd and 3rd chair of the 2nd row. Dunno... :-\
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Heh, I myself was quite disappointed by it.
The only character that really shined was the SS-officer Landa (or wazzisname), the rest was a bit meh imo.
But maybe I was influenced by the very negative review I read one hour prior to seeing the movie and us being late, which got us seated at the 2nd and 3rd chair of the 2nd row. Dunno... :-\
hey im sure its not everyones cup of tea ;)
but i agree the SS officer was really good, and i make a point of not reading reviews before i go see any movie for exactly that reason.
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Colonel Landa was brilliant, but I also liked the scenes in which the French girl was having to control herself while around Nazis, the Nazis' casual racism and the trademark Tarantino Mexican standoffs.
On a related note, is there no way to hide spoilers in this forum software?
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Well, think my expectations were too high strung. The usual plot desc of the movie (a small squad of soldiers going to EUR to kick 'zee zhermans' asses) covers about... 5%? of the movie and it didn't really have much thrilling scenes (be it action or dialogues). Plus imo 80% of the cool scenes came from 1 character, out of 3(+) characters that had a major part in the movie.
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There were also some moments of absurdity I found very funny. And I can't think of a way to say more without doing spoilers, so, all I can say is that they were moments of people being ridiculously human.
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Colonel Landa was brilliant, but I also liked the scenes in which the French girl was having to control herself while around Nazis, the Nazis' casual racism and the trademark Tarantino Mexican standoffs.
On a related note, is there no way to hide spoilers in this forum software?
I'll dig up a spoilers tag addon :D
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Spoiler tags function added - see tidy forum thread in tech :)
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One of my favourite scenes was when the actress
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I couldn't help but be a bit disappointed at this one. Sure, there were some fun bits, mostly involving Landa - but on the whole, I thought it wasn't half as funny/engaging as Tarentino's other movies.
I guess my biggest problem with it is, that if someone had asked me: "What would you imagine a movie would be like where a bunch of jews hunt nazis during WW2?", I would probably have come up with something very like IB.
Too few surprises!
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yeah, now you mention the word 'engaging', maybe that's what I found lacking too (that's prolly what fueled me saying I found Kill Bill better than this one.
and after careful rereading I only now understand this joke :-[
He used the "O" word...
<Hides under the bed with his imaginary laptop>
once you get it, it's pretty funny :D
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I thought it was excellent and a real return to form for tarantino in my opinion second to resevoir dogs only (always felt pulp ficion was overrated, kill bills ok, jackie brown is crap and death box or whatever its called equally shite).
stylish, funny, and violent with lots of mexican stand offs as taith said, my favourite bit is where the french girl is feeling sorry for the sniper just after she shoots him as he is made to look remorseful on the cinema screen about the 300 deaths he causes, and you sart to think ahh he wasn't so bad....... then he shoots her heh . IMO he was the best part, although as previously mentioned the detective ie ecellent as is brad pitt and the french girl
"Scusi!"
its a definite thumbs up from me !
laters elv
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I thought it was excellent and a real return to form for tarantino in my opinion second to resevoir dogs only (always felt pulp ficion was overrated, kill bills ok, jackie brown is crap and death box or whatever its called equally shite).
Death Proof is where I realised Tarantino is allowed to make absolutely any movie he wants. Who else would even try to do what he was doing with the first half of the movie? That bit's normally ten minutes long at most. I appreciate it the way I appreciate Cloverfield, as a sort of storytelling concept. Novel, but doesn't necessarily have to be done twice.
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cloverfield OMG worst movie ever
laters elv
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Oh I don't know. I watched the end of a movie last night that had a gang of rednecks shooting arrows at machine-gun wielding mobsters in a cemetary.
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cloverfield OMG worst movie ever
laters elv
Cloverfield was pants i agree, however "worst ever" not by a long shot ;)
check out imdbs 100 worst movies (http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom) and i dare you to watch some of them ;)
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Oh I don't know. I watched the end of a movie last night that had a gang of rednecks shooting arrows at machine-gun wielding mobsters in a cemetary.
Dont knock Next of Kin - rednecks'll hunt you down!
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cloverfield OMG worst movie ever
laters elv
I liked Cloverfield. However, the shaky cam view did make me nauseous. I would have preferred something more District 9.
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Cloverfield was pants i agree, however "worst ever" not by a long shot ;)
check out imdbs 100 worst movies (http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom) and i dare you to watch some of them ;)
I've seen a few of those.
How is Battlefield Earth not on that list?
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How is Battlefield Earth not on that list?
The Church of Scientology sued them into removing it?
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The list isnt necessarily the worst, just those with the least votes on IMDB.
Look thru the top 250 and you can probably find some that SHOULD be in a list of the worst :)
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battlefield earth is great whats not to like about cavemen flying f15s to attack giant aliens.
laters elv
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I went to see Basterds last night and I enjoyed it a lot. Every 'Chapter' went down well and even though the beginning of the movie is quite uneventful and 'boring', there was some great tension being built up.
Only things I didn't like was:
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But all in all, good stuff.
Watched GI Joe afterwards... dunno what to say about that one... Alright I guess. Can't expect much depth from that one. Nice CGI, plenty of bad one liners, shouldn't have had Wayans in it, he has just built up an image that's too goofy. I'm happier with the way they modernised GI Joe than the way they modernised Transformers. It felt Joe-ish, even though there wasn't a single Go Joe! in it.