Comments on: Looking for nazis, finding turkeys

By: Daniel Robertson

Daniel Robertson — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:00:38 +0000

I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve endured hours of QT promoting the film on TV and radio. I’ve come to the conclusion that he is a lunatic. A high-functioning lunatic, to be sure, who can support himself and not cause too much trouble for other people. But his insistence that depictions of violence should be value-free, and his obsession with movies as a world detached from real life, are signs of a demented mind.

By: klari

klari — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:57:00 +0000

Well, I’m sorry you didn’t like it : funnily enough some of the reasons for your dislike are precisely things i enjoyed (for example the long long long discussions). Anyway…

(ps : you show a picture of Diane Kruger with the caption “Melanie Laurent contemplates etc..” whoopsie !
pps : yes, there is a cameo : QT’s voice can be heard in the film-in-the-film, mentioned a film-geek in Inglourious Basterds triva section => thank you Imdb)

By: Tash

Tash — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:48:32 +0000

Haha, I so concur with you re: the references to ‘Allo ‘Allo and Hogan’s Heroes. The whole film was relatively camp-esque. Christoph Waltz was the bright shining star I felt, and his performance carried me through.

I appreciated the subtlety found in some of the minor players that I’ve otherwise not expected in Tarantino films – so by way of being unexpected.. it was pleasantly surprising.

Still Tarantino is delightfully Tarantino don’t you think? You sound disappointed overall – I wasn’t disappointed, but I wasn’t expecting Pulp or Resevoir or (……insert your own…..), besides that – it was missing a Quentin cameo.