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Strongly opposing reaction for me. The prologue (assume what you mean by "first table scene" is probably the best single scene I've seen in recent memory.
According to Google Books, "**** a duck" has appeared in print at least back to the early '50s. "**** a duck and screw a pigeon, that's the way you'll get religion" is a piece of bathroom graffiti that I now learn originated in a 1955 novel.
My dictionary tells me the wiener/penis connection is about 100 years old. Don't know how long it took for the first wienerschnitzel joke to be told.
That said, it didn't take me out of the movie even if it is modern swearing. I remember hearing David Milch asked why he had his characters in Deadwood saying "**********" all of the time. His answer was that he wanted to true to the foul mouths of the characters but that we'd laugh at what was considered profane at the time. So it is spiritually accurate if not linguistically.
Loved Aldo Rains and am glad the movie wasn't actually a chronicle of the basterds exploits. That would have been boring.
To me, a big part of what the movie is saying is "how comfortable are you with brutality and slaughter when you agree ideologically with those doing it." We in the audience are condemning the Nazi's for their pleasure at a chronicle of the slaughter of U.S. soldiers and are immediately dumped into ourselves taking some positive feeling from the slaughter of the Nazis (and what exactly is the distinction between Zoller as a hero and Audie Murphy as a hero?).
To me it actually took a little bit away from that to have Hitler and the rest of the leadership there. It took away from the ambiguity. Very hard to feel any sympathy at all for Hitler. More questionable would be the slaughter of a hundred mid-level officials and their families.
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