Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

Inglourious Basterds surprised me. I won't say it is a great film though it does have several Tarantino-standard dialogscenes that are worth the money. Particularly the opening prelude and then another scene later in a bar.

Considering that the only thing most people are talking about is the brutality and explicitness of the violence I was suprised as just how little of it there is in the movie (though it is matter of factly brutal when it does). The greatest thing about it though, as someone who sees a lot of movies, is that I had absolutely no idea where it was going and so truly was just along for the ride.

That's not a feeling I get very often.

Also liked that they didn't shy away from the language issues a movie set in European WWII should have when most of the characters is French or German. The result is that much of the movie is subtitled but that doesn't bother me at all. Christoph Waltz had to speak four languages through the movie and it is my understanding that only the Italian was faked.

Also liked that for the most part everybody, good or bad, was treated as intelligent beings. And that everybody, good or bad, were treated as somewhat couragesous.