Miscellaneous Movie Musings

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Finally saw Inglorious Basterds last night.

It left me a little conflicted. On the one hand, it's a great movie, Tarantino doing what he does best. Reminded me in pace and story telling of Jackie Brown, one of my favorite and often under appreciated Tarantino films. Can't say a bad thing about it as a movie.

But I still don't like watching Nazi movies. Even if it was fantasy Nazi slaughter pron. The serious Jew-hunting scenes just depress me, and I can't even delight in the fantasy slaughter 'cause, well, it didn't happen that way, it never could have happened that way, and no amount of fantasizing changes that.

The whole fantasy revenge angle is what has kept me away. I didn't relish the idea of inhumanity being met by gleeful revenge inhumanity, no matter how justified. It sounded like a nasty pretext for nihilism on paper. But several reviews I've read have indicated that such fears may be groundless, and in any case, I totally loved Jackie Brown. So, hmm, I dunno. Probably wait for video, but I'm too intrigued now to avoid it.