Review of Inglorious Basterds

[RedRock]

Guys, we discussed this new movie briefly in the Shout box, but I thought you might be interested in a review of it, and then I'll credit the source. You might recall, if you read the Shouts, that Lamron loved it and I said I had no interest in Tarantino or the movie (actually, I mentioned the obvious Hollywood viewpoint represented in the movie that it's bad to be pro-gun, pro-war, anti-Nazi), so there's your background for this review (slightly edited for privacy):

Tonight the local cinema was $3 a flick, so we went to see Inglourious Basterds with some friends, J & J-ette, G and S, etc. There was quite a crowd actually. I was skeptical of the movie cos I didn't know anything about it except the title and the starring role of Brad Pitt, but it ended up being a terrific movie. Lots of swearing (when they spoke English) and mom wouldn't be able to enjoy it cos of how bloody and violent it was, but it was really great. I loved it. Brad Pitt's character was from the Smokies and had a fabulous accent, it was hilarious. The audience just cracked up every time he spoke. It's a Tarantino, too, so it was all style. Great movie. Rather long (2.5 hours) but we never got bored, it just moved right along through a great plot. The ending was superb, too; poetic justice at its finest. We all had a really great time. Best Tarantino I've seen, and best Brad Pitt as well. I highly recommend it to dad (and mom if she covers her eyes! I had to at some parts :l ). The only thing I didn't like about it is that it probably proved that everyone is just as capable of committing the same atrocities the Nazis committed, since everyone hates the Nazis and was cheering whenever they were being butchered :/ it's understandable, but, still!

We went to an early showing (6:30) so that we would have time to do homework afterwards, so that's what I'm doing now. I'm reading Chaucer and studying English grammar. Crazy intense class. We had a huge debate that lasted almost fifteen minutes about whether the prepositional phrase 'in the refrigerator' was adverbial or adjectivial. I've been writing a lot, too, for my non-fiction writing class. It's a cool class.

So, that's from my middle daughter at college.

Obviously:
1) She's a chip off the old block as regards studies and word usage, etc.
2) She's a Tarantino afficionado--must get that from her crazy Uncle on her Mother's side! "All Style" indeed!!! The guy's a degenerate porn producer!
3) It shows the viewpoint against people using guns and fight evil," the viewpoint I've alluded to, and I did NOT discuss this movie with her at any time before she saw it or wrote the "review."
4) It's a good review and, given that she knows me well, I guess I'll have to see it now (when it comes out in DVD!).

[Death's Shadow]

I have not seen the movie, so I do not know if they do or dont speak against guns and war. Where in your daughters review did she state that they did give a view point against it? I read it 3 times now and just cant find that part.


It was a well written review though.. ;D

[Lamron]

There's nothing in the movie to suggest that what the good guys were doing was wrong. There's really not any "morality message" in it. Pretty much a basic Nazis are really bad people doing evil things, and everybody loves seeing them get what they deserve. Its also hillariously funny.

Those nutcases who think that killing bad guys "makes you just as bad as they are" will probably read all kinds of terrible things into the storyline, but those people don't matter anyway.


Oh, and "in the refrigerator" is adverbial.

[RedRock]

Like Lamron said, it puts forth the idea that "to stoop to the level of the bad guys (answer violence for violence, use torture, use wire-taps, shoot them, imprison them, etc.) makes us as bad as them," that's the hollywood view, the same one that has Obama keeping us from using "harsh interrogation techniques" on Al-Queerda people. At least, that's how the promos come across to me, and as my daughter said, it implies the idea that anyone can become a nazi, even with good intentions. I disagree. This doesn't come across as "power corrupts" but as "that kind of person is that way from the very beginning and loves guns and hurting people and is pro-democracy and pro-american and hates foreigners and anything different, etc." Again, that's how the promos come across to me, but I admit that seeing the movie might show me wrong.



And "in the refrigerator" is adverbial when it modifies a verb, such as "He hid in the refrigerator." as it says where the action verb is doing its thing, but it's adjectival when it modifies a noun, such as "The light in the refrigerator helps us to see the food in the very rear." as it says which light is being discussed. And when it modifies a state of being verb, not an action verb, it's adjectival, such as "The milk is in the refrigerator." The latter could be rewritten, without any change in meaning or substance, to a phrase similar to the other adjectival example, "the milk in the refrigerator....".

[Lamron]

Now you're just going to have see it yourself, Red. Try to forget its Tarantino and watch it with an open mind. ;D

[RedRock]

10-4.

[Lamron]

Have you seen it yet?

[RedRock]

No. I am waiting for it to come out in DVD to rent.

Just saw Donnie Darko and Bullock's The Proposal, though, and I revisited Regarding Henry. I watched Henry after a church lesson about the idea that some people are just so bad that only a hard reboot will change them (salvation). When I saw Henry years ago, I just thought it was a commentary about lawyers.