Inglourious ****

wutadumsn23

Not a big fan of Tarantino, but may still give it a whirl.

-Jeff

zombie boy 2000

Gaara wrote: »

Who is the "most" you are referring to? A few people on this forum? It has a 8.5 on IMDB and is ranked #64 of their greatest movies list, with a certified fresh rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The same "most" he referred to who hated Drag Me to Hell. You know the one that scored 92% on Rotten Tomatoes....

domflane

I'm waiting for mine to show up from netflix on blu-ray. From what everyone is telling me, I can't wait to see it.

kuntasensei

zombie boy 2000 wrote: »

The same "most" he referred to who hated Drag Me to Hell. You know the one that scored 92% on Rotten Tomatoes....

Don't you remember? Mike knows people there, and he doesn't believe in their ratings. :rolleyes:

Knucklehead

Im gonna watch this tonight, hopefully its good. Tarantino movies have been a toss up for me.

billbillw

I can't wait to see this, but it is currently a "very long wait" on my Netflix queue

Mike LoManaco

Gaara wrote: »

Who is the "most" you are referring to? A few people on this forum? It has a 8.5 on IMDB and is ranked #64 of their greatest movies list, with a certified fresh rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Yes, I was initially referring to the few posts I saw by members here that didn't care for it -- it was a premature judgement on my behalf, and I didn't see the other replies that were favorable.

Regardless of what "Zombie Boy" said about me, it has absolutely nothing to do with my feelings of Drag Me To Hell -- that was a matter of simply disagreeing with Rotten Tomatoes and some of their subsidiaries there. This is not the same matter -- I was simply curious as to whether the film was as bad as it seemed some on here said it was...again, a misperception on my part as I didn't notice the positive remarks about it, either.

Mike LoManaco

xcapri79 wrote: »

Mike, when will you be reviewing it?

Didn't you say you had it in your 'cue, Capri? If so, you'll probably beat me to it -- I don't see me getting around to it until maybe next week sometime. Let us know what you thought of the PQ and sound if you get a chance to watch it...;)

Mike LoManaco

xcapri79 wrote: »

Yes I will watch it tonight. My review won't be as in-depth, informative or as well composed as yours, but it will be my take on it.

Right now, I'm warming up the Emotiva's and the LSi's with some Beatles Remastered Stereo.
Harrison is singing "If I Needed Someone" on Rubber Soul. Great song.

While I thank you for your very kind words, I am sure you will be able to give us all at least a very good idea what the audio sounded like and if the visuals were top notch or not -- I look forward to perhaps reading your sentiments on the title.

You picked up the Beatles remastered stereo CDs? Awesome; they've been getting some rave reviews via the home theater and audiophile publications. How are those Emotiva amps? How many of 'em do you have? I was thinking of looking into them for my next power upgrade; the Blu-ray player just got updated, so the next move will probably be the power supply...

zombie boy 2000

Mikey... I somehow pictured you "quote, un-quoting" with your fingers while simultaneously typing out "Zombie Boy". This is a very special "skill" which I imagine should make a "lady" very "happy" some day.

Mike LoManaco wrote: »

You picked up the Beatles remastered stereo CDs? Awesome; they've been getting some rave reviews via the home theater and audiophile publications. How are those Emotiva amps? How many of 'em do you have? I was thinking of looking into them for my next power upgrade; the Blu-ray player just got updated, so the next move will probably be the power supply...

On a side note... I think your posts read like a Mad Lib. I can't help but think in some alternate universe, the above post reads as such...

You picked up the Playtypus remastered squash CDs? Cathartic; they've been oozing some fab reviews via the home bidet and audiophile publications. How are those cold sores? How many of 'em do you have? I was thinking of looking into them for my next "chub" upgrade; the Sir Poops-A-Lot player just got updated, so the next move will probably be the power dump..

vmaxer

Well, I just finished watching the movie...again. I have watched it 2 times in 3 days. I love it. I guess this is one you will really like or really dislike. But, I like most of Tarantino's movies.

Brad Pitt from Maynardville, Tennessee:eek:....funny as hell

Mike LoManaco

zombie boy 2000 wrote: »

Mikey... I somehow pictured you "quote, un-quoting" with your fingers while simultaneously typing out "Zombie Boy". This is a very special "skill" which I imagine should make a "lady" very "happy" some day.

Hey Zombie...don't you worry yourself about "making a lady very happy one day"...I'm doing very well in that department for many years now.

On a side note... I think your posts read like a Mad Lib. I can't help but think in some alternate universe, the above post reads as such...

You picked up the Playtypus remastered squash CDs? Cathartic; they've been oozing some fab reviews via the home bidet and audiophile publications. How are those cold sores? How many of 'em do you have? I was thinking of looking into them for my next "chub" upgrade; the Sir Poops-A-Lot player just got updated, so the next move will probably be the power dump..

Your obssession with irrelevant badgering continues to elude me, but I am uncertain what was so "Mad-libbish" about what I wrote to him in the reply; in your own mind, this may be comical, but this response above is asinine and childish.

zombie boy 2000

For example... the quote:
"Your obssession with irrelevant badgering continues to elude me, but I am uncertain what was so "Mad-libbish" about what I wrote to him in the reply; in your own mind, this may be comical, but this response above is asinine and childish."
is "Mad-libbish" by almost any defintion. Please allow me:

"Your truckin' with irrelevant crab cakes continues to DIVER DOWN! me, but I am poopy-head what was so "Mad-libbish" about what I wriggle-wraggled to him in the reply; in your own pancreas, this may be chuckles, but this HARK, THE HERALD ANGELS SING!!!! above is $ and Zebra-Cake."

Honestly Mike, I can't hate you for having your format down to a science. You're like some mad love child of Superman III and Turtle Logo... We all get it. You just don't "get" that we "get" "it".

Mike LoManaco

zombie boy 2000 wrote: »

For example... the quote:
"Your obssession with irrelevant badgering continues to elude me, but I am uncertain what was so "Mad-libbish" about what I wrote to him in the reply; in your own mind, this may be comical, but this response above is asinine and childish."
is "Mad-libbish" by almost any defintion. Please allow me:

"Your truckin' with irrelevant crab cakes continues to DIVER DOWN! me, but I am poopy-head what was so "Mad-libbish" about what I wriggle-wraggled to him in the reply; in your own pancreas, this may be chuckles, but this HARK, THE HERALD ANGELS SING!!!! above is $ and Zebra-Cake."

Honestly Mike, I can't hate you for having your format down to a science. You're like some mad love child of Superman III and Turtle Logo... We all get it. You just don't "get" that we "get" "it".

As I said, Zomb...all in your mind...and it's something that I'll never get...

You are surely right about one thing, though -- your comments and rhetoric with the likes of "Superman III" and "Turtle Logo" are truly a matter of "you all getting something" that "I am not"...you're really hitting that nail on the head, brother! Hate me for having a "format down to a science"? This one's another head scratcher, for there's nothing I am "having down to a science" at all.

Except...BINGO! I have to yet again adjust my "Ignore" list...

kuntasensei

xcapri79 wrote: »

Yes I will watch it tonight. My review won't be as in-depth, informative or as well composed as yours, but it will be my take on it.

We look forward to seeing your comments IN THIS THREAD. Or should he make a new thread for his review first, Mike? :rolleyes:

Sherardp

Mike LoManaco wrote: »

As I said, Zomb...all in your mind...and it's something that I'll never get...

You are surely right about one thing, though -- your comments and rhetoric with the likes of "Superman III" and "Turtle Logo" are truly a matter of "you all getting something" that "I am not"...you're really hitting that nail on the head, brother! Hate me for having a "format down to a science"? This one's another head scratcher, for there's nothing I am "having down to a science" at all.

Except...BINGO! I have to yet again adjust my "Ignore" list...

Zombie, I have to agree with your 1st post. I just finished this one up a few minutes ago and it was pretty darn good. Some pretty good comedy in there as well. The **** were good too, but I have to admist Pitt's dialog was hilarious. And you had to laugh at that ending.

The Blu-Ray had a very good DTS-MA audio track and the PQ was exceptional. Blacks were inky on the JVC and the colors had allot of "pop". Well worth the coin to me.

concealer404

I just watch this last night.

I enjoyed it. Probably won't add it to the collection.

AudioGenics

just watched it last nite....

definitely not history channel material

kuntasensei

xcapri79 wrote: »

Well I watched it and was quite disappointed with it.
Sure the picture quality and sound quality are great, however I see that Tarantino wittingly or unwittingly made a great Al Qaeda recruitment movie. Like a typical Hollywood insider, he has done a great disservice to our troops who are in harms way.

He resorts to explicit scenes to shock his audience. He glorifies torture (scalping, carving swastika into foreheads and brutal beatings with baseball bat) and breaking of the Hague Conventions (the forerunner to the Geneva Conventions) with non-uniformed combatants namely the "****" by so-called American and Jewish heroes.
Sick revenge should not be glorified. Adding the "window dressing" of humor adds insult to injury. Besides being historically illiterate, clearly Tarantino is one sick puppy.

Alfred Hitchcock was much more clever and didn't need to resort to those tactics to make a point. This is not a movie for anytime of the year let alone Christmas. My recommendation is don't watch it and certainly do not have your children watch this crap. It represents Hollywood hypocrisy at its best.
Rating is (negative 5) of 5 stars.

Wow... you REALLY didn't get this movie, did you? 'Cause Tarantino's about as non-Hollywood as you can get, and if you went into it expecting historical accuracy or a patriotic military recruitment film, I guess I can understand why you were so put off by it.

And do we really have to tell anyone not to let their kids watch a Tarantino movie at this point, much less a movie with "****" in the title?

As I said earlier in the thread, if you go into it knowing what to expect from Tarantino (which typically means having enough knowledge of cinema to know what genre he's paying homage to), then you'll enjoy it. Not that casual viewers can't find something in his movies, but... anyone familiar with the old Shaw Bros. kung fu flicks got so much more out of Kill Bill than the average Joe, and similarly, if you aren't familiar with the old movies like the one he borrowed the title from or The Dirty Dozen, you won't get as much from Inglorious ****. I guess some of us get the joke and some don't. Personally, kudos to Tarantino for saying "To hell with history - let's have some fun with this!"

Knucklehead

kuntasensei wrote: »

Personally, kudos to Tarantino for saying "To hell with history - let's have some fun with this!"

I couldnt agree more, this movie was a lot of fun. A little bit of everything thrown in along with some very good acting. I would have enjoyed this that much more if I was of Jewish desent.

Knucklehead

Dude...its a movie....chill. No ****, war is hell, believe me atrocities were committed by both sides during WWII.

Knucklehead

WTF? Are you serious? Are you implying that I have no concept of reality and a movie. My Dad fought bravely in Korea, flew 54 missions in a TBF Avenger before being shot down (thank god he survived). Dude, I bleed Red, White & Blue, dont preach that crap to me. I think its time for you to stop watching the grown up movies and stick to the PG stuff. You sir apparently are having a hard time keeping reality and make believe separate. My Dad is 77 and a true war hero, if he can get a chuckle out of this anybody can.

Knucklehead

xcapri79 wrote: »

Me too. I just got it in the mail. I'm expecting a good one.

All that rage after typing this, I know you've seen the trailer.......damn son, your on the verge of falling into the ignore bucket.

Knucklehead

xcapri79 wrote: »

You obviously don't understand propaganda and sick manipulation.
You don't realize that your hero Tarantino was even making fun of you, yes you. Just as the ****'s laughed at the slaughter of Americans in the movie within the movie "National Pride", you laugh at the ****'s being tortured.
It is that same reaction to human mistreatment Consider the irony.
He played a huge trick on you didn't he?
I didn't say Tarantino was stupid, I said he was sick.

It isn't so funny any more is it?

Your dumber than a box of rocks....welcome to the ignore list Michael Moore...er I mean xcapri. Have a great day, I know I am.

kuntasensei

xcapri79 wrote: »

Knock knock hello. We are in two wars right now. Did you notice?
Do you know what is happening with Guantanamo and the arguments being made?
The movie is highly inappropriate as it portrays American and Allied solders as our enemy wants to characterize them. You think that is hillarious.
If you don't get that, then well enough said.

Just remember the next time you see an American or one of our Allies held captive by the enemy and the results of their barbarism. Remind yourself that you laughed at that.

The movie could have been made without that. But sick Tarantino looked for the adolescent laugh.
It is sad that so-called adults fell for his sick and cheap attempt at humor and denigration of the American and Allied solder through caricature and misrepresentation.

Ironically, I actually discussed this movie with a Brigadier General and a graduate of West Point over dinner earlier tonight. Fortunately, they both got it.

A few points:
1) Your primary sin is that of ascribing current events to what was presented in a movie. This movie is in no way meant to be a commentary on the current military. It is, like Kill Bill before it, a revenge flick on a very basic level. The ending alone should have made that clear.
2) Comparatively, the things the **** do to the **** were tame (and deserved, considering the genocide they committed). But they were shock troopers - meant to strike fear into the Germans through intimidation. Of course the things they did were horrific. That was the point, even with Tarantino's uncanny ability to make us laugh at things that are utterly inappropriate (see the "I shot Marvin in the face" scene in Pulp Fiction).
3) The movie could not have been made without those scenes, because then it would not have been a Tarantino movie. The carving of the swastika into the heads of the German soldiers allowed to survive was a very obvious commentary on how taking the uniform off doesn't make you less culpable for your actions. Except in the exaggerated world we're presented with, that mark is made very physically real - a point hammered home by the fate of Col. Hans Landa at the movie's conclusion. You can take off the uniform... but at least one group of Jews is going to make sure you forever bear the mark for your crimes for all to see.
4) You at least got that Pitt's character was played as a caricature. Tarantino's characters are almost always over-the-top, bordering on satire. Pitt's performance absolutely nails that balance, paying homage to the larger-than-life portrayals of the military in the films of the 60s and 70s but with the sardonic wit that Tarantino's characters are always imbued with.
5) You got that the **** were celebrating American deaths while watching the movie-within-the-movie, National Pride. What you didn't get was that this was Tarantino's sly wink at the audience, who are in turn celebrating the deaths of the **** on the screen in the same fashion.
6) Tarantino movies are less about the end than they are about the journey. For instance, Pulp Fiction isn't really about the quest for what's in the briefcase (which is why you don't need to see it) so much as it's about the characters thrown into that situation. In the same way, Tarantino puts the characters in Inglourious **** into a familiar situation and turns it on its head. The movie has a self-awareness that the World War II genre has been done to death, and sets out to take everything you know about that genre and smash it to bits.

But hey, if you didn't like it, you didn't like it. Personally, I don't think it deserves the outrage it seems to have engendered in you... but that's why I'm glad people like Tarantino exist - because not everyone likes the same old thing. I think it's a brilliant movie, and I find new things to appreciate about it on each viewing. It's not for everyone... but then, neither are Tarantino's other movies.

Hardtail67

You are a moron, stop watching movies.

Jstas

Mike LoManaco wrote: »

Your obssession with irrelevant badgering continues to elude me, but I am uncertain what was so "Mad-libbish" about what I wrote to him in the reply; in your own mind, this may be comical, but this response above is asinine and childish.

Actually, I thought it was flippin' hilarious! Then again, I think you're asinine and childish.

Ooops! Damn. I called you names. I guess I'm gonna get reported now for being a big meanie! But you go ahead and keep up your double standard 'cause it's just fine for you to be insulting with your condescension.




And you....

xcapri79 wrote: »

Well I watched it and was quite disappointed with it.
Sure the picture quality and sound quality are great, however I see that Tarantino wittingly or unwittingly made a great Al Qaeda recruitment movie. Like a typical Hollywood insider, he has done a great disservice to our troops who are in harms way.

...how old are you? 'Cause you're a flippin' idiot.

Jstas

xcapri79 wrote: »

Angry you were duped by the "cool Goebbels" so you have to resort to name calling.
No wonder he is your hero. How sad.

What the hell are you talking about?

I don't think you are an idiot just because of this thread. I think you are an idiot because of your general behavior. You're in the "Idiotic Class of '09" with several other worthy namesakes. That and you're Mike LoMano's lap dog.

Hardtail67

xcapri79 wrote: »

Angry you were duped by the "cool Goebbels" so you have to resort to name calling.
No wonder he is your hero. How sad.

I had to look that up..........:D, really though, this movie really got you worked up. What did you think of Terminator 2?

Someones off their meds....................

Jstas

xcapri79 wrote: »

Your behaviour speaks for itself.
Enough said... Try to have a nice day.

Get bent, douchebag.

By the way, moron, it's spelled "behavior".