Well, I know I just posted my review for Friday the 13th, but now I am going to review a good film. A film that you, the reader, voted for me to review. That’s right, I’m finally reviewing District 9. And you know what? In honor of the Academy Awards and District 9's inclusion in the Best Picture category, I have decided that between now and March 7th, I’m going to review all the movies that are up for Best Picture. At least I’ve reviewed Avatar, A Serious Man and Inglourious Basterds. Now I’ve got District 9 done, so that leaves The Blind Side, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Precious, Up and Up in the Air.
So, District 9. I remember seeing the preview for District 9 when I went to see Terminator Salvation and I remember thinking that it definitely looked interesting, and that I would give it a chance, but that I doubted it would be any good. At least it had Peter Jackson producing.
Well, I went and saw District 9 in theaters with my friends Andrew and Eric and I loved the first half, I truly did. I loved the documentary feel of this film; it gave it a big touch of realism. But then, it felt almost like we were thrown into a war movie like Saving Private Ryan and I wasn’t sure what to think, and I honestly hated people laughing when people were exploding, it took away from the vibe of the film in my opinion. So, I left the theater disappointed.
So, the other day I rented and watched District 9 again, and I must say, I was much more impressed by it the second time without people laughing at everything. The battle in the film felt like it should be there and it fit quite well.
Well, I guess I should talk about the plot a little bit. At the beginning we are introduced to Wikus, a worker for District 9. District 9 is a refugee camp where a group of aliens are being kept. You see, in the film we’re told that there was an alien space craft that came to Earth, specifically Johannesburg, Africa, and kind of broke down, trapping the aliens here on Earth. The aliens, known as Prawns, just want to fix their ship and go home, but the humans won’t let them leave.
So, the humans are working on basically evicting the aliens out of District 9 and into a different district which is more cramped and a lot worse, and Wikus is one of the workers getting the aliens to agree to move out of District 9.
Wikus comes across a prawn who is working on a small pod to the prawn mother ship, so that he can help them all go back home, and Wikus tries to get him to leave, unaware of the pod hidden under the earth, and he gets sprayed by alien fuel and starts feeling sick. He then goes home and he finds out that his arm is slowly turning prawn-esque.
Well, I really don’t want to give too much away if you haven’t seen it yet. It’s definitely a great film, it just took me a second watching to realize that, so don’t be too hard on it the first time around.
The plot was fantastic, I really hope I explained it well enough, the editing was almost perfect. Maybe it was the fact that this film felt real that I really didn’t notice any editing problems.
Overall, it was a really good film, and I can honestly say that I’m glad it’s nominated for Best Picture. I don’t think it has the quality to win, but it was definitely still great. I give it 9 out of 10.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Friday the 13th
What can I say? I’ve missed writing my blog for the past week or so. I’ve had a lot of things on my mind and a lot of things to take care of, so needless to say, I’ve been slacking on my reviewing, but one thing is for certain is I haven’t been slacking on my movie watching, and that means that you, the reader, are going to get a couple reviews today.
My newest review, although completely off subject, is Friday the 13th. Honestly, what can I say about this film? I sat down to watch it just for kicks and was completely blown away (no pun intended, being that it was produced by Michael ‘I just jizzed in my pants from that explosion’ Bay). This movie was complete and utter crap.
It starts off with a group of 20-something’s who have nothing better to do than to go looking for pot plants that have been growing around Camp Crystal Lake (honestly, are all horror movies based on pot nowadays? Maybe it’s a clue that the writers were high while writing this crap). They then proceed to have crazy amounts of sex and scoff at the legend of Jason. I mean, honestly, you don’t go to Camp Crystal Lake and bad mouth Jason. That’s like going to Yankee Stadium and bad mouthing the Yankee’s. So needless to say, about twenty minutes of killing and sex happen.
It then goes forward to six weeks later and a new group of 20-something’s go up to a cabin which is apparently adjacent to Camp Crystal Lake. At least they don’t know about Jason. So, then the killing and sex start, again.
This film was not deep at all. If you like slasher films that make absolutely no sense or have no plot whatsoever, then you might, I emphasize might, like this movie to an extent. I don’t even think hardcore fans of the Friday the 13th series would care much for this apart from showing the origin of Jason’s mask, which I think they did in Part 2 or 3 of the original anyway.
At least it’s worth a tiny laugh watching. Honestly, Jason is like seven feet tall and suddenly he’s super sneaky. He only kills you when he stands behind you for however long until you notice him, scream and then die. I feel that’s how the makers of this film wanted you to feel. To feel like you’ve been snuck up upon and murdered.
Overall, this movie feels like a spit in the face. It gets my lowest rating yet of 2 out of 10. Avoid this one like the plague, or Camp Crystal Lake.
My newest review, although completely off subject, is Friday the 13th. Honestly, what can I say about this film? I sat down to watch it just for kicks and was completely blown away (no pun intended, being that it was produced by Michael ‘I just jizzed in my pants from that explosion’ Bay). This movie was complete and utter crap.
It starts off with a group of 20-something’s who have nothing better to do than to go looking for pot plants that have been growing around Camp Crystal Lake (honestly, are all horror movies based on pot nowadays? Maybe it’s a clue that the writers were high while writing this crap). They then proceed to have crazy amounts of sex and scoff at the legend of Jason. I mean, honestly, you don’t go to Camp Crystal Lake and bad mouth Jason. That’s like going to Yankee Stadium and bad mouthing the Yankee’s. So needless to say, about twenty minutes of killing and sex happen.
It then goes forward to six weeks later and a new group of 20-something’s go up to a cabin which is apparently adjacent to Camp Crystal Lake. At least they don’t know about Jason. So, then the killing and sex start, again.
This film was not deep at all. If you like slasher films that make absolutely no sense or have no plot whatsoever, then you might, I emphasize might, like this movie to an extent. I don’t even think hardcore fans of the Friday the 13th series would care much for this apart from showing the origin of Jason’s mask, which I think they did in Part 2 or 3 of the original anyway.
At least it’s worth a tiny laugh watching. Honestly, Jason is like seven feet tall and suddenly he’s super sneaky. He only kills you when he stands behind you for however long until you notice him, scream and then die. I feel that’s how the makers of this film wanted you to feel. To feel like you’ve been snuck up upon and murdered.
Overall, this movie feels like a spit in the face. It gets my lowest rating yet of 2 out of 10. Avoid this one like the plague, or Camp Crystal Lake.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Big Lebowski
Nothing quite shows the talent of the Coen Brothers like The Big Lebowski. After I watched A Serious Man, I really wanted to go and watch more of their classics, such as No Country For Old Men, Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou, but I wanted to go with my personal favorite of the bunch tonight.
So, after some searching through my DVD collection (being that I don’t keep the cases), I finally located The Big Lebowski, I may have made some noise of excitement, then I put it in and sat my butt on the couch with a taco and Kool-Aid (I know, a perfect evening).
The movie begins and you already feel like you’re on an acid trip. You’re introduced to the Dude, played by the wonderful Jeff Bridges, Walter, played by the equally brilliant John Goodman, and Donny, played by Steve Buscemi. They form a small bowling team and a wonderful trio.
So, the Dude is beaten up by some German porn stars looking for a different Lebowski. They then pee on the Dude’s rug that apparently ‘ties the room together’. The Dude then goes and meets Jeffrey Lebowski, who is better known as ‘The Big Lebowski’ and things get worse from there.
It goes from a kidnapping plot, to an embezzlement plot, to a crazy daughter, to a high school car thief, to a disgruntled porno maker, and it just keeps going from there, and you’re never entirely sure where the plot wants to take itself, but you never really mind, because it all seems to work together for an unforgettable experience.
You know, if you haven’t watched this movie before, I would definitely suggest it going and renting it. You may not like it, it has a quality to it that says Coen Brothers all over it, but if you like their style, then this will definitely become one of your favorites.
You know, this is one of the few movies that really doesn’t have anything wrong with it that I can see. Apparently, it’s has a cult following too, with Lebowski Fests all over the country in bowling alleys, and eventually I would love to attend one, have a White Russian, wear my robe and pajamas, and get my inner Dude on.
About my only complaint in this film however would be the editing. The scenes usually end too early, or someone is talking off camera. It wasn’t bad per se, but it wasn’t the greatest either.
Overall it’s a fantastic movie that I could watch over and over again. Definitely not a family film however, but it’s one that I would show to my own children when they got old enough. The Dude Abides. I give it 9 out of 10.
So, after some searching through my DVD collection (being that I don’t keep the cases), I finally located The Big Lebowski, I may have made some noise of excitement, then I put it in and sat my butt on the couch with a taco and Kool-Aid (I know, a perfect evening).
The movie begins and you already feel like you’re on an acid trip. You’re introduced to the Dude, played by the wonderful Jeff Bridges, Walter, played by the equally brilliant John Goodman, and Donny, played by Steve Buscemi. They form a small bowling team and a wonderful trio.
So, the Dude is beaten up by some German porn stars looking for a different Lebowski. They then pee on the Dude’s rug that apparently ‘ties the room together’. The Dude then goes and meets Jeffrey Lebowski, who is better known as ‘The Big Lebowski’ and things get worse from there.
It goes from a kidnapping plot, to an embezzlement plot, to a crazy daughter, to a high school car thief, to a disgruntled porno maker, and it just keeps going from there, and you’re never entirely sure where the plot wants to take itself, but you never really mind, because it all seems to work together for an unforgettable experience.
You know, if you haven’t watched this movie before, I would definitely suggest it going and renting it. You may not like it, it has a quality to it that says Coen Brothers all over it, but if you like their style, then this will definitely become one of your favorites.
You know, this is one of the few movies that really doesn’t have anything wrong with it that I can see. Apparently, it’s has a cult following too, with Lebowski Fests all over the country in bowling alleys, and eventually I would love to attend one, have a White Russian, wear my robe and pajamas, and get my inner Dude on.
About my only complaint in this film however would be the editing. The scenes usually end too early, or someone is talking off camera. It wasn’t bad per se, but it wasn’t the greatest either.
Overall it’s a fantastic movie that I could watch over and over again. Definitely not a family film however, but it’s one that I would show to my own children when they got old enough. The Dude Abides. I give it 9 out of 10.
Friday, January 29, 2010
The Proposal
This is the transcript, just in case you can't watch the video.
Well, I finally watched The Proposal tonight. It took me three days to finally finish it, but I did, and it’s done, and it’s your choice for this review.When The Proposal came out in theaters, I remember seeing the trailer and thinking to myself that it looked just like any other rom-com in existence. Boy meets girl, boy and girl don’t like each other, boy and girl start to learn and then the rest is history. So, I can honestly say that I really had no desire to watch this film.
So, I popped it in the DVD player and it started up and I was already bored, even though the opening credits thrilled me with such names as Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Oscar Nunez from The Office, and hell even the main stars Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. This film at least had its casting right.
The movie gets going pretty quick and we are introduced to Andrew and Margaret. Margaret is a big time editor at a New York book publisher and Andrew is her assistant/slave. So Margaret is informed that her visa is in the process of being renewed, but because she left the country without permission, her application for renewal has been rejected and she will be deported back to Canada. So, in a moment of insanity, she tells them that Andrew is her fiancé and they are getting married.
Andrew is completely against it, as well he should be, but she threatens his job and career unless he does it. So, he accepts but then the tables get turned where INS tells them of the consequences of lying to them, and suddenly Andrew has the upper hand. He forces her to make him an editor if he goes along with it, to which she accepts because she has no other choice (obviously, I’m still bored).
They then leave together for Alaska where Andrew’s family lives for two reasons. The first reason being that it’s his grandma’s 90th birthday. The second reason is to inform his parents about their ‘engagement’.
So, it was basically what you would expect out of a rom-com. It had a couple twists to it that I didn’t see coming (maybe because I was blind, I’m not sure), and it had several funny moments, most of which came from Golden Girls alum Betty White.
Like I said earlier, the casting was very well done. There were a few wooden scenes and a few ‘what the hell?’ scenes, but it wasn’t too bad. The editing wasn’t that bad. There were a couple moments that I got confused on because it had its choppy moments, but overall, not bad for a movie that you already know the ending to.
You know, I will admit that I liked it. It’s been the best rom-com movie that I’ve rated so far, but it’s not going to win any Oscars or anything. It is a great date movie though and it achieves its purpose. I give it 7 out of 10.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The Lovely Bones
I’m back, finally meeting a deadline that I set to have The Lovely Bones watched and reviewed by Tuesday. Now that I’ve got quite a bit of free time on my hands, I plan to review more frequently. Hopefully you won’t get sick of hearing from me.
So as I sat down in my seat to watch The Lovely Bones, I wasn’t sure if I would like it or not, just because most of the critical reviews have been negative. So, I told myself that I would give it a chance, not to judge it until it was over, then I would decide from there whether it was worth the film it was printed on.
So the movie began and we’re introduced to the Salmon family. We meet Susie Salmon as a little girl and we watch her grow (albeit fast). Then suddenly, Mark Wahlberg crosses the screen as Jack Salmon, Susie’s father, and I got excited. I have always liked Mark Wahlberg, even though he has made his fair share of stinkers, but I’ve liked him ever since The Departed.
Susie then talks about how she was murdered when she was fourteen years old and about a half hour in, we see the event (even though it’s not entirely clear until near the end just how it was done). We’re introduced to George Harvey, the murderer (played by Stanley Tucci), who did a fantastic job at playing a creepy old man. He reminded me of Ted Bundy how he would act all
nice and lure in young girls.
The movie is mostly about Susie crossing over and being in between heaven and earth and trying to come back. It’s also about her family coping with her murder, her father taking the case into his own hands and tracking people, her mother wanting to let go but can’t, and the police trying to figure out just what happened.
As Susie is in the middle, she meets a girl named Holly, and eventually several other girls and they kind of guide her as to what she needs to do, but she doesn’t want to listen and, like I said earlier, she wants to come back.
You know, there’s not much to say about this film as it wasn’t as deep as you would imagine it to be. Did I enjoy it? Yes, actually I did. Did I think it was a little full of itself? Maybe a little bit. There were several scenes that were brilliant, and others that made me roll my eyes in unbelief. The ending was fairly cheesy in my opinion, but if you want to know how it ends, then you’ll just have to see it. The editing was very well done, I will give it that. The plot was just so-so, it could have had a lot more depth to it, but who am I to judge?
The acting was outstanding. Everyone in this movie fit so well and it made you forget that you were watching a movie instead of an actual family dealing with the pain together. I don’t think it will be up for any Oscars, but it should at least get a mention.
Overall, it wasn’t bad, it was better than I thought it would be, and I am glad that I finally saw it, being that I’ve been waiting to see this film for a while, ever since I heard Peter Jackson’s name attached to direct. It definitely wasn’t Lord of the Rings good, but it was better than King Kong in my opinion (which I know that I’m in the minority on not caring for King Kong). I give it 7 out of 10.
Next up is The Proposal and don't forget to vote on my latest poll.
So as I sat down in my seat to watch The Lovely Bones, I wasn’t sure if I would like it or not, just because most of the critical reviews have been negative. So, I told myself that I would give it a chance, not to judge it until it was over, then I would decide from there whether it was worth the film it was printed on.
So the movie began and we’re introduced to the Salmon family. We meet Susie Salmon as a little girl and we watch her grow (albeit fast). Then suddenly, Mark Wahlberg crosses the screen as Jack Salmon, Susie’s father, and I got excited. I have always liked Mark Wahlberg, even though he has made his fair share of stinkers, but I’ve liked him ever since The Departed.
Susie then talks about how she was murdered when she was fourteen years old and about a half hour in, we see the event (even though it’s not entirely clear until near the end just how it was done). We’re introduced to George Harvey, the murderer (played by Stanley Tucci), who did a fantastic job at playing a creepy old man. He reminded me of Ted Bundy how he would act all
nice and lure in young girls.
The movie is mostly about Susie crossing over and being in between heaven and earth and trying to come back. It’s also about her family coping with her murder, her father taking the case into his own hands and tracking people, her mother wanting to let go but can’t, and the police trying to figure out just what happened.
As Susie is in the middle, she meets a girl named Holly, and eventually several other girls and they kind of guide her as to what she needs to do, but she doesn’t want to listen and, like I said earlier, she wants to come back.
You know, there’s not much to say about this film as it wasn’t as deep as you would imagine it to be. Did I enjoy it? Yes, actually I did. Did I think it was a little full of itself? Maybe a little bit. There were several scenes that were brilliant, and others that made me roll my eyes in unbelief. The ending was fairly cheesy in my opinion, but if you want to know how it ends, then you’ll just have to see it. The editing was very well done, I will give it that. The plot was just so-so, it could have had a lot more depth to it, but who am I to judge?
The acting was outstanding. Everyone in this movie fit so well and it made you forget that you were watching a movie instead of an actual family dealing with the pain together. I don’t think it will be up for any Oscars, but it should at least get a mention.
Overall, it wasn’t bad, it was better than I thought it would be, and I am glad that I finally saw it, being that I’ve been waiting to see this film for a while, ever since I heard Peter Jackson’s name attached to direct. It definitely wasn’t Lord of the Rings good, but it was better than King Kong in my opinion (which I know that I’m in the minority on not caring for King Kong). I give it 7 out of 10.
Next up is The Proposal and don't forget to vote on my latest poll.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sherlock Holmes
I must thank you readers for sticking with me even though I’m doing terrible at meeting my own deadlines. If you’re still reading, then I thank you again. I was going to have my review for Sherlock Holmes ready about two days ago, but I went on an unscheduled road trip over the weekend and I got a little distracted.
So, I finally got to see Shelock Holmes last night, and I was quite excited for a number of reasons. First off, I have always been a fan of Holmes, I’ve been a fan of Robert Downey Jr. since Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, so I was excited to see him play detective again, and the trailer did make this movie look good.
The movie began and within the first five minutes, I was quite upset because it starts off with a heavy action scene where Holmes and Watson are stopping a human sacrificial ritual by a dark magician named Blackwood, and I felt that wasn’t very true to Holmes, the action part anyway. I know that Holmes was learned in fighting and defense and whatnot, but it was a little too action heavy.
Holmes begins narrating to himself about how he plans to attack a particular guy and you start to see the intelligence of Holmes start to blossom, and you see the battle tactics of Holmes, and you begin to realize that it’s not just pointless action, and my hope was renewed a little.
So, the movie continues and the bad guy Blackwood is hung, but before he tells them that he will return from the grave and kill three others. Of course, everyone thinks he’s a crazy old magician (isn’t that just a classic movie mistake, to NOT listen to the crazy magician’s warnings?) and they hang him and bury him, and well, just as he predicts, he comes back and people start dying.
Holmes is trying to figure out the case while Watson is more worried about his love life. I felt they could have explored Watson’s relationship a little deeper with his girlfriend, Mary, because it left questions unanswered in my opinion. There is a woman who I assume was an old girlfriend of Holmes, played by Rachel McAdams, who was kind of a double agent for a mysterious man (who they reveal near the end is Moriarty).
There were aspects of this film that I enjoyed, but far too many aspects made me feel inadequate and it bugged me. It was a film about mystery and Holmes and Watson figuring out how Blackwood was doing all this and it doesn’t reveal anything until the remaining ten minutes of the two hour film. The problem with the reveal was so much of it was way over my head and it made me feel stupid like I wasn’t paying enough attention, even though I was focused on it.
The film jumped around a lot. It was hard to follow in points because they would be investigating one thing, then the next scene, they would be doing something completely different and they would determine clues in ways that were confusing, and like I said earlier, it made me feel stupid, which is something a film should NEVER do to its audience.
This film truly reminded me of Batman Begins, not so much because it was an origins story, but because I wanted to see Moriarty and they kept hinting at him and then it ends with them going to see what he’s doing, so it reminded me of how Gordon told Batman about the Joker and just got you hankering it. The bad guys were similar in a sense and Holmes had to get over himself to finally solve the case. At least Ras Al Ghul in Batman Begins was a lot cooler than Blackwood. Blackwood I felt was a pathetic villain.
Overall, it was a good popcorn movie, the sort that you’d throw your popcorn at, but it was enjoyable and the performances by Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law were surprisingly good and even though this film was mediocre, it did make me crave a sequel, just because they portrayed their characters well enough to want to see them do it again.
So, I would recommend this as a dollar theater movie or a Netflix rental, but I felt slightly cheated at seeing it full priced. I give it 6 out of 10.
Next up is The Lovely Bones and I intend on reviewing it probably Tuesday. Keep reading.
So, I finally got to see Shelock Holmes last night, and I was quite excited for a number of reasons. First off, I have always been a fan of Holmes, I’ve been a fan of Robert Downey Jr. since Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, so I was excited to see him play detective again, and the trailer did make this movie look good.
The movie began and within the first five minutes, I was quite upset because it starts off with a heavy action scene where Holmes and Watson are stopping a human sacrificial ritual by a dark magician named Blackwood, and I felt that wasn’t very true to Holmes, the action part anyway. I know that Holmes was learned in fighting and defense and whatnot, but it was a little too action heavy.
Holmes begins narrating to himself about how he plans to attack a particular guy and you start to see the intelligence of Holmes start to blossom, and you see the battle tactics of Holmes, and you begin to realize that it’s not just pointless action, and my hope was renewed a little.
So, the movie continues and the bad guy Blackwood is hung, but before he tells them that he will return from the grave and kill three others. Of course, everyone thinks he’s a crazy old magician (isn’t that just a classic movie mistake, to NOT listen to the crazy magician’s warnings?) and they hang him and bury him, and well, just as he predicts, he comes back and people start dying.
Holmes is trying to figure out the case while Watson is more worried about his love life. I felt they could have explored Watson’s relationship a little deeper with his girlfriend, Mary, because it left questions unanswered in my opinion. There is a woman who I assume was an old girlfriend of Holmes, played by Rachel McAdams, who was kind of a double agent for a mysterious man (who they reveal near the end is Moriarty).
There were aspects of this film that I enjoyed, but far too many aspects made me feel inadequate and it bugged me. It was a film about mystery and Holmes and Watson figuring out how Blackwood was doing all this and it doesn’t reveal anything until the remaining ten minutes of the two hour film. The problem with the reveal was so much of it was way over my head and it made me feel stupid like I wasn’t paying enough attention, even though I was focused on it.
The film jumped around a lot. It was hard to follow in points because they would be investigating one thing, then the next scene, they would be doing something completely different and they would determine clues in ways that were confusing, and like I said earlier, it made me feel stupid, which is something a film should NEVER do to its audience.
This film truly reminded me of Batman Begins, not so much because it was an origins story, but because I wanted to see Moriarty and they kept hinting at him and then it ends with them going to see what he’s doing, so it reminded me of how Gordon told Batman about the Joker and just got you hankering it. The bad guys were similar in a sense and Holmes had to get over himself to finally solve the case. At least Ras Al Ghul in Batman Begins was a lot cooler than Blackwood. Blackwood I felt was a pathetic villain.
Overall, it was a good popcorn movie, the sort that you’d throw your popcorn at, but it was enjoyable and the performances by Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law were surprisingly good and even though this film was mediocre, it did make me crave a sequel, just because they portrayed their characters well enough to want to see them do it again.
So, I would recommend this as a dollar theater movie or a Netflix rental, but I felt slightly cheated at seeing it full priced. I give it 6 out of 10.
Next up is The Lovely Bones and I intend on reviewing it probably Tuesday. Keep reading.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Inglourious Basterds
Last year, I went to see Appaloosa with my friend and brother and we saw a trailer about a WW2 group of people, and I immediately got excited. I had read things about Quentin Tarantino’s newest film Inglourious Basterds, but I had no idea when it was coming out, who was in it, what it was going to be about, stuff like that, all I knew was something about WW2. So I sat in my theater seat and got excited. I saw Daniel Craig cross the screen and my blood boiled in excitement. The trailer finally got to the end, and the title crossed the screen…Deception. My heart sank like a rock.
Months later and an actual Inglourious Basterds trailer crossed the big screen and my excitement rose again. I’m not a huge Brad Pitt fan, apart from the classics such as Fight Club, Se7en, and even Ocean’s 11. But it was Quentin Tarantino, and I’ve trusted him since Pulp Fiction.
I unfortunately wasn’t able to see it in theaters, even though that was one of the things I looked forward to the most of 2009, but that’s okay, I actually have yet to see a Tarantino film in theaters apart from Grindhouse.
I waited for the DVD to come out for a couple months and was quite relieved when I saw that it was coming out in mid-December. Simple enough to say, I was the first in line (not literally) to get my hands on Tarantino’s latest masterpiece.
Well, I had already watched Inglourious Basterds once, but I didn’t see the harm in watching it again for my review.
Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France. Just the opening and the name of the first chapter got me excited. It opened to a small farm in France and a Nazi general who is known as ‘The Jew Hunter’ goes to inspect a Jewish family farm. He interrogates the father and discovers that he is harboring another Jewish family under his floorboards. They then proceed to kill the hidden family except for a young girl who escapes.
We then get out first introduction of ‘The Basterds’. They are small troop consisting of about ten people, and they have one job, and one job only…killing Nazi’s and giving their Sergeant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) their scalps, and he wants their scalps.
So ‘The Basterds’ are told that there is going to be a movie premiere about a Nazi troop who fought off several American troops and is a hero to the Nazi party. So Adolf Hitler himself wants to honor the soldier by being at the premiere himself.
The plot is basically just that, ‘The Basterds’ trying to set up their plans to get to Hitler, the theater owner (who was the woman who escaped at the beginning) planning an assassination attempt on them as well to get revenge for her slaughtered family, and a young actress who is a double agent for ‘The Basterds’.
The editing was well done, it was hilarious at several points, and it was dark at others. It was everything you could expect from Quentin Tarantino. It wasn’t his best movie, I think Pulp Fiction still holds that title, but I would rank it up there with Kill Bill. If you love Tarantino, you will love this movie. If you don’t, it’s still worth a watch.
Definitely one of my favorites of 2009, and I would love to see it go up for Best Picture. I give it 9 out of 10.
Months later and an actual Inglourious Basterds trailer crossed the big screen and my excitement rose again. I’m not a huge Brad Pitt fan, apart from the classics such as Fight Club, Se7en, and even Ocean’s 11. But it was Quentin Tarantino, and I’ve trusted him since Pulp Fiction.
I unfortunately wasn’t able to see it in theaters, even though that was one of the things I looked forward to the most of 2009, but that’s okay, I actually have yet to see a Tarantino film in theaters apart from Grindhouse.
I waited for the DVD to come out for a couple months and was quite relieved when I saw that it was coming out in mid-December. Simple enough to say, I was the first in line (not literally) to get my hands on Tarantino’s latest masterpiece.
Well, I had already watched Inglourious Basterds once, but I didn’t see the harm in watching it again for my review.
Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France. Just the opening and the name of the first chapter got me excited. It opened to a small farm in France and a Nazi general who is known as ‘The Jew Hunter’ goes to inspect a Jewish family farm. He interrogates the father and discovers that he is harboring another Jewish family under his floorboards. They then proceed to kill the hidden family except for a young girl who escapes.
We then get out first introduction of ‘The Basterds’. They are small troop consisting of about ten people, and they have one job, and one job only…killing Nazi’s and giving their Sergeant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) their scalps, and he wants their scalps.
So ‘The Basterds’ are told that there is going to be a movie premiere about a Nazi troop who fought off several American troops and is a hero to the Nazi party. So Adolf Hitler himself wants to honor the soldier by being at the premiere himself.
The plot is basically just that, ‘The Basterds’ trying to set up their plans to get to Hitler, the theater owner (who was the woman who escaped at the beginning) planning an assassination attempt on them as well to get revenge for her slaughtered family, and a young actress who is a double agent for ‘The Basterds’.
The editing was well done, it was hilarious at several points, and it was dark at others. It was everything you could expect from Quentin Tarantino. It wasn’t his best movie, I think Pulp Fiction still holds that title, but I would rank it up there with Kill Bill. If you love Tarantino, you will love this movie. If you don’t, it’s still worth a watch.
Definitely one of my favorites of 2009, and I would love to see it go up for Best Picture. I give it 9 out of 10.
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