Entertainment - by Lucas Pattan on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 19:06 - 5 Comments - 29 views
So they just released a couple seconds of the newest film from film-school-hater and overall dick, Quentin Tarantino. The film, “Inglourious Basterds,” tells the story of a small American military outfit that functions for the sole purpose of terrorizing Nazis by, as the clip explains, scalping them (I suppose in some strange reference to Native Americans fighting white oppression in this country’s past). The catch? All of the soldiers are Jews!
Well, except for Brad Pitt, who plays a guy from the South who is supposed to be the baddest mother-effer in the entire American military.
Now, I love Tarantino, his cockiness, his films, and the consistent hyperbole every one of his films elicits, but is it just me, or does this film seem to have missed the mark, at least from what I can tell from the couple of seconds Entertainment Tonight hands out?
The biggest issue I see is petty at this point (seeing as how we know so little of the film thus far) but I think it is important to note. The issue is the decidedly uncool persona Pitt seems to have put together for the film. Having compared this footage with the shot released a couple months ago (seen above) of Pitt, two very distinct characters are observed. In the clip: the redneck. In the picture: the antihero. The photo of Pitt is such an epitomical example of a warrior, such a calm and collected figure, that it’s hard not to believe that eight Jewish young men chose to follow him into Nazi camps to torture Germans. But the footage ET has provided gives us a bit of a Tyler Durden feel – the crazy guy who doesn’t give a damn at what cost his prizes are retrieved.
Is this a creation of the script Tarantino has provided or is it a natural, defense reaction from Pitt, considering this film is supposed to be one of the fastest filmed in major motion picture history?
I hope I’m wrong. I really do. Pitt needs to give America more than he has in the last couple films he’s headlined, and if Tarantino’s not careful, he’s just going to end up releasing “Valkyrie: Part Two.” And no one wants that.
5 Comments
Jordan Wolosky
You’re gonna have trouble convincing me that that mustache isn’t the best acting decision of the past ten years.
Ina Garten
You realize this film is a remake, right?
Zak
What the hell are you talking about? You don’t make any sense whatsoever above.
You think the movie looks bad because the characterization of Brad Pitt seems off from the characterization that you randomly decided a picture conveyed? And why is Brad Pitt playing “the crazy guy who doesn’t give a damn at what cost his prizes are retrieved” such a terrible development? How is this footage “uncool”? “Defense reaction”? What the hell are you talking about?
As stated above, this movie is loosely based on the Italian film Inglorious Bastards. The original was about crazy war criminals, none of them calm or collected, who accidentally fall into an undercover mission in the heart of Nazi Germany. This editorial is poorly researched and doesn’t make any sense. If you relied on well-organized thoughts to show how this movie “may already suck”, maybe I’d be able to reply with an intelligent response refuting or conceding your points. However, clearly you wrote this in about 45 seconds and any comment of substance I could make is nearly impossible.
Also, the youtube vid is now a dead link. The video was removed.
Baz Luhrmann
Umm… Valkyrie pt. 2? This movie is about the furthest thing from that hunk of shit I’ve ever seen. I think Tarantino knows better than to cast Tom Cruise in any of his films as well 
I loved Inglourious Basterds. I believe they marketed it completely wrong though. It’s NOT an action movie, as the trailers suggest.
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“Pitt needs to give America more than he has in the last couple films he’s headlined.”
He did well in Benjamin Button.