Release Date For Basterds
August 21, 2009
Thats when you can expect to see Inglourious Basterds in theaters in the US.
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about 4 years ago
er….isnt late summer when the studios dump all their crap movies? dogs of summer I beleive they call them…makes me nervous all over again.
After thinking about this movie a bit, I’m still bummed about the movie ends. I like QT, but killing Hitler off is just stupid IMHO. sorry, but it’s true.
What happened to the QT who made PF and JB? ah, the good old days….
about 4 years ago
Someone quite wise said, a good movie is not what it is about but how it goes about it.
about 4 years ago
Amen.
If the execution is horrible (Hitler’s death is done somehow stupidly and presented in akward or some other dumb way) you can’t say I told you so…’cos it might as well be done the right way…
Right way… more usually than not is the Tarantino way.
about 4 years ago
Ummm, can we NOT talk about spoilers for people like me who haven’t read the script? This stuff should be monitored or people should write SPOILER ALERT before saying spoilers.
about 4 years ago
I second that. People who give away endings like that in comments, talkbacks etc. should be fucking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to fucking execution. Amen.
about 4 years ago
It’s a point of view moment. I know whose (I read the script,) and it will be handled brilliantly coming from the mind of QT.
about 4 years ago
**********ALERT ALERT HITLET IS KILLED AT THE END OF THE MOVIE***********
about 4 years ago
That ending is the ending every WWII movie needs. When the audience sees it, they’ll go completely fucking nuts because nobody would see it coming in a million years. Do you really want to go in KNOWING that the heroes are going to fail?
This isn’t a docudrama, this is a War movie as entertainment, as Mythology, not as a history book. It’s totally unpretentious, and it places dramatic power over reality. I’m glad someone is finally doing this.
All historical movies bend the facts, killing Hitler off is no more stupid than saying it really WAS three hundred Spartans holding off half a million Persians (the Spartans were known for exaggeration).
about 4 years ago
good point Gman – BUT doesnt the August release worry you a little? I can recall when QT movies were pretty big deals and opened with much fanfare. It bothers me that QT films might be viewed as more and more irrelevant. KB wasnt my cup of tea but at least in generated some buzz with the 2 part thing. Then we get DP which was a much lesser film than KB…now this, with a debatable approach with the ending and all added with a low rent time frame for opening day -
do you see a possible downward trend? just a thought…
dave
about 4 years ago
i see your point dave. that does make sense.
i hope not. the man has too much talent.
about 4 years ago
not to put too fine a point on it, think of it like this – the first 3 QT were brilliant and still hold up today. Then he takes a 6 year break and comes back with KB…ok, not up to the standard of the 1st 3 IMHO, but not bad. More of a cartoon than a real life film like the 1st 3. then he makes DP (grindhouse)..which is pretty slight, yea? I mean the trend is downward I think. So a lot rides on this new one….I hope Im wrong on this but…..
about 4 years ago
Dave, the jury on QT is quite split. From the moment he emerged on the scene he has polarized audiences. Certainly he would love to have everyone love all his works, but he simply cannot. There are some film aficionados who think “Jackie Brown” is his best work to date. I happen to think “Kill Bill” (the entire work) is his best (you surely disagree.) “Pulp Fiction” is audacious brilliance and deserves all the accolades it gets, but in my eyes and mind “Kill Bill” is a towering masterpiece for its scope, vision, and execution. Where you see “cartoon,” I see quite an intelligent filmmaker who hid his powerful, universal, symbolic subtexts in plain sight (many people cannot see the deep passion in his artistry of this masterwork…Louis Armstrong said one cannot explain jazz one simply knows it, or something to that effect.) “Death Proof” was not reaching for the moon, he simply wanted to make a mood piece film and I love it lots. So for me QT has not lost one bit of why he always wanted to be in the movies and make films. Quite the contrary, he has just gotten stronger.
about 4 years ago
True. No the man is doing what he wants and he’s doing it better than anyone else.
My personal favourites are Jackie Brown, Kill Bill vol. 2 and Pulp Fiction. I would hope Tarantino did a “Pulp Fiction 2″ in a way. I mean a movie similar in scope like that. Not because that kind of a movie is best but when you are the greatest director ever you have to act like it even if it’s not his best.
He needs a dramatic example of a movie to show everyone that he is the best. He needs another Pulp Fiction. He needs The Dark Knight- kinda movie experience.
about 4 years ago
I agree that he needs another Pulp Fiction and that’s why I was let down with the script for IB…esp. the ending. When Qt said he was gonna make a Spagetti Western, an epic, I was thrilled – but what I read didn’t seem like an epic to me. The film seems “small” somehow… But hey, I could be wrong here…my Qt film ranks?
1. pulp fiction
2. jackie brown
3. Res. dogs
4. Kill Bill
5. Death Proof
I am hoping that IB will top the list an he will return to form – but if I had to put money on it, I wouldn’t put money on it.
ColinS – taste is subjective, but could you elaborate on why KB is better than PF or JB or even RD? Maybe I missed something…
about 4 years ago
test (problems with “movable type”)
about 4 years ago
Dave, there are symbolic subtexts that are very specific to what Tarantino wanted to achieve with “Kill Bill.” He created an entire mythology out of movies and TV shows that he loves and have influenced his own aesthetics and sense of the power of film to illuminate (not just explain.) Can you see his respect for the normalcy of miscegenation, the empowerment of females, the futility of revenge even with it’s strong “satisfaction,” lore, the power of nurture vs. nature, the conflict of paternal rights and maternal instincts, the idea that evil cannot really be forgiven (of course who really has the right to claim “good”), a strong revulsion to prejudice? One of the greatest set pieces in his oeuvre is the decimation of the Crazy 88 at the House of Blue Leaves (the symbols are there, the Bruce Lee yellow jump suit, the Kato masks, and the name Crazy 88). It is a SYMBOLIC epic battle against racism. This is why I do consider Quentin Tarantino an extraordinary ARTIST in the medium of films. He “ain’t” mindless, and he is far from being a sensationalist violence monger. He is passionate about films to be transscendental. That’s not to say he is the best personality on the planet, But, he is willing to travel the journey. I really do see his art from his heart (I first saw it in “Reservoir Dogs” in two scenes, the tutelage of the undercover cop (Mr Orange) on the rooftop, and the torture scene. Then, I realize I was in the hands of a rare cinema artist.
Also, Jackie Brown is straight narrative and much more conventional filmmaking. It is a tribute piece for one his much admired iconic figures, Pam Grier. He wrote (adapted) the piece to allow her to display the strong acting range that very, very few people had given her the opportunity to shine. While the story is compelling about the rushing tides of age and the scary marginal irrelevance of underachievement, I believe Tarantion’s works are more powerful when he strives for his grasp of symbolic subtexts. “Jackie Brown” is the least symbolic subtextual film he has done though it ranks third on my list, DP next then RD (I have never seen “Four Rooms”). I do believe a great film is not what it about but how it goes about it(Roger Ebert.) Plot is important but it’s not all I observe.
“Kill Bill” is a magnum opus (more complex than “Pulp Fiction” though I do believe PF was Oscar’s best picture (not “Forest Gump”) for that year nominated,) and in my view “Inglourious Basterds” is going for a higher summit still
about 4 years ago
while i do respect your opinions, and find what you have to say very well-written and thought out…
…i don’t really get the “symbolic battle against racism” in kill bill. could you elaborate?
about 4 years ago
hmmmmmmm – ok, maybe I did miss something – or maybe quite a few things actually. perhaps sometimes I get caught up in the “suspension of disbelief” thing. I tend to like the more realistic TV shows (the wire) and movies….I will go back and look at KB again…hopefully I’m wrong about IB but we’ll see in August….