Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
Just seen this film for the first time on DVD. I enjoyed it immensely laughed all the way through it. Only at the end did I consider it wasn't supposed to be a comedy. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
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I think so. That's the impression I got of the ad.
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Re: Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
I watched it twice and came away with a
both times.
I read a 5-dollar phrase a few days ago in reference to the film being something like historical revisionism or something (forgot it already and can't be arsed to find it again atm). IOW, somebody making fiction from history.
I think it was trying to mix comedy with a serious pro-Semitic political agenda. Or something. IMO, it tried to do too much and wound up shooting itself in the foot. But I'm no , so
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I read a 5-dollar phrase a few days ago in reference to the film being something like historical revisionism or something (forgot it already and can't be arsed to find it again atm). IOW, somebody making fiction from history.
I think it was trying to mix comedy with a serious pro-Semitic political agenda. Or something. IMO, it tried to do too much and wound up shooting itself in the foot. But I'm no , so

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Re: Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
I had the same reaction to the movie. Meh.notFBM wrote:I watched it twice and came away with aboth times.
I read a 5-dollar phrase a few days ago in reference to the film being something like historical revisionism or something (forgot it already and can't be arsed to find it again atm). IOW, somebody making fiction from history.
I think it was trying to mix comedy with a serious pro-Semitic political agenda. Or something. IMO, it tried to do too much and wound up shooting itself in the foot. But I'm no , so.
If I recall it was called a drama at the Golden Globe awards.
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Re: Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
So was Avatarmaiforpeace wrote:I had the same reaction to the movie. Meh.notFBM wrote:I watched it twice and came away with aboth times.
I read a 5-dollar phrase a few days ago in reference to the film being something like historical revisionism or something (forgot it already and can't be arsed to find it again atm). IOW, somebody making fiction from history.
I think it was trying to mix comedy with a serious pro-Semitic political agenda. Or something. IMO, it tried to do too much and wound up shooting itself in the foot. But I'm no , so.
If I recall it was called a drama at the Golden Globe awards.

I guess Die Hard and Jurassic Park were too.
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Re: Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
I was expecting so much more from QT, too. I kept an eye on the torrents for months until it showed up. Then...that.maiforpeace wrote:I had the same reaction to the movie. Meh.
If I recall it was called a drama at the Golden Globe awards.

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Re: Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
I quite enjoyed it.
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I was going to torrent it this morning. I might not bother now. It seemed like it was going to take forever to download so I erased it.notFBM wrote:I was expecting so much more from QT, too. I kept an eye on the torrents for months until it showed up. Then...that.maiforpeace wrote:I had the same reaction to the movie. Meh.
If I recall it was called a drama at the Golden Globe awards.
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Re: Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
Twats tend to.pawiz wrote:I quite enjoyed it.

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Re: Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
notFBM wrote:Twats tend to.pawiz wrote:I quite enjoyed it.

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I take that as a confession of twattitudityness.pawiz wrote:notFBM wrote:Twats tend to.pawiz wrote:I quite enjoyed it.

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Re: Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
notFBM wrote:I take that as a confession of twattitudityness.pawiz wrote:notFBM wrote:Twats tend to.pawiz wrote:I quite enjoyed it.

It's a piece of piss to be cowiz, but it's not cowiz to be a piece of piss. Or something like that.
Re: Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
Well I sort of got the impression it was using all the bad bits from 60/70s war films like the obviously wrong tanks and the wrong noises for weapons. Two people using identical weapons but each sounding different. The film's visual style and colour were straight out of that era. The obvious model shots were obvious. The 'in your face' poor continuity. We know QT can do it right when he wants to so he must have been deliberately fucking with us big time with this one. The OTT caricatures, FFS he even managed to find a Ben Murphy look-alike! I loved it, but apparently for all the wrong reasons.
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Re: Inglorious Bastards. Was it supposed to be a comedy?
So it's a lot like Kelly's Heroes then ...CJ wrote:Well I sort of got the impression it was using all the bad bits from 60/70s war films like the obviously wrong tanks and the wrong noises for weapons. Two people using identical weapons but each sounding different. The film's visual style and colour were straight out of that era. The obvious model shots were obvious. The 'in your face' poor continuity. We know QT can do it right when he wants to so he must have been deliberately fucking with us big time with this one. The OTT caricatures, FFS he even managed to find a Ben Murphy look-alike! I loved it, but apparently for all the wrong reasons.

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