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12.02.09 # Trailers # 3 CommentsThe Inglourious Basterds teaser trailer has arrived, giving us our first look at the performances and tone of Tarantino’s WWII adventure story.
The first striking thing is that Eli Roth (director of Cabin Fever & Hostel) seems to have a huge acting part in this, as he’s forefront of every scene that flashes past. Mike Myers, by contrast, is nowhere to be seen.
Brad Pitt looks like he’s having fun and, well, does the scene with Hitler at the end not remind you of a Mel Brooks film? Is that a good thing?
My main issue with Quentin Tarantino is a simple one – when he’s off the boil his scenes always run a minute longer than they need to. In the case of Death Proof it was about 5 minutes longer than they needed to. How excited you are for this will depend on what you thought of Death Proof. Personally that’s when I jumped off the Tarantino train.
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I have a sinking feeling about this one. I love Tarantino. Kill Bill is a modern masterpiece in my opinion, and REservoir Dogs rocks. Death Proof was a huge missfire with some amazing parts.
But this … doesn’t feel right. The cast feels like s mish mash, not an eclectic ensemble … I hope I’m wrong.
And yes … that Hitler part is what worries me the most.
Though, come to think of it, I hated the Kill Bill trailer too.
To be honest, I know it’s taken out of context but that’s the first time I’ve ever seen a Brad Pitt performance that looked worryingly below par.
I think it’s dangerous thing to write of Quentin, so I’m looking forward to it, however it seems like he’s gone and made another comic book movie when what he desparately needed to do was go back to injecting everyday realism into thrilling genre situations.
And I jumped off the Quentin bandwagon (having written my thesis on post-modern self-referentiality in Pulp Fiction) with such gusto that I didn’t even bother seeing Death Proof. Everyone who I trusted told me it was shockingly awful, and a friend went to a screening with a live video link to a Q&A session in which, by all accounts, he acted like a self-deluded Hollywood moron at even the most balanced and hesitant criticism. Honestly, I think he’s had 15 years of being told how wonderful he is and it’s turned him from a firebrand ultra modern auteur into a dilitante.
But it might be good. So I’m not writing him off. Yet.
This looks like a Cohen Brothers movie, which might not be a bad thing.
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12th Feb
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