Message #3714

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I saw Inglourious Basterds last night!, and I really enjoyed it.

Though, I could imagine a lot of people not getting on well with it... For one the scenes can become slightly indulgent, there are far more subtitled scenes than I thought would be in it (not that it bothers me!, honest) and the Basterds get themselves not a whole lot of screen time.

But yeah, I thought that it was great. 8.5 out of ten, or something along those lines.

I saw this today and came away really disappointed.  I agree that some of the scenes were overly long.  I had ZERO issue with subtitled scenes ( I watch a TON of foreign films) but I was more disappointed with the lack of character development.  OK they did a great job with one character (Shoshana) but the rest could have used some work.   Tarentino's films usually feature a ton of talking but in this film I thought the dialogue wasn't as crisp or sharp.  I thought it was more like "talking for the sake of talking" that didn't add anything to the film.


I liked the meta film references and the end of the film.  I thought Chapter Three was great probably because I got to know the character as opposed to the other chapters.  If I were to rate it I'd give it 4/10.  Jim/others who enjoyed this:  What am I missing here?  I've seen all these great reviews and I just don't get it.