I think it is an excellent movie

A bit too long perhaps

still...?

Anyone in the US military could have killed him and no one would care. No one would know or care.

TheUntouchable, I guess I'll paraphrase it. I don't have access to the DVD right now since I left my pad and I am currently staying at my parents place.

But basically QT said they choose to have all the characters speaking in their own language because in other movies it makes no sense for everyone to be speaking English. Someone else mentioned Schindlers List, and thats a good example. But QT mentioned another movie specifically, that starred Clint Eastwood and someone else. I don't remember the name, but in that movie Clints character and the other guy go into a German Officers Club and they infiltrate the club w/o ever having to speak German. QT said that ruined what would have been a far more intense scene, if they had to actually speak German it makes things more tense, and ultimately more realistic. I mean this shouldn't be a surprise coming from QT, he loves dialogue scenes. Basically imagine how bad the Tavern scene would be without the German, or how straight forward the end theater scene would be without these guys trying to be Italian.

In the same interview they also talked about that theater scene, particularly how ridiculous it was that Aldo of all people was the one talking in Italian, even with his absurd WV accent. QT basically says "thats how dumb their plan was", which when you think about the writer of the script saying that it sort of makes it funnier. Apparently the horrible Italian accent was completely Brad Pitt's idea, and once QT heard Pitt do it, he said it was completely different than he had envisioned it but after he heard it he couldn't imagine it being done any different after that.

um... he would have had useful intelligence.

oh, i thought the war was supposed to end.

yes, the war ended instantly when Hitler, Goring, Goebbels and Cletus were killed. All soldiers were telepathically notified when their mind link to the Fuhrer was severed. All nazi officers were accounted for. Nothing in his brain would be in anyway helpful in a war crimes trial. etc, etc, blah

this is what I get for not importing my ffvb super ignore list when I switched comps.

calm down, cockbag.

sorry. Either you are a giant troll pretending to be some ******ed college student or a ******ed college student. I knew this before, yet I still read your post, and even responded. I guess I'm mad at myself!

edit: now go put on a 14 year old girl mask and fellate landofan

Spielberg originally was going to have Schlinder's List in Polish but decided that having the audience read subtitles would distract people from the cinematography and pull people out of the experience, IIRC. It's different in a film that is mostly in English like IB, but the whole movie in Schlinder's List would've been subbed.

Also earlier in this thread we went over that Brad Pitt let the bad guy go because he made a deal with him and he has some sort of honor code with that ****.

thats what it seemed like, and not this intel idea that leapfrog is talking about (which was never mentioned in the movie as far as I remember, but rather they talked about him getting a house and some other stuff), which is kind of stupid. The guy was one of the biggest slaughterers of the jews or something like that, honor code shouldn't apply. Pitt's character should have killed him powpow.

is this what you 'said' or not?

Meh, he carved a swastika on his forehead. That was a much more badass ending than him killing the dude.

oh yeah, forgot all about that. that was pretty badass.

I guess some of us needed a Jules voiceover. Yes, as soon as he got done with Aldo, they sprayed some iodine on his forehead and gave him a satchel of money and put him onto the next plane to CT. There was no debriefing.

Not really sure what the % was, but I would guess 65% of IB was in English. But thats probably a good point about Schindler's List. FWIW QT didn't cite Schinder's list in the interview. Ahh, just looked up the movie. He referred to "Where Eagle's Dare" as a movie where he felt they should have had characters speak German during certain scenes.

CT? wtf. martha's vineyard right?

I'm sure you are right. I couldn't remember the exact location, just knew that it was in the upper east somewhere.

I was actually watching IB thanks to this thread so I will check here.

edit: Nantucket Island -- whether that encompasses MV I don't know.

how did you forget that?

best part of the movie

FYP

Dobi, is that why you couldn't watch >5 mins of IB?

lol ya, I don't know. But for me, the best two parts were the opening scene and the scene in the basement pub.

Finally saw this and really liked it. I loved the way he built suspense by focusing on common objects like a glass of milk or a shoe or a checklist or some other detail and letting the audience 'get ahead' of what was happening to the characters on the screen and anticipate what might happen to them. It was sort of Hitchcock-like in that respect. And a lot of the imagery was exquisite as well, like the French woman running for her life, then later her big-screen image laughing while the theater was burning. I think it's Tarantino's best work. To me it reflects an ability that wasn't quite there yet in say, Pulp Fiction or even Kill Bill. Which I'm not saying were bad films, but just didn't have the maturity of film-making that this one did.

Also the subtitles didn't bother me. But then I watch a fair amount of foreign films.

nantucket!! arhghg.. oh well, i once knew a man from there.

Yes, dramatically killing Landa would have been the conventional Hollywood feel-good ending, where the bad guy never has to deal with the consequences of his actions and the good guys never have to bother with the legal complications of getting him on trial etc. But imo the way Tarantino did it it was much more powerful. In real life dealing with the Nazi criminals after the war was mostly grey and not black/white also; just think Wernher von Braun.

Man Christoph Waltz is the best actor of all time I have never heard of.

Eli Roth is Amazing in this movie lol