Inglourious Basterds (Q. Tarantino)

[Kid_Eternity]

Found it boring...

 

[Dj TAB]

...me and Mrs TAB really enjoyed it but that could have something to do with lots of wine and several fat lines of M.....

 

[gsv]

I always find it odd when people have a censorious taboo attitude to any subject matter.

Maybe you should check out The Great Dictator by Chaplin and To Be or Not to be by Ernst Lubitch. Both mess with Hitler "and what he did" for "shit and gigles" and they did so in the 40s.

The concept of political satire seems to be completely alien to you then...

I don't consider the subject taboo at all. I find the ultimate treatment extremely distasteful. If IB were satire it might be a different matter. It wasn't - it was a fantasy lark.

GS(v)

 

[Orang Utan]

it's just a bit of fun

 

[Reno]

I don't consider the subject taboo at all. I find the ultimate treatment extremely distasteful. If IB were satire it might be a different matter. It wasn't - it was a fantasy lark.

GS(v)

Cool, you've discounted the fact that elements of the film are satrical despite all evidence to the opposite and instead you have invented a new genre for yourself: "fanasy lark".

Honestly, I don't care if you are offended. Just give others the option not to be.

 

[RubyToogood]

I don't consider the subject taboo at all. I find the ultimate treatment extremely distasteful. If IB were satire it might be a different matter. It wasn't - it was a fantasy lark.

GS(v)

It wasn't just a fantasy lark - it was utterly up its own arse in a "woo look at me I'm so clever and I've seen every film ever made" way. And it did grate for me with the subject matter.

 

[gsv]

OED's definition 2b seems to be most inclusive of cinema satire:

"The employment, in speaking or writing, of sarcasm, irony, ridicule, etc. in exposing, denouncing, deriding, or ridiculing vice, folly, indecorum, abuses, or evils of any kind."​

I saw loads of fantasy elements - the Basterds unit, the plum opportunity for vengeance, the cool standoff, the ending, the bad guy - but little satire (some very marginal lampooning of Third Reich hierarchy and the British officers). What "elements of the film are satrical" and how should they influence my understanding of it?

GS(v)

 

[belboid]

well, all the ones you thought were 'fantasy' were satirical in my book. Mainly satires of other examples of genre films, which is what QT tends to satirise

 

[Random]

Just seen this and really enjoyed it, without really getting most of the film references. A good sign is that even thought it was so long I'd happily have watched more. Lots of the characters could have done with more screen time. I'd have happily have watched a mini-series version.

Liked the unpredictability of it. Even film nerds and Hitler can die.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Goebbels shagging.