Movie Web got their hands on three clips from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, which debuted at Cannes and opens stateside August 21.
Slashfilm has compiled some early buzz from the film, based upon Tweets and reviews, after it premiered at Cannes.
Here are a few examples of what people are saying:
Total Film’s Jonathan Dean : “Much of Basterds felt flat, with a schizophrenic spaghetti western style that blasts Ennio Morricone at the start and then David Bowie later on.” … “Enjoyable? Sure. But for 2 hours and 40 minutes it’s a big ask to keep brattishness exhilarating.” … “well worth watching and admirably ambitious and single-minded,” … “Inglourious Basterds will split viewers.”
empiremagazine: Glorious Basterds, as it turns out… very, very good, subverting expectations at every corner. Should make Michael Fassbender a star – C It’s utterly unpredictable. When it looks like going one way, it twists the other, & the ending… so audacious it provokes giddy laughter. Christoph Waltz, as Jew Hunter Hans Landa, is a revelation. Shoo-in for Best Supporting Nom. Looks like evil Rob Brydon too. All performances are uniformly grand.
Sounds like it’s a good flick, but nothing special, as exemplified by these two remarks:
gkilday Basterds turns out it’s the grindhouse version of “Valkyrie”
TVCalling: Bottom line of Basterds: entertaining but nothing ground-breaking
By James Furbush | February 23rd, 2009 | 6:08 am PST
At the conclusion of the Oscars last night, they had a three-minute preview of some heavily anticipated movies for 2009.
The movies previewed include: Sherlock Holmes, Funny People, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Public Enemies, Julie & Julia, The Soloist, Up, Fame, Terminator Salvation, 500 Days of Summer, Amelia, Whatever Works, Inglourious Basterds, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Monsters vs. Aliens, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Angels & Demons, Old Dogs, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Boat That Rocked, An Education, State of Play, Imagine That and G-Force.
By James Furbush | February 12th, 2009 | 5:09 am PST
I’ll give Tarantino the benefit of the doubt on this one. But something inside me screams to be cautious (other than the bizarre casting of Eli Roth, Sam Levine and BJ Novak). The one saving grace is that no actor in Hollywood plays the edge of madness like Brad Pitt. Every memorable role he has done, has been a character consumed by madness. Do you want me to count them off? Kalifornia, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, A River Runs Through It, Snatch, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. That’s not to say he hasn’t been outstanding in other movies, it’s just the roles we’ll remember Brad Pitt for are the ones when he’s slightly off.
This looks right up his alley. Also? I guess it’s cool we’re getting a Holocaustploitation flick.
By James Furbush | February 10th, 2009 | 12:29 pm PST
Entertainment Tonight got their grubby mitts on a trailer for the trailer (what has the world come to?) to Tarantino’s upcoming schlocky WWII epic Inglourious Basterds.
Though it’s hard to ascertain much from the footage, other than it looks pretty groovy, I was not expecting the offical logo of the movie to be decked out in a Swastika. Stupid move by the Weinsteins and Tarantino or daring? To behonest, I’m not nearly as offended as I think I should be by it. Which probably says more about my dulled-pc sensibilities.
Watch the footage in High Definition on YouTube thanks to MovieBox. And the actual trailer will premiere tomorrow night. So keep your eye out for that.
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