inglorious bastards

**blan** · 12-01-2010, 07:30 AM

inglorious bastards is a film i saw just a few hours ago,
i have to say as a film it is great but i feel it was dehumanizing the german people. in all fairness they had a couple of Germans they made as heroes.
though the heroes of this film would murder unarmed young german foot soldiers and i think they were trying to make it out as if these men deserved it. it very much play off the concepts of the dirty dozen who did the same things as the men in this film inglorious bastards only with more gore.
they had a message , i take it as(( these nazis are hostile and starting problems so we are justified in killing them armed or unarmed and there women and children if need be and we will enjoy it)) it is a look into the twisted mind of american pop culture. so nazis are evil because they unjustly killed people in retaliation to what was unjustly done to them in world war 1 so we should kill them in retaliation in the most unjust cruel fashion.
who are the real instigators?

**The Lawspeaker** · 12-01-2010, 07:33 AM

Guess who started the whole sequence of events...

**Debaser11** · 12-01-2010, 07:35 AM

Hated the movie for obvious reasons. Nazis are scum who can be treated in whatever way Tarrantino's sadistic mind deems fit. Morality doesn't apply. The movie in and of itself (despite its historical pornography) was boring.

**Breedingvariety** · 12-01-2010, 07:47 AM

I stopped watching when someone started shouting about how evil Germans were and that they should slaughter German whenever they see one. That was at the beginning of the film if I remember correctly.

**Don Brick** · 12-01-2010, 08:05 AM

I thought it was a very good movie but the depiction was obviously rather unrealistic and black and white which gave it an interesting edge. At first I also thought that it was portraying Germans very cruelly but you have to take the film with a grain of salt not as an absolute truth. It´s made the way it is for effect. The only part that really bothered me was that young father getting killed. Most of the German victims were hard boiled high ranking Nazis who probably deserved what they got. Despite all the German bashing (also literally!) I could actually sense a sort of admiration and glorification of them on Tarantino´s part. Even if they were evil in the film they were also quite suave and smooth basterds.

**Groenewolf** · 12-01-2010, 08:14 AM

Tarrantino might be a member of the same club as I am, but he only makes crappy movies. I think he once said he makes those kind of movies because they sell.

Now about this movie, not watched, had watched enough of his movies to know it would be mostly blood and gore and little more. Also I have better ways to spend my time then by watching a movie that has been described as Kosher porn.

**blan** · 12-01-2010, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by Don Draper

I thought it was a very good movie but the depiction was obviously rather unrealistic and black and white which gave it an interesting edge. At first I also thought that it was portraying Germans very cruelly but you have to take the film with a grain of salt not as an absolute truth. It´s made the way it is for effect. The only part that really bothered me was that young father getting killed. Most of the German victims were hard boiled high ranking Nazis who probably deserved what they got. Despite all the German bashing (also literally!) I could actually sense a sort of admiration and glorification of them on Tarantino´s part. Even if they were evil in the film they were also quite suave and smooth basterds.

you are right, and i think tarantino may have wanted you to feel a connection with the young father and actually feel shocked and upset when he was shot, i felt upset, but i know your average viewer thinks ((YES KILL THAT german scum)) i cant say for sure what reaction the director intended, but rarely does the media try to portray germans as dumb because it is so obvious that the german people have never been dumb so they need to give them a sense of class even if they are portrayed as evil.
as much as you hated the jew hunter nazi you had to like how smart and slick and charming he was, i think that is why they did not kill him in the end.
but there were several scenes where they just would shoot some German person just because they could.

**Aramis** · 12-01-2010, 08:22 AM

I loved the movie. Must be beacuse nobody here gots a burden of guilt towards J00s (or any other minority), nor do they care about Germany's nazi past.