Another Quentin
Tarrantino movie?! Although he's not my favorite, why wouldn't I see this movie? It's got an all-star cast, Nazis, and France. The flick was fun for most of the time, but I would not go farther than saying that I moderately liked it. Many factors influenced my decision, including the venue in which we watched the flick. The joint is named "The Big Picture" and is a Seattle gem [I say this like I've not lived here for only 3 weeks]. The place is a really cool space in the basement of a fancy hotel; it looks like a gourmet restaurant; one is greeted by a hostess in a cocktail dress; one has to be 21 to enter; one can order cocktails or popcorn in glass buckets. The place spells Class with a capital C, people. I was feeling good until all the
bjs in the audience kept getting up to get the classy popcorn and cocktails throughout the movie. People kept bringing in said foodstuffs and disrupting everything. At least
other theaters that adhere to the same food-serving practices have engineered their theaters to make that service effective and
unobtrusive.
Another major problem with this
blowjob audience was that they laughed at all the wrong parts. Neither slicing people's foreheads open nor strangling ladies make me want to laugh. Extreme violence [which is not cartoon-like in this QT movie] is not really funny. It's serious, tense, maybe scary, disturbing. Shut up, audience! Stop knocking over your glass
drinkware. You are so dumb.
Now, to discuss the actual movie. Carmel gave a very apt analysis of
Inglourious Basterds by concluding that Quentin
Tarrantino got the idea for the movie while watching the Oscars this year. "
Hmm, WWII/Holocaust movies win big every year. Brad Pitt was in
Benjamin Button, and that got a lot of nominations. How can I combine the two?" Right?
At least I liked some of the cast. Melanie Laurent, who I liked in another French movie with an
impossible title, was
slammin. So was the main Nazi, who had just the right amount of
snarkiness and terror to be a good
nazi. Also, I'd like to point out that another Nazi was named
Zoller.
Hmm. The best thing about this movie was that film itself was the hero! Boom, you're roasted, Nazis.
[Didn't the fire remind you of the ending, ever-so-terrifying scene in
Raiders of the Lost Arc? I guess QT (who is not a cutie) watched that too.]
3/5 pizzas
This movie is a perfect followup to Psycho -- almost as perfect a double feature as It Takes Two and New York Minute. Les Diaboliques does to bathtubs what Psycho did to showers. That is, it makes you want to take one so you could interact with hot murderers. Don't even tell me you haven't had dreams about Anthony Perkins? Or Ms. Simone Signoret? The deal is these people are babes, so you should watch both these movies.
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this movie. I had been wanting to see it for a while since it it was written/directed by a laydee and stars grrrls. Okay, I guess I can say "girl" here because these actors are under 12 [except for Marion Cotillard who, yes, is in this.]
Another Quentin Tarrantino movie?! Although he's not my favorite, why wouldn't I see this movie? It's got an all-star cast, Nazis, and France. The flick was fun for most of the time, but I would not go farther than saying that I moderately liked it. Many factors influenced my decision, including the venue in which we watched the flick. The joint is named "The Big Picture" and is a Seattle gem [I say this like I've not lived here for only 3 weeks]. The place is a really cool space in the basement of a fancy hotel; it looks like a gourmet restaurant; one is greeted by a hostess in a cocktail dress; one has to be 21 to enter; one can order cocktails or popcorn in glass buckets. The place spells Class with a capital C, people. I was feeling good until all the bjs in the audience kept getting up to get the classy popcorn and cocktails throughout the movie. People kept bringing in said foodstuffs and disrupting everything. At least other theaters that adhere to the same food-serving practices have engineered their theaters to make that service effective and unobtrusive.
Tied with Funny Games as my favorite Michael Haneke movie, Cache is a solid movie that makes you rethink your childhood to make sure you weren't too mean to any kids so as you are not haunted by it later. This is movie is really suspenseful, people. I totally eat up French movies, as you may know, but I will devour anything that involves videos, voyeurism, and scary crayon drawings. I will continue this metaphor of consumption and say that I will gorge myself on any movie with all of this good thematic stuff + Juliette Binoche. I think this is one of her best roles as the wife of Daniel Auteuil [the only French actor along with Audrey Tautou.]
Maybe the real reason I like this movie so much isn't the suspense, the thrill, the psychological torture --- but maybe the impressive bookshelf collection that the protagonists have.
5/5 pizzas
