Saturday, August 22, 2009
Saw it. When I first heard about it I loved the idea, but my fear when I saw the trailer was -- given how much we dwell on current events and perhaps over-think occasionally around here -- that people would see these bloody, torturing Jews and not only think that this has a grain of truth to what really happened, but that it would be used to say, "Aha! You see, this is how the Israelis behave today! We told you they were bloodthirsty!" I also figure Tarantino's politics lean toward the moonbat, having seen him give a flattering introduction to Michael Moore some time ago, and that couldn't help but seep through, right?
I can say after seeing the film I'm no longer so concerned. Without getting into too much detail and ruining anything, this film is clearly an over the top fantasy. To be paralyzed by the fear that it could be used to some nefarious purpose today would be akin to the same fear that keeps Jews from sticking up for themselves generally -- a preemptive worry that they'll be seen as confirming negative stereotypes merely by defending themselves and which gives their enemies the field.
I say if you like Tarantino's style (and I admit that I hate Tarantino -- mostly because I envy him his success and his genius), then you'll love this movie. It's bloody, it's violent, innocents and the people you like are often caught in the crossfire...but it's very entertaining and the 2 1/2 hours fly by.
Tid bits: The audience I was with actually laughed when they showed the "Basterds" at the beginning of the film -- the part you can see in the trailer with Brad Pitt explaining what they were going to do. Tarantino clearly went out of his way to cast a bunch of ethnically Jewish-looking nebishes who look completely out of place in the circumstance. It's a sort of displacement to see these guys when we're trained to expect the cast from the Dirty Dozen and it draws giggles from an audience more trained to seeing this type of person getting ready to board the bus for law school. Very clever and quite intentional on Tarantino's part.
There's also a treat in the film for Red Sox fans.
Debbie Schlussel loved it.
BTW, the ADL issued a statement saying, "If only it were true!"
Except the mere fact of the matter is that Americans don't become Jews or any eurasians and don't integrate, except all in a spy capacity, and they didn't enter WW2 until after Pearl Harbor, Americas trans-oceanic descended citizen minority is mainly a tool for Americas inevitable dominance and America is a republic, not a democracy, so a president is a moot and powerless publicity performance in a military intelligence superstate environment. It's all American espionage and intrigue smoke and mirrors.
C+
Run-on sentence.
You understood it?
I don't understand scottish/british "compassion" for the murderer of 270 people.
Oh wait! For arab oil contracts and lots of petro-money, scots/brits are "Compassionate".
Now we see that scots/brits are money grubbing, gold hoarding appeasers of fascism and islamofascism today as they were in 1939.
Some things never change.
"F" the uk.
Sol -
Why does the ADL have to comment on evvvvvvvvverything? even this freekin movie?
My only trepidation is Brad Pitt in the role and the trailer with him looks like a spoof using him in a serious role, which I don't think it was intended to be... and that's not even mentioning his lame accent. Tarrantino couldn't get anyone else for the role?
Now we see that scots/brits are money grubbing, gold hoarding ...
Now I understand all that British depiction of Jews through their "literary" persons over the ages - projection.
The stereotypical Jew is actually a mirror image.
(I thought I replied to this.) Mike, it's inevitable that the ADL would be asked repeatedly for a statement, so I can't really blame them for issuing one on a film like this.
Tarentino is very twisted, but that is what makes him famous.