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I...sort of want to see this now.

So did QT inadvertently make an allegory of the War on Terror, with Brad Pitt representing the Bush administration? Except the audience is supposed to root for Brad Pitt/George Bush?

You have GOT to be joking. #-o That looks absolutely terrible. There is nothing whatsoever of interest in that trailer. Has this board been taken over by AICN's denizens?

It does look a whole lot worse than I'd have guessed. Eli Roth delivering a YouTube rant-level performance, Brad Pitt doing his best Cotton Hill impression, Hitler... The only point of interest in the whole trailer was BJ Novak's haircut

Svevan wrote:So did QT inadvertently make an allegory of the War on Terror, with Brad Pitt representing the Bush administration? Except the audience is supposed to root for Brad Pitt/George Bush?

To be fair, the trailer is fairly misleading. There's a reason they 're called Inglourious and that reason is that the lion's share of the dirty work is actually done by someone who is neither american nor a basterd. Furthermore, they appear for what amounts to a third of the film's final runtime and most of them have ridiculous demises, in some cases off-screen.

By the way, a correction: Aldo Rains is from Tennessee, not Kentucky

OK, so QT intentionally made a crappy trailer in order to mislead us as to...umm...what?

I can't say that I expect much from this movie. Tarantino hasn't had anything worth watch for quite some time. Death Proof left something to be desired for and the Kill Bill films were more an over the top homage to the Shaw Brothers.

Barmy wrote:OK, so QT intentionally made a crappy trailer in order to mislead us as to...umm...what?

I didn't say the crappiness was intentional, just that it was misleading in the sense that the real protagonist is jewish frenchgirl Shoshanna and not the Basterds, who barely amount to supporting characters, thus not really being, inadvertently, about the war on terror as Svevan rightfully thought.
However crappy it turns out to be, it won't have much to do with foreign policy during the Bush administration.

domino harvey wrote:The only point of interest in the whole trailer was BJ Novak's haircut

...and a brief glimpse of Neil from Freaks & Geeks.

Who plays Shoshanna? Teresa Graves?

For a group of supposed bad-asses, I've never seen a weaker crew in cinema or reality. Whatever happened to movies like this with guys like Lee Marvin in them?

cinemartin wrote:For a group of supposed bad-asses, I've never seen a weaker crew in cinema or reality. Whatever happened to movies like this with guys like Lee Marvin in them?

Good point cinemartin, they do look a little wet behind the ears. Not quite Dirty Dozen enough.

cinemartin wrote:For a group of supposed bad-asses, I've never seen a weaker crew in cinema or reality. Whatever happened to movies like this with guys like Lee Marvin in them?

That's exactly what I thought. Even the guys from Tropic Thunder look tougher than this basterds.

Svevan wrote:So did QT inadvertently make an allegory of the War on Terror, with Brad Pitt representing the Bush administration? Except the audience is supposed to root for Brad Pitt/George Bush?

That was exactly the vibe I got. I mean, I get that this is Tarantino and everything, but Jesus Christ the average kid watching this trailer is going to come away thinking that war crimes are a fun and funny - if not morally justifiable - response to unconscionable evil.

cinemartin wrote:For a group of supposed bad-asses, I've never seen a weaker crew in cinema or reality. Whatever happened to movies like this with guys like Lee Marvin in them?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they're all supposed to be Jewish which is why Brad's character assembles them in the first place, to emphasize their feelings of wanting revenge against the Nazi's. Not that that justifies what you're saying, but I'm sure QT's thinking was to assemble a group of typecast Jewish characters as his Dirty Dozen, or Wild Bunch if you will.

This is shaping up nicely to be the worst film ever made.

I can't wait till this comes out so I can watch it back to back with The Reader.

Here are the tezer postars.

Antoine Doinel wrote:Here are the tezer postars.

some of those are going to be offensive to self-described Neo-Nazis.

aox wrote:some of those are going to be offensive to self-described Neo-Nazis.

I hope the studios realize this and destroy these posters... we can't risk offending anybody.

Tom Hagen wrote:That was exactly the vibe I got. I mean, I get that this is Tarantino and everything, but Jesus Christ the average kid watching this trailer is going to come away thinking that war crimes are a fun and funny - if not morally justifiable - response to unconscionable evil.

It's going to be really hard to convince me that a persecuted minority striking back against the people that are trying to genocidally exterminate them is NOT "morally justifiable," under whatever subjective measure you're applying.

Pitt didn't even say to kill all Germans in the trailer; he said Nazis. The movie might be terrible. It might be a fun revenge flick using WWII as a background. But this seems like grasping at straws to attack the film.

What an appropriate time for a movie to surface about Jewish vengeance and cruelty towards the enemy.

Grand Illusion wrote:It's going to be really hard to convince me that a persecuted minority striking back against the people that are trying to genocidally exterminate them is NOT "morally justifiable," under whatever subjective measure you're applying.

War crimes are war crimes. Fighting the Nazis, bringing them to trial, A-O.K. Scalping them and playing baseball with their brains? Not so much.
Looks like Inglourious Basterds is shaping up to be 2009's 300, complete with neo-fascist fanbase. I guess the headless Nazi vs. Jewish killing machine frat parties will be soon to follow.