I saw Inglourious Basterds, and all I can say is - wow!
I think it’s better overall than Kill Bill, and I'm glad I don’t direct films; seeing it would depress me. It's everything an American movie is supposed to be - pure entertainment, suspense, and movie-making prowess so strong, that like a marshmallow, you can smell it through the bag. The last American film I liked this much was No Country For Old Men.
I remember seeing Pulp Fiction, and screaming, gasping, laughing with everyone else in the theatre. It was like a ride on the Cyclone; a great shared experience. This is like that.Roger Ebert describes the character Hans Landa, played by he-better-win-an-Oscar, Christoph Waltz,
for this scene, and his performance throughout the movie, that Christoph Waltz deserves an Oscar nomination to go with his best actor award from Cannes. He creates a character unlike any Nazi — indeed, anyone at all — I’ve seen in a movie: evil, sardonic, ironic, mannered, absurd.
He makes as great an entrance, and is as great a movie villain as Harry Lime or Anton Chigurh.
Comments