Come on, Quentin. Use your own noodle.

Pictures of guns and knives are impersonal, stupid ways to sell a movie. Why not a shot of all the Basterds lined up holding scalps or something? They could do it like one of those old timey war portraits. Now that would be interesting. Everything about this project that has shown up lately just screams "Half-assed."

In fact, I say we bomb Germany again soon, just to be on the safe side.

Also, just to shorten this talkback, I think we can all agree that, based solely on the posters and teaser trailer, this movie will suck harder than Paris Hilton during fleet week.

OR

it will be right up there with Goodfellas and Casablanca as one of the all-time greatest cinematic experiences ever filmed. Because we all know, a movie can ONLY be one or the other. According to the posters we've seen.

Again, HoboLoad shows what a completely ignorant moron he is.

And he should've read a history book before making this flick. Not all German soldiers were nazis per se.

This eye-for-an-eye message is a thing of the past. QT, my ass. This movie will be PWNED BY STALLONE. I'm out.

If you turn this into Hostel for Nazis I cant imagine Im going to like it that much.

I like me some gore, but its gotta fit the story (which had also better be good)

And I wonder how QT will get his contractually obligated pop-cultures references in there?

Love all Tarantulino's Films (including the heavily underrated Jackie Brown.. thought Grindhouse was OK, liked RR's part better).. Sorry to say, but the trailer looks like ass. Violent, ridiculous, badly acted, but well shot and packaged ass.

Sorry guys, but this will make very little money, if it makes any it will be because lovers of violent films, Tarantino groupies, and Brad Pitt fans who'll watch anything he's in will buy tickets. I'm glad that QT isn't splashing the whole "From the makers of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill" across this thing, because the Tarantino name isn't what it was in the mid 90's-early 00s.

Tarantino was cool once.

..... ONCE. I'll still watch it opening weekend though, because regardless of the negative feel of this post.. I am a QT groupie, I'm just not expecting anything beyond a Nazi skull smashfest.

make me laugh.

Personally, I like QT's movies--some more than others--and think this one looks pretty cool. I also like WWII movies, so it earns points there. And I, for one, never get tired of seeing Nazis get brutally killed, because, well, they're fucking NAZIS.

That said, I've been a fan of this site for a long time, even though it is most definitely--to put it mildly--a bit silly at times (see "this will make you scream 'FUCKING COOL!'"), and one thing that has struck me over the years is that the level of cynicism seems to have risen exponentially. Some would argue that's because 90% of what Hollywood churns out is pure shit. Well, newsflash: 90% of everything Hollywood has ever made is total shit...but we don't remember that. We just remember the good stuff. And there is just as much good stuff cranked out these days as in the 50s, 70s, 80s, etc. Hopefully this film will fall into that category.

What I really want to know is, what DO you people like? For example, what DO you consider to be a good action film made within, say, the last ten years? Because, if you have trouble naming just a few, I would suggest that you actually aren't a movie fan at all, and are probably wasting your time getting stressed out over nothing here. It really seems like a lot of the usual suspects around here never like anything except the idea that Avatar is going to fuck our eyeballs and some shit will cause total fucking destruction and be this year's Little Miss (insert attempt at being funny/ironic/sarcastic here).

"That would almost be as stupid as suggesting a 40-something Brad Pitt would be a lieutenant in the army. That's a job for someone 22-25 years old.

Not that I think Pitt's casting needs to be defended, BUT, if you are going to call something stupid you should probably make sure you know what you're talking about first. Otherwise, that sort of thing makes you look stupid. I am sure Pitt is not playing 40-something...my guess is that he is probably playing mid-30s, which is perfectly accurate historically. The average age of an American soldier in WWII was 26, and I am pretty sure that the avegage soldier was a grunt, not an officer. Thus, by 35 or so, Lt. is probably pretty appropriate. By Vietnam, the average age was only 19, so a 22-25 year old Lt. WOULD be realistic there. Here, a 22-25 year old would actually be a bit unrealistic. And explain to me again why it's so stupid that a GI would take a baseball bat with him? What if it has some special meaning for him, as this one obviously does, since it has a bunch of names carved into it?. Soldiers take all kinds of shit into battle...it helps them feel like they're still connected with their home. Just ask some.

Nobody is villifying Germans. They're villifying Nazis. You know why? They were fucking VILLAINS. There is no comparison, in any way, between WWII and our current situation in the Middle-East. None, not good or bad. It is a totally different situation in every conceivable way. The causes, the methods, the combat environment, the cultures involved, the methods of combat on all sides, the religious overtones, the diplomatic challenges...nothing is the same. It is apples and oranges. Maybe you and your friend Motoko Kusanagi are the ones who need to read a book or two.

For the record, I do not support the war in Iraq at all...I was against it from the get-go, and I certainly do not condone the US torturing, etc., but there is NO COMPARISON between American military policy in Iraq and Vietnam and the actions of the Nazis. I'm not saying we're some kind of b&w "good guys"...but we're not fucking Nazis. Get real, asshole.

I'll tell you what--when we march 12 million Sunni Muslims off to the gas chamber, then you get to call American soldiers Nazis, and not before.

Please explain to me how your analogy works:

Nazis = Iraqis and North Koreans how?

Some of the revisionist history being preached here is, quite frankly, terrifying.

Well, I haven't read the script...I usually just prefer to see the movie, since that's why scripts are written--to be made into films and have actors, directors, etc., breathe life into them. I don't like to know what's going to happen before I spend my hard earned cash at the show.

And, no, analogies do not escape me, but shitty, nonsensical analogies don't really rev my engine either. While I agree that it has been a two way street in terms of abominable behavior with regard to the Israel/Palestine situation, I do not think you can really compare either the US in Iraq or Israel vis a vis the Palestine situation to the Nazis. The American people, for example, were lied to in order to sell the Iraq war--we were told that there was a connection between the government of Iraq and the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, and that Saddam had a stockpile of WMDs. We were told that the evidence was a "slam dunk". Did I believe it? No. Neither did a lot of people. But the point is, the Bush administration at least knew they would have to LIE in order to get the majority of Americans to go along with their plans. The Nazis made no bones about the fact that they wanted to expand their power into an empire and conquer the world. They were lead to believe it was their destiny. And, buddy, I hate to tell you, but the majority of the German people at the time went right along with it. Am I saying they all knew about the Final Solution? Of course not. But they knew they were marching into other countries and kicking the shit out of them for no reason other than to expand their power. That's what happens when a country has hit rock bottom in terms of morale and a charismatic leader comes along and rouses them to believe they are entitled to greatness. Not knocking the German people--my great-grandparents on both sides were German immigrants--but that's what happened. And, credit where credit is due, Hitler was a tremendous public speaker.

As for comparing the Israeli government to the Nazis...well, if you don't understand the difference between American soldiers entering France to liberate it from the invading German army, and killing German soldiers there, and a Palestinian woman marching into an open air market with a bomb strapped to her chest, and pockets filled with rusty nails, ball bearings, and animal shit so she can kill as many civilians as possible...well, you are the one who has a problem with analogies, guy.

The Nazis were driven by greed, a lust for power, and a sense of entitlement. The Israelis are overly aggressive because they are surrounded on all sides by people who hate them simply because of their religion, and seek to wipe their country off the face of the Earth...and we know that to be true, because that's what they (Israel's enemies) say. Do you really think that if Israel gave all its land back to the Palestinians that Muslims would stop hating Jews, and vice versa? Because, I mean, they all got along so well before Israel was around...

Look, the bottom line is, I fucking hate it when idiots go off half-cocked trying to make some point and compare shit to Nazi Germany. America is not like the Nazis. Israel is not like the Nazis. Neither is Iran, or the so-called "Islamo-fascists". Not even the modern Republican party, which borrows a TON of psychology from Nazi rhetoric, is really anything like the Nazis.

Only the Nazis are like the Nazis, so stop comparing apples to oranges.

Actually, if you could read fucking English, you might have seen this little tidbit in my post.

"The American people, for example, were lied to in order to sell the Iraq war--we were told that there was a connection between the government of Iraq and the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, and that Saddam had a stockpile of WMDs. We were told that the evidence was a "slam dunk". Did I believe it? No. Neither did a lot of people."

Or, this one...

"While America has done some horrendous things around the world--things that I and any sane American have every reason to be extremely ashamed of--it is also one of the most generous nation's on the planet, and has done a lot of great things, too. Things that have changed the world for the better"

Blind hatred, shithead, is just as ignorant as blind allegiance.

Also, eat my shit. Conversation over.