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Frost/Nixon

I can't say why but I was mildly disappointed with Frost/Nixon and can only give it a B. I think my main problem with the movie is that apart from the final interview which takes up about 10-15 minutes of the movie and features the famous "timeout" by Nixon's handlers, none of this is very compelling cinema, except possibly the phone call by Nixon to Frost the night before the final interview, which I question whether that phone call ever occurred. I thought that Michael Sheen's performance was stiff and one dimensional. I am old enough to remember the David Frost TV show which aired from 1969-1972 because my mother loved his show and I believe he was somewhat more erudite and literate than the boozing, womanizing "performer" he is cast as in the movie. Apart from that departure, the movie was probably very accurate in its general portrayals of the characters, but I just felt it lacked something.

Summary of my recent reviews:

Inglorious Basterds A+
Burn After Reading B+ (borders on an A-)
Frost/Nixon B
Frozen River B-
 

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"The Big Lebowski" has been called the #1 cult film....

As far as the religion of Dudeism goes, there are many who practice this religion without even knowing it, including some MERB members.

Perhaps this is why the religion is growing at such a slow pace? At least you will never here of a Dudeist suicide bomber.

Wouldn't you agree that the Best Picture for No Country For Old Men was a recognition of a body of work by the Coen Brothers?

I cant wait to see Inglorious Bastards. Thanks for the recommendation.

Also, I forgot to rate The Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard. This could have been so funny but was not. Don't waste your time. Nearly all the jokes missed their mark save for Will Ferrell who had a cameo appearance. He was jumping out of a plane to promote a car sale and pulled the rip cord on his parachute only to find it was a backpack full of sex toys. Lead salesman Don Ready played by Jeremy Piven had the chute in the backseat of a car with some MILF. He went to grab a sex toy during the tryst and chute opened engulfing him in the backseat of the car. Meanwhile Ferrell fell to his death in the lot....I just told you the best part. Save your money and buy a Smoked Meat sandwich at Swartz's Deli instead

I will rate the recent films as EB did

Year One B+ (the critics panned this but I laughed uncontrolably through 60% of it)
The Hangover B (good but maybe my expectations were too high)
Bruno C (nowhere near as good as Borat which is in my top 10 but still had a few laughs)
The Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard - D (Why wasn't this funny?)
 
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Wouldn't you agree that the Best Picture for No Country For Old Men was a recognition of a body of work by the Coen Brothers?

I really did not understand the ending of No Country For Old Men, but thought it was otherwise excellent. I think the Coen Brothers 3 best are Fargo, No Country For Old Men, and Big Lebowski. Raising Arizona is one of their more underrated films.
 

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LadyKillers, Intolerable Cruelty and Burn After Reading are "Cohen lite" although that's still better than 90% of the crap that ends up on movie screens. IMHO, the best Cohen films are:

1. Fargo
2. Miller's Crossing
3. The Big Lebowski

Wouldn't you agree that the Best Picture for No Country For Old Men was a recognition of a body of work by the Coen Brothers?

I don't think so. I mean they are still young and it's not like they've made 50 films already.
I liked "No Country for Old Men" (probably 4th on my list) but I don't believe it should have won Best Picture, particularly not in a year when "There Will be Blood" was nominated, arguably the best film of the decade.
 

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LadyKillers, Intolerable Cruelty and Burn After Reading are "Cohen lite" although that's still better than 90% of the crap that ends up on movie screens. IMHO, the best Cohen films are:

1. Fargo
2. Miller's Crossing
3. The Big Lebowski



I don't think so. I mean they are still young and it's not like they've made 50 films already.
I liked "No Country for Old Men" (probably 4th on my list) but I don't believe it should have won Best Picture, particularly not in a year when "There Will be Blood" was nominated, arguably the best film of the decade.

1. Big Labowski
2. Fargo
3. Tie: O Brother Where Art Thou and Raising Arizona
5. No Country for Old Men

There will be blood was good but at the same time very depressing.
 

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Lebwoski Fest in Montreal?

hungry101,

I had an idea: why not try to bring the "Lebowski Fest" that has been launched in so many other cities to Montreal, and expand the concept to include a hobbyist/SP party?

Here is what we do. We get a credible local hobbyist like Techman to approach a Montreal bowling alley (are there any downtown?) and tell them we are interested in bringing the Lebowski Fest to Montreal. It's win-win for the bowling alley if they have a festival like this where people can come and use bowling as an excuse for a get together. What we don't tell the bowling alley is that we will also be inviting SPs and agencies to come. They don't need to know, all they need to know is that it is a festival celebrating the Big Lebowski.

I don't know of any bowling allies that might be good for this plan. Any suggestions? Here is the wikipedia link explaining Lebowski Fest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebowski_Fest

It's a longshot but maybe we can get Jeff Bridges, John Goodman or John Turturro to come. They will probably want an appearance fee but if we tell them the real deal, maybe they will waive the fee and come. Possibly if we plan it the same time one of them is filming in Montreal they can be induced. We can also invite the Coen Brothers too.

It just seems to me that the concept of Lebowski Fest and the concept of the HDLM party (of which I attended 3) go hand in fucking hand like rice krispies and milk. The only difference would be bowling alley rather than hotel lobby as the venue.
 
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I watched this movie last night, having bought it a few days ago when it came out on dvd. It's the story about the 1989 massacre at the polytechnical institute in Mtl. The movie was directed by Denis Villeneuve & stars Maxim Gaudette (as Marc Lepine), Karine Vanasse & Sebastien Huberdeau.

The movie was filmed in black & white. One thing i've noticed throughout the movie is that no names are mentionned. We only know the killer's name is Marc Lepine because he was mentionned all over the news at the time (and still today). At the closing credits, Vanasse & the other characters are only mentionned by their first names, hers being Valerie.

I'm not certain that hers & Huberdeau's characters actually existed or if they were created for dramatic purposes. The whole movie is very accurate with its details, but omitted to show that his last murder was committed by stabbing his victim 3 times with a knife. We do see a large pool of blood surrounding her from a high profiile shot, with a knife & the murderer next to her.

This isn't an upbeat movie, but i already knew this ahead of time since i'm quite familiar with the story since i happened to be in Montreal on the afternoon it happened. My ex-gf attended that same school at the time of the massacre (but she didn't have any courses scheduled on that particular day). But the way the story is told is brilliant film making, and the use of b & w over color is a stroke of genius. I found the movie very disturbing & moving, and the tragedy is still depressing to this day. One major disappointment for me was that there were no extras on the dvd. I would have liked to hear from the director, from the main actors, and possibly a profile or documentary on the actual massacre. Here's more about the movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194238/

And about the actual massacre:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_Polytechnique_massacre
 
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hungry101,

I had an idea: why not try to bring the "Lebowski Fest" that has been launched in so many other cities to Montreal, and expand the concept to include a hobbyist/SP party?

That sounds very cool!

I'm a big fan of that movie. :)
 

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hungry101,

I had an idea: why not try to bring the "Lebowski Fest" that has been launched in so many other cities to Montreal, and expand the concept to include a hobbyist/SP party?

Here is what we do. We get a credible local hobbyist like Techman to approach a Montreal bowling alley (are there any downtown?) and tell them we are interested in bringing the Lebowski Fest to Montreal. It's win-win for the bowling alley if they have a festival like this where people can come and use bowling as an excuse for a get together. What we don't tell the bowling alley is that we will also be inviting SPs and agencies to come. They don't need to know, all they need to know is that it is a festival celebrating the Big Lebowski.

I don't know of any bowling allies that might be good for this plan. Any suggestions? Here is the wikipedia link explaining Lebowski Fest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebowski_Fest

It's a longshot but maybe we can get Jeff Bridges, John Goodman or John Turturro to come. They will probably want an appearance fee but if we tell them the real deal, maybe they will waive the fee and come. Possibly if we plan it the same time one of them is filming in Montreal they can be induced. We can also invite the Coen Brothers too.

It just seems to me that the concept of Lebowski Fest and the concept of the HDLM party (of which I attended 3) go hand in fucking hand like rice krispies and milk. The only difference would be bowling alley rather than hotel lobby as the venue.

Are you serious? We could get the SP's to come as Tara Reid or maude Labowski!

Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars.
Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited.
Bunny Lebowski: Brandt can't watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred.
Brandt: Ah haha. That's marvelous.
The Dude: Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine.

Maude Lebowski: Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?
The Dude: 'Scuse me?
Maude Lebowski: Sex. The physical act of love. Coitus. Do you like it?
The Dude: I was talking about my rug.
Maude Lebowski: You're not interested in sex?
The Dude: You mean coitus?
 

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There's a bowling alley in the Sharx Pool Bar downtown. Porter organized a GT there last summer that unfortunately I wasn't able to attend which went quite well if I remember the posts afterwards.

http://www.sharx.ca/
 
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Lebowski Fest

hungry101,

I was actually thinking that as part of the Lebowski Fest we could stage a reenactment of various scenes from the movie. I have met certain MERB members who would be good for various parts such as Doc Holliday playing "The Dude" (he would have to grow his hair longer), Special K as Walter Sobchak (no acting would be required on all the "Shut The Fuck Up Donny" lines - because Joe T would be the perfect Donny). I know they could pull those roles off.

For Bunny Lebowski I would suggest Oceanne or Lya of XXXtase and for Maude Lebowski, Charlie of Eleganza.

I would like to play Jackie Treehorn.

Cast and characters from "The Big Lebowski":

* Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a single, unemployed slacker living in Venice, California, who enjoys marijuana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, White Russians, and bowling. He has a very laid-back approach to life and seems unconcerned with money. Jeff Bridges had heard or was told by the Coen brothers that they had written a screenplay for him. The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a member of the anti-war radical group the Seattle Seven (The Dude actually mentions during the film that he was one of the Seattle Seven), and a friend of the Coen brothers, Pete Exline, a Vietnam War veteran, who actually found a twelve-year old's homework in his stolen car.
* John Goodman as Walter Sobchak, a Vietnam War veteran, and the Dude's best friend and bowling teammate. Walter runs his own security firm, Sobchak Security, and places the rules of bowling second in reverence only to the rules of his adopted religion, Judaism, as evidenced by his strict stance against 'rolling' on Shabbos. He seems to have been quite dominated by his now ex-wife (for whom he converted), and still quickly does whatever she commands him to do. He is unstable, has a violent temper, and is given to pulling out a handgun in order to settle disputes. He says the Gulf War was all about oil and claims to have dabbled in pacifism. He constantly mentions Vietnam in conversations. He is based on screenwriter John Milius, who is a friend of the Coen Brothers, and Lew Abernathy, a friend of Peter Exline.
* Steve Buscemi as Theodore Donald "Donny" Kerabatsos, a member of Walter and the Dude's bowling team. Charmingly naïve, Donny is an avid bowler and frequently interrupts Walter's diatribes to inquire about the parts of the story he missed or did not understand, provoking Walter's abusive and frequently repeated response, "Shut the fuck up, Donny!" This line is a reference to Fargo, the Coen Brothers' previous film, in which Buscemi's character was constantly talking. Donny bowls only strikes the entire movie, the only exception being the scene before he dies of a heart attack.
* David Huddleston as Jeffrey Lebowski, the "Big" Lebowski referred to in the movie's title, is a wheelchair-bound multi-millionaire who is married to Bunny and is Maude's father by his late wife. He lost the use of his legs in Korea and seems to despise the Dude, whom he calls "a bum".
* Julianne Moore as Maude Lebowski, the Big Lebowski's daughter. She is a feminist and an avant-garde artist whose work "has been commended as being strongly vaginal". She is good friends with video artist Knox Harrington (David Thewlis), and is possibly the person who introduced Bunny to Uli Kunkel (Peter Stormare), the nihilist, porn star, new wave musician and would-be kidnapper.
* Tara Reid as Bunny Lebowski; born Fawn Knutsen, she is the Big Lebowski's "trophy wife". She ran away from her family's farm in Moorhead, Minnesota and soon found herself making pornographic videos (such as Logjammin') under the name "Bunny LaJoya". According to Reid, Charlize Theron tried out for the role of Bunny.
* Philip Seymour Hoffman as Brandt, a sycophant and loyal assistant to the Big Lebowski, who tries to please everyone. Hoffman auditioned for the film and had to do the scene where Brandt shows the Dude around Jeffrey Lebowski's office.
* Sam Elliott as The Stranger, the film's narrator, who sees this story unfold from an unbiased perspective. His narration is marked by a thick, laid-back Western accent.
* Ben Gazzara as Jackie Treehorn, a wealthy pornographer and loan shark who lives in Malibu. He employs the two thugs who assault the Dude in his home at the beginning of the movie.
* Peter Stormare, Torsten Voges and Flea play The Nihilists, composed of Uli Kunkel (aka "Karl Hungus"), Franz and Dieter respectively. They are Germans who claim to be nihilists, along with Kunkel's ex-girlfriend (Aimee Mann), and they pretend to be the ones who kidnapped Bunny. The character of Uli originated on the set of Fargo between Ethan Coen and Stormare, who would often speak in a mock German accent.
* John Turturro as Jesus Quintana, an opponent of the Dude's and Walter's team in the bowling league semifinals match. This eccentric, Latino, trash-talking North Hollywood resident speaks with a thick Cuban-American accent, and often refers to himself in the third person, insisting on the English pronunciation of his name (GEE-zus) rather than the Spanish (Heh-SOOS). "The Jesus", as he refers to himself, is a pedophile and generally creepy pervert who did six months in Chino for exposing himself to an eight-year old. Turturro originally thought that he was going to have a bigger role in the film but when he read the script, he realized that it was much smaller. However, the Coen brothers let him come up with a lot of his own ideas for the character, like shining the bowling ball and the scene where he dances backwards, which he says was inspired by Muhammad Ali.]
* Jon Polito as Da Fino, a private investigator hired by Bunny Lebowski's parents, the Knutsens, to entice their daughter back to their farm in Moorhead, Minnesota. Da Fino, who drives a battered blue Volkswagen Beetle (in reference to the Coen Brothers' first film, Blood Simple), mistakes the Dude for a "brother shamus" (a fellow P.I.), and offends the Dude by referring to Maude as his "special lady" and not the Dude's preferred term, "my fucking lady friend".

Minor characters

* David Thewlis as Knox Harrington, the Video Artist
* Mark Pellegrino as Blond Treehorn Thug
* Jimmie Dale Gilmore as Smokey
* Jack Kehler as Marty
* Leon Russom as Kohl the Malibu Police Chief
* Aimee Mann as Nihilist Woman, Franz' Girlfriend
 

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hungry101,
I have met certain MERB members who would be good for various parts such as Doc Holliday playing "The Dude" (he would have to grow his hair longer), Special K as Walter Sobchak (no acting would be required on all the "Shut The Fuck Up Donny" lines - because Joe T would be the perfect Donny). I know they could pull those roles off.

* John Goodman as Walter Sobchak, a Vietnam War veteran, and the Dude's best friend and bowling teammate. Walter runs his own security firm, Sobchak Security, and places the rules of bowling second in reverence only to the rules of his adopted religion, Judaism, as evidenced by his strict stance against 'rolling' on Shabbos. He seems to have been quite dominated by his now ex-wife (for whom he converted), and still quickly does whatever she commands him to do. He is unstable, has a violent temper, and is given to pulling out a handgun in order to settle disputes. He says the Gulf War was all about oil and claims to have dabbled in pacifism. He constantly mentions Vietnam in conversations. He is based on screenwriter John Milius, who is a friend of the Coen Brothers, and Lew Abernathy, a friend of Peter Exline.

So you think I'm unstable? Shut the fuck up!! Just kidding Beav ;)
 

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I loved this movie; I love these movies that make you try to see the parallels with real life, and make poignant statements.

I don't have time to write a film school or English Lit thesis on this movie, but the movie reminded me of the current situation with illegal immigrants in the US, or perhaps the Cuban refugees, as depicted in the beginning of Scarface.

Other parallels that have been suggested include Apartheid and the Israeli/Palestinian situation.

Excellent, imo.
 

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OK EB this would be a great night. Let me know as I will need a lot of notice to attend.

"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus"

hungry101,

I was actually thinking that as part of the Lebowski Fest we could stage a reenactment of various scenes from the movie. I have met certain MERB members who would be good for various parts such as Doc Holliday playing "The Dude" (he would have to grow his hair longer), Special K as Walter Sobchak (no acting would be required on all the "Shut The Fuck Up Donny" lines - because Joe T would be the perfect Donny). I know they could pull those roles off.

For Bunny Lebowski I would suggest Oceanne or Lya of XXXtase and for Maude Lebowski, Charlie of Eleganza.

I would like to play Jackie Treehorn.

Cast and characters from "The Big Lebowski":

* Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a single, unemployed slacker living in Venice, California, who enjoys marijuana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, White Russians, and bowling. He has a very laid-back approach to life and seems unconcerned with money. Jeff Bridges had heard or was told by the Coen brothers that they had written a screenplay for him. The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a member of the anti-war radical group the Seattle Seven (The Dude actually mentions during the film that he was one of the Seattle Seven), and a friend of the Coen brothers, Pete Exline, a Vietnam War veteran, who actually found a twelve-year old's homework in his stolen car.
* John Goodman as Walter Sobchak, a Vietnam War veteran, and the Dude's best friend and bowling teammate. Walter runs his own security firm, Sobchak Security, and places the rules of bowling second in reverence only to the rules of his adopted religion, Judaism, as evidenced by his strict stance against 'rolling' on Shabbos. He seems to have been quite dominated by his now ex-wife (for whom he converted), and still quickly does whatever she commands him to do. He is unstable, has a violent temper, and is given to pulling out a handgun in order to settle disputes. He says the Gulf War was all about oil and claims to have dabbled in pacifism. He constantly mentions Vietnam in conversations. He is based on screenwriter John Milius, who is a friend of the Coen Brothers, and Lew Abernathy, a friend of Peter Exline.
* Steve Buscemi as Theodore Donald "Donny" Kerabatsos, a member of Walter and the Dude's bowling team. Charmingly naïve, Donny is an avid bowler and frequently interrupts Walter's diatribes to inquire about the parts of the story he missed or did not understand, provoking Walter's abusive and frequently repeated response, "Shut the fuck up, Donny!" This line is a reference to Fargo, the Coen Brothers' previous film, in which Buscemi's character was constantly talking. Donny bowls only strikes the entire movie, the only exception being the scene before he dies of a heart attack.
* David Huddleston as Jeffrey Lebowski, the "Big" Lebowski referred to in the movie's title, is a wheelchair-bound multi-millionaire who is married to Bunny and is Maude's father by his late wife. He lost the use of his legs in Korea and seems to despise the Dude, whom he calls "a bum".
* Julianne Moore as Maude Lebowski, the Big Lebowski's daughter. She is a feminist and an avant-garde artist whose work "has been commended as being strongly vaginal". She is good friends with video artist Knox Harrington (David Thewlis), and is possibly the person who introduced Bunny to Uli Kunkel (Peter Stormare), the nihilist, porn star, new wave musician and would-be kidnapper.
* Tara Reid as Bunny Lebowski; born Fawn Knutsen, she is the Big Lebowski's "trophy wife". She ran away from her family's farm in Moorhead, Minnesota and soon found herself making pornographic videos (such as Logjammin') under the name "Bunny LaJoya". According to Reid, Charlize Theron tried out for the role of Bunny.
* Philip Seymour Hoffman as Brandt, a sycophant and loyal assistant to the Big Lebowski, who tries to please everyone. Hoffman auditioned for the film and had to do the scene where Brandt shows the Dude around Jeffrey Lebowski's office.
* Sam Elliott as The Stranger, the film's narrator, who sees this story unfold from an unbiased perspective. His narration is marked by a thick, laid-back Western accent.
* Ben Gazzara as Jackie Treehorn, a wealthy pornographer and loan shark who lives in Malibu. He employs the two thugs who assault the Dude in his home at the beginning of the movie.
* Peter Stormare, Torsten Voges and Flea play The Nihilists, composed of Uli Kunkel (aka "Karl Hungus"), Franz and Dieter respectively. They are Germans who claim to be nihilists, along with Kunkel's ex-girlfriend (Aimee Mann), and they pretend to be the ones who kidnapped Bunny. The character of Uli originated on the set of Fargo between Ethan Coen and Stormare, who would often speak in a mock German accent.
* John Turturro as Jesus Quintana, an opponent of the Dude's and Walter's team in the bowling league semifinals match. This eccentric, Latino, trash-talking North Hollywood resident speaks with a thick Cuban-American accent, and often refers to himself in the third person, insisting on the English pronunciation of his name (GEE-zus) rather than the Spanish (Heh-SOOS). "The Jesus", as he refers to himself, is a pedophile and generally creepy pervert who did six months in Chino for exposing himself to an eight-year old. Turturro originally thought that he was going to have a bigger role in the film but when he read the script, he realized that it was much smaller. However, the Coen brothers let him come up with a lot of his own ideas for the character, like shining the bowling ball and the scene where he dances backwards, which he says was inspired by Muhammad Ali.]
* Jon Polito as Da Fino, a private investigator hired by Bunny Lebowski's parents, the Knutsens, to entice their daughter back to their farm in Moorhead, Minnesota. Da Fino, who drives a battered blue Volkswagen Beetle (in reference to the Coen Brothers' first film, Blood Simple), mistakes the Dude for a "brother shamus" (a fellow P.I.), and offends the Dude by referring to Maude as his "special lady" and not the Dude's preferred term, "my fucking lady friend".

Minor characters

* David Thewlis as Knox Harrington, the Video Artist
* Mark Pellegrino as Blond Treehorn Thug
* Jimmie Dale Gilmore as Smokey
* Jack Kehler as Marty
* Leon Russom as Kohl the Malibu Police Chief
* Aimee Mann as Nihilist Woman, Franz' Girlfriend
 

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Hungry101,

There is an SP in New York City who goes by the name "Bunny Lebowski." She gets an automatic invitation to the party. Hope the Mods don't mind me posting a link to her website, after all, she is based in NYC:

http://bunnylebowski.escort-site.com/photos.phtml

Her prices are much better than the character Bunny Labowski.

I just saw Inglorious Bastards. Quenten Tarrintino's best flick since Pulp Fiction. SS Col. Hans Landa stole the show.
 

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I just saw Inglorious Bastards. Quentin Tarantino's best flick since Pulp Fiction. SS Col. Hans Landa stole the show.

I saw the Basterds over the weekend also. I left wondering why it had such a title, as the Basterds characters are glorified cameo parts, similar to the Eric Stoltz part in Pulp Fiction. Ah Hollywood and your false advertising practices, I was so hoping to see a lot more of Brad Pitt and Eli Roth, the Bear Jew:confused: (since the bulk of the trailers focused and seemed to promise more of them).
But I agree, Christoph Waltz as Col. Landa was totally captivating, in multiple languages :D (minor gripe, at some points he seemed to express himself too much in modern 21st century english, rather than how I would perceive english idioms from the 1940s).
My overall appreciation of this film? Although a good cinema experience for 2 and a half hours, I may only watch it once or twice again on DVD, a far cry from Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill PART 1 that I've seen about 10 times each. Foxy Brown, Death Proof, KB pt. 2 and the awfully self-indulgent FOUR ROOMS have only managed to score one repeat viewing out of me.
I wish I could put my finger on the exact reason why I liked this film, yet I didn't love it...All the parts were well-cast and played (even by the puppy-dog wunderkind private Fredrick Zoller, who made me cringe whenever he appeared), but I just felt most parts lacked the OOmph from all secondary parts from Pulp Fiction (Harvey Keitel as Wolf, Tim Roth as Pumpkin, Ving Rhames as Marsellus, Christopher Walken as Captain Koons :D)...
If I had to peg it down to a single thing, it's that Tarantino has let his obsession with long bouts of dialogue overwhelm the film at the cost of the characters actually DOING something. Something that's memorable...
And finally, is Tarantino dating the actress Julie Dreyfus? she played Joseph Goebbels' french-speaking interpreter, but also had a small part in Kill Bill pt. 1

(Just noticed this: is this Quentin's first movie without himself in a bit part?)
 
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I wish I could put my finger on the exact reason why I liked this film, yet I didn't love it...All the parts were well-cast and played (even by the puppy-dog wunderkind private Fredrick Zoller, who made me cringe whenever he appeared), but I just felt most parts lacked the OOmph from all secondary parts from Pulp Fiction (Harvey Keitel as Wolf, Tim Roth as Pumpkin, Ving Rhames as Marsellus, Christopher Walken as Captain Koons :D).

The acting in Basterds, overall, was not as good as Pulp Fiction. The notable performances in Basterds were by Walsz and Pitt, whereas there were at least 6-7 outstanding performances in Pulp Fiction. I tend to agree with most of the points you made in your review, but the diehard Tarantino fan of which you are obviously one keep waiting for work product as good as or comparable to Pulp Fiction, and the likelihood is that he will never make another film as good as that all time classic. It is not going to happen. However, Basterds is easily one of his top 3 movies. To me the story was a bit more interesting than the Kill Bill films and certainly the ending was possibly the best of any of his films.

Regarding the lack of screen time for the Basterds, I heard that this is going to be saved for a prequel. There had also been talk of doing a prequel for Pulp Fiction called "Vincent and Jules" (focusing on the characters played by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), but it never came to fruition, I think in part because Travolta and Jackson were so in demand for the 5 or so years after Pulp Fiction and getting so many other lucrative offers on other fims that it was impossible to find the time where they could both be cast together.

By the ways I would add Bruce Willis as Butch to the other characters you mentioned. At the time of Pulp Fiction's release, it was Willlis' best performance to date. He had some of the best lines in the movie and delivered all of them with typical tongue in cheek aplomb.
 
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