Spike Lee, really?

[Hildegard]

Well look who the cat dragged in: - ) I knew it would take a movie controversy. Tell me what you think about Inglutenous Basterds. This is one time Peter Bradshaw and I saw eye to eye.

[Lee G]

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Try to think of another "war" movie consisting almost completely of scenes featuring people sitting at tables (or in a circle) and talking.

[jfm]

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Try to think of another "war" movie that consisting almost completely of scenes featuring people sitting at tables (or in a circle) and talking.

There is some of this in Django, too, mostly featuring DiCaprio. It bogs the movie down for a while, but it recovers. (And DiCaprio is quite good. Everybody's good.) But Tarantino likes those long, talky scenes too much. One or two of them per movie is really plenty.

Also, this movie continues his habit of name-checking East Tennessee, however inappropriately. One scene is set in Chattanooga (albeit a Chattanooga with Spanish moss), and there are references to the plantations of Gatlinburg.

[Randall]

Note to Randall - I know it's a spoiler, so don't post here. Message me when you get time: Is there a chair scene with Waltz the Dentist?

Not a spoiler: No dentist chair scenes. Never even hints at such. Explained early on.

[Randall]

There is some of this in Django, too, mostly featuring DiCaprio. It bogs the movie down for a while, but it recovers. (And DiCaprio is quite good. Everybody's good.) But Tarantino likes those long, talky scenes too much. One or two of them per movie is really plenty.

Also, this movie continues his habit of name-checking East Tennessee, however inappropriately. One scene is set in Chattanooga (albeit a Chattanooga with Spanish moss), and there are references to the plantations of Gatlinburg.

Yeah, Gatlinburg would have had a much different local culture than plantations. I think the talky scenes are quite streamlined in "Django."

[Lee G]

One ass move deserves another.

[Hank IV]

One ass move deserves another.

Maybe he should skip this epic and go straight to the Andy jackson bio, ala 'Lincoln'.

[Hildegard]

One ass move deserves another.

Ha ha! What a goddamn ego. I posted a thing on Facebook today in which that fatuous ass Nicholas Sparks disses Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian as the "most pulpy, melodramatic, overwrought cowboys and Indians story ever written." I dedicate this awesome evisceration of his own "The Notebook" to Quentin Tarantino:

[toby]

I am not going to see this one, but I caught Basterds on a plane flight. I affirmed my dislike of QT with that flick, which was really formed with Pulp Fiction, an imminently unwatchable movie produced by a lazy author who is an equally lazy reader of BIG IMPORTANT BOOKS ABOUT CULTURE.

[jfm]

Ha ha! What a goddamn ego.

Fwiw, QT's issues with Ford are moral, not aesthetic. (I like some Ford films a whole lot, but calling his racial portrayals problematic is putting it mildly.) Anyway, all three parts of that Henry Louis Gates interview with Tarantino are worth reading, it's a really good discussion.

http://www.theroot.com/views/taranti...django-trilogy
http://www.theroot.com/views/taranti...-part-2-n-word
http://www.theroot.com/views/taranti...-white-saviors