Huh, I've discovered a line....

[bluegargantua]

Hey,

So Quentin Tarantino is going to re-make an Italian WWII movie called The Glorious Bastards.

Here's the trailer.

So Tarantino always walks a fine line with me. I'm not much for gross-out/gore/splatter so he's really gotta push to make me want to go see his films. The fact that I liked Kill Bill as much as I did (except for the one bit where I knew not to look) is really impressive.

But this one? Man, I don't know. Normally, Nazis are the perfect movie bad guy. Kill all you want, we'll make more. But if the trailer is any indication, there's going to be a fair amount of torture/killing Nazis and that just seems....depressing. I mean, the big draw about Nazis is that you know you're fighting against the darkest tendencies of mankind. So to Tarntino-ize it, now who's the bad guy?

Maybe that's Tarantino making a point. Or maybe the the movie is more of a straight up fight and the commander in the trailer is just talking trash. Either way, this is probably one I'll skip.

Oh, and here's the trailer for the original film. When a guy gets shot, he throws his hands in the air and falls over. Worlds apart from Tarantino.

later
Tom

Comments

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Or maybe the the movie is more of a straight up fight and the commander in the trailer is just talking trash.

If it helps, there's plenty of precedent. For instance, in Patton, General Patton's soldiers do not actually, despite his instructions in the opening scene, cut out the Germans' living guts and use them to grease the treads of their tanks.

[bluegargantua]

Yeah, but I probably wouldn't want to see a Tarantino remake of Patton either. :)

Although Samuel L. Jackson as Patton would be pretty awesome...
Tom

[agthorr.livejournal.com]

Although Samuel L. Jackson as Patton would be pretty awesome...

Would you settle for Nick Fury (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Nick_Fury)? :-)