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Old 08-24-2009, 03:28 PM   #1
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Inglourious Basterds

It has a really good story, some really good dialog, and some gore that I didn't think was necessary. I had to turn my head for a few things.

Definitely worth seeing if you don't mind the violence or don't mind turning your head.

I suspect this movie will be considered oscar-worthy for many facets.
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Old 08-24-2009, 05:03 PM   #2
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I am curious about this film. My step MIL said it was a comedy which makes me a bit hesitant considering subject matter...

But then... Flint and I just saw Sector 9 which is basically a SF ploy to get folks to sit through a movie about Apartheid... so there you go. It was really well done ... just FYI.

I generally like Tarentino.... so I'll probably see it eventually... did you feel it is a big screen must see or acceptable on DVD in the privacy of your living room?
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Old 08-24-2009, 05:06 PM   #3
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Tell them about the group of small children that were brought to see District 9. Pooka was wondering, if your kid was at a sleepover etc. and the parents took them to a gory, violent, mind-warping film--could you press charges against them somehow? Because that's just ƒucked up.
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Old 08-24-2009, 05:14 PM   #4
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Yeah... what was up with that... two or three adults came waddling in with a trail of toddlers and young children behind... I counted 7... Seriously. I wonder... could you press charges... or would it just be on you for LETTING your kid stay with these folks in the first place...

I kept thinking surely G Force was sold out and they thought "Hey we could see Sector 9 ... its about aliens". Surely an adult wouldn't intentially take a kid to an R rated movie... or am I wrong.

Well... there was the couple that had their infant in the theater when we saw The Devils Rejects so...
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Old 08-24-2009, 05:37 PM   #5
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very little interest in seeing this movie--don't like comedies much, and weird comedies even less
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Old 08-24-2009, 08:19 PM   #6
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or am I wrong.
You are wrong. Some folks just don't have much sense.


And there's nothing stopping them from making kids that don't have much sense.
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Old 08-24-2009, 08:22 PM   #7
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I generally like Tarentino.... so I'll probably see it eventually... did you feel it is a big screen must see or acceptable on DVD in the privacy of your living room?
It's not really a comedy per se. Certainly there are some very funny moments, but I wouldn't call it a comedy. Tarentino is hard to pigeon-hole. It's one of the things that make his movies good.

I think you would still enjoy on your tv at home. But I didn't feel cheated to have seen it at the theatre.
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Old 08-24-2009, 08:51 PM   #8
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You are wrong. Some folks just don't have much sense.


And there's nothing stopping them from making kids that don't have much sense.
Olde Obsservation: You need a permit to have a dog, but they let anyone have a human child.

but, don't you need some kind of permit to run a movie theater? And don't they have to prevent underage people seeing adult movies? I guess the classification wasn't quite strict enough, but
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Old 08-25-2009, 07:46 AM   #9
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If they're accompanied by a parent, kids can walk into anything except NC-17 (x-rated.) I've known several people who felt that their not-infant kids were young enough that R-rated movies were "over their head" anyway and thus completely safe.
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Old 08-25-2009, 07:51 AM   #10
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I've watched r-rated movies with my nieces. The eldest was just about old enough (her parents are very liberal: as long as there is no sexual violence, or realistic violence they let her watch what she likes) and the youngest it really did just go over her head. They were 9 and 6 respectively when they watched Kill Bill. Two more well adjusted kids you cuoldn't hope to meet.
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Old 08-25-2009, 07:57 AM   #11
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It does depend on the kid as well. My 11-year-old stepdaughter couldn't watch that movie (Kill Bill, not Inglourious Basterds) without crying and having nightmares for weeks.
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Old 08-25-2009, 09:59 AM   #12
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*nods* yah. Most parents know what films their little-uns will be freaked out by and what they will take in their stride.


The only thing I ever recall freaking my eldest niece out was actually a nature documentary. Though she loves anything to do with nature; this showed a spider hunting and catching its prey. She had spider nightmares for weeks. Kill Bill, however, did nothing :P
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Old 08-25-2009, 11:31 AM   #13
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There was a 6-year-old kid next to me when I went to see District 9.

I don't care who you are, there's no way that kid should have been seeing that movie.
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Old 08-25-2009, 11:51 AM   #14
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For some reason I was confusing Valkrie with this one.

Seems like I keep telling myself I am going to see it.

wow I'm behind.
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Old 08-25-2009, 12:34 PM   #15
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There are different kinds of R...

i.e. the difference between jiggling boobies for three seconds, and things like psychological torture and graphic medical experiments, etc.
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