Reviews

While it almost seems too much of the good stuff to have two lengthy scenes of dialogue-driven, slow-burning build-ups to death and destruction, the opening scene and the tavern scene are still both very, very entertaining.

Bad times at El Royale looks like an awesome movie from the trailer but people feel like its a Tarantino movie and that's a disgrace and an insult to the filmmakers behind the movie.

It's unclear what, if anything, Tarantino understands about pre-WWII German cinema and WWII Goebbels propaganda, but since his movie doesn't even take place in any form of reality, it doesn't matter to me.

If you put this next to movies like Pulp Fiction, with famous scenes like Ezekiel 25:17 and "A Royale with Cheese" or even in Tarantino's first work, Reservoir Dogs with the tip scene it just doesn't compare.

What I do feel with Tarantino's films is that they follow, by and large, a set formula: in Django Unchained, we had the plantation-owners and slave-traders as the enemy; here, the Nazis are the enemy; and there seems to be a similar formulaic approach to most of his films.

Quentin obliviously thinks his audience is inattentive as text labels for the name of key Nazis are inserted into the film with an arrow pointing at the correct actor...just in case we weren't paying attention to who the Nazis were.

I've actually hesitated between Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds as my second favorite Tarantino film for a long time, but ultimately I think the latter is Tarantino's best recently made film.

It's a bit immature. Which is a shame, because parts of it really are brilliant. I think perhaps Tarantino needs to co-write with someone who can rein him in a bit.

...in the midst of this Nazi-killing massacre and extreme violence hides a strikingly brilliant film.

[i]Inglourious Basterds[/i] could have been a great movie, could have been his masterpiece, it had all the right ingredients but it just wasn't put together right.