# Inglourious Basterds trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431 "2009-02-11T21:53:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/21 "2009-02-12T10:12:46Z")
Ah forgive me - as it’s late, I didn’t mean to imply that Sandler was supposed to have Pitt’s Role, but I can see now how it looks that way. It’s been a long night for me. But yes, you are correct. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/22 "2009-02-12T11:26:42Z")
[Sounds repulsive](http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40092). ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/23 "2009-02-12T11:46:31Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Am I the only one who sees the glaring flaw in this trailer? Tarantino expects us to buy B.J Novak, Eli Roth and Samm Levine as bad-ass, Nazi killing basterds? These guys average about 5’5" and 145 pounds. I could take them all on at once. It doesn’t seem that Tarantino intends this as some kind of in-joke at all. I think it’s going to totally kill the movie. They should be all hulks? Little guys with guns are as deadly as big guys with guys. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/24 "2009-02-12T11:59:50Z")
guys with guys? **guns** ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/25 "2009-02-12T12:21:12Z")
> [@Tarwater](#): > > What case would that be? I was referencing the movie _Yojimbo_. Kurosawa based it on a Dashiell Hammett story; later it was remade as a great Clint Eastwood western, _A Fistful of Dollars_; remade a few times in low-budget form (e.g., _The Sword and the Sorceress_, starring, more or less, David Carradine); more recently remade as _Last Man Standing_ with Bruce Willis, and coming back full-circle to be a lot closer to the original Hammett story. So, remakes aren’t all bad. (And it sounds like _Inglourious Basterds_ isn’t a close remake of _Inglorious Bastards_ after all.) In _Jackie Brown_, Tarantino showed that he could do a grown-up movie, with real dialogue. I’d like to see him do that again. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/26 "2009-02-12T14:08:20Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Am I the only one who sees the glaring flaw in this trailer? Tarantino expects us to buy B.J Novak, Eli Roth and Samm Levine as bad-ass, Nazi killing basterds? These guys average about 5’5" and 145 pounds. I could take them all on at once. It doesn’t seem that Tarantino intends this as some kind of in-joke at all. I think it’s going to totally kill the movie. I don’t know, it seems like that type of thing was done on purpose. Aren’t the guys supposed to be dressed as civilians when they’re out and about? If they all looked like hulking, soldier types, that’s the type of thing that would draw attention from an occupying army. Who’s gonna be scared of Samm Levine? No one, until they find out that he’s trained to kill. All conjecture on my part, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/27 "2009-02-12T14:56:20Z")
From what I’ve read, the casting of small guys is intentional. QT didn’t want hulks, he wanted the heroes to be nerdy Jewish kids who transform into killing machines. They’re _supposed_ to look wimpy. That’s the point. This is partially a kind of geeky Jew fantasy fulfilment. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/28 "2009-02-12T15:36:22Z")
It isn’t \*all \*fantasy fulfillment. There’s this guy I used to play D&D with in high school… let’s just say he was nerdier than anyone in the movie; a bit too much of a nerd for the rest of us, which is saying something. Little guy, yarmulke, dopey grin. Anyway, we lost touch after graduation, and a couple of years later I found out that he had joined the _Mista’arvim_, a special-ops counter-terror unit that would operate undercover in the Territories. I bumped into him some time after that and he was still a nerd - but now he was a nerd who knew Krav Maga. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/29 "2009-02-12T15:52:09Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > Tarantino is like the guy you used to hang out with when you were 19. You’d get pissed and go to punk clubs and ogle chicks and go back to your place and get trashed some more and talk shit and play Doom and some old Black Flag records and it was a blast. And now you’re 40 and have a house and a wife and kids, and he’s still pumping gas and living at home but thinks you’ve sold out because you won’t hang out all night doing what was fun 20 years ago anymore. Yeah. If that guy had a buttload of money and hung out with really hot chicks all the time and got to do pretty much whatever he wanted to do. Aside from that he’s just like that pump jockey. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/30 "2009-02-12T20:08:26Z")
I’ve already read the great script, so how could I _Nazi_ this movie!!!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/31 "2009-02-12T23:05:20Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Am I the only one who sees the glaring flaw in this trailer? Tarantino expects us to buy B.J Novak, Eli Roth and Samm Levine as bad-ass, Nazi killing basterds? These guys average about 5’5" and 145 pounds. I could take them all on at once. It doesn’t seem that Tarantino intends this as some kind of in-joke at all. I think it’s going to totally kill the movie. Truly a bizarre paragraph. You realize hand-to-hand combat has been a last resort in war for hundreds of years, don’t you? If anything, smaller guys are smaller targets, need less food, and generally have better endurance. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/32 "2009-02-12T23:23:26Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Truly a bizarre paragraph. You realize hand-to-hand combat has been a last resort in war for hundreds of years, don’t you? If anything, smaller guys are smaller targets, need less food, and generally have better endurance. Did you watch the trailer? QT isn’t portraying these guys as tactically savvy soldiers. They aren’t executing flawless maneuvers and getting into pitched range battles with the enemy. They are getting into bar fights. Firing M60s from the hip while running indoors. Bashing Nazi heads into tables and assaulting people with baseball bats. If you think any of this film is going to resemble an Audie Murphy movie and have anything resembling realistic war-making then you have never seen a Tarantino film. You _know_ he’s going to have a ton of outlandish, silly, bloody hand-to-hand combat and quasi-martial arts stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/33 "2009-02-13T00:09:16Z")
So did you hate Kill Bill because you could totally kick Uma Thurman’s ass? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/34 "2009-05-21T21:58:45Z")
[The reviews](http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/05/friend_foe.php) are coming in… ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/35 "2009-05-21T22:13:09Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > So did you hate Kill Bill because you could totally kick Uma Thurman’s ass? I bet he couldn’t kick Uma Thurman’s ass. I think it looks awesome and it’s obvious the spelling is intentional to convey that they are kind of illiterate rednecks. I agree that Brad Pitt is wasted on this role and this role is wasted on him. I don’t think Chris Cooper would’ve been better though. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/36 "2009-05-21T22:35:16Z")
I’m so dragging my girlfriend to see this. If she doesn’t want to go, that’s fine by me. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/37 "2009-05-26T00:35:10Z")
What do you know? The film won [Best Actor](http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hS6-Jrpb3ZYBVUhwfQ224-urtVwQ) at Cannes. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/38 "2009-08-14T21:45:10Z")
A [really interesting review](http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/08/jew_dogs.php) of the film, very thoughtful written and profoundly negative, with only mild spoilers (nothing that isn’t given away by the trailer). ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/39 "2009-08-14T23:10:32Z")
I think Brad Pitt is a pretty good actor. I could buy him as a tough guy in Fight Club just as well as I could buy him as an idiot in Burn After Reading. Odesio ---
**Author:** ![MissIntent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@MissIntent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissIntent)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431/40 "2009-08-14T23:59:08Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Anyway, it looks awesome. I’m wondering, though: what about the soundtrack? The wikipedia page for the film has the sound track listed if you’re interested. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inglourious-basterds-trailer/485431.md?page=3)