i give it a 3.5/5 (voted 4). It is far better than deathproof.
the film
is disappointing, but mainly due to the trailer and even the title being so misleading as to completely throw your expectations in the wrong directions.
the basterds are hardly in it at all. hopefully that little spoiler will improve your enjoyment.
while there are some similarities with kill bill (the chapters and some of the score is directly lifted from it), this is NOT an action film. The story is pretty straightforward. I think the intent was clear, but i guess it went on for far too long (they chopped it DOWN to close to 2.5 hours). Instead of editing/removing the atmospheric long drawn out scenes with tarantino's brand of convoluted yet elegantly effective and at times pretty bloody funny dialogue, they chose to get rid of the basterds' stories and replace them with tiny flash gags which are nice but gone before you realise it. With the film title and trailer focusing on this group entirely, i can already see that this will be the cause of the biggest complaints of the film. Had it been called "Operation Kino" or even gone with its original title "Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France", most of the inevitable negative reactions would have been avoided.
But aside from this, I can see myself easily enjoying this more and more with subsequent viewings. The dialogue is great, that is what i could understand of it. I'm glad more than half the film is not in english and subtitled because the accents were very difficult to understand. It might have been the old theatre I was in, cuz some on the lower levels were catching things we in the upper ones were missing.
Not much action, but what there is is both realistic AND humourously gory. I felt disturbed at the audience being so thrilled by such graphic violence, and had it not been a fantasy I would probably have been offended by it.
It's a good film in many ways, just forget the title and trailer and you'll enjoy it.
Do you like Q&A's? They've never done much for me personally other than allowing me to be in close proximity with a celebrity. The audience members don't usually come up with relevant/interesting questions. In fact some of the questions are downright embarrassing. I'd rather watch a filmed/edited interview... or in this case I'd rather watch one of my bowel movements floating in the toilet.
He only introduced two of the stars and the movie at the start. No Q&A tonight.
I've lost the excitement I used to feel for Tarantino. I watched half of Deathproof and switched off. I simply cannot watch a man suck his own dick and parody himself like that. Planet Terror was so much more enjoyable for me.
Yeah deathproof is his weakest work for sure, although i do love the title.
Though I hate to run with the masses, or sound predictable in any way, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction were brilliant. The rest were either good, or just plain...meh. But definitely not masterpieces.
Personally, i take jackie brown over all his other stuff. More info in the tarantino poll thread.
I do however love some of the other films he's written such as True Romance, Natural Born Killers (flawed but still a great watch), and of course From Dusk Till Dawn.
Yeah they're great fun, but the first two of those are based on different parts of the same story. I really want to find a copy of that original script!
The very fact that he's teamed up with the Eli Roth irritates me even further. This guy seriously lacks any kind of talent imo.
I don't even know who he is.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
Huckabees the one time I was lucky to see a screening with him in attendance. 
