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[Vector]

>_>

Decided to go with some Basterds, just for the sake of contrariosity.  So far it's okay.  I haven't laughed once, though.

[Xantalos]

>_>

Decided to go with some Basterds, just for the sake of contrariosity.  So far it's okay.  I haven't laughed once, though.

Yeah, not really a laughing movie, apart from

Spoiler: DONT LOOK (click to show/hide)

Swiss Cheese Hitler

[Max White]

>_>

Decided to go with some Basterds, just for the sake of contrariosity.  So far it's okay.  I haven't laughed once, though.

Were you under the impression it was meant to be a funny movie? It is not. Heck, the Basterds themselves are just a side plot.

[Xantalos]

>_>

Decided to go with some Basterds, just for the sake of contrariosity.  So far it's okay.  I haven't laughed once, though.

Were you under the impression it was meant to be a funny movie? It is not. Heck, the Basterds themselves are just a side plot.

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And if they'd never interfered, nobody would have died!

[Vector]

Yeah, for some reason my father was all "oh, it's so hilarious!"

Look, I got the explicit reference to Downfall and all the milk-drinking is frankly kind of silly, but I'm having trouble feeling very entertained.  On the other hand, the tension did a good job of wiping the slate clean, so there's that.

Also I really don't like Christopher Walken or whoever.  Not his role.  I just can't stand watching that particular actor, and I hate listening to him talk, which is a real pity.

[Putnam]

>_>

Decided to go with some Basterds, just for the sake of contrariosity.  So far it's okay.  I haven't laughed once, though.

Yeah, not really a laughing movie, apart from

Spoiler: DONT LOOK (click to show/hide)

Swiss Cheese Hitler

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Oh, that was funny? I'd like to remind you that the Nazis were doing the exact same thing as you with that movie they were watching at the time.

[Vector]

Other question, I guess: is Kill Bill funny?  Or is it just another revenge flick?

[Sirus]

Eh. Mostly a revenge flick. Kinda funny in it's own way, but in a similar fashion to Basterds.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Kill Bill is very funny. It continues the extremely recognizable brand of Tarantino humor that Pulp Fiction started.

You'll like Kill Bill. I hated Inglorious Basterds when I first saw it, but it grew on me eventually.

[Solifuge]

Inglorious Basterds was a very strange film for me. I liked it well enough, but I still don't know how I feel about it. I like ridiculousness that takes itself seriously, and there's a lot of that in the movie. It's weird how it swings between stupid-silly and grim drama, though. Makes the story feels off-kilter, like it never really settles. Like I said, I still don't know how I feel about it. But maybe there's something to be said for being able to do that?

EDIT: I enjoyed Kill Bill, but the humor is still metahumor... over-the-top stuff that portrays itself seriously, but is ridiculous. It meshes together with the seriousness a bit better, though. Less lambasting, and more telling a story for the sake of telling a story.

[Max White]

Other question, I guess: is Kill Bill funny?  Or is it just another revenge flick?

Kill Bill is funny as a parody of anime and martial arts movies. If you can see the humor in somebody having their arm chopped clean off in a single swing and about 50 liters of blood gushing out in a fountain, it is funny. Some people actually laugh at just how over the top and bizarre it constantly is, but if that doesn't appeal to you then no, it is not funny.

[Pnx]

It all sort of depends on what you find funny.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Regardless as to if it is funny or not, Kill Bill is an excellent film. I think I actually might like it more than Pulp Fiction, and I really like Pulp Fiction.

[Vector]

See, I laughed my head off when they kept on pegging that one corpse in Django Unchained.  But I feel like these movies are things that should really be enjoyed in a big audience, somehow.  They aren't made to be watched alone.

I actually liked Django Unchained a lot, because it was horrible.  It contained the things I most like in movies, to an extent slightly more than I wanted.  I didn't want that much human terribleness (Leonardo DiCaprio was, frankly, a bit more than I could handle), and I didn't want that much ridiculous stuff.  But that's what I got, and somehow the very fact that I was like "whoa, I don't want any more of that" was exactly what made it so satisfying.

Well, we'll see.

[Sirus]

I don't think that corpse was a corpse...

Maybe it was, it's been a few months since I saw it.