I saw both Inglorious Bastards & GI Joe this weekend. GI Joe was far better flick. Shocked me.

See, I loved Inglorious Basterds, but if anyone was going in thinking it was an action movie (which is kinda how they are marketing it), or, dear lord, a history lesson, they would be sorely disappointed.

Not that I'm saying that's what you were expecting omnis, but the film was definitely heavy on the talky meat, subtitled division. However, Christoph Waltz alone was worth the price of admission and time spent, IMO.

Yeah, I'm with Frank on Inglorious Basterds. I thought it was hilarious and awesome. What a hoot.

I thought there were some very funny moments. and no, I wasn't expecting a history lesson by any stretch of the imagination. I also watch a fair amount of foreign flicks, so subtitles don't bother me in the least. The Brad Pitt scenes were some of the best. And I would agree Waltz did a great job.

It just was kind of on the blah side. There were great moments. But you need to string the great moments together tighter, or have more of them, to make a great movie. Most of the flick I was thinking "should I go pee now? Nah, it's GOTTA get better soon". And, for the most part, it didn't. The end was great! (I don't want to give it away), but I really feel that it needed a LOT more editing. I'm guessing QT had director cut deal.

I'm guessing QT had director cut deal.

QT won't let anyone score his movies because that's giving up too much creative control. I'm pretty sure what you see is as close to what was in his head as his creativity could manage.

I've actually heard there was a lot more shot that wasn't in the film, such as backstories for some of the other Basterds, a la the Hugo Stiglitz digression, and more to make it clear why every time a German figured out Bridget was really a spy they lost their shit, including Landa.

I'm hoping some of that makes the DVD.

See, for me, more back stories would have been great! Like what was up with the noose burn on Brad Pitt? The Hugo flashback was great. That section cutting to the forest, backstory, cutting to Hitler meeting, back to the forest, etc. That scene was great. But the bulk of the film, the actual scenes just went on way too long. :: yawn ::

Not for me. I thought the whole thing was fantastic from beginning to end.

Haaaaa.

So I've decided to write a letter about my experience with Oak Tree Mazda rather than e-mail since it's more formal (my co-worker suggested including my business card, which I think is a neat trick to make me look all professional). I tried to track down the address of the Del Grande Dealer Group, but the Internet assigned several different addresses because of the various dealerships. One address popped up in a couple different places, but I wanted to make sure it was the right one.

I called the number given, and a woman answered with "Capitol Mazda, how may I direct your call?"

Aaah. I told her I was trying to reach the people above her, the Del Grande Dealer Group. It took her a few seconds to grok what I meant, but then she got it and started to give me the address for the business office.

"Who are you trying to reach?" she said. "The owner?"

"Yeah," I said. "I want to talk about my experience at one of the dealerships."

"It depends on which one, because if it was here, the general manager is co-owner."

"Oh, no, it was Oak Tree Mazda," I said.

"Ooooooh," she said knowingly! Haaaa ha ha ha. "You didn't get this from me. Send it to the business office. And the president is Shaun Del Grande, and Shaun is spelled S-H-A-U-N. And the zip code is 95136."

Methinks this is not the first time someone has complained about Oak Tree Mazda?

Ahh. I like it when the end of the day brings relaxing news with it, don'tcha?

My parents left my sister's base area about 30 seconds before it got hit in the recent fire exchange. And in a closed car, with the a/c on, they couldn't hear the alarms.

Yay.

Oh, omnis, per another interview, re the next scar, Aldo had been fighting in similar basterd fashion against the KKK back in the states. So either he went after them for an attempted lynching, or they caught up with him at some point after he'd already decided to go after them. Another bit of backstory that never made it to the theaters (I'm not sure if it was ever filmed or not).