Has Inglourious faded in appeal with anyone since first viewing?
The genuinely good scenes and suspenseful, slow building dialogue are still the best I’ve ever seen, particularly the opening scene, the banquet scene, the Mexican standoff and pretty much every time Waltz is on screen. However, a lot of the film feels cheesy now, particularly Brad Pitt’s whole “Naazi” schpeal, the bear Jew (I hate Eli Roth on a cellular level) and the revisionist "Nazi slaughter” fantasy. It was so satisfying the first time I saw it but upon repeated viewings it comes across as very over the top and trying too hard. Overall, still one of his best and in my top 3 Tarantino, but it has been replaced by Django as runner up to Pulp. Django’s culminating blood bath didn’t take itself as seriously which I think is perhaps why it doesn’t feel as heavy handed.
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