Another cat yanked out of the bag

Rating: 8/10 (29 August 2009)

A few thoughts:
-- Christoph Waltz totally steals this movie, right up until the final scene where's he's squealing like a pig. He better get an Oscar nod.
-- I kept thinking, Tarantino hasn't shown a woman's foot in this movie yet. And then came the shoe scene in the cinema office.
-- QT movies are a lot like sex. Scenes build and build and build. And then all hell breaks loose in a matter of seconds.
-- The scene in the tavern with two tables full of Nazis (or those disguised as Nazis) is absolutely brilliant sustained tension. This is a talented filmmaker at the top of his game.
-- You can tell QT makes his movies to entertain himself. You, the audience, are just voyeurs. It's like he says, "Here, you can watch it. I'm through with it now." Another director who makes movies the same way is John Waters.
-- By the final minutes, after two and a half hours, the audience is saying, you better pay off QT. Seriously, we expect a major scene. Don't leave us with some BS ironic ending. We want to see major nasties on Nazies.
-- Oh, and blow stuff up.
-- He totally delivers.