Nah, but really - the movie would have been fucking retarded (sort of cool, but fucking retarded) if it was just Donnie Donnowitz beating the shit out of Nazis with a baseball bat.
How much cool shit was there in this movie?
- Hans Landa was an incredible, awesome movie villain. The part at the beginning was set up really well, that first scene with Shoshanna running off was vivid and memorable, him strangling you know who was nuts. The scene with Hans and Shoshanna eating Strudel?
- the whole set up with Archie Hicox and them drinking in the German tavern? That was great too...nice slow build up until the crazy conclusion of that scene.
- I really liked the way the movie switched paces (hallmark of Tarantino) - humor, violence, drama, long drawn out diologue, psychotic bursts of violence - it was all there.
- the Shoshanna/projectionist/Zoller triangle was interesting, Shoshanna was cute, plus it showed that the Nazis are all dirty rapists at heart.
- I don't want to ruin a lot of the other good stuff.
Anyways, it's Tarantino, dude, it's not Bullet in the Head, a straight up action movie - I like that shit too - but it's the full experience, the build up and the pay-off. Cradle the balls (pacing that gives the actors time to develop their characters), stroke the shaft (film technique/creative shooting and editing) , work the pipe (rich and unique dialogue), swallow the gravy (grindhouse-sensibility crazy violent/funny payoff). You need all 4!
St00n