Last night I went with a friend to see Inglorious Basterds, and as a veteran of many a Tarantino film, it was pretty much exactly what I expected it to be. Also predictable was the reaction of those right bloggers with an interest in reviving the aesthetics of Soviet Realism;Debbie Schlussel, for instance, hastened to declare it her Movie of the Year. But if the sight of skulls being cracked like coconuts thrilled her (“it’s good against evil. And it’s thoroughly satisfying. I wish they showed even more…the treatment [the Germans] got in this movie is the same way we should treat all of our enemies, but simply don’t have the guts to do so”), at the same time it made her sad to think of all the heads that would go cinematically unbashed (“no-one in Hollywood has the guts to do an “Inglorious Basterds” with Americans fighting our current enemy: Muslim invaders who’ve also replaced their friends, the Nazis, as the thugs upon Europe”).
What I didn’t anticipate was the way the film would inspire certain bloggers to fashion their own Louisville Sluggers out of dense, straight-grained stupidity, and start swinging wildly at the heads of their own readers. Dr. Melissa Clothier, the Opinin’ Osteopath, took several particularly vicious cuts the instant I clicked this link from Roy’splace.
Inglourious Bastards might be Quentin Tarantino’s best movie so far. As expected, it’s full of gruesome violence, gratuitous splattering blood, and revenge fantasies.
To quote Crow T. Robot: “Whatever tugs at your bobber, little buddy.”
Tarantino has some messages for everyone though and they aren’t politically correct…Here are some of the lessons from the movie:
This should do wonders for our national security posture.
1. Enhanced Interrogation works: The reason William Wallace from Braveheart fame was so remarkable was because he didn’t break.
He also didn’t win.
Nearly everyone, eventually breaks.
Unless they’re played by Mel Gibson. Then they go gloriously to their death, blaming the Jews and calling Robert the Bruce “Sugar Tits.”
When one gets a bad guy to spill the beans, good guys get saved. It ain’t pretty. But sleep deprivation, psychological discomfort, and in Tarantino’s case, a public head bashing are very effective means of extracting information.
Yes, people who’ve been driven to a psychotic episode by sleep deprivation, then had their skull fractured by a baseball bat are frequently a font of useful information. I’m pretty sure this is how Roger Ailes preps Glenn Beck before each show.
2. There are bad guys.
That is a fresh slant.
Now, in this politically correct world, only the Nazis may be used as bad guys. Don’t mention the barbary of Native Americans or current slave traders, or Hugo Chavez.
Okay, I admit it, I never knew that Native Americans were infested with Saracens. No wonder they were so grouchy.
Hell, don’t mention the barbaric acts of actual barbarians–the Barbary pirates.
And don’t talk about their barbacans, barbeques, or Barbarian Brothers movies on VHS.
These days, the only acceptable bad guy is of German extraction.
And it’s led cinema into a creative cul-de-sac. Aren’t we all just a little tired of watching Godzilla fight gigantic Nazi stormtroopers?
Actually…I’d probably go see that.
Anyone who is labeled “bad” is labeled Hitlerian.
For instance, Bryan Cranston’s character in Breaking Bad, and his plans to exterminate world Jewry by selling meth to Southwestern crackers.
For fun though, when you go see the movie, just put an Islamist in the place of the Nazi.
It’s almost as much fun as watching two girls go at it in a porn tape and putting yourself in the place of the pizza delivery boy. But I have to wonder just how much attention you’re paying to the film’s profound and complex message if you’re devoting most of your brain’s computing power to digitally replacing the Germans with Arabs. Oh well, I guess it doesn’t really matter, as long as you’re not doing itevery time a Nazi shows up on screen.
Every time. Just imagine a freedom hating terrorist biting it hard. It’s profoundly satisfying.
I hope her seat had a chance to air dry before the next screening.
If Tarantino were really that edgy, he’d have chosen a more relevant bad guy, but in these times, naming evil is passé.
It’s tough when producers are too timid to properly service your fetish. Snuff porn enthusiasts, for instance, have to make do with torture porn, and it’s weak tea indeed.
What made me love the movie most, though, didn’t occur on the screen. The packed theater that made my vengeance-loving heart glad.
NOTE TO DR. CLOTHIER’S PATIENTS: Ask her if she’s just returned from a matinee of Inglorious Basterds before allowing her to violently twist your neck.
Primal? Uncivilized? It’s pretty to think so.
Thanks, Hemingway.
So, while I’m still waiting for Quentin Tarantino to show some real courage and portray the monstrosity that is Islamofascism–the psychotic Muslim element who carry around Mein Kempf for moral encouragement–I’ll take what I can get. And right now, a movie where the bad guys get incinerated is profoundly satisfying.It’s nice to see the good guys win. It’s nice to see the bad guys suffer and die. I’m hoping that Inglourious Bastards starts a trend. Now, to choose a more timely enemy.P.S. Brad Pitt is hot. And the way he says “Nazis” makes me smile. I’m saying it that way from now on. Nat-zees.
UPDATE TO PATIENTS: If your chiropractor has suddenly started talking in a comically exaggerated Appalachian accent, consider rescheduling your appointment.
The moral equivalence crowd can shove their sanctimony up their collective ass. There are people right now who loved seeing Americans die in the World Trade Center. They relished it and still do. The Lockerbie bomber, Al Qaeda, the Taliban all glory in their death cult. No reasoning, no gentleness will change their black souls. Just as Nazis felt justified in their abject cruelty, so do the Islamofascists who carry out their modern mission of freedom killing violence.The only solution? Kill the killers.There is a reason America continues to fight this pesky foe.
Looking back on the carnage wrought by the Second World War, I believe we can best and most solemnly honor the memory of its victims by never forgetting the gosh darned peskiness of the Nazis.
It’s us or them. Let it be them.
Or let it be Lowenbrau.
By the way, to the liberals out there: Was World War II a revenge fantasy?
Crap, I meant to study for this! Um, I’m gonna say…False?
Because technically, the European theater wasn’t “our” war. I mean Germans didn’t attack us.
They just declared war on us.
And that war cost a lot of money.
Oh now you’re worried about how spendy an invasion can get?
I do not regret that America took the war to the terrorist murderers. A sense of moral outrage should determine foreign policy.
Unless Jimmy Carter is in the White House.
Barack Obama’s bland indifference to the people of Iran is telling. Should we go to war there?
I think we should let outrage decide. It’s got a level head.
That can be disputed. But what cannot be disputed is that Iran is a totalitarian, fascist regime that wants to exterminate a whole race of people. IT IS EVIL. To not be affronted by their disgusting philosophy and actions is to show indifference to innocent, freedom-loving people.
Let’s bomb the crap out of its freedom-loving people.
The left resisted efforts to get involved in WWII.
That’s why they supported the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, and were later accused of “premature anti-fascism.” Oh wait, sorry. You want the America Firsters — they’re in the Henry Regnery Memorial Ballroom and Bund next door.
They didn’t want to see the atrocities of Japan, Germany and Italy, especially, because it didn’t fit their never ending selfish narrative.
It’s true. Most leftists who saw Guernica in 1937 simply dismissed it as “that painting with the weird cow.”
Either freedom or tyranny is on the march. It is never static. And freedom must be bought or lost.
So freedom can be bought, lost, or marched on (but not in your socks, or you’ll get all staticky). Choose wisely.
Dr. Melissa has apparently received some remedial tutoring in the chronology of World War II, and has issued an update which is actually stupider than anything you’ve read so far. Feel free to click through and be dazzled, but I’ve got to go now and try to stuff my brain back in my skull.
Posted by scott on Friday, August 28th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
29 Responses to “Illiterate Basterds”
“1. Enhanced Interrogation works: The reason William Wallace from Braveheart fame was so remarkable was because he didn’t break.”
If Enhanced Interrogation works so well, why don’t they try it first on the mother fuckers who dreamt it up? Ya know, Cheney, Yoo, Ashcroft, Rummy, Bush and the rest.
“These days, the only acceptable bad guy is of German extraction.”
I think you can lump the Americans in with the Germans. The ones from the Bush Administration.
“I do not regret that America took the war to the terrorist murderers. A sense of moral outrage should determine foreign policy.”
How about that moral outrage determine the SOB’s who started torturing and are doing their best to undermine health care?
“Either freedom or tyranny is on the march. It is never static. And freedom must be bought or lost.”
Tyranny was on the march during the Bush/Cheney nightmare years. Freedom is trying like hell to come back now. All we have to do is give the repukes a taste of their own medicine. (Or maybe no medicine at all, ever. Since that’s what they want for the rest of us. Let them die a slow, painful, miserable death.)
If Enhanced Interrogation works so well, why don’t they try it first on the mother fuckers who dreamt it up? Ya know, Cheney, Yoo, Ashcroft, Rummy, Bush and the rest.
“These days, the only acceptable bad guy is of German extraction.”
I think you can lump the Americans in with the Germans. The ones from the Bush Administration.
“I do not regret that America took the war to the terrorist murderers. A sense of moral outrage should determine foreign policy.”
How about that moral outrage determine the SOB’s who started torturing and are doing their best to undermine health care?
“Either freedom or tyranny is on the march. It is never static. And freedom must be bought or lost.”
Tyranny was on the march during the Bush/Cheney nightmare years. Freedom is trying like hell to come back now. All we have to do is give the repukes a taste of their own medicine. (Or maybe no medicine at all, ever. Since that’s what they want for the rest of us. Let them die a slow, painful, miserable death.)
“I’m pretty sure this is how Roger Ailes preps Glenn Beck before each show.”
One can only HOPE so.
One can only HOPE so.
Very funny essay!
The sentence clause of, “This isn’t politically correct, but…” is often followed by some racist, misogynist, misathropic, etc. drivel that isn’t “edgy” so much as it is very old, very familiar, very tiresome, and not new at all.
As for Tarantino, I think he’s squandering what at least appeared to be great talent – all on the lowest common denominators. Which can be a fun thing or a boring, old hat thing, depending on your cinematic predilections.
Time for the popcorn!
The sentence clause of, “This isn’t politically correct, but…” is often followed by some racist, misogynist, misathropic, etc. drivel that isn’t “edgy” so much as it is very old, very familiar, very tiresome, and not new at all.
As for Tarantino, I think he’s squandering what at least appeared to be great talent – all on the lowest common denominators. Which can be a fun thing or a boring, old hat thing, depending on your cinematic predilections.
Time for the popcorn!
The left resisted efforts to get involved in WWII.
Yes, that’s why we blacklisted that fascist bastard Woody Guthrie with all his anti-German songs and stuff. You know, when he wasn’t writing commie stuff about how cool dams are.
What? It’s no more garbled a view of history than Dr Kill ‘Em All But Make Sure The Muslims Go First has.
Yes, that’s why we blacklisted that fascist bastard Woody Guthrie with all his anti-German songs and stuff. You know, when he wasn’t writing commie stuff about how cool dams are.
What? It’s no more garbled a view of history than Dr Kill ‘Em All But Make Sure The Muslims Go First has.
“I do not regret that America took the war to the terrorist murderers. A sense of moral outrage should determine foreign policy.”
Could the sense of moral outrage at least determine who the terrorist murderers are before determining foreign policy?
Could the sense of moral outrage at least determine who the terrorist murderers are before determining foreign policy?
Could the sense of moral outrage at least determine who the terrorist murderers are before determining foreign policy?
Ah, a mild plea for sanity. I don’t think that’s too much to ask, but then, there’s a reason I never voted for Bush.
(My first reaction, snort-tea-out-my-nose laughter. Well played, Dorothy.)
Ah, a mild plea for sanity. I don’t think that’s too much to ask, but then, there’s a reason I never voted for Bush.
(My first reaction, snort-tea-out-my-nose laughter. Well played, Dorothy.)
I’m trying to think of a context in which you’d be imitating Brad Pitt saying “Nat-zees”, and, outside of a discussion of the movie, I can’t think of any. It’s been 15 years since “Pulp Fiction” came out, and I STILL can’t think of a way to work “Royale with cheeze” into a conversation, much as I’d like to.
I guess what I’m saying is, Melissa’s an idiot.
I guess what I’m saying is, Melissa’s an idiot.
But what cannot be disputed is that Iran is a totalitarian,
True.
fascist
False. Theocracy and fascism are different things. Iran is more democratic than any fascist state.
regime that wants to exterminate a whole race of people.
Er, which people? Do you mean Jews? I bet you do. Those Iranians sure want to exterminate Jews, right? Which is why the Constitution of Iran explicitly protects their rights as equal to that of Muslims, and… oh, fuck it.
True.
fascist
False. Theocracy and fascism are different things. Iran is more democratic than any fascist state.
regime that wants to exterminate a whole race of people.
Er, which people? Do you mean Jews? I bet you do. Those Iranians sure want to exterminate Jews, right? Which is why the Constitution of Iran explicitly protects their rights as equal to that of Muslims, and… oh, fuck it.
She’s right, you know.
What? Brad Pitt IS hot.
I don’t know about all the rest of that crap though.
What? Brad Pitt IS hot.
I don’t know about all the rest of that crap though.
Why don’t fucking shit sacks realize it’s a FUCKING WORK OF FICTION! It doesn’t “teach” us anything because it’s NOT FUCKING REAL!
Messy Cloth-ear schreibt:
“The left resisted efforts to get involved in WWII.”
In fact, that well-known leftist, Prescott Bush, continued his financial dealings with the Nazis even after the declaration of war.
How does so much stupid not collapse into a singularity and remove itself from the observable universe?
“The left resisted efforts to get involved in WWII.”
In fact, that well-known leftist, Prescott Bush, continued his financial dealings with the Nazis even after the declaration of war.
How does so much stupid not collapse into a singularity and remove itself from the observable universe?
Y’know, Scott, I always do enjoy your writing. Even when I’m busting your chops about it. And considering the year (okay, the nearly THIRTY-NINE years…) I’ve had… I was, remarkably enough, smiling and chortling, activities that are none too common around here, as I read through your perfect retorts/corrections to this shit-for-brains’ blathering.
I really was having fun.
……
And then…
{Cue Darth Cheney basement organ riffs and batwings fluttering, the occasional shriek of a sacrificial sorority girl…}
And then, you had to do THIS TO ME:
“I hope her seat had a chance to air dry before the next screening.”
I’ll be scraping my own brains off the ceiling for WEEKS, thanks to you. Not to mention, having to sew my own woman-suit back together, as I am currently overtaken by the desire to rip my own skin off of my body out of pure-dee horror and REVULSION,ALL BECAUSE OF THAT ONE SENTENCE OF HORRIFIC IMAGERY, THE LIKES OF WHICH EVEN ROB ZOMBIE SODOMIZING ED WOOD COULD NOT REPLICATE.
And Mentis?
Yes.
There’s GOT to be a law of physics pertaining to little miniature cranial black holes of that nature, somewhere. Schrodinger’s cat would take a big, steaming dump on that sentence AND the hypocritical G-force-9 ignorance behind it.
One other thought, SCOTT, you who have splattered what was left of my opiate-poisoned brain alllll over the good furniture:
“UPDATE TO PATIENTS: If your chiropractor has suddenly started talking in a comically exaggerated Appalachian accent, consider rescheduling your appointment.”
Without wasting too much bandwidth, IF ANYONE OUT THERE IS CONTEMPLATING SEEKING THE SERVICES OF A CHIROPRACTOR, PLEASE FIRST SEEK THE ADVICE AND EXAMINATION OF A SPINE SURGEON/ORTHOPEDIC SPECIALIST, and secondly, if you have any other questions about chiropractors, CONTACT YOUR RANTY OL’ AUNTY ANNTI. Y’all know where to find me. Ask me anything, ’cause y’all KNOW where I’ve been. Oh, and “Osteopaths”? Yeah, they’re not M.D.s. They can write scripts, but they didn’t go to medical school. Made the mistake of going to one in Miami, when I was running outta money and couldn’t find a gig, and talk about CLUELESS. There really ought to be a “truth in advertising” law about those D.O. “doctors,” nurse-practitioners who call themselves “doctors,” and chiropractors. Actually, except in rural/impoverished areas where they can’t GET actual M.D.s & R.N.s, they oughta have to serve as MEDICAL ASSISTANTS to the REAL DOCTORS.
What? Me? Soap box? Did I do that? So sorry. And please don’t make a Steve Erkel joke there, Bill, I really wasn’t going for that imagery.
Anyway, if ANYBODY, anywhere, FOR ANY REASON, allows this BATSHIT-CRAZY, SEXUALLY-REPRESSED, BONDAGE-OBSESSED, CARNAGE-CRAVING SOCIOPATHIC PSYCHO-CUNT TO CALL HERSELF A“DOCTOR,”, they, too, OUGHT TO BE SUED TO WITHIN AN INCH OF THEIR LIVES AND PUT INTO A NON-CLUB-FED PRISON. Angola State Pen, the worst of the worst, would be a great place to start, considering how many unwitting patients she’s undoubtedly mangled and damaged FOR LIFE with her UTTER AND COMPLETE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, INTELLECT, OR EDUCATION. Y’know, along with her being a FLAMING FUCKING FUCKTARD FROM HELL!!!!!!!!!
Sorry. But a batshit-crazy whore who calls herself a “doctor” when she ISN’T ONE, and then to spew out her SADO-MASOCHISTIC WET DREAMS AS WHAT SHE THINKS SHOULD BE FOREIGN POLICY — dooooooood, that’s just EVIL OVERLOAD. On SO many levels.
It hurts. My fucking HAIR hurts from reading this and then contemplating the ACTUAL harm that she’s doing out there in the world, not just the grammatical, logistical and rhetorical harm that she’s doing to the universe at large.
OH, the pain just keeps coming…
“The Lockerbie bomber, Al Qaeda, the Taliban all glory in their death cult.”
Okay, Bill? D.? Mentis? Mary C? Preznit? Anybody brave enough to go shove a hand mirror up — in front of Melissa’s face — I’ll cook you dinner for a month, and throw in a batch of homemade cookies. And no, that’s not a THREAT, that’s A REWARD, dammit. Who’s feeling brave enough to get near that raving, dripping wad of SKANK and illustrate the concept of motes/beams/eyes, etc.?
Okay, last hissy-fit of the night, then I really will try to shut the hell up:
“And freedom must be bought or lost.”
So, if that’s not a typo, then THAT’S how Darth Cheney explains GUTTING the budget of the U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers’ FOR FIVE FUCKING YEARS, so that NONE of the levees in this country were properly maintained, which explains not only KATRINA (gotta save money for the war to come, so fuck the locals and have some fun, watchin’ ‘em drown in their own homes!), but also all of the floods through the Ohio River Valley, the Tennessee River Valley and ALLLLLLL the way up and down the Mississippi that have gone on SINCE THESE PUDFUCKERS TOOK OFFICE?
Hey, if this whore can extrapolate “foreign policy” out of Pitt’s continued LOUSY ACTING and Tarantino’s eternal wank-fests, I can find SOME kind of (skewed/clusterfucked/utterly clinically-insane) “meaning” in THIS bitch’s idiotic ramblings, can’t I?
Sweet dreams, y’all.
Except Scott.
You are SOOOOOOO gonna owe me for that theatre-seat imagery. I’ll send you the bill from the neurosurgeon. TO START.
I really was having fun.
……
And then…
{Cue Darth Cheney basement organ riffs and batwings fluttering, the occasional shriek of a sacrificial sorority girl…}
And then, you had to do THIS TO ME:
“I hope her seat had a chance to air dry before the next screening.”
I’ll be scraping my own brains off the ceiling for WEEKS, thanks to you. Not to mention, having to sew my own woman-suit back together, as I am currently overtaken by the desire to rip my own skin off of my body out of pure-dee horror and REVULSION,ALL BECAUSE OF THAT ONE SENTENCE OF HORRIFIC IMAGERY, THE LIKES OF WHICH EVEN ROB ZOMBIE SODOMIZING ED WOOD COULD NOT REPLICATE.
And Mentis?
Yes.
There’s GOT to be a law of physics pertaining to little miniature cranial black holes of that nature, somewhere. Schrodinger’s cat would take a big, steaming dump on that sentence AND the hypocritical G-force-9 ignorance behind it.
One other thought, SCOTT, you who have splattered what was left of my opiate-poisoned brain alllll over the good furniture:
“UPDATE TO PATIENTS: If your chiropractor has suddenly started talking in a comically exaggerated Appalachian accent, consider rescheduling your appointment.”
Without wasting too much bandwidth, IF ANYONE OUT THERE IS CONTEMPLATING SEEKING THE SERVICES OF A CHIROPRACTOR, PLEASE FIRST SEEK THE ADVICE AND EXAMINATION OF A SPINE SURGEON/ORTHOPEDIC SPECIALIST, and secondly, if you have any other questions about chiropractors, CONTACT YOUR RANTY OL’ AUNTY ANNTI. Y’all know where to find me. Ask me anything, ’cause y’all KNOW where I’ve been. Oh, and “Osteopaths”? Yeah, they’re not M.D.s. They can write scripts, but they didn’t go to medical school. Made the mistake of going to one in Miami, when I was running outta money and couldn’t find a gig, and talk about CLUELESS. There really ought to be a “truth in advertising” law about those D.O. “doctors,” nurse-practitioners who call themselves “doctors,” and chiropractors. Actually, except in rural/impoverished areas where they can’t GET actual M.D.s & R.N.s, they oughta have to serve as MEDICAL ASSISTANTS to the REAL DOCTORS.
What? Me? Soap box? Did I do that? So sorry. And please don’t make a Steve Erkel joke there, Bill, I really wasn’t going for that imagery.
Anyway, if ANYBODY, anywhere, FOR ANY REASON, allows this BATSHIT-CRAZY, SEXUALLY-REPRESSED, BONDAGE-OBSESSED, CARNAGE-CRAVING SOCIOPATHIC PSYCHO-CUNT TO CALL HERSELF A“DOCTOR,”, they, too, OUGHT TO BE SUED TO WITHIN AN INCH OF THEIR LIVES AND PUT INTO A NON-CLUB-FED PRISON. Angola State Pen, the worst of the worst, would be a great place to start, considering how many unwitting patients she’s undoubtedly mangled and damaged FOR LIFE with her UTTER AND COMPLETE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, INTELLECT, OR EDUCATION. Y’know, along with her being a FLAMING FUCKING FUCKTARD FROM HELL!!!!!!!!!
Sorry. But a batshit-crazy whore who calls herself a “doctor” when she ISN’T ONE, and then to spew out her SADO-MASOCHISTIC WET DREAMS AS WHAT SHE THINKS SHOULD BE FOREIGN POLICY — dooooooood, that’s just EVIL OVERLOAD. On SO many levels.
It hurts. My fucking HAIR hurts from reading this and then contemplating the ACTUAL harm that she’s doing out there in the world, not just the grammatical, logistical and rhetorical harm that she’s doing to the universe at large.
OH, the pain just keeps coming…
“The Lockerbie bomber, Al Qaeda, the Taliban all glory in their death cult.”
Okay, Bill? D.? Mentis? Mary C? Preznit? Anybody brave enough to go shove a hand mirror up — in front of Melissa’s face — I’ll cook you dinner for a month, and throw in a batch of homemade cookies. And no, that’s not a THREAT, that’s A REWARD, dammit. Who’s feeling brave enough to get near that raving, dripping wad of SKANK and illustrate the concept of motes/beams/eyes, etc.?
Okay, last hissy-fit of the night, then I really will try to shut the hell up:
“And freedom must be bought or lost.”
So, if that’s not a typo, then THAT’S how Darth Cheney explains GUTTING the budget of the U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers’ FOR FIVE FUCKING YEARS, so that NONE of the levees in this country were properly maintained, which explains not only KATRINA (gotta save money for the war to come, so fuck the locals and have some fun, watchin’ ‘em drown in their own homes!), but also all of the floods through the Ohio River Valley, the Tennessee River Valley and ALLLLLLL the way up and down the Mississippi that have gone on SINCE THESE PUDFUCKERS TOOK OFFICE?
Hey, if this whore can extrapolate “foreign policy” out of Pitt’s continued LOUSY ACTING and Tarantino’s eternal wank-fests, I can find SOME kind of (skewed/clusterfucked/utterly clinically-insane) “meaning” in THIS bitch’s idiotic ramblings, can’t I?
Sweet dreams, y’all.
Except Scott.
You are SOOOOOOO gonna owe me for that theatre-seat imagery. I’ll send you the bill from the neurosurgeon. TO START.
Fuckin’ tags.
“GLORY IN THEIR DEATH CULT” should’ve been IN BOLD, dammit. That was the WHOLE FUCKING POINT, because THIS PSYCHO-WHORE IS JERKING-OFF TO THE SPLATTER-PORN OF TARANTINO’S FICTIONAL PSEUDO-HISTORICAL WANK-FEST!!!!!!!!!
And my entire extended diatribe above is awaiting moderation, so feel proud, Vosburg, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
“GLORY IN THEIR DEATH CULT” should’ve been IN BOLD, dammit. That was the WHOLE FUCKING POINT, because THIS PSYCHO-WHORE IS JERKING-OFF TO THE SPLATTER-PORN OF TARANTINO’S FICTIONAL PSEUDO-HISTORICAL WANK-FEST!!!!!!!!!
And my entire extended diatribe above is awaiting moderation, so feel proud, Vosburg, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
So in other words, Tarantino’s movie appeals to the very worst elements of American society.
Right-wingers, Zionists, Nazi fetishists, and morons.
Right-wingers, Zionists, Nazi fetishists, and morons.
We can take comfort in the fact that every single response to her post (yes, I held my nose and clicked the clicky) calls out her ignorance and stupidity.
“I do not regret that America took the war to the terrorist murderers. A sense of moral outrage should determine foreign policy.”
I’d love to see how Dr. Clouthier would do foreign trade policy. Or border disputes. Or anything involving Canada or the EEC (assuming anything was left of either by the time her sense of moral outrage was done with them)…What is it about foreign policy that attracts the moral-outrage junkies?
I’d love to see how Dr. Clouthier would do foreign trade policy. Or border disputes. Or anything involving Canada or the EEC (assuming anything was left of either by the time her sense of moral outrage was done with them)…What is it about foreign policy that attracts the moral-outrage junkies?
Yeah. If only more fictional action flickers adopted the attitudes historical illiterates such as Clothier get from fictional action flickers more people would agree with her that what we need to do to solve our problems is behave just like we did in those action flickers she got her attitude from.
Or, Why Don’t We Send the Dirty Dozen to Iran?
What, exactly, do these people imagine the US Army and Marine Corps have been doing the past eight years? Chillin’?
BTW, the Barbararian Pirates weren’t the “actual” Barbrarianists; the word comes to us from Latin, dates to the Early Middle Ages, and originally meant “foreign, strange, non-Hellenic or Roman”. It’s the sort of thing you can look up, though that might lead to occasional bouts of knowing what th’ fuck you’re talking about.
As for Tarantino, I think he’s squandering what at least appeared to be great talent
Really? Whose?
Or, Why Don’t We Send the Dirty Dozen to Iran?
What, exactly, do these people imagine the US Army and Marine Corps have been doing the past eight years? Chillin’?
BTW, the Barbararian Pirates weren’t the “actual” Barbrarianists; the word comes to us from Latin, dates to the Early Middle Ages, and originally meant “foreign, strange, non-Hellenic or Roman”. It’s the sort of thing you can look up, though that might lead to occasional bouts of knowing what th’ fuck you’re talking about.
As for Tarantino, I think he’s squandering what at least appeared to be great talent
Really? Whose?
Hmm. They paint a Hitler mustache on Obama. They label everyone on the left “Nazis”. They get excited to the point of sexual climax by a revenge fantasy depicting the torture and murder of Nazis.
Anyone getting nervous yet?
Anyone getting nervous yet?
Oh, and just a few words on “Basterds”. Most of the film is subtitled, forcing the audience to read quickly and pay attention. The movie consists of several long set pieces, each painstakingly set up and resolved. Seldom does a single shot last fewer than several seconds.
Sue me, and I’m not a huge Tarantino fan, but by God, the man seems to demand at least a modicum of intelligence and patience from his audience.
Sue me, and I’m not a huge Tarantino fan, but by God, the man seems to demand at least a modicum of intelligence and patience from his audience.
well, American communists DID object to the war during the short period from September 1939 to June 1940 while the USSR had its Pact with Nazi Germany. But they were a small minority of those on the left in the US and their sudden about face (faces? facing?) to follow the official Soviet line was one reason why the CPUSA lost much of what influence they had.
And there were leftwing isolationists who feared the “war profiteers” but there were just as many on the right, and the ranks of those on the left decreased steady in 1940 and 41 before Pearl Harbor.
Basically she gets a D+ in history and that’s because I’m feeling generous today…
And there were leftwing isolationists who feared the “war profiteers” but there were just as many on the right, and the ranks of those on the left decreased steady in 1940 and 41 before Pearl Harbor.
Basically she gets a D+ in history and that’s because I’m feeling generous today…
Those Iranians sure want to exterminate Jews, right?
Well sure! If you accept the hypothesis that the millions of individuals who self-identify as “Jews” are morally and functionally equivalent to the government, policies and geographic boundaries of the political state of Israel, the rest of the argument falls neatly into place.
Come to think of it, that belief that the individual = the group (and vice versa) explains most of wingnut logic.
“Persecuting the Muslim family in your neighborhood is wrong” = “Stopping all Islamofascist terrorists in the world is wrong”
“I think Bush’s policies are immoral” = “I think all actions of all Americans are immoral”
Yeah, throw in a heavy dose of all-or-nothing thinking and a touch of reduction to absurdity, and the whole genre of wingnut literature comes perilously close to making sense.
Well sure! If you accept the hypothesis that the millions of individuals who self-identify as “Jews” are morally and functionally equivalent to the government, policies and geographic boundaries of the political state of Israel, the rest of the argument falls neatly into place.
Come to think of it, that belief that the individual = the group (and vice versa) explains most of wingnut logic.
“Persecuting the Muslim family in your neighborhood is wrong” = “Stopping all Islamofascist terrorists in the world is wrong”
“I think Bush’s policies are immoral” = “I think all actions of all Americans are immoral”
Yeah, throw in a heavy dose of all-or-nothing thinking and a touch of reduction to absurdity, and the whole genre of wingnut literature comes perilously close to making sense.
Most of the film is subtitled, forcing the audience to read quickly and pay attention. The movie consists of several long set pieces, each painstakingly set up and resolved. Seldom does a single shot last fewer than several seconds.
So, I’m guessing that debbie and melissa simply used the time between the bloody bursts of onscreen violence to calm down from the orgasms of their vengeance-fantasys rather than to read the subtitles to actually follow and comprehend the story?
So, I’m guessing that debbie and melissa simply used the time between the bloody bursts of onscreen violence to calm down from the orgasms of their vengeance-fantasys rather than to read the subtitles to actually follow and comprehend the story?
Mary, dear heart, you and Scott are some cruel, cruel people. LIKE THE THEATRE SEAT REFERENCE WASN’T BAD ENOUGH.
Heartless.
Matter of fact, I think that my heart just stopped there for a minute… not a great loss, but inconvenient a the very least.
Just so much unnecessary cruelty, Mary. Really.
If anybody needs me, I’ll be over in the corner with the vat o’clorox and a fresh new box of Brill-O pads.
Heartless.
Matter of fact, I think that my heart just stopped there for a minute… not a great loss, but inconvenient a the very least.
Just so much unnecessary cruelty, Mary. Really.
If anybody needs me, I’ll be over in the corner with the vat o’clorox and a fresh new box of Brill-O pads.
There are people right now who loved seeing Americans die in the World Trade Center. They relished it and still do. The Lockerbie bomber, Al Qaeda, the Taliban all glory in their death cult. No reasoning, no gentleness will change their black souls. Just as Nazis felt justified in their abject cruelty, so do the Islamofascists who carry out their modern mission of freedom killing violence.
The only solution? Kill the killers.There is a reason America continues to fight this pesky foe.
“Death cult”, “black souls”, “abject cruelty”, “Islamofascists”, “freedom killing violence”, and… “pesky foe”.
I’m reminded of that Sesame Street skit, something about how one of these kids is doing his own thing, one of them just doesn’t belong…
The only solution? Kill the killers.There is a reason America continues to fight this pesky foe.
“Death cult”, “black souls”, “abject cruelty”, “Islamofascists”, “freedom killing violence”, and… “pesky foe”.
I’m reminded of that Sesame Street skit, something about how one of these kids is doing his own thing, one of them just doesn’t belong…
BTW, the Barbararian Pirates weren’t the “actual” Barbrarianists
Well, the name of the Barbary coast seems to have arisen from the confusion between ‘barbarian’ (btw, ultimately traceable to Greek, it’s just that the Medieval Latin version is cited as the direct origin of the Latin word) and ‘Berber’. The pirates were, for the most part, neither.
Re “Inglorious Basterds”: Jeeeeebus, that was some long, boring and pointless shit. Two and half hours, but felt like six, the actual Basterds only got like a half an hour and most of it was just empty talking. That scene in the basement bar, I almost walked out.
Well, the name of the Barbary coast seems to have arisen from the confusion between ‘barbarian’ (btw, ultimately traceable to Greek, it’s just that the Medieval Latin version is cited as the direct origin of the Latin word) and ‘Berber’. The pirates were, for the most part, neither.
Re “Inglorious Basterds”: Jeeeeebus, that was some long, boring and pointless shit. Two and half hours, but felt like six, the actual Basterds only got like a half an hour and most of it was just empty talking. That scene in the basement bar, I almost walked out.
Dr. Melissa relies on the intended audience of her unhinged rant to have virtually no knowledge of 20th century history. And Quentin Tarantino is hardly a fount of historical knowledge.
While there were those on the left who opposed the drive to war, the truth is most of them were in Germany at the time. Dachau was originally built for the internment and eventual liquidation of German communists.In the UK, those who opposed war against Germany were mostly on the right – characters such as Lord Londonderry and Oswald Mosely who believed that Hitler should be befriended. As has also been pointed out Prestcott Bush was doing business with the Nazi regime long after Hitler had commenced with the slaughter of Jews, communists, gays and the Romanies.
But what the fuck, who cares as long as you can get your rocks off watching Tarantino’s gorefest.
While there were those on the left who opposed the drive to war, the truth is most of them were in Germany at the time. Dachau was originally built for the internment and eventual liquidation of German communists.In the UK, those who opposed war against Germany were mostly on the right – characters such as Lord Londonderry and Oswald Mosely who believed that Hitler should be befriended. As has also been pointed out Prestcott Bush was doing business with the Nazi regime long after Hitler had commenced with the slaughter of Jews, communists, gays and the Romanies.
But what the fuck, who cares as long as you can get your rocks off watching Tarantino’s gorefest.
When one gets a bad guy to spill the beans, good guys get saved.
So William Wallace was a bad guy and Edward I was the good guy?
So William Wallace was a bad guy and Edward I was the good guy?
So in other words, Tarantino’s movie appeals to the very worst elements of American society.
Right-wingers, Zionists, Nazi fetishists, and morons.Left by Dar on August 29th, 2009
But, Dar — you only named one element (granted, you did use four different names for it).
Right-wingers, Zionists, Nazi fetishists, and morons.Left by Dar on August 29th, 2009
But, Dar — you only named one element (granted, you did use four different names for it).
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