Howdy,
From across the seas I bring you new Lowbrow goodness:
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/110200-g.i.-joes-future-hangs-in-the-balance/
I'd titled it Transform and Rise Up: Rise of Cobra and the Future of the G.I. Joe Brand, but editorial whim rules all.
Hope ya dig it.
Indeed I did. Although I still haven’t seen the movie.
Did see Inglourious Basterds as my birthday present to myself, and loved the fuck out of it. Christoph Waltz absolutely deserves the Best Actor award if he does win it, as everyone is predicting already. He’s amazing and brings such overwhelming suspense to the screen every second that he’s on. What I also liked, much like Pulp Fiction before I had seen it 100 times, is that I had no fucking idea where anything was going and every little “chapter” was an adventure in cinema. Did anyone think that the drinking game was going to end up in the place that it did? Or indeed the ending itself, which I went into totally unspoiled and thus it shocked me as intended. It is a bit too long by a half an hour, but we know how much Tarantino loves his dialogue. I’d call it more on par with Jackie Brown than Pulp Fiction, so it’s ****1/2 instead of *****, basically.
I loved “Basterds” as well and yes, Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) is one of the most memorable “bad guys” you’ll run across any movie in the history of cinema.
The most pure fun I’ve had at the cinema all year. Christoph Waltz walks away with the film as far as the acting is concerned.
Jackie Brown probably remains my favorite Tarantino, but I’m giving Basterds another look later this week.