You know what's fun in the current political climate? Watching something like "Inglourious Basterds," from 2009.
I just finished the first re-watch of that since.....2013, maybe? I think I saw it around four times after its initial release (in those days, I would blind buy media discs....not going to the movie theater that often, and building an insane collection in the process). Back then, I thought the movie was fun, interesting, and certainly entertaining, but I never thought of it as a full-on five-star movie. Not sure why that was. The alternate historical events didn't bother me much; I can't put my finger on what didn't connect with me then. Boy, it's a different story now.
It is truly a film lover's film. When I watched the movie in its first few years, I didn't even know who Edwige Fenech was, so the casting of Mike Myers as Capt. Ed Fenech meant nothing to me. German director Georg Pabst is referenced at least ten times. What the movie has though are several scenes of perfect dramatic tension, beginning with that opening scene....which I think should be in a list of greatest movie openings ever. I feel quite a bit differently about it all now.
I might even follow this up with "Inglorious Bastards"!
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