Inglourious Basterds 2nd Biggest August Opening Day

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Although I may not have liked “Inglourious Basterds” much, I was looking forward to it an awful lot. Apparently so were a LOT of other people. According to Variety Magazine, Inglourious Basterds pulled in an opening day of $14.3 million at the box office.

Now you may think that doesn’t sound like a LOT… but it really is.

Basterds just beat out District 9 for the second highest opening day box office results for an “R” rated movie (American Pie 2 still holds the record).

This is also the second highest opening for any Weinstein Co. production… a company that REALLY needed a profitable movie right about now.

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  • SlashBeast

    I’ve grown weary of Tarantino’s self-conscious style of filmmaking. It’s almost as if the characters are elbowing you and saying “Eh? We’re clever, aren’t we? Eh?”.

    I think his self-indulgence is really getting out of control.

    Ingourious Basterds is the best movie of the Summer, but at this point in the year that’s like saying you’re the least disfigured leper in the colony.

  • Don

    what also interesting about this movie was the character (forgot his name) the war hero of Germany like a Sargent York of America. When he was in the bell tower and with a knife he carves out a swastika and Hitler and the SS goes nuts in the theater.

  • Don

    I saw the movie Saturday and I thought the movie very good. The best movie I seen this summer and I think its a classic. In fact after the movie was over everybody in the theater clap. I give it 5 stars and perfect 10

  • http://ihatemoviereviews.blogspot.com/ Kyle retter

    People love to hate QT. Like Rats and Jews, you don’t know why you hate him but the site of him or his movies makes people sick. Truth is, all 6 of his movies are better than 90% of everything that is released. His passion for cinema comes through in his work. Like him or not, if there were more filmmakers like QT making movies we would all be better off.

  • Love it

    Inglourious Basterds was awesome. I loved it! Most people here won’t like it though. It’s a bait-and-switch. It’s not an action movie, it’s a foreign language thriller.

  • http://thesilverscreenpost.com JAlexM

    To those who have not seen Inglorious Basterds…This IS THE MUST SEE FILM of the Summer.

    This film is very original. It has a linear structure, with very little flash backs. Expect a lot of dialogue, in its majority in French, or German…but the dialogue is sharp, mixing humor with suspense(Specially when the bad guy, Hans Landa is present). Action…There is action and there is violence…not as much as District 9, but do expect guns blazing and gruesome scalping of Nazi heads. If you’re Jewish…expect movie magic at the cliimax of the film.

    Austrian actor Christoph Waltz steals the show as Hans Landa, The bad guy, who is one memorable Nazi. Rather than a sadistic Aemon Goethe, Hans Landa is like an evil Sherlock Holmes crossed with the sort of slithering corporate excecutive who comes off as funny and simpathetic, as he finds ways to downsize employees. Hans Landa is one of the best villains in film history, along with Vader, Hannibal Lecter and Heath Ledger’s Joker.

    Also you will see the funniest performance ever by Brad Pitt. This guy should do action and comedy rather than chick filcks. His performance here easily trumps his Benjamin Button(for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor). Aldo Reine and his Basterds, will have you cheering against the Nazis all the way.

    Pitt and Waltz deserve Oscar nods for best actor and best supporting actor.

    Watch out for Mariel Laurent as Shoshanna, a Jewish girl who survives death at the hands of Hans Landa, goes to Paris and inherits a movie theater, where she plots a brutal and well deserved vengeance on the Nazi Party.

    Diane Kruger, the chick from Troy and the National Trasure movies, shows up playing a German film actress who is also a spy for the Allies. Here she speaks in her native language, allowing her to appear very confortable in her character.

    Inglorious Basterds is an awsome mix of Historical Fiction and black comedy at its finest.
    This is the best film of the Summer and Quentin Tarantino’s best since Pulp Fiction.

  • http://16mof.blogspot.com/ Justin

    Still have yet to see IB going to hopefully catch a matinee showing Monday.

    As for Tarantino being overrated I have to be one of the ones to totally disagree with this statement. The man has made some of the greatest movies of all time I mean come on:

    Kill Bill 1 and 2 two movies that I can’t fucking wait for both to be released as the “Whole Bloody Affair” on Blu-Ray.

    Pulp Fiction and Resevior Dogs= Classic fucking movies

    Jackie Brown, which believe it or not I feel is his weakest film although the opening credits are fucking bad ass.

    Then there was Death Proof a movie which at first I really didn’t like at all but after watching it a few times it grew on me and I really enjoy it now I think because I gave it another chance and really enjoyed the dialogue and of course the car chase at the end and the ending it self was classic.

    As for Inglorious Basterds I think it’s going to be at the very least when it comes to Tarantino for me anyway and that’s another unique enjoyable movie. I mean come on it’s Tarantino doing World War 2!!!!!!

    • kal07

      Justin, I bet you will love and IB…From your statements it seems you will appreciate anything Tarantino will make in the future.
      You seem to me, a blind follower of QT.

      • http://16mof.blogspot.com/ Justin

        Yes I’m am blinded and blinded even more (I saw IB today and loved every minute of it) by the awesome light that is Tarantino.

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