‘Inglourious Basterds’ = $8M Abroad

COMMENTS (11)

• Why do I think that the success of this film, coupled with the doubling of the Best Picture slots, will combine to make Harvey Weinstein even more insufferable?

  Comment by Furious D — Friday August 21, 2009 @ 2:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 731,000,000 people live in Europe. 8 million dollars is supposed to be good business there?

  Comment by E — Friday August 21, 2009 @ 3:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If this movie cost 70 million and it makes only 30 in its opening weekend, followed almost certainly by a huge drop off next week, how is that a success? Not even counting whatever it cost to market it. That looks like someone losing a lot of money.

  Comment by GS — Friday August 21, 2009 @ 4:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Saw the film early to a packed audience at 11:30am.

  QT has lost it. Somewhere between Kill Bill Pt 2 and this overlong mess QT has decided that everything he does is interesting.

  The film is an hour too long. That’s right, A FRIGGIN’ HOUR!! The story of the theater owner could have been chopped and nothing would have been lost. Not enough Brad Pitt and some guy named Christoph Waltz steals the movie.

  Put down the pipe, Quentin and come back to us.

  Comment by CineFileX — Friday August 21, 2009 @ 5:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The problem with Tarantino is that most guys coming out of UCLA or any other college in LA have no life experience whatsoever. They write movies about college, their first heartbreak and some adventure with their best friend. They write the most boring crap imaginable and we all suffer for their pedestrian, run-of-the-mill garbage.

  The main reason why Tarantino has respect in Europe is in Europe they make movies, not lectures and stories and anecdotes; they discuss life and not its verisimiltude.

  The worst thing that ever happened in LA is that someone told these kids that their life was interesting. Well, it’s not. Shut the fuck up.

  Comment by Hunter Tremayne — Friday August 21, 2009 @ 5:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The notion of the “power of cinema” destroying the Third Reich is about the most infantile film school idea you’ll ever encounter.

  Comment by nemo — Friday August 21, 2009 @ 6:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Saw it and didn’t like it. “Basterds” is another mess that film critics have lined up behind. Makes you wonder who the reals clowns are …the critics are the filmmakers. Maybe both. This film is slow, boring and way too too long. The actors starting with Pitt are awful and seem to be on a picnic outing rather than doing an acting job and you know the film is going no where except to comedy central when the audience laugh everytime someone gets scalped, beaten to death, or blown to pieces. Maybe it was intended to be a comedy. But hey, after this, and after last week with D-9 one wonders just what asylum the majority of film critics have being hanging out in.

  Comment by jdls08 — Friday August 21, 2009 @ 9:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This movie is awful. Period. It realy makes you want to watch Jackie Brown or Pulp again to feel what once was. Quentin T. sorry bud, you should R.I.P.

  Finally something to make those despicable Sweinstein Basterds go away. Failure #2 coing right up — Swalloween II. Another Sweinstein Sinematic Shite.

  Love Boris.

  Comment by Karloff — Friday August 21, 2009 @ 10:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Except the mere fact of the matter is that Americans don’t become Jews or any eurasians and don’t integrate, except all in a spy capacity, and they didn’t enter WW2 until after Pearl Harbor, Americas trans-oceanic descended citizen minority is mainly a tool for Americas inevitable dominance and America is a republic, not a democracy, so a president is a moot and powerless publicity performance in a military intelligence superstate environment. It’s all American espionage and intrigue smoke and mirrors.

  Comment by The Lighthouse — Saturday August 22, 2009 @ 10:42am PDT  Reply to this post

• Movie is one of the best this year – from European perspective. (No, we don’t get dizzy from comic book adaptations)
  Since there were some doubts about the results, let me clear few things. In europe, movies generally don’t drop 50 to 60% in second weekend. A drop of 40% in USA is considered great while in Europe that’s a catastrophy.
  Movie is long and not for kids. So with 3h+ between shows, you actually get only one good evening screening. No matter what you do, you can’t compete in admissions with other shorter or 4 quadrant movies.

  The only problem with this UNI pr is the reports of no1 openings. Those will not happen before Monday and what you read there are just predictions, which can also be very wrong, as the target group for this movie will definitely spend whole weekend by the coast.

  Comment by Andrej — Saturday August 22, 2009 @ 10:49am PDT  Reply to this post

• @Andrej thanks for the info and for droppin a LOT of perspective on foreign movie money.

  Comment by Paterick — Sunday August 23, 2009 @ 2:45pm PDT  Reply to this post