New Inglourious Basterds Trailer!

[anjirose]

OOooooooh!! This film was bloomin' FANTASTIC!!!!! I loved it. I loved not knowing what was coming next, I loved closing my eyes when there was all the blood about lol (hope spanner didn't notice me being a wuss with that hehe!)

I've never been a huge tarantino fan, usually because i leave wanting to ask more questions, however this has made me a total FAN!
Brad Pitt was great, and a lot funnier than what i thought it would be! In fact all of the characters were!!
I wasn't sure how much of the film was going to be subtitled, but to be honest I didn't really notice it as a problem while I was watching it.

After seeing it, I was feeling a bit bemused as to how I would recommend and review it to others. But today I did, i recommended it, told people that my bum was still feeling a bit numb lol! the time did go very quick though as there was so much going on.
So review is 8.5/10

It was great to meet so many FMUK-ers! and I was so pleased I could go, and not on my tod as Spanner was so kind to invite me along with her :)

[superhero]

I would love to say it's fantastic, but I was turned away at Odeon Covent Garden today, because there were too many people. Probably over by 30 people! I guess not many of them were MSE, FMUK or SFF regulars, everyone just seem to accept it and walked away eventually, although they didn't offer us to watch another film, they were refunding people for coke, popcorn that were b*ght already.
I am pretty sure for this screening, some people clearly just photocopied more of the same ticket or just photo-shoped old tickets. Disappointing really, why do it when you didn't get tickets allocated; whats the point of undermining the system? as a) it might happen to you next time when you go and it's full b) they might just change the system or make it stricter in terms of the ID checks

[anjirose]

I would love to say it's fantastic, but I was turned away at Odeon Covent Garden today, because there were too many people.

Thats totally ridiculous, i hate it when people take the pi** like that, i'm totally gutted for you for missing it. I hope that doesnt happen to anyone else in the future. If people had have b*ght the food thay should at least see some movie, seen as it was the cinemas fault for not id checking anyway.

[superhero]

Yeah I am really surprised as there were so many people outside the cinema. I don't think it's a case of SFF overbooking but more a case of people abusing the system. Maybe people had more friends who wanted to go and just photocopied the same ticket? I wouldn't be surprised. Maybe they will be forced to do photo ID checks!

[andrews]

I am so sorry that you didn't get into this film, superhero. Perhaps the cinema had allocated a smaller screen? Last night at Gateshead, we were rattling around in one of the largest screens, and I estimate that it was only about 40% full. I hope that you are going to make representations to sff, and let them know about your experience. And very poor PR from the cinema staff to boot.

[superhero]

Nope, it was in one of their bigger screens, not that there are many at Odeon Covent Garden.
Nah, I am not going to complain to SFF, I am not in favour of tighter controls. I feel it's more people abusing the system rather than any fault of SFF...

[destresserai]

Let's be honest here - this was never gonna be as good as Reservoir and was never gonna be a patch on Pulp but this is definitely the best Tarantino since Pulp.

I was worried at first as I felt it was a going to be slow but it soon had me hooked and I loved all the twists and turns and trying to second guess how everyone fitted in with everyone else and usually getting it wrong.

The humour that was interwoven was brilliant but the scalpings were definitely not for everybody!

A resounding 8.5 out of 10 - it loses points because I hated Pitt's accent.

[Beate]

Got to the Odeon Covent Garden very early because I anticipated it to be busy to find they were letting people in already so I nabbed two seats and waited for the OH who managed to get lost on the way to the cinema and eventually made it by 6.20pm, by which time it was pretty full and when I hurried out to the loo I overheard one usher saying to the other "We won't let any more in now". So I panicked and said "I am only going to the loo, will you let me back in please?" They did, but I saw a lot of folks with tickets outside when I snuck back in. Thank God the OH had made it just in time! Although I must say the cinema was not filled to the last seat, I thought there were a few in the first rows, and the two seats for the handicapped in the last row right next to us were free too.

Anyway, the film was good but overlong, too violent, and some scenes were frankly ridiculous. If they are going to kill off everybody there comes a point where you stop caring about what becomes of people. And although it is certainly a nice fantasy to get rid of loads of Nazis that way, I don't think for a moment that a man like Hans Landa would have struck a deal like that and suddenly found his love for living in America! It was great seeing so many German actors though and nice to hear German spoken a lot. I translated the phrases to John which they decided not to subtitle, but I think they were more or less self-explanatory. Brad Pitt's accent was hilarious, and so were the overpronounced English ones - not sure whether they were meant to be funny or just America's idea of how the English sound!

7.5/10 because it was too long and violent.

[phunkygal]

Nope, it was in one of their bigger screens, not that there are many at Odeon Covent Garden.
Nah, I am not going to complain to SFF, I am not in favour of tighter controls. I feel it's more people abusing the system rather than any fault of SFF...

I think SFF overbook by about 20% and with a film like this in dead central London then of course its gonna be full. Ive been to lots of films where people have been turned away, all in central london - the further out you get the less busy the cinemas are and the more popular film the more are turned away, ive never been to a sff screening with an empty seat at shaftsbury avenue for example, and a few at covent garden but only for the less popular films.
Ive been turned away once myself when i couldnt get there early enough and tonight the latest people were turned away for the hurt locker as usual, and I feel that this is fair enough when these are free and the companies want as many people as possible to see their film, I know in America their previews are just queues until its full which is fair enough and i wouldnt be surprised if it ends up going that way here with the number of half empty screenings outside london because of people not using or returning their tickets, whereas in london they are much more likely to pass them on.

[destresserai]

"the handicapped"

Sorry to be "PC" but this is no longer an acceptable choice of words although it is still used heavily in America. These seats are either referred to as "accessible seats" or "seats for disabled people"