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re: TO TbirdSpur: About Django -- so off topic that the OT board is inappropriate.
Posted on 1/10/14 at 11:37 am to TbirdSpur2010
Posted on 1/10/14 at 11:37 am to TbirdSpur2010
Kind of ridiculous to even compare the two. Waltz was one of the finest acting jobs I've ever seen. Pitt totally phoned it in. It's fine because of who his character was, mostly comic relief, but he wasn't even trying. There are even times when you can totally tell he's reading from a cue card
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Posted on 1/10/14 at 11:42 am to KaiserSoze99
Wu Tang Clan: 100% Asian got me loling when I first saw that. Their asian culture obsession is weird when you think about it!
On the subject of Wu Tang, I was jamming their stuff the other day for the first time in forever and DAMN they were good. What happened to rap?! Nobody popular in the rap game has real skill anymore. I shouldn't say this on a board so heavily trafficked by people from Louisiana, but Lil Wayne and guys like him and Drake with no flow suck and are just embarrassing compared to Biggie and Wu Tang from back in the day.
On the subject of Wu Tang, I was jamming their stuff the other day for the first time in forever and DAMN they were good. What happened to rap?! Nobody popular in the rap game has real skill anymore. I shouldn't say this on a board so heavily trafficked by people from Louisiana, but Lil Wayne and guys like him and Drake with no flow suck and are just embarrassing compared to Biggie and Wu Tang from back in the day.
Posted on 1/10/14 at 11:46 am to genro
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Kind of ridiculous to even compare the two.
All I meant was that I enjoyed Waltz in Basterds more than any other actor, including Pitt. Not trying to compare the two or anything
Posted on 1/10/14 at 11:55 am to TbirdSpur2010
Oh I did that thing where I responded to you talking about someone else. My bad
Posted on 1/10/14 at 11:58 am to genro
It's all good 
And to be quite honest, I really enjoyed Pitt's hammed up role in the film.
Waltz just grabbed my attention (and everyone else's, apparently) with a sparkling performance that the general public wasn't expecting.
And to be quite honest, I really enjoyed Pitt's hammed up role in the film.
Waltz just grabbed my attention (and everyone else's, apparently) with a sparkling performance that the general public wasn't expecting.
Posted on 1/10/14 at 12:36 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Yeah to Pitt it was all a joke. He had a bit part anyway - Diane Kruger had a more important role than he did even if hers didn't add up to as much screen-time (it may have, I don't know).
Waltz's performance rocked the faces off of people who aren't even into film and don't give it a shite about acting. He was that good. He transcended the medium. He clearly took it serious as a heart attack. And if you have to categorize it, it was actually a comedic role, which is frickING CRAZY.
Waltz's performance rocked the faces off of people who aren't even into film and don't give it a shite about acting. He was that good. He transcended the medium. He clearly took it serious as a heart attack. And if you have to categorize it, it was actually a comedic role, which is frickING CRAZY.
Posted on 1/10/14 at 1:13 pm to Cooter Davenport
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Waltz's performance rocked the faces off of people who aren't even into film and don't give it a shite about acting. He was that good. He transcended the medium. He clearly took it serious as a heart attack. And if you have to categorize it, it was actually a comedic role, which is frickING CRAZY.
Exactly!
Well said
Posted on 1/10/14 at 4:56 pm to TbirdSpur2010
And I don't know if he was aiming for this, but the really SCARY thing about that role was how perfectly it portrayed the banality of evil. That's the most disturbing thing about the Nazis, really. Not only did they systematically execute millions, force millions into slave labor, and attempt to conquer the world, but aside from Goring, who was flamboyant, and Goebbels, who looked like a Satanic rat and had a history of obsessive, violent anti-semitism, they did all that while looking and acting totally "meh". Hitler was a vegetarian watercolor painter with a soft-spot for dogs. Had Germany won WWI or had he been accepted as an art student, he'd have been a complete nobody. Waltz's character isn't just educated, he's erudite and refined. He'd be welcome anywhere as a handsome fellow, fine conversationalist and mannerly, composed gentleman. But actually he's a state-sponsored serial killer.
This post was edited on 1/10/14 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 1/11/14 at 12:12 am to Cooter Davenport
That's the things that's unnerving, really. Just goes to show how simple it is for otherwise upstanding normal citizens to be pushed in a dangerous line of thinking. I hope the world never forgets the evil that can come of that thanks to the horrible Nazianz example. Not saying they were the first and definitely not the last capable of such atrocities, but certainly the most infamous.
And of course, Waltz portrayed that to a T. That's just terrific acting. Not many can pull that off, IMO.
And of course, Waltz portrayed that to a T. That's just terrific acting. Not many can pull that off, IMO.
This post was edited on 1/11/14 at 12:13 am
Posted on 1/11/14 at 12:41 am to TbirdSpur2010
I'm half black (father is white, mother is black) and all I can tell you is that QT is far more intellectual than he's given credit for
Posted on 1/11/14 at 2:34 am to Granny Panties
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I'm half black (father is white, mother is black)
If I'm blessed with kids, they'll be in the opposite boat, parents-wise
Posted on 1/11/14 at 8:07 am to TbirdSpur2010
I'm half Oklahoma and half Louisiana. I work in an office and have to fight random compulsions to run out, de-shirt, hop on an ATV and ride off to the country to grow a mullet and hunt nutria. 
Posted on 1/11/14 at 8:40 am to Cooter Davenport
Posted on 1/11/14 at 9:54 am to TbirdSpur2010
Actually, nutria is good eatin
Posted on 1/11/14 at 9:57 am to Granny Panties
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Actually, nutria is good eatin
Only if you are starving and can't find the arse of a menstruating skunk.
Posted on 1/11/14 at 10:29 am to Agforlife
But you can sell the pelts for like $0.50/ea!
Posted on 1/11/14 at 10:31 am to Cooter Davenport
The tails bring what $5 each
Posted on 1/11/14 at 10:35 am to Agforlife
I stand by my word. Nutria tastes good
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