@sparky: Technically a Weimar Republic movie, since it ends before 1933 (=when the Partypooper Party won/hijacked the elections and clamped the lid on the debauch) but nevertheless a gem.
@mommy_dearest: Awesome call! ..And no, they were some kind of parallel universe Nazis who remained in power but only in the former GDR.. Sez YouTube @2: 00. =)
@snugbug: My favority movie with some kind of parallel universe Nazis who remained in power but only in the former GDR is Top Secret with Val Kilmer. Classic.
I enjoyed the shit out of I.G. and don't get what (some of) the (humorless) critics, and contradicto, are bitching about. Not only is it not a holocaust movie, it's hardly even a WWII movie.
God, I just saw this movie, and it was awful. It would have been great it Tarantino shaved off an hour and half of it. But filmmaking is his masturbation, and he does it to excess.
A pal of mine made a much funnier Downfall subtitle mix .. albeit the background being a little obscure, here's the skinny:
I run a small website where I do an annual Scavenger-hunt-type contest and give away about $800 worth of prizes... During the deadline of the contest, I was in Scotland burying my father's ashes, so the results of the contest were delayed a week. This horrible hack business writer for the Fort Worth Star Telegram wrote a little ditty in his column mocking the fact that I was at my father's burial service and even made fun of what I was wearing at the time I was sprinkling ashes onto an ancestral gravesite.
I fired back at the article with a whole campaign by buying his name .com ( barryshlachter.com ) and a bunch of folks who saw the various blog posts chimed in with some hilarious poems and shit to say about this guy -- including this one Lebanese guy who made the classic clip above... I've seen about 200 of these, and there has to be the right punch during certain key parts of the clip, and even though it's in defense of me :D, I think this guy fucking nailed it.
America totes loves Nazi movies.. Um, Where Eagles Dare, with Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton? Classic of the ages!
I’d have to say, barring the classics of the genre (The Great Escape et al), my favorite Nazi movie of recent memory is Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book. Extremely clever writing and a wonderful, pithy, sexy story—even though it involves both Nazis doing their evil thing and Jews being massacred. Oh, also: a lusty Nazi with a heart of gold! I almost want to say Tarantino ripped Verhoeven a tiny bit in terms of constructing his principal heroine in Inglourious Basterds after Black Book’s lovely Ellis de Vries/Rachel Stein.
@anonymousryan: Yes! There's also the Charlie Chaplin movie that was banned from release for a while. This list took way too long to compile, so there're some great ones I had to forego.
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I run a small website where I do an annual Scavenger-hunt-type contest and give away about $800 worth of prizes... During the deadline of the contest, I was in Scotland burying my father's ashes, so the results of the contest were delayed a week. This horrible hack business writer for the Fort Worth Star Telegram wrote a little ditty in his column mocking the fact that I was at my father's burial service and even made fun of what I was wearing at the time I was sprinkling ashes onto an ancestral gravesite.
I fired back at the article with a whole campaign by buying his name .com ( barryshlachter.com ) and a bunch of folks who saw the various blog posts chimed in with some hilarious poems and shit to say about this guy -- including this one Lebanese guy who made the classic clip above... I've seen about 200 of these, and there has to be the right punch during certain key parts of the clip, and even though it's in defense of me :D, I think this guy fucking nailed it.
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I’d have to say, barring the classics of the genre (The Great Escape et al), my favorite Nazi movie of recent memory is Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book. Extremely clever writing and a wonderful, pithy, sexy story—even though it involves both Nazis doing their evil thing and Jews being massacred. Oh, also: a lusty Nazi with a heart of gold! I almost want to say Tarantino ripped Verhoeven a tiny bit in terms of constructing his principal heroine in Inglourious Basterds after Black Book’s lovely Ellis de Vries/Rachel Stein.
[trailer attached; please do rent]
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