Inglourious Basterds Featurette

Quentin Tarantino Kills Nat-zees

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (23)

Quentin Tarantino was on “American Idol” last night. Did you see it? Well, good for you and the other 22 million people in America. Don’t you just feel fucking special that you got to watch some meagerly talented teenagers sing their hearts out for the chance to be owned and manipulated by a massive corporate organization that will eat them up, shit them out, and pull the gold teeth out of their turds.

Great show.

Anyway, Quentin Tarantino was a mentor or something or another, and during the course of the show, there was a short little featurette about Inglourious Basterds that spliced together scenes from the flick and Quentin Tarantino on the set, being a little obnoxious (hopefully for the sake of “AI” viewers, and not because he always acts like an overenthusiastic gym coach on set). Not much here you haven’t seen from the trailer, except a small shot of Mike Meyers and, well, I may never get tired of Brad Pitt saying he’s gonna kill some Nat-zees (that’s not true; I’ll probably be sick to death of it by the time the movie opens in August).

At any rate, here’s that clip. It’s definitely worth the 41 seconds it takes to watch it.

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Posted by: greenman at April 15, 2009 8:13 PM

Was that Mike Myers in really heavy makeup???!!!???

Posted by: Dano at April 15, 2009 8:17 PM

Gotta say, Mike Myers was the last person I expected to see in that trailer. Zac Efron wearing a strap on and sporting a gimp hand would have been more likely in my mind. I wonder if this will earn him back any cred he has lost with me since Axe Murderer.

Posted by: perfectjargon at April 15, 2009 8:31 PM

So Tarantino was on American Idol?

Can "Hollywood Squares" be far behind?

Posted by: Jerce at April 15, 2009 8:40 PM

Ladies and Gentlemen, Quentin Tarantino just lost the game of life. He has jumped the shark and declared himself a joke to the world.

Goodnight!

Posted by: figgy at April 15, 2009 8:41 PM

What the hell is wrong with me? Brad Fraking PITT has become one of my favorite actors!

"...We in the killin Natzee bidness, and a-bidness is BOOMIN'."

Classic line, classic delivery. Hope the movie is as good.

Posted by: Meander at April 15, 2009 9:11 PM

Mike Myers looks like a re-animated undead version of himself.

Posted by: Big Daddy Bacchus at April 15, 2009 9:19 PM

This is obviously going to be crap. Myers didn't even use a Scottish accent. No accent = shit / accent equals gold. Wait, is that right?

Posted by: admin at April 15, 2009 9:30 PM

Can't hate Quentin despite the loving on the shit behemoth that is American Idol. At least he's honest about what he likes. A few weeks ago I sat next to him at Ninja 3: The Domination at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles. He was wearing an Inglourious Basterds flight jacket. I can't hate the shameless self-promotion either, he's so free of guile. And really nice, too. And this movie looks like it's going to kick all kinds of ass.

Posted by: kidtiger at April 15, 2009 11:26 PM

I love watching Brad Pitt when it's obvious that he's having fun. Snatch is an excellent example of the "Pitt Having Fun" school of acting, as are parts of Fight Club and his breakout role in Thelma and Louise. Not so much? Legends of the Fall, that one of my college roommates made me watch.

I know it's corny, but it's just so enjoyable to watch an actor who so obviously loves what he's doing. It doesn't hurt that he's also really hot.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at April 16, 2009 12:07 AM

At first I thought the voiceover was Francis Wolcott from Deadwood. And I got excited. And then I saw Mike Myers. O the agony!

Posted by: Edwina the Magnificent at April 16, 2009 12:39 AM

Genny, is LoTF the one where he and his brothers fought over that one chick? Who cut off the front pieces of her hair and then shot herself (which was weird)?

I can get behind a film were a bunch of dumb Americans slaughter Nazis. All the gory fun of a Tarantino film minus any guilty feelings about excessive violence.

Posted by: Sara at April 16, 2009 12:53 AM

The "'Pitt having fun' school of acting" is a great way to put it. Case in point: 12 Monkeys. Awesome.

Posted by: Joe the Plumber at April 16, 2009 2:19 AM

Believe it or not Brad Pitt is a good actor. I know the pretty boy label has always been thrown around, but at least he actually plays different characters in the movies he's in. With the exception of his "what's in the box!?!" freak outs, of course, we've all seen that hat trick numerous times.

12 Moneys, Snatch, Benjamin Buttons, True Romance, Burn After Reading, this, are all good examples of him being completely different characters. He gets all this flack, yet every time Jack Nicholson or Pachino do anything they get Oscar noms. Seriously, when was the last time they didn't just phone it in? Jack's last good job was About Schimdt, I laugh every time I think "Dear Undogo."

I've been excited about this movie since Tarantino said he was writing a nazi movie on Craig Ferguson.

I love Idol and think that it would be great fun to watch with Tarantino. To the poster above that obviously thinks that QT's love for AI is some new great example of how QT is a shallow hack, I would like for you to know that he is a big fan who was a guest judge 3rd season.

Idol is just fun, and i like anyone with talent. Shocker but guess what? Some of the people on Idol are actually good singers.

Music is a huge deal to QT, why the grief for going on AI?

Posted by: Mebe at April 16, 2009 6:08 AM

Meh. That clip needs more Michael Fassbender. Then I'll be interested, utterly, inappropriately interested.

Posted by: Gayle at April 16, 2009 7:41 AM

Mike Myers sounds like Dr. Evil. WTF? I'm still gonna be there when it opens. I like it when they kill Nazis.

Posted by: Phil at April 16, 2009 8:35 AM

Best example of "Pitt having fun" - A River Runs Through It. Okay, so it's a little schmaltzy and tear-jerky, but I LOVE Pitt in that movie. He was beautiful. I've given him a pass on a lot of crap (Legends of the Fall is one of my all-time least favorite movies - I laughed at the end and was nearly slaughtered by a bunch of teary chicks) because of his portrayal of Paul Maclean.

Oh, and read the book (A River Runs Through It and Other Stories). It's even better. And it features another story called "Loggin' and Pimpin' and Your Pal Jim." How can that be bad?

Posted by: idgiepug at April 16, 2009 8:41 AM

Not to be too much of a bleeding heart, but Germans must see shit like this and say, "Give it a rest already. That was half a century ago, scheissekopf."

Posted by: Duane at April 16, 2009 8:52 AM

Posted by: Mebe at April 16, 2009 6:08 AM

Agreed, 100%

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 16, 2009 8:54 AM

Yeah, but then you'd have to give slavery, the cold war, 30's mafia antics and revolutionary war movies the "give it a rest already". That's NEVER going to happen.

Pitt does seem to enjoy his actin'. And that Business is Boomin' line will be all over the place this summer.

Posted by: courtney at April 16, 2009 10:02 AM

a river runs through it is a beautifully written novela.

although i usually end up liking his movies, i can't help shake the feeling that, when i watch brad pitt, i know that he knows that he's acting. i'm too stupid to describe it well. he just seems too aware of himself. i have never gotten the impression that he really became a character.

Posted by: jimmy at April 16, 2009 11:45 AM

Brad Pitt was incredibly annoying in Burn After Reading. JIMMY'S criticism upthread is right on for that flick. It was just Pitt acting like a goof, it did not come off as natural, and (SPOILER SPOILER) I was kind of glad when his character got killed. Otherwise, I think Pitt has had his moments. I loved him in Seven, and 12 Monkeys was a lot of fun.

Posted by: stryker1121 at April 16, 2009 12:52 PM

"...some meagerly talented teenagers sing their hearts out for the chance to be owned and manipulated by a massive corporate organization that will eat them up, shit them out, and pull the gold teeth out of their turds." Watch the pronouns there Rowles, I think "their turds" should maybe have been "its turds" (or maybe the meagerly talented teenagers are taking craps after they've been eaten up and shitted out?). Also, last I counted there was only one teenaged contestant on AI. I know it doesn't meet Pajiba's lofty standards (HIMYM - WTF?), but AI's a great show, I particularly liked it when Simon shit-canned the blind guy - pure gold.

Posted by: sosumi at April 16, 2009 4:43 PM

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