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I enjoyed a lot of the movie, but there were a lot of parts I did not like at all.
I thought the dialogue scenes with the mounting/building tension were amazing. That's something I think QT does the best and is possibly where most of his talent lies. The humor was pretty good too, from Pitt's hilarity to how badass Stiglitz was. And let us not forget the awesomeness of the Bear Jew.
However, probably contrary to most peoples' motivation for going to the movie, I did not enjoy some of the action sequences. The one that stands out to me the most is Spoiler: the second to last sequence, when the theater is burning down, and Donny and Ulmer are on the balcony mowing down Nazis. Now on paper, all seems fine to me; killing Nazis like cattle, though calling them cattle would be an insult to livestock. However, the way the scene was presented, and I'm not even going to try to speculate if it was intentional, it didn't seem like good ol' nazi killin, but rather it looked like a bunch of people trying to get out of a burning building getting mowed down by some Columbine kids.
I think that maybe QT was going for this conflict of feeling though. He's always gone for a visceral reaction with his flicks, and this one I certainly felt.
I will have to agree with Brad Pitt's closing line, which is an obvious wink to the crowd from QT, even while thinking about the parts I didn't like. "I think this might just be my masterpiece."
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