Loaded Couch Potatoes

As I recall, I predicted that Halloween II and The Final Destination would not both have good opening weekends, and in that, I was correct.

However, I was dead wrong about which one would be an achiever and which would be a loser.

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Somehow, I’ve managed to not write many reviews lately, so let’s take some time and play a moderately quick game of catch-up, with brief reviews of Ponyo, District 9, (500) Days of Summer, Inglourious Basterds, and Rob Zombie’s Halloween II.  No spoilers to be wary of.

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Say, uh … remember last week, when I suggested that it might be a close battle between Inglourious Basterds and Shorts?

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Two new teaser posters for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds have been released.

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The New York Times has a photo shoot profiling Diane Kruger, who co-stars in director Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Tarantino is also interviewed, and talks about the Cannes Film Festival, his love of Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, his new movie, his directorial influences, and more.

Talking to MTV Movies, director Eli Roth spoke recently about the short film he directed for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming WW2 flick Inglourious Basterds.

Roth directed a short film called “Stolz der Nation (The Nation’s Pride)” that will appear during Basterds as a Nazi propaganda film.  The short apparently features quite a bit of over-the-top Reich-style shenanigans, which made even Roth think he might have gone too far.

The director quipped that the Nazi party is “going to make me their Sarah Palin,” joking that skinheads may be confused by how such a great movie could have been directed by a Jew.  “It’s going to throw off all the neo-Nazi’s,” he continued, speaking to a reporter who apparently doesn’t know that when you want to use the written word to indicate a plural form of the word “Nazi,” you don’t put an apostrophe between the “i” and “s.”  That actually indicates a possessive, which is clearly not what Roth was saying.

Maybe MTV Movies was just playing along with Tarantino’s intentional misspellings in the movie’s title.  Yeah.  Yeah, I’m sure that’s what they were doing.

Vanity Fair has a lovely set of pohots by Brigitte Lacombe from the set of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.  Head over to their site to check out the photos.

The highly-anticipated film is scheduled to be released this August.