I think I’m all talked out on this film (today I’ve made two stops, here and Coleman’s Corner in Cinema, to talk about the film, which has been the first time in a week or so), but I want to assure you that your hard (and amazing) work wasn’t overlooked by this blogger.

I will certainly keep this in the back of my mind when I talk about the film at the end of the year. Great stuff, Andrew.

The only other blogger who is “Nay” on IB that springs to mind is Rick Olson at Coosa Creek Cinema, who isn’t buying the hype either.

You have really taken your study of the film a step further here, and as always your a fecund, ever-observant and analytically-challenging read. The problem in my case however, is I’m not sufficiently fascinated by the film, and found it long-winded and gruesomely sadistic, with some other passages that seemed overwritten. I’ll admit the farm house segment at the outset was excellent.

Your Dinae Krueger discussion is excellent by the way.

But when you say this:

“He coaxes us to whoop with delight as Nazis are machine-gunned and roasted alive, even as he presents us with a Nazi audience…whooping with delight as Allied soldiers are picked off like rabbits on screen at the Nation’s Pride premiere. It’s hard not to feel a little sting at the comparison…”

well, I must say I quite concur.