Last night we viewed the DVD of Inglorious Basterds. If you haven't yet seen it, don't bother. The story doesn't hang together, the use of "chapters" within the film seems artificial and phony, and the pacing is all wrong - it spends entirely too much time on some scenes and not enough on others. Folks in Hollywood may wish the war had turned out this way, but it did not, not even close. So we got subjected to this piece of Hollywood wish fulfillment. Don't let it happen to you.
Earlier this evening we viewed Maiden Heist, a comedy art theft film. It was so-so, not bad but not great either. It has a good cast, except for the gal who played Christopher Walken's wife=she had the lines and accent of a shrew but the appearance of an attractive young woman. The dialog and accent didn't go with her appearance. They tried to cover this but the cover didn't work.
Earlier in the week we viewed Johnny Depp's Public Enemy - I wasn't as impressed as I expected to be. The picture captures the feel of the era but I never felt like I was siding with John Dillinger, and in that sense I suspect the picture was a failure. Where films are concerned, I am hard to please.
