I kept checking my watch in the theater during the movie. Every scene is way too long, not because of its time length, but because the dialogue is blah and the characters are grossly underdeveloped (except the Nazi Col. Jew Hunter).
The fighting and shooting scenes are sloppy: defying logic and lacking grace. I wish John Woo were doing those sequences. Along that thought, I wish Lubitsch were doing the dialogue ("To Be or Not To Be" comes to mind), and Kubrick did the whole movie ("Dr. Strangelove" comes to mind)!
Maybe all this is a big in-joke to you; to me, it's a bad movie I wish I didn't get. Quentin had brilliant ideas to start with, but he fumbled terribly in the execution.
The fighting and shooting scenes are sloppy: defying logic and lacking grace. I wish John Woo were doing those sequences. Along that thought, I wish Lubitsch were doing the dialogue ("To Be or Not To Be" comes to mind), and Kubrick did the whole movie ("Dr. Strangelove" comes to mind)!
Maybe all this is a big in-joke to you; to me, it's a bad movie I wish I didn't get. Quentin had brilliant ideas to start with, but he fumbled terribly in the execution.