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Wednesday 04th November, 04:26 PM JST

“Inglourious Basterds” director Quentin Tarantino stands with stars Brad Pitt, and French actresses Melanie Laurent, far left, and Julie Dreyfus, during a promotional event at the Ritz-Carlton Tokyo on Wednesday. Tarantino is offering a full refund to anyone who walks out of his movie within an hour during the first four days of the movie’s run from Nov 20-23.

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grafton at 09:04 PM JST - 4th November

Poor Melanie Laurent, looks like they had to drag her out of her hospital bed to do this photo shoot.

What is it with Americans needing to re-write history? They didn’t do all that bad in WW2, so why reinvent their part in it? I was recently given (I would never have bought it) a copy of U571 in which a gang of Americans capture an enigma machine from a German u-boat. Sorry people but it never happened, it was the Brits that did it without any help from the US. I just can’t imagine that this nonsense is going to be any better, so unless I’m given a copy I will not be wasting money on some childish fantasy.
Junnama at 09:09 PM JST - 4th November

What is it with Americans needing to re-write history? They didn’t do all that bad in WW2, so why reinvent their part in it?

For fun - that's why it's called fiction!!
grafton at 09:36 PM JST - 4th November

Junnama at 09:09 PM JST - 4th November

So what you are saying is that films made by America about WW2 are fiction for fun and shouldn’t been seen as historically correct. I find that rather sad given that there must be thousands of exceptional true stories to be told about America’s part in that war. Inglorious bastards isn’t of course one of them.
Junnama at 09:46 PM JST - 4th November

No, I'm saying that there's a category for historically accurate books called non-fiction. If you want to read those they will be historically accurate and the are plenty of them out there, some made by Americans.

This movie happens to be fiction.

Just read "Berlin Noir" myself. I know that wasn't historically accurate, but I enjoyed it anyway.
nandakandamanda at 09:50 PM JST - 4th November

Whoops, Grafton, language!!!

At the end of U571 the credits were more properly given. * Meet Joe Black* was excellent, I thought. (I'm a regular guy.) As to Ing Bs above, the film gave me very mixed feelings. Definitely had strong points, and certainly very weak points, but which outweighed which, I haven't yet decided!
WilliB at 10:03 PM JST - 4th November

societymike:

" Pitt really hasn't been in a bad movie. "

Now he has.
stealth_one at 10:40 PM JST - 4th November

First time to see a photo op without a Japanese throw in unnecessarily.
Sarge at 11:05 PM JST - 4th November

Brad looks like a goat with that goatee.
taisho999 at 12:27 AM JST - 5th November

Brad looks like a inglorious hillbilly.
dr_jones at 01:27 AM JST - 5th November

Brad looks good for the first time ever with that goatee.
zurcronium at 06:05 AM JST - 5th November

yes, no, maybe, yes
usaexpat at 06:37 AM JST - 5th November

That is an unflattering blue dress, almost looks like a hospital gown.
sillygirl at 06:44 AM JST - 5th November

brad looks just plain dirty.
Blue_Tiger at 08:59 PM JST - 6th November

Brad Pitt is so overrated...
mechadamuramu at 12:33 AM JST - 10th November

Where is Christoph Waltz? He's the freakin star of the show! Without him the movie would have been just good instead of great.