Don't watch Kirk Honeycutt's stupid video review of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Not particularly trying to be mean, I just want to stick up for Quentin Tarantino and his intentions with Inglourious Basterds after a quickly written review was posted at The Hollywood Reporter. Now granted, I have not seen the movie yet as I'm still in the U.K. but I have read the script, TWICE, and have followed this project since just after Jackie Brownscreened in 1997 and we first got mention of the director's desire to make a World War II epic. I do know exactly what Quentin was trying to achieve here. So with that, please don't watch Kirk Honeycutt's terrible video review for this movie because it's misleading AND he gives away the fucking ending! That should be a statement powerful enough to avoid what he has to say. Giving away the ending and his detailing of the specific problems with what he saw shows his ignorance as a film reviewer, at least on this occassion. No doubt it's his editor's unworkable deadlines to get the review up as quickly as possible (less than an hour was it?), without giving Honeycutt time to think about what he had just seen. His review smacks of a gut reaction. Now I'm not trying to start a battle here, he could out-wit me with the English language and his body of reviews a thousand times over, but he's wrong on this one. Terribly wrong. The movie opens (and I believe ends) with ONCE UPON A TIME! This is a fantasy film, a film as Jeff Wells so rightly puts it is about the transformative power of cinema. Didn't you watch Sergio Leone movies when you growing up Kirk?

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