New To Theaters This Weekend: Inglourious Basterds, Post Grad, Shorts

Posted by Sean on August 21st, 2009   Filed under: New Releases

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Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is poised to claim the box office crown this weekend, but memories of the Grindhouse failure are still lingering. Is it a coincidence that Robert Rodriguez also has a new movie opening today, albeit one for kids? In addition to Shorts, there is also a new comedy from Shark Tale/Shrek co-director Vicky Jenson called Post Grad, and a documentary on the X Games… in 3-D! In limited release we have the Bobcat Goldthwaite dark comedy World’s Greatest Dad starring Robin Williams (which is also available on VOD), Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Five Minutes of Heaven, and a comedy no one has heard of starring Ben Stiller and Jason Schwartzman called The Marc Pease Experience, that seems to be getting screwed by Paramount. What will you be checking out this weekend?

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Comments (11)

  1. I’ll be surprised if Basterds does better than 25 mil. R rating and Tarantino is like Kevin Smith at the box office, people always expect him to do better than he will.

    Posted by Goon on August 21st, 2009

  2. Oh crap, what’s Rodriguez thinking? If his cash-grab kiddie flick outperforms Inglorious Basterds, I’ll make an oath to never pay to see a Rodriguez film ever again.

    Posted by Nuno on August 21st, 2009

  3. uuuuh, really two different audiences…

    Posted by rus in chicago on August 21st, 2009

  4. Yeah, I’m already seeing polarized opposite reviews on my Facebook feed:

    “Basterds is the film we’ve been waiting for since 1994.” followed shortly after by
    “its official. tarantino has lost his touch.”

    I love it. But whatever, seeing that with Avatar this afternoon. Three hours of my life in a theater today. Sweeet.

    Posted by Falsk on August 21st, 2009

  5. am I the only one that doesnt like Rodriguez as a director? I can’t stand his movies and I’m glad Tarantino is over his obsession with him.

    Posted by tim on August 21st, 2009

  6. I have to say that I saw Basterds at the Canadian Premier and I think everyone is going to be very surprised at how well done this film is. The trailer does not tell the whole story of this film and personally I think it’s the best thing Tarantino has done since Pulp Fiction.

    Posted by Jackson on August 21st, 2009

  7. Still have to wait for 2 weeks until Basterds comes out here :(

    Posted by Hanoi_Xan on August 21st, 2009

  8. Basterds is great. I agree with Goon that I’ll be stunned if it tops $25 million. The run time certainly doesn’t help matters, and I think second weekend sales for District 9 are going to siphon off some of its crowd.

    Posted by Matt Gamble on August 21st, 2009

  9. With Pitt and the (R) rating & with the sem’i’ hype online it’ll do about $35 to $43 million at best.

    Posted by jaime on August 21st, 2009

  10. I think Basterds might be disappointing for a lot of people expecting a Kill Bill-in-WW2 movie of crazy Jew revenge. Better than categorizing it as Tarantino’s WW2 adventure film is to categorize it as Tarantino’s WW2 ode to foreign film. It’s talky, subtitled, nuanced and unabashedly a love song to foreign films of the 20s-40s while being placed in the guise of a men-on-a-mission WW2 adventure flick. I thought it was absolutely amazing. The general public will hate it. People who love film of all kinds will fucking LOVE it. The performances are so utterly entertaining to watch you can’t help but get caught up in the extended dialogue scenes. I found some of the dialogue exchanges more exhilarating than the action (although it IS bloody goodness). Christoph Waltz is fucking phenomenal!

    I hope I’m wrong and everyone loves it. The better this does, the better the chance of QT getting on a roll and making more flicks with less time between them.

    Posted by Fatbologna on August 22nd, 2009

  11. and Basterds is dripping with language and accents that one could argue does more to place the story then the sets and costumes – eat it Bryan Singer!

    Posted by rus in chicago on August 22nd, 2009

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