Some things can be sliding scales rather than binaries.

I thought I independently came up with that Wahlberg comparison, and now I’m not feeling so clever.

I may not believe in any objective morality, but those murders would seem to match up with any definition of pure evil in common parlance.

I like much of your comment, but the wealthy moving away from the city is more a feature of the Great Sixties Freakout crimewave. After crime started declining in the mid-90s, we got gentrification with the wealthy moving back into downtowns. I know you mentioned gentrification, but like I said that’s more typical of…

“Juvenile” is right. My reaction to Inglourious Basterds was to compare it to when I gatling-gunned mecha-Hitler into a puddle of blood in Wolfenstein 3D. Mark Wahlberg talking about how he would have prevented 9/11 if he were on the plane is another comparable fantasy.

All violence against those hippies is “deserving”!

Agreed, and I’m surprised you’re the only person I’ve read point that out. Tarantino could have written a simple beatdown (which Cliff delivers later), but instead it’s an unfinished fight where they’re technically tied but now prepared for what the other can throw at them.

I don’t think Tarantino is a Christian, though he is a gentile (and not of the sort targeted by Nazis).

My feeling is the opposite, possibly because I was spoiled for this and not the other. This is a less impactful change, and the lack of involvement of some real people plays into that. I suppose the Manson family also fit more easily into a mockery of hippiedom, whereas you really have to go all in to make a comedy…

Reservoir Dogs doesn’t. Hateful 8 ends with a pyhrric victory (which also forms the end of one subplot in Inglourious Basterds, although that was less reactive).

Is there a specific person you can point us to, or anywhere this story has been published?

Maqus overrunning a nationalist garrison after the nationalists won the Spanish Civil War was also a bit of historical revisionism/fantasy. Not on the scale of killing Hitler, of course.

Rick Dalton is more pathetic than scumbag, and most of the film is about him.

There were no prominent black actors in Reservoir Dogs, but it still contained the slur in 100% white scenes.

I thought the cutaways to Rick’s acting should have been tightened up, but the trip to Spahn ranch was an effective bit of tension which is otherwise in the film lacking up until the end.

Rick is clearly the lead, while Cliff is the non-protagonist hero. I agree he’s surprisingly lacking in inner life, and in most stories even supporting characters (including Sancho Panza, but also ones of intermediate prominence) have more of that, which is one of the things we judge them by.

I just saw & enjoyed it, but I was unaware anyone complained specifically that they didn’t get to see a Tarantino-directed version of Tate’s murder (complaints about historical revisionism are not exactly the same thing).

It’s a little known fact that he was actually born without a face, but it’s added in post-production via CGI.

I think it’s a stretch to say that the show is currently based on some German novel since they (from what I can tell) adapted the whole plot in the first season, and it’s set somewhere else. The second season was better than I expected, particularly since the recurring Bill Pullman character is not that interesting…

Just to be clear, only my first two sentences there were about Dexter, while the rest were about Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire.