Oscar Nominations Announced: Inglourious Basterds nominated for Best Picture!

Here's the competition:
Inglourious Basterds
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The Hurt Locker
Precious
Up In The Air
Up
An Education
A Serious Man
District 9
The Blind Side

Ibraheem Youssef has created some very cool looking minimalist posters for Tarantino's films.

Very cool stuff, and unlike most of the alternative poster designs I've ever seen, you can actually purchase these from Ibraheem's website.

Quentin was on the Tonight Show with Conan and came up with revenge movie idea for him.

Congrats to for Christoph Waltz for winning the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Inglourious Basterds.

QT says that depending on how Basterds does at the awards shows, we may get a prequel/sequel out of the deal - he's already got 40 pages of prequel material written.

Inglourious Basterds has been nominated for 4 Golden Globe awards including:

Oh, and the Blu Ray, 2-Disc Special Edition, and regular DVDs were released yesterday.

QT is doing cell phone commercials in Japan.

Having recently discussed what comic or superhero movie we (and by we I mean us...you and me and him and her) would like to see QT add to his list of creations we now get (straight from the horses mouth no less) the info that our man was offered a shot at putting together Green Lantern a while back. You can check out this little nugget over at Comicvine.com.

Quentin is still promising the Kill Bill sequel. He told MTV that there is no script yet, it won't be called Kill Bill V3, and he'll probably make another movie first.

Amazon.com has our Academy Award hopeful available for pre-order. You can find the two disc DVD here.

A Quentin Tarantino pumpkin.

Tarantino once said (and I am paraphrasing here) he would never do a comic (or was it superhero?) movie because of all the critical crap and b.s. that comes from your typical fanboy. Regardless, wouldn't it be great to see a Tarantino-esque PUNISHER film? Or perhaps his take on PREACHER? So the question of the day is what Comic Book movie would you like to see Q.T. take on? Here a few of the top choices, but feel free to toss in one of your own.

PUNISHER
PREACHER
100 BULLETS
STRAY BULLETS
WOLVERINE
SUPERMAN
CAPTAIN AMERICA
JUSTICE LEAGUE
GHOST RIDER
CRIMINAL
UNKNOWN SOLDIER
MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER

Bret Easton Ellis calls Inglourious Basterds a masterpiece.

At Reason Online - The Glourious Basterd: In defense of Quentin Tarantino.

Beware of spoilers for Basterds if you haven't seen it yet (like me!).

Thought you might enjoy some of the hate mail I get for having the nerve to run a website about a guy making movies.

I am guessing your website is all about Quentin Tarintino,

I saw 'Inglorious Basterds',
was bored by the dialog, and sickened by the violence.

Mr Tarintino seems to take every opportunity to show this..and he should be arrested, or committed to an asylum,
and yet, you dedicate your precious time maintaining a website in in his honor.

In this particular movie it seems that the audience were meant to relate to or support the 'heros' regular mutilation and reveling in taking human life.

Do you notice that so often in Quentins movies the 'good' guys take some pleasue in revenge, or laugh at someones pain or misfortune ?
This is not what a good soldier, hero, or ordinary person ever does.

Quentin is unintentionally revealing his sadistic nature, he is emotionally defective, an idiot psychotic.

And yet, you pathetic worms, dedicate a website to the morbid, uninspiring tripe that he regularly vomits onto the screen.
You are participating in his self absorbed, violent fantasy.

You disgust me.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
You are the enemies of humanity, worse than Nazis ever were.

So I'm worse than the Nazi's, but he's the one advocating that Tarantino be arrested for filming fictional violence. Just can't make this shit up.

Ingllouious Basterds is going to be the #1 movie this weekend with about $35m in sales.

That also makes it Tarantino's biggest opening weekend ever.

Here's the 3 posters you can get from AllPosters.com - Primary (white background) poster, Helmet poster, Basterds Group poster.

A glowing review of Basterds over at Pajamas Media.

Custom Inglourious Basterds posters from the the showing of the film by the Austin Film society.

So now the German critics love Inglourious Basterds - calling it "historic" and "important".

Funny how times change.