[quote=“Yasmin”]
Pitt hasn’t had a decent movie in years, not since Fightclub.
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No, his part in Babel was one of the best in his career.
In The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was great too.
I’ll admit he was good in Babel, but stick to what I said… he can’t carry a movie alone.
yeah, in fact I agree he’s the kind of actor who needs to be very well directed to be very good.
Guys, shit, Brad Pitt is an awesome actor what are you people on? Of course he can carry a movie and he will be great as Aldo Raine, (who btw doesn’t even “carry” the movie, it’s not that kind of film).
Kruger is gorgeous but i was hoping for Kinski because she needs a good career revival (and i recently saw Paris, Texas again…woooow).
Daniel Bruhl WILL NOT play Hans Landa, he can’t there is no way, he looks waaaay too young and Landa needs to be tete-a-tete with Aldo the Apache…that just can’t be with someone as innocent-looking and youthful as Daniel Bruhl. He must be playing Zoller because that role is perfect for him. The main villain i was hoping to be Til Schweiger but it seems now that they found some Christoph Waltz 
to play Landa. He definitely looks the part. So much more than Bruhl…
we’ll see how this pans out.
[quote=“Stiglitz”]
Kruger is gorgeous but i was hoping for Kinski because she needs a good career revival (and i recently saw Paris, Texas again…woooow).
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is that alone a reason for casting someone now? 
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Daniel Bruhl WILL NOT play Hans Landa, he can’t there is no way, he looks waaaay too young and Landa needs to be tete-a-tete with Aldo the Apache…that just can’t be with someone as innocent-looking and youthful as Daniel Bruhl. He must be playing Zoller because that role is perfect for him.
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if you say so, that’s how it must be
Brad Pitt is not an awesome actor (in my opinion), he’s got lucky with some roles on the back of being quite good looking once. If Babel is a sign of things to come, then he might win me over, but until then, he and George Clooney are just pretty boys with not much range. I’d like to see either of them do a performance as good Leonardo DiCaprio’s in the Aviator. (I compared them to him because he would be seen as just another pretty boy actor when Leo is much, much more.)
[quote=“Yasmin”]
Brad Pitt is not an awesome actor (in my opinion)[/quote]
Your opinion is wrong.
[quote=“Sebastian”]
is that alone a reason for casting someone now? 
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Heh, no, but it doesn’t hurt that Kinski is a better actress than Kruger either.
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if you say so, that’s how it must be
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Hey I’m just hoping that’s how it is because I read the script and know what happens to these characters, how they act etc. etc. When I read Landa and visualize Bruhl it. just. doesn’t. work.
yeah hit’s just the tone in which you wrote it, i couldn’t but respond cynical
btw i just noticed Fassbender was in Band of Brothers, as well. or have we mentioned that?
Just read about Diane Krüger. I have never been such a fan of her. She’s a bit shallow. At least we all know QT is a great actor director and Diane Krüger can be good with a good director. So I’m not that afraid. And at least physically she fits perfectly to be a sexy german and also as Seb wrote it on the frontpage, she has something very classic like Marlene Dietrich. What kind of character is Bridget Van Hammermack btw ?
[quote=“Sebastian”]
btw i just noticed Fassbender was in Band of Brothers, as well. or have we mentioned that?
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Perhapds, don’t remember his role. But it’s funny cause when I was mentionning actors from Saving Private Ryan, like Adam Goldberg and Giovanni Ribisi, I’ve heard that QT wouldn’t probably cast actors from such a famous recent war movie and would perfer to take more risks and get new actors. And now we had for a while Simon Pegg from Band of Brothers, now Fassbender also appears to be in and Band of Brothers is the exact alternative of Saving Private Ryan… Ironic in a way…
Pitt IS a very good actor. He had made many bad choices but you can understand that he CAN be good by watching films such as Fight Club and Babel. And don’t forget that it’s a Quentin’s film… He can even make me act decently!
Fernando Leo, have to check that out.
And speaking of Tropic Thunder, (just saw it), it starts with 3 hilarious Fake Trailers! I guess that’s just another QT invention that other directors will now use at will. The age of the meta-movie is really upon us.
Mike Myers is a Peter Sellers-type, hope QT can make him shine the way Kubrick did for Sellers.
I’m glad Brühl won’t be Landa. He’s the perfect Zoller.
Christoph Waltz is a great, versatile actor. Plus he speaks english and french as required. He’ll be awesome as Landa.
[quote=“Scarface”]
Your opinion is wrong.
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As a member of the Admin Society, shouldn’t you be encouraging members that each and every one of them is entitled to their opinion, whether or not you personally believe it is “wrong”. I don’t appreciate that, and rather than challenge it, I’ll just appreciate it for what it was - you posting for the sake of it.
actually, waltz looks exactly how i was imagining him while reading the script. it’s good that he’s a bit older and will be doin very well as the jew hunter EVEN THOUGH id wud have prefered to see someone more famous, simply because its such an interesting role u know. its kinda like when ledger got confirmed to play the joker, everybody was like omg ledger, how is he gonna do that, the joker is crazy is he crazy enough balblallba. but now i dont really know waltz is capable of and everything. but maybe thats quentins purpose, to choose a rather unkown actor to play this…absolute menace, you know.
Yeah, Waltz does look more like what I pictured for Landa also. An older, distiguished-looking gentleman.
Do you guys think that QT is having to cast 2nd/3rd/4th choices because he sprang the film so quickly? I mean, he went from “working on the first draft” for 10 years, to finished and announced for next year, in the blink of an eye. I think everyone’s jaw dropped to the ground when he announced that at Cannes.
Oh my God! Just discovered that Olivier Carbone, French casting director for IB, had worked for La Môme and 36 Quai des orfèvres, two works movie history is sure not to remember as classics. Just hope he doesn’t ruin all of this…