What a wonderful quote from Alan Watts, Liz! One of the best things about your columns is the quote you always include, and this one is just so thought-provoking. As we used to say back in the sixties: "Heavy, man!"

I wonder, since Mastering the Art of French Cooking is back on the best-seller lists, that some marketing genius hasn’t figured out a way to get a DVD of Julia’s greatest shows together to "bundle" with the book? I’d go for that combo in a heartbeat. There are probably all kinds of legalities involved, but it would be a great idea.

Well, I was wrong to hang back. There is a lot I’d like to avoid in this film – people being scalped and beaten to death with a baseball bat – but when you compare it to what the Nazis did to millions, it becomes kind of a droll equal justice.

This is Tarantino’s wet dream of how to get even with Hitler and his minions and he has imagined a terrific story with super suspense and appealingly interesting characters.

There is no justification for watching anybody get scalped, beaten with a bat, maimed or tortured, no matter what the situation.  The fact that you could find any aspect of this worth praising goes to show just how far our society has sunk, and to what degree the media has its "hired clapper" puppets in place, promoting these sorts of ideals.  I don’t care if there are "appalling interesting characters" and I don’t care how suspenseful it is.  Hasn’t anybody ever heard of "two wrongs don’t make a right"??  Apparently not, since you said this:

…but when you compare it to what the Nazis did to millions, it becomes kind of a droll equal justice.

I’m not supporting what the Nazis did, but plain and simple, two wrongs don’t make a right.  If you find the idea of taking a bat to the skull of another human being, or peeling off the top of their head - even if it’s "fake" - because it’s supposedly good entertainment and "hey, look at what the Nazis did, right?" then you are no better than them.  

That’s okay, go back to being the hired clapper puppet reporting on mindless celeb drivel.  You sold your soul a long time ago anyway.

I remember sitting next to my Mom at the Beauty Salon as we waited to have our hair done.I was about 8 so this was 50 years OMG ago.Mom was flipping through one of the movie mags and she pointed to a picture of Gary Cooper and said his friends call him Coop.I dont know if they did or not but that night I decided that when I had a son his name would Cooper.Approximately 17 years later J Cooper was born.He has been called Coop,Coopy (by drippy girl friends) and when he played basketball there was a cheer that sounded to me like Cooie.He is as handsome as Gary and I think a wonderful namesake.

I wish that Tarantino had joined the police department instead of making films. The Nazi era does not need his input; depicting cruelty, pain, and torture is not entertainment, and certainly not on this subject. I have no sense of humor about the WWII atrocities. Those of us who  grew up in that period and perhaps lost relatives don’t appreciate his macho awfulness. It’s a sign of gross insensitivity and childishness to produce this rot.

Someone should pay for Tarantino’s boxing lessons and let him have a go at that; give up such junk, please. Who needs his spiel on this subject?

I went with a friend this weekend to this movie. My sons had been talking about it and I really didn’t want to see it but we decided since we had already seen Julie/Julia that we would see this movie.

Yes it showed scalping/and head bashing and was disturbing in some ways. But it was just a movie-not real- but it lets you see a part of history that everyone would just love to forget.

My friend and I loved the comedy and all of the actors/actresses were great.

I suggested to my sons to go see it and they saw it last night.

As for Dani Smith’s comment of "clapper puppet" you just keep on doing what you are doing because you gave a great review of the movie. Keep it up.