Quentin Tarantino makes war fun again.
Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" comes out next Friday, but the deluge of negative advance press seems to indicate we should be bored already. Quentin! Always with the talking and the self-indulgence and the references. He doesn't make it easy on himself; unlike Wes Anderson, who went from bad-haircut-geek to styled-out, blazer-wearing fashion template in under a decade, Tarantino hasn't learned anything about dealing with the press over his career. He's still prone to telling people what a great writer he is, which never helps. Because "Basterds" has been gestating and promised for an eternity (remember when Adam Sandler was going to star?), it's supposed to be the apotheosis of everything Tarantino's been building to, so really, no matter how it turned out, people were going to be disappointed. The most intriguing of this week's blitz of Tarantino interviews comes from Kevin Maher at the Times Online, who straight-up asks Tarantino...
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