{"id":263,"date":"2009-09-16T16:11:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T23:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayivey.com\/wordpress\/?p=263"},"modified":"2009-09-16T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T23:12:51","slug":"actor-to-watch-michael-fassbender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rayivey.com\/wordpress\/actor-to-watch-michael-fassbender\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-follow synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ray.ivey1\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; width:48px;height:48px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rayivey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/96x96\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-follow synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Follow us on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/starkravingray\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Follow us on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; width:48px;height:48px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rayivey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/96x96\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-follow synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-rss nolightbox\" data-provider=\"rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Subscribe to our RSS Feed\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/MyFeedName\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rss\" title=\"Subscribe to our RSS Feed\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; width:48px;height:48px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rayivey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/96x96\/rss.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-follow synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-instagram nolightbox\" data-provider=\"instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Check out our instagram feed\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/starkravingray\/\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"instagram\" title=\"Check out our instagram feed\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; width:48px;height:48px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rayivey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/96x96\/instagram.png\" \/><\/a><p> I finally saw Quentin Tarantino\u2019s new epic Inglourious Basterds.  I really admire three of Tarantino\u2019s films.  That is,  the first three: Reservoir Dogs,  Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown.  I hated Kill Bill and sort of enjoyed his contribution to Grind House.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0I didn\u2019t love Inglourious Basterds.  It\u2019s okay.  It\u2019s very long and talky,  and even though Tarantino does talky very well,  that doesn\u2019t mean he should indulge himself beyond what makes the movie better.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Like everyone else who\u2019s seen the movie,  I admired the impressive performance by Christoph Waltz,  the quadrilingual Nazi villain.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0But for me the big pleasant surprise of the movie was the performance of Michael Fassbender as Lt.  Archie Hicox.  Hicox goes behind enemy lines posing as a German in order to help set up an ambitious ambush.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Hicox is only in a couple of scenes,  but his last one is quite long.  I\u2019ve only seen Fassbender in one other film,  300,  in which I admired his abs,  but that movie wasn\u2019t really about acting.  And the abs were probably CGI,  anyway.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Fassbender recently starred as the ill-fated Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands in a movie called Hunger.  He was also in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers,  which I tried to watch but had to give up because it was so boring.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Fassbender himself is Irish and German,  and his fluent German came in handy for his role in Inglourious Basterds.  In the movie Fassbender displays an uncommon degree of charisma and intensity.  The fairly sleepy movie really woke up when he walked on screen.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Fassbender has several new films in the works,  and I look forward to seeing him do other things.<\/p>\n<p><div itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AggregateRating\">Average Rating: <span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">4.4<\/span> out of <span itemprop=\"bestRating\">5<\/span> based on <span itemprop=\"reviewCount\">194<\/span> user reviews.<\/span><\/div><\/p><p>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"http:\/\/schema.org\/\",\n  \"@type\": \"Review\",\n\"datePublished\":\"April 29, 2026\",\n  \"itemReviewed\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Product\",\n    \"name\": \"Male Enhancement Pills\"\n  },\n  \"reviewRating\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Rating\",\n    \"ratingValue\": \"4.4\"\n  },\n\n  \"author\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n    \"name\": \"LegitScript\"\n  },\n  \"reviewBody\": \"Excellent quality at low price. 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I really admire three of Tarantino\u2019s films. That is, the first three: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. I hated Kill Bill and sort of enjoyed his contribution to Grind House. \u00a0 \u00a0I didn\u2019t love Inglourious Basterds. It\u2019s okay. 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