The title speaks for itself....has anybody seen any of his movies prior to Inglorious Basterds? Which ones were great? Worth watching? and which ones are on par with his Oscar winning performances?
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I heared that there are some movies in which he was great but the movies are not really interesting for foreign viewers. I'm Austrian but even I didn't watch any movie of him myself from the time prior his Hollywood career. As an example in one of his movies he played an Austrian singer. Not really interesting for an American I guess.
I've only seen a couple movies prior to him being in Inglorious and they were Ordinary Decent Criminal with Kevin Spacey and Dorian with Malcolm McDowell. Out of both of those the Kevin Spacey one is better but in my opinion not a good movie. It was pretty average. The other one....yeah...it was terrible but he was one of the good thing about the movie
"I'm just a happy camper! Rockin' and a-rollin'!" - Patrick Bateman, American Psycho
I totally recommend Kopfstand; it's one of Christoph's earlier films, and he is absolutely wonderful in it. It is subtitled as well as black & white and sort of has a "student film" feel to it, but I personally thought the film was an interesting watch and Christoph is absolutely captivating. I wrote a post on here about it with more of my thoughts, but definitely worth watching!!
shareI remember watching a cheap TV film called "Das Finale" in 1998 when I was 11 years old. It was about a terrorist group who threatened to blow up a football stadium during an important match - sort of like "Die Hard", and Christoph Waltz played the Hans-Gruber-ish villain.
This was the only time before "Basterds" that I had seen him in a film, and it wasn't even that good. But the name Christoph Waltz had been stuck in my head ever since then. He left such a lasting impression because he was sooo smooth and sinister. Heck, I even remember one of his lines: "Bravo! You can say 'cynical' without biting your tongue." A line from a bad TV movie that I saw only once, 15 years ago, when I was a kid.
I always thought it meant something, and so I wasn't really surprised when in 2009 he came seemingly out of nothing.
Here are two stills from the film (that's about all you can find online, there isn't even a clip on YouTube):
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