Inglourious Basterds

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Inglourious Basterds

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Inglourious Basterds

Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz

In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity ...( read more  read more... )as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

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  • mjgildea
    December 16, 2009
    mjgildea
    Somewhere along the line I heard the term "fabulous mess" to describe Inglourious Basterds and I couldn't agree more. The opening sequence is something straight from Sergio Leone and the final big sequence is complete and total grindhouse madness. Even though the trailers profess...( read more) this movie to be something way off the mark from what is actually delivered, Inglourious Basterds is a total blast. Brad Pitt is fucking hysterical and Eli Roth was a riot. And Cristoph Waltz. Oh, CHristoph Waltz...! Unfortunately, the story is too big to keep most of the great, great characters around for too long but you definitely enjoy your time with them even if you feel a little gypped. As always Quentin Tarantino's dialogue and direction are superb to the point where the blatant historical inaccuracy at the end of the movie is easily overlooked. The Samuel L. Jackson and Harvey Keitel cameos were also a nice touch. I wouldn't call Inglourious Basterds Tarantino's masterpiece but its definitely up there.
  • g0disd3ad
    December 14, 2009
    g0disd3ad
    Tarantino is one of my favorites out there, and this movie makes no exception to the quality we're used of having from him. Pitt delivers an incredible performance in here, his best since Fight Club according to me, and the whole crew, Waltz, Schweiger, Roth, Kruger, are all wond...( read more)erful. A beautiful christmas present for all of you out tehre, enjoy :)
  • smith44
    December 11, 2009
    smith44
    Another Tarantino classic. Christoph Waltz is almost guaranteed to win the best supporting oscar this year for his movie stealing role as the 'jew hunter'.
  • stuartb1234
    December 8, 2009
    stuartb1234
    Very overated movie. Was expecting so much more and found this to be a terrible let down. The parts with the Germans are just so boring and the only highlight is Brad Pitt who after a while just becomes annoying. So many films have done war so much better. Avoid!
  • phubbs1
    December 2, 2009
    phubbs1
    Typical Tarantino springs to mind with this, like almost every film he has made the style or mixed story lines is always evident and to be honest its kinda old now. Much like Pulp Fiction the stories jump around and intertwine themselves until you get the finished final story end...( read more)ing which wraps it all together, the stories aren't really that interesting and again in Tarantino style there are huge amounts useless dialog and not much else.
    I've never seen the original Bastards film so I cant compare but suffice to say this new version is probably much more bloody and alittle unpleasant at times too, some scenes of death are quite nasty and leave a nasty after taste or feeling inside, you have to wonder why it needed to be quite so graphic at times, eg. a German officer getting his head and body smashed to bits by a baseball bat wielding US soldier, much to the delight of his comrades.

    The acting is a total cross of brilliance and crapola, the brilliance being Christoph Waltz as a German officer, his performance is both intriguing and alluring as he switches between four European accents and shows a tour de force of acting. The crapola being Pitt as the US Lt, he is badly badly cast and shows how shite an actor he really is when you compare him to all the other performers, terrible choice and clearly made to bring in the $$$. Mélanie Laurent and Diane Kruger also give great performances both showing their bilingual and emotional skills in top form, the use of Euro languages does give the film a much needed boost of realism and competence which saves it from total disaster frankly.

    A film of two halves really, its fine in places but bad in most, its also unnecessary violent in the small scenes of action and has way too much pointless speech in others. Don't believe the hype with this, just because Tarantino made it means nothing and rehashing the same formula in which to make a film is also a good way to bore people, Quentin needs to move on and try new ways of creating his films. Gloriously dull and overrated.
  • jenniferlesniak
    December 16, 2009
    jenniferlesniak
    i liked how it was based in the past. most movies have to do with the present or future
  • trisarahtops22
    December 16, 2009
    trisarahtops22
    I loved it! Loved everything about it. I have nothing bad to say...
  • Daver89
    December 16, 2009
    Daver89
    Great movie. Keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting for something to go wrong, even though the scenes are about 30 minutes long, and it's all mainly conversations.
  • phillip316
    December 16, 2009
    phillip316
    Awesome movie typical Tarantino movie but Brad Pitt stole the show it was different from anything he's done.
  • alasdairiv
    December 16, 2009
    alasdairiv
    It is hopelessly anachronistic, full of tired plot devices, and majors on shocking violence without needing such to tell the story. It has also been promoted incorrrectly.
    Synopses state that it is about a gang of Jewish - American assassins of Nazis in WWII France. However, th...( read more)at is not the main plot at all, it's merely a background for the revenge planned by a Jewish girl whose family is massacred by a famed Nazi Jew hunter. She goes on to run a cinema in Paris, and uses that position to plot the massacre of all the Nazi top brass who attend a premier film screening at her cinema. Some members of Brad Pitt's assasination squad (the 'Bas...rds') are also involved, but they are really a side issue.
    Revenge and violence is again Tarantino's main theme. However, this film for the most part lacks authenticity and emotional depth. Even Kill Bill tugged the heart's strings more than this one, with the Bride portrayed as an avenging angel.
    But what is really interesting about this movie is its blatant celebration of 'Jewish power'- not only in it's fantasy of a war-time Nazi-killing squad, but also a forthright statement of the Jewish domination of Hollywood's film culture. Josef Goebels is shown as deliberately seeking to create a National Socialist film culture which repudiates the Jewish cultural power of 1920s Germany, according to a British film commentator, who becomes a special operations agent sent behind enemy lines in France. Of course the Nazi films which Goebells champions are portrayed as mere war flicks with only violence, shooting and without any depth of anything.
    One wonders actually where Tarantino stands in all this?
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