Inglourious Basterds

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Inglourious Basterds

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Inglourious Basterds

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

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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  • barrys
    November 23, 2009
    barrys
    What can I say. Tarantino always finds new ways to amaze the viewer. This was the opportunity of Inglorious Basterds, a movie full of action, drama and a little bit of black humor that we're used to watch in all Tarantino's movies. It is perfectly narrated and with an excellent r...( read more)hythm, yeah it maybe a little bloody but its never gross, its like I like say entertaining and justified violence. The story is excellent, set in WW II, a group of Jewish soldiers named "the basterds" travel throughout the Nazi occupied Europe killing German soldiers as an act of revenge, and the plot is perfectly written full of twists and with an unexpected ending. The cast is awesome, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Til Schweiger and even Mike Myers in a very short appearance were astonishing perfect. To conclude, Inglorious Basterds is the best movie from Quentin Tarantino maybe since Pulp Fiction, fully recommended and totally worthy.
  • mrpopcorn
    November 18, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France..."

    In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds so...( read more)on cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

    REVIEW

    Quentin Tarantino's epic homage to WWII 'men on a mission' films like "The Dirty Dozen" gets his ya-yas out big time in the Herculean task of a revenge fantasy involving the titular band of brothers, a platoon of 8 Jewish American soldiers led by the no- guts, no-glory Lt. Aldo Raine (Pitt, chewing every morsel of cinematic sinew from the bone, in QT's nod to film god Aldo Ray), a Hillbilly from hell, who are out to scalp & kill Nazis while a feverish plan to off the German's military elite - including Hitler ? in a world premiere event at a French occupied cinema run by survivor Shosanna Dreyfus (the beguilingly stoic Laurent), who also wants blood-soaked revenge for the murders of her family by Nazi detective Col. Hans Landa (Waltz, a shoo-in for Best Supporting Actor, as the evil hubris loving baddie here) whose uncanny knack for finding the truth may be his Achilles' heel. Blood-drenched with enough gallows' humor & QT's signature dialogue spewing get the best of the film's intentions in the long run but how can you fault him when this is clearly a valentine to cinema overall. One of the year's best.
  • benjaminguilbert2
    November 17, 2009
    benjaminguilbert2
    Beyond bad. Not even much fun to poke out of it. Mélanie Laurent's great however.

    Post scriptum:
    When I left the theater and wrote this I thought it would be evident for any one that this film was plain bad. But turns out it ain't, many of my friends actually quite enjoyed it. S...( read more)o here are a few arguments:

    - I don't see the interest of having two stories totally unrelated to each other within this film. The producer should have grown a pain and told Tarantino to pick inbetween two plots not to go for both. The result of this is that at the end they end up killing Hitler three times. Surely the guy was bad but to the point of needing to be shot, blown to pieces and then burned, just to make sure, that's a bit of overkill. The result is that you cannot build up interest for any of the two stories they canabilize one another.

    - Still on the story side, in as much as I have nothing against the scenaristic idea of killing Hitler, I do have a problem with pretty much all the rest. Frankly, who is to believe that a bunch of renegade Jewish soldiers could ever go around France for weeks without speaking French? In the same way who ever heard of Jewish dairy farmers in Western Europe? Etc. all these huge mistakes accumulated create a totally unbelievable framework that prevented me from appreciating the flick.

    - I really appreciated the effort of using a handful of languages in the film, it is always interesting. BUT for heaven's sake please have someone who speaks the language as well help the director, The result is that Tarantino was certainly unable to tell at what point Diane Kruger and specially Jacky Ido were off when playing.

    - It is understandable that Tarantino wants to break the codes or whatever he wants to do, but sometimes it just goes too far. In particular, the spectator is expected to care about a number of character he knows nothing about and who die tragically. It simply does not work like that.

    I could add a few other stuff, but most importantly, the film is ugly. It looks like it was edited by a monkey under drugs, the set is awful and the image looks like it was dept in milk for 4 days.

    So let me restate what is for me the obvious: this film is crap.

    PPS just remembering this white light makes me puke...

    BTW I've been told that Renoir used to say that humanism in movies was to give every character a reason to act as he dos, bad guys are not doing bad thing because they are bad but because they see it as good for them. For many characters in I.B. this aspect is totally missing, why is Brad Pitt character so anti-German? And it is true for most of the characters (I mean hello, Marcel accepts to burn alive for a love that is barely suggested, that's a bit too much).

    Oh and I forget to mention that I like some brain in my movies (I don't mean brain matter spread on the carpet but intelligence), just a touch, and frankly there is none whatsoever in this one. Come on, a story about an occupation force should have talked to an US director in the naughties. But no nothing. Quite unfortunate that Trantino forgot Melville who he said he loved and who has shot some of the rawest scenes about France during WWII.
  • Galeocerdo
    November 11, 2009
    Galeocerdo
    Time will tell if this is truly Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece, but in the very least it detracts nothing from his reputation as one of the most unique and talented American directors in modern film. What could have been a zany action picture is nearer a triumph of arthouse cine...( read more)ma; what could have been a self-obsessed homage is instead a completely original opus that transcends its inspirations as much as it loves them. The film is too idiosyncratic to be classified and too audacious to be paraphrased. Despite a few apparently unnecessary scenes and the distracting recognizability of Brad Pitt, the film holds together thanks to Tarantino's imitable writing and direction and the Oscar-caliber dexterity of its cast. Tarantino's movies tend to age well because they linger in mind, revealing their genius slowly, and this will be no exception.
  • Showrogan
    November 8, 2009
    Showrogan
    "You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business. And cousin, Business is a-boomin'."
    Its been a while since I watched anything with subtitles, so my eyes were a bit tired :) but otherwise o.k., which I'm glad for because this is not a...( read more) movie you can comment on unless you've seen it twice :)
    "Inglourious Basterds" is an epic by its own right, granted its a complete farce of World War II with no real moral standing, but...it's genius...in a Buster Keaton kinda way.
    And by the by, not ashamed to admit this but truth be told I didn't even know who Christoph Waltz was until this movie, but this performance alone has me fishing to find his previous movies, I mean he was fantastic! If no other member of this cast he stole the show...and ran with it :) If that's not an Oscar nod, then I don't know what will be worthy enough.
  • supaphly187
    November 24, 2009
    supaphly187
    Good story, but a little dragged out and not as intricate as other Quentin Tarantino plots.
  • innobuscha
    November 24, 2009
    innobuscha
    loved the ending. the movie slowly consumes you.
  • crimeprincess
    November 24, 2009
    crimeprincess
    i love brad pitt's accent sooo much.... he is a great actor!!!
  • Zanjum28
    November 24, 2009
    Zanjum28
    The tension in the first part of this movie (i.e chapter 1) is really well done, and i think probably the best part of the movie. It's told in a kind of Kill Bill style (or Kill Hitler style should i say!) with chapters and lots of bloodshed. Got to hand it to Tarantino he's pul...( read more)led another one out the bag, if he keeps this up we might even forget about that shambles of a movie he made last time!
  • daghka
    November 24, 2009
    daghka
    Straight up badass, I would have docked it due to the ending, but I loved the dialogue here. Tarantino is back in his game.
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