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Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Bursting with “action, hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Inglourious Basterds is “another Tarantino masterpiece” (Jake Hamilton, CBS-TV)! more info
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Inglorious Indeed.
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Even by Tarantino standards, it’s excessively verbose. Mind you, I like dialog films. That is, when the dialog goes somewhere and is meaningful. In past Tarantino films the dialog always built up to something spectacular, and in this film it just drones on and on to they point of incredible annoyance. The payoff for listening to these excessively lengthy dialogs does not warrant the time wasted to reach it. I also question the choice to use yellow subtitles. My vision isn’t that bad but I had a heck of a time trying to read the subtitles, especially during the brighter scenes or when the text was superimposed over one of the characters. I can appreciate what he was trying to accomplish with this film, but in the end I believe he failed.
Inglourious Jewish Revenge Fantasy
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Quite simply, the film is a Jewish Revenge Fantasy, and is fairly decent if you accept that when you watch it. It was definitely not quite what I was expecting. I expected the movie to be more about the “Basterds” and them kicking the crap out of every German they came across. It wasn’t. It was more about a Jewish woman’s plan to get revenge on the Nazis for killing her family. The “Basterds” seemed to hardly even be in the film. As other reviewers have said, the movie is very dialogue driven, with most of it subtitled German and French. It can be interesting at times, and dull at others.
I enjoyed parts of the movie, but there weren’t enough of those parts to really recommend the film to most viewers. Honestly the only people I can whole-heartedly recommend this to, are Jewish people with an undying hatred of everything German. If you’re in that category, you should without a doubt see this movie, and consider my 2-star rating a 4 or 5 star one instead.
As for people who just love seeing Nazis get wasted on film, I’m afraid there isn’t actually much of that in the movie.
Can’t stop watching!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
As many other reviews have stated, this movie is totally different then what I expected! I believed it would be focused on the “Basterds” and Pitt as their leader. However, a whole other story featuring a French Jewish woman named Shoshanna, aka Emmanuelle, took the main focus off the film. The “Basterds’” and Shoshanna’s paths are not related until they both plan to take out almost the whole Nazi party, even Hitler himself, at a movie premiere. Their plans succeed, however Shoshanna and nearly all of the “Basterds” die in the process.
I would have loved to see more of the Basterds’ exploits and they were clearly my favorite characters, aside from Christoph Waltz. Brad Pitt did a good job of playing Lieutenant Aldo Raine, but could have brought more to the character. His second in command Donny Donowitz, Eli Roth, is my favorite Basterd along with the recruited Gestapo murderer Hugo Stiglitz. I would be overjoyed if Tarantino made a prequel to this, but I’m sure those chances are quite slim.
I highly recommend this movie to everyone. It does not follow history at all, but does portray the war in a different light that is not at all disrespectful to veterans.
SUB-TITLES
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
UNLESS YOU LIKE TO READ DURING A MOVIE, DON’T BUT THIS ONE. IT IS ALMOST LIKE A FOREIGN FILM THERE ARE SO MANY SUB-TITLES TO READ – SO MUCH IS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTEAD OF JUST ENGLISH. I SPENT SO MUCH TIME READING WHAT THEY WERE SAYING THAT I DIDN’T GET TO WATCH MUCH OF THE VISUAL.
Felt Authentic For A Fake Story
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Synopsis: The movie is set in an alternate history during World War 2. Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) retreats to Paris after her family is brutally murdered by the Nazi SS and their leader, Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz.) She assumes a new identity as a movie house operator when she attracts the attention (and interest) of Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl), who wants to use her theater to show a movie filmed about his heroic exploits in the war to high-ranking German officers, including Adolf Hitler himself (Martin Wuttke). Though she is forced to go through with it, she does so while planning to extract her revenge for her family’s murder. Meanwhile, Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) watches over a group of Jewish-American soldiers who do everything possible to torment the Nazis with their brutal tactics (including scalping the dead and carving swastikas in the heads of survivors.) They eventually get intelligence about the movie and go to France in an effort to cause mayhem for the Nazis. Will Shosanna extract her revenge, or will the Nazis figure out her past? Will Landa and his men thwart the Basterds, or will they succeed in doing their business… which is killing Nazis?
Here’s the deal. I went and saw Valkyrie and was disappointed because while the story was one that deserved to be told, it was basically a bunch of American and British actors running around going “Oh look, we are ze Germans!” This movie, on the other hand, was a fake story that had casting that was beyond remarkable. Without the cast that this movie had, it would have either suffered horribly or simply not have made the splash that it made. I thought Waltz was the perfect choice for the movie’s chief antagonist, while Pitt was brilliant as the comedic relief in what would have been an otherwise dramatic film.
In the end, you have the typical elements that successfully make a Tarantino film: A strong heroine who’s getting her revenge, a story broken up in chapters/vignettes, and a combination of acting and cinematography that makes the impossible seem possible. This one is just as good as any of his other films and I recommend checking it out.
Movie making art
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Ingloruious Basterds (I think I spelled that incorrectly) was the best movie I’ve seen all year. This was my first QT movie , and I went into it with trepidation, expecting cartoonish violence and macho muscularity without much depth. What I got was masterful moving picture making. Every scene works (even the one intentionally–and self-mockingly?–cartoonishly violent “Bear Jew” scene) but the opening scene builds so slowly and perfectly that it matches anything Hitchcock crafted in its beauty, timing, recognition, and horror. It is a good example of why we still consider movies art as well as entertainment and commerce. The female lead, Melanie Laurent. is radiantly beautiful and richly deserving of an Oscar in her ability to show her fear and strength without words.
And you’ll laugh out load, and cheer for Basterds like you have never cheered for another bunch of vulgar misfits. If nothing else, Basterds proves–yes, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt–in its twisted and wildly historically incorrect view of World War II, that there can be evil that deserves this kind of revenge, and that justice can be measured in many Ingloruious ways. This is what the Greatest Generation fought for–but certainly not a history of how they fought or a primer for how to fight, a distinction which art can make that history can not.
If nothing else watch the first scene, then rewind and watch it again, and look for the way subtle things like eye movements can say sentences of literally unanswerable heartbreak without a single word being spoken.
Also, this was my first Bluray movie, and the picture and sound quality was superbly clear. It is movies like this that will convince you Bluray is worth the money to switch.
boring
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
i finally stopped watching half way thru the movie, bored to tears and wondering what was going on? Rent this puppy first before you spend money on it. glad i did, and it wasnt even worth the $3.25 rental fee.
Fun, Hilarious, and nearly stupid.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Inglorious Bastards is funny, fun, exciting, slick, graphic, suspenseful, calculating intense scenes, very politically correct, and gruesome…typically Tarantino stuff. However the movie enters the very, very ludicrous speed the fictional B-movie. Unfortunately it projects the usual stigma that all Germans during the period were Nazis, without remorse and deserved to die cruelly, unless of course if they were killing German soldiers. Interestingly, the movie does briefly touch upon the doctrine of Social Evolutionary Darwinism which the Socialist Nazis were basing their Reich expansion and cleansing on. This is discoursed in the beginning of the movie as an SS Officer explains it to a French country man who was hiding Jews.
However I can’t wait for Tarantino’s next Inglorious Bastards installment. The movie has a squad of surviving family members from 911 who joined the U.S. military and are a part of a merciless crew who go into Afghanistan and Pakistan killing any Taliban and Al Qaida they find. The special squad not only scalps the enemy but they rip off their beards. The movie ends when they get to burn to death Osama Bin laden and many of his leader Jihadists but only after spraying them with pig entrails.
An inglorious triumph for Tarantino!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
1944 Nazi-Ocupied France, it seems Adolf Hitler (Martin Wuttke) with his troops are taking over the country and killing off Jews. American soldier Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) with a group of Jewish-American Soldiers (Eli Roth, Christoph Waltz, Til Schweiger, B.J. Novak, Omar Doom, Michael Bacall, Paul Rust, Samm Levine) who call themselves the Basterds as they spread terror and fear to every Nazi in europe. They run across with a beautiful French-Jewish woman named Shoshana (Meline Laurent) who’s family was brutally killed by the Nazis as she runs a local movie theater in Paris to get revenge.
Featuring appearences by Mike Myers, Julie Dreyfuss, Rod Taylor, Diane Kruger and Bo Stevenson this is one hell of a Quentin Tarantino action-war thriller. Some people love this movie or hate it but i loves it since Quentin never fails me! i believe this is a unique and ultraviolent character study that breaks up in 5 parts like Pulp Fiction back in 1994 did with 3 parts in one movie. I love how this mixes history and fiction combined as the director knows how to do it right and i know the film is a bit slow paced for some but this was a delight to watch. It has a mix of art-house and mainstream all combined in one, if you like a good quality action-drama-character flick then i suggest checking this movie out.
The movie looks and sounds terrific in High-Def even with that theater quality on the sound with the parts during the war sequences. The Extras are terrific such as trailers, interviews, featurettes, poster gallery, camera angel feature, and extended & alternate scenes.
Can watch again & again
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Another wholly original film from Tarantino, and special kudos for his screenplay. Extremely entertaining with 3 powerhouse performances (Waltz, Laurent and Kruger), but the whole cast is great. I don’t place this one quite as high as Pulp or Kill Bills, but I look forward to watching this again.
Not what I expected
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
It was an OK movie, but if you are expecting it to be “all Basterds, all the time,” then you’re going to be disappointed. The movie seemed to move a bit too slow for me, as well. The previews hyped it as an intense, non-stop action type movie … and that isn’t what it was. There was some action, but the way the storyline was developed was kinda similar to beating a dead horse: We get it, already, now get to the action!
Christoph Waltz, the Reason You Should See the Film
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Well, I think other reviewers have already done a terrific job discussing the story and numerous movie references in Quentin Tarantino’s latest film “Inglourious Basterds,” so I will make my review brief. The real star of “Inglourious Basterds” is neither Brad Pitt nor Diane Kruger. It is Christoph Waltz as COL. Hans Landa, whose great performance deserves its own film.
From the moment he steps into a farmer’s house in occupied France (very intense Chapter 1, the best part of the film), we know Tarantino made a right choice. When the film is not boring, his character – smooth-talking, cunning and chilling – is always there. (Almost equally great is Michael Fassbender and the gripping basement scene involving his LT. Archie Hicox should not be missed.)
Probably those who have seen his “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs” must know what is coming in Tarantino’s take of a WWII-revenge story set in alternate Europe. Lots of violence have become a kind of trademark of the director (and I personally don’t think it is a bad thing for any director), but the violence in his previous movies has never been tasteless like this. Scalping? Hitting a defenseless man with a bat? Surely cinema wins the war, but in a very inglourious way.
This brings me back to where I started: Christoph Waltz. I can forget the tedious dialogues, pointless movie references (Brad Pitt as Aldo “Raine”?) and the presence of wooden Eli Roth, but not the ending which I strongly disagree with. See what happens to the best (and obviously cleverest) character in the film, and you know what I mean. But after all, this is a Brad Pitt film.
Good, but not what I expected from Quentin
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I bought this for my husband for Christmas because we are both huge Tarantino fans. Also, Brad Pitt helped confirm that I, too would like this movie.
It was very good, well written and well acted, but not what we expected.
Whenever I see a Q Tarantino movie, I brace myself for lots of brutal violence (ie Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction etc) We thought this movie would be about “killin’ Natsees” as the commercials showed.
SPOILER ALERT:
There was only one scene of the actual group of Jewish Soldiers, led by Pitt, “killin Natsees.” Most the film takes place after Hitler has already heard about “the bastards” and Hitler’s need to have them hunted down.
Also, although I don’t mind a good subtitled movie at all, I didn’t expect FOUR different languages from Tarantino. (English, German, Italian and French.) All but the English subtitled and the German and French used extensively. I am a FAST reader, and we had to rewind the film a few times, so I could pick up the written dialogue. My poor husband almost gave up and let me narrate, and then he didn’t care for that, so we just keep rewinding, because the dialogue was very realistic and rapid fire.
The plot was very complicated, and with the Babel of languages, I really think we HAVE TO watch this film a second and even more times just to get the jist of it.
From what we did get, it was very well done. The cast is larger than I thought it would be, and there were several plots going on at once.
This may herald a new phase for Tarantino. More substance and less violence. More well developed characters and……less violence. Not that there wasn’t ANY violence, no, this film was violent. We’d give it a 7 on a scale of 10, with Reservoir Dogs a 9 and Pulp Fiction an 8. He may have left his “heads exploding, ears being cut off, people being set on fire while alive and needles plunged into hearts” in his past for more substantial work.
As usual the story was very well done. The “Historical Inaccuracy” (which some people were quite bothered by) didn’t bother us, as Tarantino often dabbles in some nearly paranormal or alternative material (what WAS in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction?) in his movies.
All in all, good film, just be prepared to READ (meaning more than one reason to have the kiddies busy with something child oriented in an other room or asleep when you put this DVD to watch.)
The fantasy of charging in and killing Hitler
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Part World War II movie, part revenge movie, “Inglorious Basterds” is basically the fulfillment of people’s fantasy of seeing someone charging in to kill the Nazis responsible for so many heinous crimes. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) leads a platoon of Jewish American soldiers, also known as the basterds, who charge in and kill every Nazi they encounter. The movie also includes an interesting character-driven plot which intersects with the more direct fighting. Shosanna is a Jewish woman living in Paris as a theater owner whose family were killed. There she encounters Landa (Christoph Waltz), the “Jew Hunter” who was responsible for wiping out her family years ago.
The storyline with Pitt’s character is both bloody and funny at times. The platoon is successful at killing Nazis and instilling fear into them. It includes a long scene in a bar where some of the basterds are set to meet with an undercover actress who has a plan to ambush the Nazi high command. The scene becomes very tense when the basterds disguised as Nazis are confronted by a real Nazi officer. Things don’t turn out quite as intended, but they still get details on the ambush plan. The actress reveals that Hitler and other officials are scheduled to appear for a Nazi film premier at a small Paris theater. Naturally, the theater is owned by Shosanna, who – unbeknownst to the basterds – develops her own plan against the Nazis. Landa, who is partly in charge of orchestrating the film premier at the theater, manages to track down the basterds to the theater and devises his own plan.
Although the story itself is entirely fictional, Tarantino did make the film rather accurate in other ways. One of the funniest scenes is when Raine is undercover as an Italian and it becomes clear he doesn’t really know much Italian. The acting is great, especially Christoph Waltz who deserves all the awards recognition he’s gotten. The story and directing is what one has come to expect from Tarantino. He manages to make even bloody scenes be fun and writes characters who are interesting and three-dimensional. The film succeeds in providing both entertaining action and intriguing characters.
Revenge and Justice aptly portrayed
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Quentin Tarantino isn’t high on my list of directors. I’ve always had a difficult time watching most of his films, losing myself somewhere in the gore and inaneness.
Inglourious Basterds changed my perception of Tarantino as a director. I found the movie visually appealing and the story line believable. The Basterds brought to mind The Dirty Dozen on steroids with severe anger management issues but,as we all know, war is ugly.
Tarantino film displays this ugliness with a talented ease that was both graphic and detailed. Pitt portrayal of LT. Aldo Raine, with his snide and cutting commentaries and his basic he** with the rules theories, is excellent. Christopher Waltz as Col. Hans Landa made my skin crawl from his first appearance, stealthy and as cunning as a snake, all while he mentally examines his victims for weak spots.
All and all, if you can handle the gore, this is a fantastic movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat.