Inglourious Basterds

I found it preposterous, violent for the sake of being violent, and only saved by some likable characters (most of whom met grisly ends). At least I was kinda drunk when I saw it...

Pulp Fiction in fatigues. If Quentin Tarantino wants to prove he's a genius he'll have to do a remake of My Dinner With Andre.

I admit that I'm just a tad into things that are unconventional and Tarantino has about the right recipe to make me nod even if I feel I've learned nothing from the films he directed. Inglorious Basterds is visually pleasing, with a satisfactory storyline and solid acting from the cast. There are enough violent, explosions, real bastards, and an unfulfilled love side plot *applause* to make me sit through the entire movie, winning over my ADD syndrome. The only problem was that I found Brad Pitt's fake accent quite annoying from the start.

I fall asleep everytime I try to watch it

Tarentino takes his inventive style of movie making to a new level with Inglourious Basterds. For me what's chiefly different in this one compared to his other works is that Basterds has a fantastic, grand, majestic; very classic kind of feel to it that even the greatest directors in history should be jealous of, and yes I know the extreme of what that statement means.

Great movie and once again, Tarantino proves himself to be a master of the monologue. Anyone remember "Check out the big brain on Brett..." in Pulp Fiction or the Sicilian monologue in True Romance... "Now tell me, am I lying?" The quotes from Col. Hans Landa are not only well written but are incredibly intelligent given its irony and humorous facade. I did find the end of Soshanna to be rather unfulfilling but the scene with Aldo Raine and his men trying to speak Italian was absolutely priceless.

It is a great movie! Definitely you should not accept it as a historic document, and there is no point accusing the author in the history falsification.

This film left me a bit dumbfounded, as I’d forgotten Tarantino’s staunch penchant for writing female roles in the feministic sense, i.e. portraying women as they are. Stanley Kubrick notoriously once answered a question of what he likes when making films by saying he knew what he didn’t like, and to me, that is the essential of Tarantino’s scripting of female roles. So, all in all, a feministic script. Good. But what about the film in other aspects? While the Kill Bill series served as a complete homage to Asian cinema, especially the pulp parts, this film waves hi to the western spaghetti films while staying true to his dialogue-cum-monologues. In every scene, Tarantino seemingly has decided that one or two character steals the scene with some quite outlandish acting. While Christoph Waltz’s acting is completely wonderful, the direction is tight and led me through a simple and great film, where two parallel stories start the film: one French girl is separated from her family because ... Read more