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Super Reviewer. Rate this movie Oof, that was Rotten. What did you think of the movie? Step 2 of 2 How did you buy your ticket? Let's get your review verified. Fandango AMCTheatres. More Info. Another friend and I have debated over whether Landa recognizes Shoshanna at their meeting in the French restaurant. He claims yes, as Landa orders her milk and then puts his cigarette out in his cream, a reference to her earlier life on a dairy farm.

I feel this is meant to cause tension, but there is no reason to believe Landa would recognize a woman he has never seen face to face and goes by a new name. Tarantino is finally maturing as a director, moving away from his sophomoric days and pop culture fascination. Sure, he still has his moments -- the introduction of Sergeant Stiglitz Til Schweiger , for example, or using Sam Jackson for a voice-over, or the Bear Jew -- but all in all this looks like a new direction that shows great promise and I expect Oscar nominations to be in the near future.

I have read criticisms of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds", saying that it glorifies violence or that it glosses over Nazi atrocities.

Some people apparently don't realize that no part of the movie is meant to be taken seriously. This flick should not be interpreted as a historical film. It is basically a comedic spaghetti western set in WWII. Brad Pitt, playing a none-too-educated but extremely clever yokel leading a platoon of Jewish-American soldiers into Nazi-occupied France to kill and scalp Nazis, puts on one of the funniest performances that I've seen in years.

As is the case with pretty much any Tarantino movie, this is one that squeamish people should avoid as if it was the H1N1 virus. For non-squeamish people, this is the flick for you! Tarantino is not afraid to show anything and play it for laughs. The scene in the cinema is, in my opinion, the movie's highlight: I would rank it right up there with Gene Kelly's stroll down the pluvial sidewalk in "Singin' in the Rain".

Among the rest of the cast: Christoph Waltz as Nazi Col. All in all, I recommend this movie as much as possible. Then it moves to the story of the "Basterds", an army of eight men, led by Lt. Aldo Raine Brad Pitt and Sgt. Three years on, Shosanna, under a new identity, has found safety repairing a small Paris cinema, with German sniper Pvt. She, with the help of the Basterds have devised a way to get many Nazi officers, as well as the key Nazi leaders, including Joseph Goebbels Sylvester Groth , and of course Hitler, at a premiere for a new film.

With everything set it all looks good to go, one or two glitches occur during the night, but the mission goes completely to plan - of course this is not historical fact, so don't be surprised to see Hitler mashed to death by gunfire. Archie Hicox, Til Schweiger as Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz, B. Novak as Pfc. Jackson of course. It may be lengthy, and reading subtitles for the German dialogue is a little annoying, but with some very good performances, particularly a cool and determined Pitt, and a brilliantly charming but very sinister Waltz, plenty of nasty violence, a little amusing pop-culture like reference, and eye-catching wartime and explosive scenes, not much to complain about, it is a most worthwhile Second World War action adventure.

It's one of those movies that's difficult to evaluate because it's as inconsistent as it is. The plot is ludicrous yet there are very suspenseful moments embedded in it. Nobody could have made this except Quentin Tarantino -- it's that original -- and yet it rips off bits of business and entire subplots from a dozen or more other sources.

Any enthusiasm I felt for it is limited because some scenes -- the entirety of "Chapter One" -- approach a kind of pornography of torture that's in danger of becoming a genre unto itself, and Tarantino, the writer and director, seems to get too much of a kick out what is some pretty ugly stuff.

Brad Pitt is an American officer with an atrocious mountain accent who recruits a half dozen men to be inserted into France with the object of killing Nazis. The men are Jewish. The reasoning goes: the Nazis kill Jews, therefore we will kill Nazis. The collateral killing of any innocents is beside the point. The innocent must be punished along with the guilty. See "The Dirty Dozen" is you want a classier presentation of this moral nihilism.

Not only do Pitt and his men kill the Nazis they capture. They scalp them too, and Tarantino treats the audience several times to explicit scenes of the men slicing the scalps of hair from the skulls of the dead. One captured officer is told to indicate where his unit is and how well armed and refuses, saying he will not yield information that will endanger the lives of German soldiers.

There's a scene in "Reservoir Dogs," in which Michael Madsen is left alone with an innocent policeman and caresses his razor as he describes the pleasure he's going to get from torturing the prisoner. In "Reservoir Dogs," Madsen is the sadistic madman and the cop is the terrified captive who winds up being mutilated.

In "Inglorious Bastards," the German officer who refuses to give up the information is told he will have his brains beaten out by a Jew wielding a baseball bat -- "The Bear Jew.

The camera cuts between the blackness of the cave from with The Bear Jew will emerge -- we hear the bat banging against the wall and coming close -- and close ups of the horrified face of the officer awaiting his own death.

The horror is justified. The point is that the sadistic lunatic of "Reservoir Dogs" has become the hero now. Well -- what's the point of this scene? Just killing the recalcitrant officer is a violation of the Geneva Conventions. But why draw the scene out with such relish? What does Tarantino expect from the viewer? Chills, thrills -- exaltation -- during the anticipation of the grisly murder?

That's the kind of crap I'd expect in a cheap slasher movie before the pretty girl in the underwear gets her throat cut and blood splashes all over the walls. Both were essentially well-done in their own shocking ways.

But I can't forgive Tarantino for this one. I don't mind the in-jokes. The name of Pitt's officer is "Aldo Raine. Pitt is trying to pass himself off as a native Italian, and you ought to hear him mangle the word "arrivederci. Good performances for the most part, especially from Melanie Laurent who is unmistakably French, Christoph Waltz as the chief Nazi villain, and Daniel Bruhl as the fresh-faced young German hero who is given some inexplicable and uncharacteristically villainous lines just before he's done in.

The climax is a fantasy, which is okay, but there are signs of outright carelessness in the direction. I don't want to call it stupidity. The audience of high-ranking Nazis is sitting there watching a movie about a heroic sniper and everyone -- der Fuhrer included -- is laughing out loud as hundreds of American soldiers are shot and killed in a strictly Hollywood manner, twirling around, stunt men tumbling down stairs, anachronistic squibs exploding.

Does anyone actually believe that an audience of sophisticates would laugh during a movie like this? Or -- let me put it differently. We made the same kind of movie, "To Hell And Back," in which Audie Murphy played his historically heroic self and slaughtered hundreds of Germans.

Did anyone laugh? Tarantino unquestionably has a lot of movie-making skill. Maybe it's time for him to reconsider the parameters of his morality.

Tweekums 4 March This wartime movie follows two separate stories that are destined to meet in the final scenes. In the first Col. Hans 'The Jew Hunter' Landa enters a French farm house and, after talking to the farmer for some time, shoots the Jewish family he was hiding; one of them, eighteen year old Shosanna, manages to escape. When we next see her it is and she is running a cinema in Paris. Here she catches the eye of a young German soldier; she isn't interested in him but it turns out he is famous amongst the Germans thanks to his exploits as a sniper.

Meanwhile the second story follows a small group of Jewish American soldiers, nicknamed the 'Inglourious Basterds', who are working deep inside enemy territory killing any Germans they can get their hands on. When British Military Intelligence learns of the film premiere this group are brought into a plot to blow up the cinema with the help of a German actress, Bridget von Hammersmark, who has been working as a double agent.

The film opens more like a spaghetti western than a war film with the Germans arriving at a remote farmhouse. Christoph Waltz is delightfully menacing without ever issuing a direct threat or raising his voice; in this scene and for most of the movie. After this prologue things get more interesting as we switch between the two plots to kill Nazis at the cinema; at any time either could be exposed or they could somehow ruin the other's scheme.

Given that Tarantino's previous films are pretty bloody I expected this to be very violent but it isn't excessively; there are indeed moments of violence but more often there is just the feeling that something violent is about to happen; when it does it is short and bloody. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of Tarantino's earlier films as well as people looking for a thrilling war movie. Even though the title is virtually identical to Enzo G.

Far from it. Not only is it one of Tarantino's more original efforts to date, but it also one of his best films for a long time, a riveting tale of derring-do that features plenty of everything that made his first two movies such a success: great dialogue, wonderful performances Christoph Waltz is brilliant, as is an almost unrecognisable Mike Myers , excellent pacing, impressive direction, explosive violence, fantastic use of music, and more than a few playful visual touches of the kind that only Quentin seems to be able to get away with.

Despite being fairly talky in places, with the bulk of the dialogue spoken in either German or French and subtitled in English , the film is a thoroughly absorbing experience, with not a boring moment in its entire minutes. The long conversational scenes are brilliantly executed and entertaining in their own right, but they also serve to make the violence seem even more explosive and brutal when it happens.

And boy, is it nasty when it wants to be, with bloody scalpings, repeated baseball bat blows to the skull, and point-blank gunshots to the nether regions amongst the graphic carnage on display.

Those who have slated the film for its lack of historical accuracy are completely missing the point: Quentin is giving us his version of events, entertainment being the number one priority, facts be damned. It's daring movie-making and a whole lot of fun when approached with the right attitude. Definitely a Quentin Tarantino film, brilliant writing, but you gotta have a high tolerance for blood and gore. TxMike 29 January I've seen the highly-regarded Pulp Fiction twice, but it does nothing for me.

I don't consider it a good movie at all. But I always am amazed by Tarantino's writing, his characters always have the most interesting dialog. This small band are lead by Brad Pitt as LT. Aldo Raine, from the south, and he inspires his men to not only kill as many Nazis as they can, but also "bring me their scalps. What I enjoyed most about this movie are the scenes.

Unlike many modern movies where the editing switches away to something else frequently, here Tarantino spends ample time developing each extended scene. As the movie begins each one in sequence takes up about 20 minutes running time.

First we see the Nazi character nicknamed "the Jew Hunter", visiting a farmer suspected of hiding a Jewish family. Some directors might have filmed this in 5 or 6 minutes through its conclusion, but here we get 20 minutes, and every second of it is tense and interesting. Master film-making. And the rest of the movie uses a similar technique. Hans Landa, gets on her trail.

A meeting is set up where she will help the Nazi hunters, but we are never sure which side she is on. This movie is not for everyone, but for those who enjoy good film-making and superb dialog, this one is a real treat. SPOILERS: The conclusion comes at the small Paris movie theater, as all the Nazi brass, including Hitler, attend the premier showing of a film which glorifies a young sniper who killed about Allies over three days in a village. Unknown to each other, 3 different groups independently plan to exterminate all the theatergoers.

With guns, or explosives, or by burning down the theater. In this fictional story Hitler dies and the war ends early. Feb edit: I watched it again after two years, still a very absorbing film. May edit: Watched it again, every time I come away with an even better appreciation. When I decided to watch this film, I was clueless about it. The ads suggested that it was a comedy. It is, but not in the way one would think. I also didn't realize that it was directed by Quentin Tarantino. So basically, the whole thing was a surprise for me.

In many ways, "Inglourious Basterds" is a good surprise. It's an intriguing, interesting, highly fictional story, with tension throughout, especially in the beginning scene where Colonel Landa Christoph Waltz questions a French farmer Denis Menochet about hiding a Jewish family. The Basterds, led by Aldo Raine Brad Pitt are out to scalp Germans, and their mission collides with that of a Jewish woman Melanie Laurent who has fake papers and runs a film theater in Paris.

She has a mission, too, and on the night a film is shown that is to be attended by Hitler and SS officers, the plans take effect. Melanie Laurent and Diane Kruger, playing a German actress who is collaborating with the Americans, are both wonderful in their roles. Tarantino reminds us of the flammability of nitrate and of life, which in this film is pretty cheap. I don't want to give anything away. As with all films, take it for what it is, fictional with plot holes, and you will be entertained.

Quinoa 21 August Inglourious Basterds won't please everyone. It's not a full-blown crowd-pleaser like other dumber blockbusters from this past summer.

It's a war film, but in the same way that Pulp Fiction was a crime film. Some will be thrown off by things that people tend to take for granted with Quentin Tarantino films: it's "talky", with pages and pages of dialog performed sometimes like a stage play, and the violence, when it happens at a moments notice, is graphic and harsh and not with much hope for the character killed or injured or, in this case, scalped.

It might not even be a film some will claim is the greatest film ever of a generation like with PF. But, for me, it is about as pure a piece of cinematic bliss I could ask for this year. And, dare I suggest, it's as audacious and genre re-defining as anything Tarantino's done, or may do again. Tarantino makes up his own rules to break them down and see what makes them tick.

Godard was like that, but in this case we don't see a filmmaker lose control of his own rules as Godard ultimately did in his career. Instead its a sprawling epic that throws a few really big damn monkey wrenches into Americans vs. Germans vs. French in world war two. The other is, naturally, the Basterds.

Him and his men, which include "the Bear" Eli Roth in a surprisingly good turn and Hugo Stigliz, tear-ass around Europe taking down any Nazis in site the "killin' Nazi business" as Ray says very clearly , and its hear we see an exaggeration of the take-no-prisoners philosophy of men in combat. Too much to bring along. Better to sic the Bear on em. This review Helped me decide 1.

Had useful details 1. Read my mind 1. Report this review. Teen, 14 years old Written by jjjameson36 November 30, Favorite Movie of all Time This is easily my favorite movie of all time but in terms of when people should watch it in terms of age, it gets a little tricky. Now the thing you have to keep in mind with this flick is although there are comedic and unrealistic elements, the holocaust is still a looming theme and can be very upsetting for viewers of all age.

I am going to show the main violence of the movie on both sides. The Basterds: Kill, beat, scalp, shoot, and demolish nazis.

One of the more intense scenes on their part is when The bear jew Sgt. Donny Donowitz beats a nazis head in with a baseball bat. Nazis: easily the most intense part of this movie is the opening scene in which a man who is hiding jews cracks under pressure during interrogation, telling the interrogator where he is hiding jews after the interrogator assures the safety of him and his family.

The reason I say let STABLE fourteen year olds watch this is because at this point they have learned about and discussed all the themes of this movie in school and will be able to handle it. As far as sex goes there is like a 3 second shot of a clothed man and woman engaged in sexual activity but its pretty much a turn your head for 3 seconds and miss it. There is a lot of swearing but let's face it, you're not reading this because of the language and it is pretty spaced out.

This title contains: Positive Messages. Read my mind. All the swearing your teens would have most likely heard before. Positive role models.

Helped me decide. Had useful details. Teen, 14 years old Written by Henry Robertson July 9, Good Good movie. Really tense but funny film. Teen, 17 years old Written by AnimeMetalhead April 19, Funny and Brutal!

An amazing Tarantino film. Brutal violence but quite comedic for a WW2 film. Teen, 14 years old Written by JK April 18, Teen, 15 years old Written by AlexanderMongommery March 16, Best I saw This When i was 12 with my parents permission. It is Violent but its a masterpiece. Teen, 13 years old Written by Monkeysarefunny February 11, Good but This movie is an amazing movie no doubt about it. The main thing that's bad for younger viewers is that it might be boring to them because most of the movies is just people sitting down talking and for some kids they might not get it.