First thing I noticed was how inefficient the dialogue was. It beats around the bush in an attempt to be more natural and meandering, but it's just the usual contrived Tarrantino style of doing so. The content of the dialogue isn't even character based for the most part, but just whatever just sounds cool or plot told in a straight forward boring way with no emotional connection to whoever is talking. Worst of all is that it's all completely predictable from Tarrantino. It's the same dialogue style and voice every movie now and with almost every character. His whole dialogue writing is a big style of substance trick. Many praise his dialogue. It entertains people. That's fine. It's not great character based dialogue. It's hollywood cool. It's aggresive and trashy chic. It's why Pulp Fiction worked. It was a perfect fit for that movie. The characters were visually striking in that movie and had a job or purpose, which made them individual - even with simular dialogue. Pulp Fiction also had some plot and pace. A great farce. I'm no hater of Tarrantino and will always give his films a watch.
The way the movie is shot is good.
The story is slow and uninteresting itself. It does nothing for me. It's not that I hate ridiculous stories, but even ridiculous stories can cleverly tell us something interesting underneath the stupidity. That's what makes writing and movies special. The ability to tell a storymore connect with a character.
What story is this? It's a collage of trash, not a parody of styles. This movie is a complete mess and sad to watch. And what a bore, just waiting for something to happen and being left with the plot.
Luckily I found this movie in a pound shop as I looked for cheap DVDs. That was still too much for this.
Tgis is an adolescent wannabe movie buff movie. Self projection in that Tarrantino likes movies and I like him, therefore I like movie just as much as Tarrantino and get him.
I do NOT get why this movie gets so much love.
I get that it's not meant to be a historical movie. It's a revenge exploitation flick set in WWII, and the bad guys being the target of revenge here are the Nazis. I get that. At the same time, there's something so utterly morally corrupt about creating an unrealistic fantasy where badass Jews torture Nazis. It's the kind of thinking that has led to America using torture on captives: ultimate evil requires an equal response. It's so much against the ethos of the survivors of the Holocaust that it's embarrassing to watch. It's misguided revenge porn.
Ah, but if only the story that was being told was better. As it is, it's not so much a story as much as a sequence of masturbatory dialogues where Tarantino gets to feel clever about himself. People talk and talk and talk, and although there is an overlying sense of tension, it's so predictable every time it becomes tedious. There's just so many times we can watch a Nazi being passive aggressive with an undercover Jew before the shtick becomes boring, and each of these last so damn long... You get twenty whole minutes of a Nazi talking racist shit until the inevitable violence happens and Tarantino gets his money shot. We're talking porn-levels of sophistication, here, except it's about murdering evil Nazis.
It's well-directed for sure, and Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent do an amazing job, but man, that script is a big pile of self-indulgent crap. And I say this as someone who loves early Tarantino.
This is Quentin Tarantino's latest entry in the "I want to make movies that I like and you can go f yourself if you don't like them" collection.
In case you're not familiar with this film, the story involves a group of renegade Nazi hunters in Europe during World War 2. The head of this group is Brad Pitt - he plays a rather gruff southerner with a distaste for Germans.
This is probably one of Tarantino's three best works. The amazing thing is that he took what can be considered a period piece and made it his own. While the backdrop is the war, at times it is laugh out loud funny. In a sense it is a slightly more serious and violent version of "Hogan's Heroes". Even though there are serious topics at play here (after all, there are Nazi hunters chasing self-proclaimed "Jew Hunters") at no point does the movie ever really feel that serious.
Tarantino could have EASILY made this into a rollicking action movie (in a sense, Pitt's character is not unlike captain Jack Sparrow) but he resisted. In fact, after a hilarious scene about 30 minutes into the movie you really don't see a lot of Pitt until the end. The acting in this movie is top-notch (although I do have to admit that seeing Mike Myers play a brit took me out of the film for a minute. It just reminded me too much of Austin Powers).
I highly recommend this movie.
If there was one word to describe Inglorious Bastards it would be excellent. I had very high expectations for the Inglorious Bastards and after watching it I was blown away on how much I loved this movie and how well made it was. The beginning scene is great how it sets up how menacing Lt. Hans Landa is. The plot is really good. The writing is great, this has some fantastic character dialogue and some of Tarantino’s best writing. The acting from the whole cast is great but specially Christoph Waltz. He gives a great performance that’s menacing and feels authentic. It’s directed very well by Quentin Tarantino he should have won and Oscar for this movie. The shootouts and fights are awesome and a lot of Nazis die. The cinematography is great and the score as well. The soundtrack is really good like in every Tarantino movie. The ending in the theater and the events leading up to it are thrilling and the last scene is great right before the credits was great. Overall it’s an amazing movie that never lost my entertainment and is definitely one of Tarantino’s best and is really a masterpiece.
( 9 out of 10)
The movie "Inglourious Basterds" directed by Quentin Tarantino in 2009 is one of his popular and successful movies. The story of the film is told during World War II in France and is about a group of American soldiers and a Jewish actor who seek to assassinate the Nazi leadership in order to take revenge on the Nazis.
One of the main features of this movie is the combination of war and cinema. Tarantino creates one of the best movies of the 20s by combining an attractive and criminal story inspired by world movies and the excellent acting of his actors. Also, Tarantino has used many cinematic techniques such as beautiful images, strong dialogues and showing the power and darkness of the Nazis.
In the movie "Inglourious Basterds", a picture of the crimes of the Nazis in World War II is depicted. Tarantino has been able to portray the horror and fear of the Nazis in a way that no one else has been able to do and cast his actors in different roles. For example, Christoph Waltz played a great German detective and we have different impressions of him.
Overall, "Inglourious Basterds" is a fascinating and crime movie that draws inspiration from world history and movies, depicting an interesting and exciting story. Also, the excellent acting of the actors and the combination of war and cinema have made this film one of the best films of the 20s.
I don't think this can be properly appreciated without first knowing how it ends. Personally, I left the theater disappointed after my first viewing - like I'd been the butt of an enormous joke, with Quentin Tarantino taking full advantage of the kind of notoriety and clout he'd accumulated over the years to cash in on an intentional stink bomb. Now, a few years removed from the experience, I've given it another shot and left with an entirely different look on my face.
It's a magnificent film, dedicated to building up one impossible situation after the next; two full hours dedicated to stacking the dynamite. The implication, of course, is that he'll find a way to write himself out of it - and I suppose he does, just not in a way that anyone could have expected. It's an impervious blend of Tarantino's notoriously sharp-witted dialog, his ADD-influenced lack of focus on one particular storyline for more than twenty minutes, and a deep yearning to lead his audience into a false sense of security before dumping cold water over their heads.
Brad Pitt has the time of his life as the braggish, stereotypical war hero with an awful accent, but Christoph Waltz steals the show as a giddy turncoat Nazi sleuth. Basterds is a stroke of brilliance, weaving three distinctly different movies into one spectacular cinematic quilt. Where my initial impressions of the "did they just do that" climax were of shock and disdain, time and honest thought have transformed it into one of my favorite scenes. Ballsy, bright and bombastic, it deserves a spot alongside the director's classics.
Review by dunpealhunterVIP OG 14BlockedParent2012-06-02T04:08:49Z
Once Upon a Time... in Nazi-Occupied France....
It goes without saying that this is a masterpiece.
Everyone who is a film enthusiast knows who Quentin Tarantino is. In the nineties his movies became instant cult classics to such a degree that (most likely) a 100 years from now everyone will still see him as one of the best director that ever came out of Hollywood.
Inglourious Basterds is a WWII movie. But it is nothing like any WWII movie you have ever seen. Quentin Tarantino gave the story and history its own twist. There are too many historical inaccuracies to count, but who cares? Quentin Tarantino obviously didn't and created a movie filled with dark humor, an amazing intelligent script, as always very good music and some of the most talented actors currently in the business.
WWII was one of the most horrific and devastating events in human history. But Tarantino together with Brad Pitt, a phenomenal (before this movie unknown) Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent make it into an movie that makes you laugh, cry and keep you in suspense until the last second.
On my list of best WWII movies this one is rightfully in my top 3. At the end Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) proclaims: "This might be my best work yet" there are two ways you can implement that, the first one off course is that he is talking about the swastika he just "carved" into Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) his forehead and the second one is that Quentin Tarantino is talking through Brad Pitt and says that this is his best movie till date. For me it will always be Pulp Fiction, but this one comes pretty close.