Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Posted : 2 months, 1 week ago at Sep 10 8:49

"The German will be sickened by us, the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us." If there's one consistency in Quentin Tarantino's cinematic oeuvre, it's that he never delivers exactly what you'd expect. 2009's Inglourious Basterds is no exemption to this. The fact that the title of Tarantino's revisionist World War II fantasy is intentionally misspelled can perhaps be best perceived as a subtle hint that the movie itself is nothing like most imagined it to be. Neither the sweeping war movie nor the orgy of ultra-violence its title and marketing suggests, Inglourious Basterds is a talky drama that centres on a variety of coincidentally-connected characters during WWII. Unfortunately, too, this isn't the masterpiece one would have expected either. Clocking in at approxima...Read more

Posted : 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Sep 4 21:18

Quentin Tarantino returns for yet another fun and crazy ride in Inglorious Basterds. A world war 2 film set in Nazi-occupied France, the film focuses on one Jewish Survivor Shosanah Dreyfuss(Melanie Laurent) who escaped Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), Who found her hiding place. Then there is the Basterds commanded by LT. Aldo Raine(Brad Pitt in his best role since Fight Club) hell bent on killing every nazi possible. Til Schwieger plays Hugo Stigllitz a very funny and to the point man who has killed thirteen Nazi commanders and then joins the basterds.What happens in this film is extraordinary and very memorable, and what would have been nice to see happen in world war 2. The acting in is the film is superb as well as it's soundtrack which features David Bowie's "cat people (putting ou...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 3 months ago at Aug 19 17:04

''The German will be sickened by us, the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us.'' 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 soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. Brad Pitt: Lt. Aldo Raine Lt. Aldo Raine: So you're "The Jew Hunter." Col. Hans Landa: [giddy] That's a bingo! [Lt. Aldo and PFC. Utivich stare at him in confusion] Col. Hans Landa: Is that the way you say it: "That's a bingo?" Lt. Aldo Raine: You just say "Bingo." Inglorious Basterds shows us Quentin Tarantino's vision of a Nazi infested...Read more

Rating : 8/10