Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

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Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds

Release Date: August 21, 2009
Studio: Universal Pictures, The Weinstein Company
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Genre: Action, Drama, War
MPAA Rating: R (for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality)
Website: InglouriousBasterds-movie.com

Starring: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sonke Mohring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet, Cloris Leachman, Maggie Cheung, Samuel L. Jackson

Plot Summary: "Inglourious Basterds" (sic) begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

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Inglourious Basterds

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/

Highly recommend this movie. Tarantino spent over 10 years planning this and it sure paid off. it is a long movie, but the plot develops smoothly. There are some funny, calculated jokes, which makes it appealing to many, even those who have a hard time handling a little gore.

I took my wife, who is the decedent of Holocaust survivors. Even though she had to endure some of the painful images in the movie, she thought it was good.

Ohh yea, and Brad Pitt is awesome!!
 

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Its pretty damn entertaining, and works as a storyline as well...

For a movie that was 2 1/2 hours, it moved along quite well, and didn't seem like a long movie, hich is exactly what you want...

Def. gory, with scenes that would make SAW IV look like Barney, but overall, very good
 
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I am not much of a Tarantino fan, I think 90% of his work is highly overrated, but I really, really liked this movie.
 

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Great film. QT has done it again.

BTW, I havent seen Saw, but the gore in IB wasnt THAT bad. Kill Bill was worse IMO.
 

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I'm surprised the self proclaimed movie experts haven't chimed in on this yet.

Not enough CGI?

Tarrintino meets the Spaghetti Western meets the Nazis meets his unique story telling.

I thought the movie was great!
 
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I'm surprised the self proclaimed movie experts haven't chimed in on this yet.

Not enougj CGI?

Tarrintino meets the Spaghetti Western meets the Nazis meets his unique story telling.

I thought the movie was great!

Ummm swd commented. He's a self proclaimed movie expert. ;)
 

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Great film. QT has done it again.

BTW, I havent seen Saw, but the gore in IB wasnt THAT bad. Kill Bill was worse IMO.

There were not a lot of scenes... but the ones they had were squirmish

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For example the ending scene as he cuts the guys head was sick, or when he stuck his finger in the girls wound... again, I guess they were not that bad, but more realistic, which IMO makes me cringe much more....
 

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Was very good in parts. Very boring in others. Overall I enjoyed it though. That whole posing as Italians and saying they spoke Italian was hilarious.

Nowhere near the amount of violence that I expected either.
 

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I thought it was great -- the first part showed that QT is a versatile, fine director; it was as real and tragic as anyone could have made it -- and then he kicks into overdrive. It was visually splendid, well-written, hysterically funny, with a harshly political message, and the acting was top-notch - especially the guy playing the German nemesis. And I love that QT isn't about to let history get in the way of a good story.
 

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It was ok. Very fast bursts of violent energy followed by 25 minutes of looooong conversations.

The writing was well done and the directing/acting was top-notch, but it was too long. I liked the homage to Once Upon A Time in the West and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, but the film does suffer from what made Pulp Fiction so overrated. Extraneous dialogue that, while clever, does little to further the story. And the fact that the Basterds get very little screen time didn't help either.
 

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It was ok. Very fast bursts of violent energy followed by 25 minutes of looooong conversations.

The writing was well done and the directing/acting was top-notch, but it was too long. I liked the homage to Once Upon A Time in the West and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, but the film does suffer from what made Pulp Fiction so overrated. Extraneous dialogue that, while clever, does little to further the story. And the fact that the Basterds get very little screen time didn't help either.

There was entirely to much planning for the theatre destruction. Not enough brutal behind the lines Nazi hunting. JMHO.
 

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Pulp Fiction set in WWII.

It was OK. If you love everything Tarantino then you will probably love this movie.
 

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It was ok. Very fast bursts of violent energy followed by 25 minutes of looooong conversations.

The writing was well done and the directing/acting was top-notch, but it was too long. I liked the homage to Once Upon A Time in the West and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, but the film does suffer from what made Pulp Fiction so overrated. Extraneous dialogue that, while clever, does little to further the story. And the fact that the Basterds get very little screen time didn't help either.

You seem to see that as a bad thing, Chap. I see it as a positive in this instance. You seem to think Pulp Fiction was overrated, and I strongly disagree. Now, this isn't to say that Tarantino's style of extended, extraneous dialogue can't backfire (can you say Death Proof?), but he's usually pretty good at it.

As for the time, I didn't know how long it was giong in, and it felt like a much shorter film when I left than it really was. Of course, that's probably because I was into it so much; if I hadn't been, I would have felt as you do, I'm sure.
 

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You seem to see that as a bad thing, Chap. I see it as a positive in this instance. You seem to think Pulp Fiction was overrated, and I strongly disagree. Now, this isn't to say that Tarantino's style of extended, extraneous dialogue can't backfire (can you say Death Proof?), but he's usually pretty good at it.

As for the time, I didn't know how long it was giong in, and it felt like a much shorter film when I left than it really was. Of course, that's probably because I was into it so much; if I hadn't been, I would have felt as you do, I'm sure.

I echo that. Pulp fiction was not overrated. In fact, I was so disinterested in Pulp Fiction that I didn't see it until it came to video rental. I wanted to see what the big deal everyone was making of the movie.

One of my favorite movies now.
 
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