Comments on: Unreal Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:41:18 +0000

Just thought I’d say you hit the nail on the head with Christoph Waltz’s Best Supporting Actor Award. He won it at just about every award show available, and was nominated for the rest.

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By: Madison

Madison — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:25:29 +0000

I saw this last night (finally) and I liked it a lot. It’s very good. However, it’s not QT’s best since Pulp Fiction; both Kill Bills were better than this.

I particularly liked the opening scene, which was both intense and gave us some classic QT monologue (hawks and rats). The theater scene at the end was great, too.

Again, it was a real good movie, but it felt to disjointed and perhaps a bit too self-indulgent to be called “great.” I’m a huge Tarantino fan, so I was somewhat disappointed, I guess.

Also, Walz was amazing. He’s got to get nominated. Pitt, however, was too over-the-top (which is saying a lot for a QT film), and stood as too much of a contrast to Hans Landa – and I don’t mean their characters. When they shared the screen, Walz gave me a living, breating, cunning Nazi officer, while Pitt gave me, well, Pitt hamming it up. I think Pitt’s role should have gone to someone else, someone a little less “cartoony.”

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:01:59 +0000

The movie was fantastic.

# Lagrange

The scene where they stayed in the theater was great because they don’t care about dying. They were Jews and the people they were staying to kill had directly contributed to killing millions of Jews. They were strapped with the bombs, and were prepared to be suicide bombers. They never thought they were getting out alive.

The violence they displayed in the theater was nothing compared to the violence they getting revenge for. Also those peole in the theater could not have been further from innocent and unarmed.

I am not Jewish, but even so I could understand why they would feel the rage to get the extra few shots in and accept certain death. I think they accepted that when they joined the unit.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:21:13 +0000

This is a horrible review. It is riddled with mistakes that honestly make you sound like a dumb shit. and you give away a major plot line with no warning of spoilers. You should not be allowed to publish anything, ever.

By: Lagrange

Lagrange — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:49:45 +0000

I’m quite unhappy with Inglourious Basterds.
The beginning was okay, good tension building. The middle was good and I sure had some good laughts.
But the ending really dissapointed me. I can’t just ignore the flaws just because the movie has the name Tarantino on it! Tarantino is building up two parallel stories and then they pass each other totally unnoticed. Even worse, at the end the two basterds (storyline 2) in the theather don’t even make a comment on the fire (storyline 1). The only element the two storylines kind of have in common is the “Jew Hunter” but he doesn’t connect them in any way at all. And then, for some strange reason, the basterds decide to commit suicide and stay in the cinema for machine gun kills, knowing the building will blow up anyway. They would fail escaping because the girl ordered to lock the doors. But they, successfully avoiding interaction, don’t even try. And that showdown isn’t even fun watching. Despite “killing 88 Yakuza in a fight” fun-violence, it’s “shooting masses of unarmed people” disturbing-violence. And okay, even if you like the “mad, twisted and borderline psychotic … payoff”, then thats still not an excuse to create such a plothole. There are two different plans to kill the big nazis in the cinema, both happen simultaniously, both work (!?) and there is no interaction between!? …meh. One can’t possibly deny that it looks like Tarintino had two awesome ideas and just featured both.

I must say I’m genereally quite surprised with the portrait of the roles. All the Nazis seem to be “just doing their (cruel) job”-people and the jew-americans are portraited as lunatics. And there is literally no fighting in this movie, just killing prisoners.

The highight to me is definitely the bar table scene, which was very good, but given the name and the budged of Tarantino… It’s not a bad movie but I think there could have been better ideas.

I liked the performances except for Brad Pitt. I think he was trying a bit too hard. The nasty hottie fits Kruger. As well as the naive hottie in Troy. Unfortunately B.J. Novak is Ryan from The Office to me and the other small Basterd is the ninja-kid from not another teen movie ^^
I liked the girl, becaus you could really feel her anger and Daniel Brühl was handsome as allways.

By: chelsea

chelsea — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:58:10 +0000

i agree… the pacing was predictable, however it was genius. every single frame of this movie could be made into a poster. his skills have vastly improved and every single actor in the movie (minus mike meyers) was perfection.

By: Sverrir Sigfusson

Sverrir Sigfusson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:49:32 +0000

I went to a pre-screening yesterday (it opens here tomorrow) and oh my, I loved it I thought the entire cast was pitch perfect (Waltz being the best of the best). Best movie of the year so far for me.

By: ComfortableMadness

ComfortableMadness — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:40:39 +0000

I saw this movie on Friday and in a word, brilliant. I agree that Waltz should take home some gold come winter. Everytime he was onscreen he stole the show. I was dissapointed that the Basterds were not in it all that much but the movie just offered too much for me to really care. There are at least a half dozen scenes that are so well crafted that it’s scary. The bar scene with Von Hammersmark and the very beginning with Col. Landa especially.

By: IcemanD

IcemanD — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:35:07 +0000

Great Review, I’m really looking forward to seeing this film. I’ve been a long time Tarantino fan (although I don’t belong to the “he can’t do no wrong” camp) and always look forward to new films from him.