Inglourious Basterds Reviouw

I'll talk! I'll tell you where the Nazis are! Just don't make me watch Hostel 2!

Yeah, it's hard for me to come to terms with the fact that I probably liked this movie more than Pulp Fiction. Probably.

There was just so much to love about it. What you get is a solid two and a half hours of pure Tarantino.

The dialogue, for instance: QT's often praised for being an excellent writer of dialogue, and I'm sure he is. To be honest though, I've found much of his dialogue, while interesting, to be a little unnatural. That's not how Inglourious Basterds is. The characters are brought to life, and there's not a lot of suspension of disbelief as far as the actual written lines go. Tarantino's trademark fucked up situations are there, only this time we're in Nazi-occupied France so the stakes have been raised. There's the popculture and film references, though this time they're to some obscure German directors (oh yeah I like Pabst too... he's the beer guy, right?). And of course, there's the Tarantino ultraviolence- a lot of people die in this film, including at least one person whose death I'm sure you won't see coming.

QT-pie is always able to really draw out performance, and the actors do a great job, particularly Christoph Waltz. Jesus! Where did that guy come from? Seriously what else has he been in? Best supporting for sure.

Did anybody else spot the Harvey Keitel cameo? Or the Kill Bill musical recycling? Or the fact that Hitler responds to the killing of the Allies in the film-within-the-film (which was, incidentally, directed by Eli Roth) in the exact same we (or at least I) respond to the brutal Nazi killing in Inglourious Basterds itself? There's a million little details in this movie and I'm going to buy this on DVD the second it drops. Oh, I'm going to buy it. I'm going to buy it so hard.

Complaints? I came up with a few but I had to really think about it. For one there wasn't enough Nazi killing. The Basterds get a few short scenes and an amazing ending, but they're not in there for too long- I could have easily watched Brad Pitt and his Jewish buddies kill Nazis for four hours straight. Though I suppose that wanting to have an actual plot shouldn't be complained about. Another complaint was that Samm Levine, one of the funniest guy from Freaks and Geeks, had maybe one line. It's a shame, that guy was awesome. Third complaint: Mike Myers and his fake accent had one embarrassing scene, which thankfully ended before it got annoying.

Go see it, it will kick your brain in the balls. If you don't like it you're probably a gnat-see.

links:

Inglourious Basterds comic (read it before or after you see the movie, it's all good)

http://www.playboy.com/articles/inglourious-basterds/

Inglourious plumbers:



Samm Levine on Rejected Jokes: