Inglourious Basterds

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This movie is like that brainwashing montage from "Parallax View" taken for granted and made into a movie.

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I finally got round to seeing the film last night. I spent today reading critics reviews, all of which were bad. Never take a critics opinion seriously. I found the film gripping from start to finish. I was not the only one. Nearly every person I have spoken to who has seen it gives it 5 stars. What do critics know ? most of them are so far up their own arse they have trouble seeing the cinema screen.

Okay, so here's the thing. Sure, pretty much everybody is going to complain about the historical innacuracy. But really kids. Just sit back and watch the movie and base your opinion of the movie on the movie, not the history. And second of all, the people complaining about showing these murderous Ally soldiers, just please, be quiet. Because I know that you wouldn't be complaining if he were showing the Nazis like that(And you aren't, because he did indeed show that). In the end, a movie is a movie, and as for the film itself, Tarantino pulls off some really neat shots. The scene in the bar is fantastic, and found myself going back to see exactly who shot who. The scene is most definitely not realistic, but it is put together very, very well. And like Tarantino said, isn't really a film about war, it's a film about films.

Tarantino's 4th female revenge movie in a row (if you count the two Bills as one movie) and his finest work since Pulp Fiction. Its far from the Dirty Dozen style ‘mission movie’ he promised. As appetising as that may have sounded, what Tarantino has given us is far more interesting, or deliberately perverse depending on your point of view: an action movie with scant action, an American movie where most of the dialogue is not in English, an historical movie which wilfully ignores historical fact, a film where the eponymous Basterds are subsidiary to the plot. Inglourious Basterds is a ferociously personal cinematic vision which more than any film in the director’s oeuvre, nimbly treads that hitherto undetected fine line between Hollywood movie classicism, bold art house aesthetic and bloody grind house. Like Pulp Fiction all those years ago, the beauty lies in the structure. As with most of Tarantino’s movies the plot moves through long stately scenes, much like Kubrick or his more obvious model, Leone. In this movie there really are many fewer scenes than any standard Hollywood film. In fact two of the scenes (the two best scenes) add up to about a third of the film’s entire running time. In Pulp Fiction these long scenes were about giving the dialogue and characters room to breathe. Here they are assembled carefully like very large building blocks, cumulatively adding weight to the story, building momentum and forwarding plot, piece by well placed piece. The most triumphant scene in the movie is the one that takes place in a German beer cellar somewhere past the halfway mark. It’s very long and features a cast of a size which would normally populate a modest film. It on the whole moves the larger plot along. It also contains a small plot of it’s own (can Michael Fessbender’s stiff upper lip Lt Archie Hickox, undercover as a Nazi officer, fool an SS officer?). It features a subplot about a young German soldier drunkenly celebrating the birth of his first son. If that’s not enough we also have an investigation in to identity and language, a clever critique of the meaning of King Kong, and to top it all a Mexican standoff. It may be the best scene Tarantino has have crafted.

The fictional portrayl of the War dumbed down the reality of war and left us with a gang of inglorious b***erds who chirpily travelled around France incognito, thumping Nazis to death with baseball bats and scalping those they shot. The fiction continued when a plan to end the war was hatched by the feckless gang over a drink with an actress. The war was finally ended by the burning down of a cinema containing high ranking members of the Third Reich over which a soundtrack was played of a Jewish woman laughing. I was left at the end of the film feeling that the depiction that soldiers in WW2 enjoyed killing was tasteless given that the majority of soldiers experience of warfare is gut wrenching. WW2 was not won by those who took glee in scalping and killing the enemy with baseball bats and it is insulting to those who endured the suffering of war on our behalf to buy the freedom that permits us to “enjoy� this film today and makes uncomfortable viewing. Its lack of a real sense of humour or purpose made the pick and mix variety of fact and insulting portrayl of fiction difficult to comprehend and swallow. It is brave to make a film about World War 2 when many have experienced its suffering first hand, to change the ending, and to suggest that violence was enjoyed by those who fought for freedom. Is this entertainment? At best I think this is tasteless entertainment.

Time Out London reviewer got this right whereas so many other reviews were positive. I don't understand how any one who has any sense of history could glean anything from this contrived violent movie. The ending is absurd and ridiculous. How anyone could fall for this contrivance is beyond me. I'm offended by the low threshold. Just awful.

Film critics are nothing more than failed actors and directors.

For a Tarantino movie...utterly disappointing. I dont know what film these Tarantino lovers watched that touted it as his best picture since Pulp Fiction - I myself as a Tarantino lover thought it was his worst. The dialogue is weak, the story is weak, the fantasy history is just going to dumb a younger audience down...the cast was weak with the only standout being "The Jewhunter" Nazi. WEAK WEAK WEAK!!! Doesn't compare to any of his previous films. Even Death Proof was better, and thats saying alot. I can tell how tastes and culture are definitely deteriorating in America by the rave reviews this movie has gotten and is getting on these comments. Basterds is just not good.