Overview
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, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
This is Quentin Tarantino’s latest entry in the “I want to make movies that I like and you can go f yourself if you don’t like them” collection.
In case you’re not familiar with this film, the story involves a group of renegade Nazi hunters in Europe during World War 2. The head of this group is Brad Pitt – he plays a rather gruff southerner with a distaste for Germans.
This is probably one of Tarantino’s three best works. The amazing thing is that he took what can be considered a period piece and made it his own. While the backdrop is the war, at times it is laugh out loud funny. In a sense it is a slightly more serious and violent version of “Hogan’s Heroes”. Even though there are serious topics at play here (after all, there are Nazi hunters chasing self-proclaimed “Jew Hunters”) at no point does the movie ever really feel that serious.
Tarantino could have EASILY made this into a rollicking action movie (in a sense, Pitt’s character is not unlike captain Jack Sparrow) but he resisted. In fact, after a hilarious scene about 30 minutes into the movie you really don’t see a lot of Pitt until the end. The acting in this movie is top-notch (although I do have to admit that seeing Mike Myers play a brit took me out of the film for a minute. It just reminded me too much of Austin Powers).
I highly recommend this movie.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Inglourious Basterds
Movie title: Inglourious Basterds
Movie description: 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, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Date published: 2009-11-27
Director(s): Quentin Tarantino
Actor(s): Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Jacky Ido, B. J. Novak, Omar Doom, August Diehl, Denis Ménochet, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Mike Myers, Julie Dreyfus, Léa Seydoux, Richard Sammel, Alexander Fehling, Rod Taylor, Samm Levine, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Petra Hartung, Volker Michalowski, Ken Duken, Christian Berkel, Anne-Sophie Franck, Tina Rodriguez, Lena Friedrich, Ludger Pistor, Jana Pallaske, Wolfgang Lindner, Michael Kranz, Rainer Bock, André Penvern, Sebastian Hülk, Buddy Joe Hooker, Sönke Möhring, Carlos Fidel, Hilmar Eichhorn, Patrick Elias, Eva Löbau, Salvadore Brandt, Jasper Linnewedel, Wilfried Hochholdinger, Olivier Girard, Michael Scheel, Leo Plank, Andreas Tietz, Bo Svenson, Enzo G. Castellari, Christian Brückner, Samuel L. Jackson, Bela B., Noemi Besedes, Hélène Cardona, Jake Garber, Sabrina Rattey, Alex Boden, Guido Föhrweißer, Harvey Keitel, Andrew Napier, Gregory Nicotero, Quentin Tarantino, Vitus Wieser, Bea-Marie Rück, Daniela Schwerdt
Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller, War
My Review
This is Quentin Tarantino’s latest entry in the “I want to make movies that I like and you can go f yourself if you don’t like them” collection.
In case you’re not familiar with this film, the story involves a group of renegade Nazi hunters in Europe during World War 2. The head of this group is Brad Pitt – he plays a rather gruff southerner with a distaste for Germans.
This is probably one of Tarantino’s three best works. The amazing thing is that he took what can be considered a period piece and made it his own. While the backdrop is the war, at times it is laugh out loud funny. In a sense it is a slightly more serious and violent version of “Hogan’s Heroes”. Even though there are serious topics at play here (after all, there are Nazi hunters chasing self-proclaimed “Jew Hunters”) at no point does the movie ever really feel that serious.
Tarantino could have EASILY made this into a rollicking action movie (in a sense, Pitt’s character is not unlike captain Jack Sparrow) but he resisted. In fact, after a hilarious scene about 30 minutes into the movie you really don’t see a lot of Pitt until the end. The acting in this movie is top-notch (although I do have to admit that seeing Mike Myers play a brit took me out of the film for a minute. It just reminded me too much of Austin Powers).
I highly recommend this movie.
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My Review - 8.75/10
8.75/10