Saturday, March 5, 2011

Review: Inglorious Basterds



Tarantino's latest offering Inglorious Basterds(sic) is an alternative history movie set in Nazi-occupied France and follows the stories of a Secret Service group called "The Basterds" led by Lt. Aldo Raine(Brad Pitt) a American jew from the south(he has one hell of an accent.), a nazi colonel(Christoph Waltz) and a Jewish-French woman(Melane Laurent).

The movie starts with one of the best single scenes I have ever seen., the Nazi colonel, Hans Landa , visits a French farmer suspected of hiding Jews. The tension it builds up is absolutely incredible, not only because of Tarantino's once again brilliant script(a large portion of which is in a foreign language) but also because of Christoph Waltz's amazing performance( for which he won an Oscar) in his portrayal of Hans Landa, an evil, charming and supremely intelligent Nazi colonel.





 Brad Pitt also delivers, in my opinion a strong performance, as Lt Aldo Raine, as with many characters in the movie such as Goebbels and Hitler he is a comedic character.(Yes, Hitler is a funny character)
The rest of the English Basterds unfortunately have somewhat weak acting imo.


Melanie Laurent plays the Jewish woman, she is the proprietor of a movie-house and through a nazi war hero love-interest she lands a film premier which Hitler attends.

She is the "heart" of the movie without which it would be too cold and gruesome.

A large portion of the movie is in German, French and a little Italian played by a European cast unfamiliar to Hollywood, and they really shine.

The plot is a bit fantastical but a great story nonetheless.


For this gruesome, evil and funny story I give 8.5/10
Posted by Layman Researcher at 3:20 PM

22 comments:

  1. FreekMarch 5, 2011 at 3:42 PM

    I remember this movie. I also remember being a bit underwhelmed, and thinking how Brad Pitt really doesn't fit in the film.

    The Hans Lander character on the other hand. That's... a whole different story.

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  2. jgarceauMarch 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    Christoph Waltz was amazing in this movie. Talk about breakthrough actor, I am glad Tarentino casted some relatively unknown foreign actors in the movie to make it more authentic

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  3. SiphilMarch 5, 2011 at 4:08 PM

    This is a movie I had intended to watch, but forgot about. It seems like a good movie, and this review has reminded me of its existence, so now I'm going to check it out.

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  4. ChrisMarch 5, 2011 at 7:05 PM

    Wait, you guys called me The Little Man?

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  5. CharlesMarch 5, 2011 at 7:22 PM

    great movie, I love it

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  6. brugMarch 5, 2011 at 11:35 PM

    This movie was awesome! Good blog mate, following!

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  7. GMarch 6, 2011 at 12:47 AM

    excellent film - following

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  8. Jessica ThompsonMarch 6, 2011 at 1:18 AM

    Excellent movie. Followed!
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  9. Jesse BrooksMarch 6, 2011 at 8:15 AM

    Oh man I love this movie. The opening scene, it just blew my mind, thanks for the great review.

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  10. schultzzMarch 6, 2011 at 9:51 AM

    loved this movie everything is well written but at the end the pace was really slow and i almost got asleep.

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  11. MerlyyMarch 6, 2011 at 1:26 PM

    The endling was slow? You mean the burning movie theatre? yeah lol very slow^^

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  12. TheHarvesterMarch 6, 2011 at 1:32 PM

    lloved the movie and loved the review!

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  13. llllollllllMarch 6, 2011 at 11:25 PM

    I agree with the score.

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  14. rinnsMarch 7, 2011 at 1:36 AM

    amazing movie oh my goodness! I was stunned at how much I enjoyed it.
    Great review!

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  15. Electric AddictMarch 7, 2011 at 2:59 AM

    I'll have to check out this movie now. I have not seen it. thanks!

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  16. Jesse BrooksMarch 7, 2011 at 4:33 PM

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  17. PvtCarlinMarch 7, 2011 at 4:42 PM

    8.5 is a little low in my opinion. This movie should have won Best Picture in 2009. It was played out so brilliantly.

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  18. Beau ThompsonMarch 9, 2011 at 6:00 AM

    I thought it was mildly amusing. I'm not much for "good" movies though. Jackie Chan is my man.

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  19. EricMarch 9, 2011 at 7:40 AM

    I always thought this movie was a little overrated. Not much depth to the characters or plot, just a typical, maybe above average, action movie. 7.5/10

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  20. JungMarch 10, 2011 at 10:53 AM

    Sweet movie, underappareciated.

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  21. MeMarch 12, 2011 at 1:37 AM

    I gotta check out Brad Pitt on this

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  22. ShonaMay 15, 2011 at 10:37 PM

    this is another one of my favorites, your blog is actually has a lot of my favorites xD

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