Inglourious Basterds
So Tarantino brings us this fictional universe set in WWII Nazi-occupied France in 1941/1944. I was really excited to see a Tarantinio WWII movie as I expected it to be racists and brutal but it was not. But i’ll tell you what it was…it was funny and entertaining.
Ok so Brad Pitt plays a field soldier from Tennessee who takes 8 Jewish American soldiers and 2 other enlisted recruits to brutally kill Nazi soldiers so that they can put the fear of God into them. They kill all but one and have him spread the word….
The movie has a double storyline. Brad Pitt is one and the other follows a girl whose family was killed by the Nazi’s and ends up owning a movie theatre that a Nazi war hero attends….all in all its time to kill some Nazi’s
Now the opening scene was great. I think its actually one of the best dialogue scenes Ive seen. Its up there with ‘There will be blood” but it was long as hell….like 20 some minutes…after that the movie jumps to 1944 and Pitt was in the movie for what seemed like 30 mins. Its a 2:36min movie and at least an hour was taken up by the opening scene and a real long scene in a basement bar…… Ya the movie follows this girl and her theatre more than it does Pitt and his guys.
Ultimately it needed a little less dialogue and a lot more Nazi killing. I expected it to be brutal but it really wasnt. I wanted to see some graphic kills but nothing too crazy happened….
ALSO!!! The trailers lie!! The scene where the dude is running down the hallway with the chain gun….NOT IN THE MOVIE!! or was it? I dont remember bc i was too busy staring at the lower thirds and reading. But im pretty sure it wasnt in there….maybe in a flash back?
I hate when trailers lie. But anyway. The story was good, the dialogue was cool EXCEPT for the fact that about 90% of the movie is sub titled. I think its cool that they kept it real with people speaking their native language and not pretending everyone speaks English. But ya be ready to read for 2hrs when you go see this. That takes away from the scenes a bit. Hands down to the actors bc some had to know or memorize lines in 3+ languages. You get German, French, Italian, English…and I think thats it in this movie.
What little action scenes there was were fun to watch and all in all I would say go see this movie. Then buy it on Blu-Ray.
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-Albert